Medieval History


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Main Sources
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
WWW-VL Medieval Europe
Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History - Main
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
HWC, Medieval Europe
Medieval Sourcebook: Index
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Welcome to the Florilegium :Society of Creative Anachronism
WWW Medieval Resources
Middle Ages Outline
An Exploration Through the Middle Ages - ThinkQuest
The PSC Medieval Society Official Medieval Links List
Medieval Site Index
Medieval Asia: General- Medieval History Net Links
Middle Ages
History/Medieval Studies 303: Early Medieval and Byzantine Civilization
Medieval Studies Ring
Major web sites dealing with the Middle Ages
Medieval Home Page from a High School
Medieval History from About.com
The Medieval Technology Timeline
Medieval Homepage
Arthuriana Chronology
Medieval and Renaissance Fact and Fiction
The Middle Ages Trust 1998
The Medieval Paige
Medieval sites for Grade 4
Medieval Times for Young Students

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Overviews
The Medieval World: Lectures
First Europe Tutorial - Home Page
Online Book: Part III: The Worlds of Medieval Europe
End of Europe's Middle Ages - Home Page
ORB: The Encyclopedia
ORB: The Library
The Heroic Age: A journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
Compton's Encylcopedia: Middle Ages
The West Takes the Offensive

Documents
Britannia: Document Sources of British History
Medieval Europe Documents
Medieval & Renaissance Europe -- Primary Historical Documents
Important Dates in Medieval History: A Quiz
Medieval British History - Documentary Sources

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Terms
Medieval Terminology
NetSERF's Hypertext Medieval Glossary
The Hard Little Words: Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions
Ye Old English Sayings
Serfdom definition
Medieval Cooking Glossary
Castle and Siege Terminology
ORB: Dictionary of Medieval Terms
Manorial Glossary
11th Century Anglo-Saxon Glossary from MS Brussels, RL 1650
Feudal Terms of England
Medieval Glossary / Dictionary of Terms, Weapons, and Armor
Medieval Legal Terms Defined
Medieval Legal Terms and Concepts
Illustated Atlas of Heraldic Terms
Medieval Glossary / Dictionary of Terms, Weapons, and Armor
Vassals
Serfdom defined
Latin Word List Definitions
A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English - Canterberry Tales

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Maps
Illustrating Maps of the Early Medieval Period 400-1300 A.D.
Illustrating Maps of the Late Medieval Period 1300 - 1500 A.D.
Illustrating Maps of the Late Medieval Period 1300 - 1500 A.D
Time Chart of Medieval Cartography
Maps of Medieval Britain
Maps of Medieval France
Ecclesiastical Map of Medieval France
Legolas' Fantasy and Historical Medieval Maps
Medieval Sourcebook: Maps and Images
Barbarian Migrations in Late Antiquity
Ireland History in Maps
HyperHistory
History of Cartography
Historical Europe Map Archive
Trade routes in Medieval Europe
Economic Map of Europe in the Middle Ages
Map: AN Italian view of the world 1452
Map from a 13th-Century Psalter
Psalter Map, c.1250
Map of England
Kingdoms of Early England
Ireland History in Maps: BCE - 1845
Map - Plague Spread in Europe
An Inquisition Record of 1350 - Plague
Map: Plague in Asia and the Middle East
Plague in Europe, Map & Biology of the Black Death
First Incidence of Plague in Europe and Asia 1333 - 1369
Plagues since the Roman Empire
Trade Routes & the Spread of Plague
The Holy Roman Empire Under Charlemagne at its Height
What Was Chertsey Like in the Middle Ages?

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Population
Tables on Population in Medieval Europe
Population Estimates
Population of the Larger Urban Areas

Calendars & Book of Hours
Book of Hours & Calendar
Hypertext Book of Hours - Introduction
From the McMaster Collection: The Book of Hours
Anglo-Saxon Calendar
Medieval Calendar Calculator
Medieval Calendar Utility
The Tres Riches Heures
A Walk through Time
Online Calendar of Saints Days, Months

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Time Lines
Snippets in Time: Bernard Grun's Timetables of History
Medieval History Time-Line
EAWC Chronology: Medieval Europe
HyperHistory
Medieval Europe: AD 400-1400
The Avalon Project : Chronology of European History in Documents
World History Time Line: 2900 BCE to CE 1400
Chronology A.D. 200-640
Timeline 900 .. 999
Montanaro's Medieval Period: Timeline
Medieval History Timeline
TimeRef
Medieval Technology Pages - Timeline
Ancient and Medieval Church History Timeline
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 1 AD to 1154 AD
Some Important Dates in Medieval Spanish History
Medieval Timeline: A Knightly Timeline of the Middle Ages
Timeline of British History
Chronology of Early Byzantine History
Anglo Saxon England Time Lines
Some Important Events in the Fourteenth Century
Medieval Wales Timeline
The Reconquest of Spain
Crusades Chronology
Christy's History Timeline of 1000 - 1300
Christy's History Timeline of 1300s - 1600
ORB -- The Teutonic Knights
Medieval Technology Pages - Timeline
Arthuriana Chronology
BBC: Comparison of British & Scottish Time Lines
BBC: Scotland Late Medieval Period
BBC: England Late Medieval Period

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Daily Life
HWC, Medieval Society
Medieval Life - The Magazine of the Middle Ages
Medieval Women Writers - Introduction - Daily Life
Medieval Technology and Everyday Life
Medieval Domestic Life: All Aspects
Do Exempla Illustrate Everyday Life?
Paris at the time of Philippe-Auguste - Everyday life
Gardens, Villas and Social life in Renaissance Florence
The Middle Ages -- Clothing
Fifteenth-Century Life
Medieval Musings
Welcome to the Lifestyles of the Medieval
The Middle Ages: Feudal Life
A Day in the Life of a Scribe
History House: Stories: A Day in the Life of a Peasant
The Middle Ages -- Homes
Anglo-Saxon England, daily life
Medieval Technology and Everyday Life
Medieval Sourcebook: Jacques de Vitry: Life of the Students at Paris
Tales of the Middle Ages - Daily Life
Life in the Middle Ages
Medieval Domestic Life
The Farmer's Life
Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends
Medieval England and Wales - daily life in medieval towns
Welcome to the Virtual Renaissance Faire!
Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History
Medieval Women Writers - Introduction - Daily Life
The Middle Ages -- Town Life
The Medieval & Renaissance Wedding Site
Medieval Drama Links
Book: Daily Life In Late Medieval England
The Middle Ages - Life In Castles
Life in a Medieval Castle
The Great Hunger of 1044:The Progress of a Medieval Famine
The Art of Hairdressing
How to Live in the Middle Ages

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Culture
Beliefs | Children | Drama | Education | Festivals | Home & Community | Magic | Prisons | Sexuality | Courtship, Wedding & Marriage | Women

Beliefs
HWC, Medieval Society
Metropolitan Hilarion, Sermon on Law and Grace
Lecture 24: The Medieval World View
The Nature of Anti-Semitism
The History of the Jews in England 1066-1655
Medieval Domestic Life
Gemological Pharmacopoeia: Gemstones - what they symbolized
Factoid: What was a woman's role in the economy of Exeter?
Factoid: How did men view the work which their wives'were responsible for?
Reconciliation Walk: The Spiritual Tenor of the Middle Ages
The George Inn
Jean de Meun, Romance of the Rose: The Duenna's Advice on Table Manners

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Children
Children and the Family in the Middle Ages - 8 Essays
Children's Games and Contests
ORB: The Medieval Child: an Unknown Phenomenon?
Games Played in Medieval London
Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England
Grand Prince Vladimir Monomakh's Instruction to His Children
Hope Unlimited: Old medieval children's prison
Book Resources: Mediev-L: Re: Children and Childhood
BBC Online: Richard III, the Princes in the Tower and Bosworth

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Drama & Theatre
NetSERF: Medieval Drama
Drama: Medieval Drama
Medieval Theatre FAQ
Notes on Medieval Drama
The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama
Motif Index of Medieval Drama
French Medieval Drama Database Project - do not have to dl program
Church & The Prejudice Against Theatre
Popular English Drama (general note): The Mystery Plays
Catholic Encyclopedia: Miracle Plays and Mysteries
Catholic Encyclopedia: Moralities (Morailty Plays)
Early Theatre
Masques and the Inns of Court
Florimene at the Court of Charles I: The Court Masque
Medieval Drama Links - University of Leeds
EVERYMAN
York Corpus Christi Play: Introduction (PSim 2.1 for Java)
Drama and Theatre Links
WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music
Medieval drama - bibliography

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Education
Medieval European Higher Education
John Buridan, Teacher 14th Century
Meals & Manners - general note
Some Views of Education in the Middle Ages - Images
Medieval Education leaflets- Images
Scholarship and Education in Medieval Europe
Medieval Sourcebook: Roger Bacon: Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
Medieval Household Pest Control
Were Medieval Women Really Uneducated?
Comptons Encyclopedia: Education - scroll to The Middle Ages
Fryar Roger Called Bachon - Full Text: April/May 1999 British Heritage Foundation
Medieval Schools & Universities
Learning in Mediaeval Ireland
Proper Elizabethan Accents
The End of Europe's Middle Ages - Intellectual Thought
Medieval Sourcebook: Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education (c. 1400)
Ancient Measures
The Keepers of Knowledge
The University as a Public Sphere (Start midway at Contemporary critics)

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Festivals
Medieval Pagan Festivals
Christmas in the Middle Ages
Medieval Christmas Traditions
Medieval Christmas History
Christmas in the Middle Ages
Hanukkah's Changing Role
The Origin of Halloween
The Origins of Halloween
A Witch Tells the Story
Easter or Ishtar
Round the Maypole : Celebrating May Day
May Day
Origins & Traditions of May Day
May Day: An Olden Times Celebration
May Day: What has happened in History on May Day?
A Medieval Calendar: Festival Names
Medieval Holidays: By Month
A Feast of Songs: Holiday Music from the Middle Ages
Medieval Festival Feasts
Medieval Holidays - classroom paragraph

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Home and Community
Social Practice in the Middle Ages
Medieval Communities
The Middle Ages - Homes
Medieval Timber-Framed Houses in England and Wales
Peasant Houses
The History of Gardening: A Timeline From Ancient Times to the 20th Century
Marginality and Community in Medieval Europe
Fourteenth-Century Political and Social Upheaval
The Politics of Nursery Rhymes
The History of Plumbing - Jerusalem
Paris:Urban Sanitation Before the 20th Century
The History of Plumbing - Roman and English Legacy
Medieval Household Pest Control
The Stone of Destiny: Stone of Scone or Medieval Medieval plumbing accessory?
Children and Families - actually about Renaissance, but works here too
Medieval Domestic Life
Horse Museum: 600 - 1630 The Middle Ages
NetSERF: Medieval Culture
Anglo-Saxon Culture
The Feudal Society of the Middle Ages
Medieval Names Archive
Lecture 26: The 12th Century Renaissance
The Middle Ages: The Medieval Peasant's House
The Frontier in Medieval History
Timber-Framed Houses
Mill-centenary of the Hungarian Settlement
Poverty and Women of the Middle Ages
Working women in the Middle Ages
Thats Entertainment 1500-1700
Byzantium and rise of Islam: Agriculture
Methodology: Excluded or Persecuted People from the Community
Medieval Project - Peasants
The Peasants

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Magic
Daily Magic in the Middle Ages
Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity
ORB: Magic and Witchcraft Magic in the Middle Ages: A Preliminary Discussion
"John Baptist Porta" Natural Magick - Title Page
Necromancy
Magic, Beliefs and Prophecy
Book: Conjuring spirits : texts and traditions of medieval ritual magic
Book:Forbidden Rites A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century

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Prisons & PoorHouses
The Tower of London
The Origins of Prisons
Prisons over two Centuries
Lancaster Castle - Debtors Prison
Prison Systems - History
Poorhouses
Guildford Castle Prison
Oxford History of the Prison The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
Robben Island 1525 - a brief history
South Africa - Robben Island - Prison
Basics of Juvenile Justice
Catholic Encyclopedia: Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven)
Torture Museum--medieval

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Sexuality
Sexualities
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages
Medieval Masculinities
Medieval Feminist Index: Comprehensive List of Subject Headings
Sex in the Middle Ages: Medieval Sex Texts @ Upenn]
Paul Halsall: The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
History House: Stories: Hysteria - Why Only Women Get Hysterical
The Geography of Desire
Homosexuality and the Romance of the Rose
Book: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England
Homosexuality in Viking Scandinavia
An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History: Medieval World
Laws on Adultery
Medieval Sourcebook: Manorial Marriage and Sexual Offense Cases
Fornication and Adultery
Sex and the Clergy - Medieval
Medieval Sexual Deviance
Laws on Sexual Positions
Heat and Coldness as Gendered Qualities
Prostitution in the Middle Ages
Sex and Spouses: Marriage, Pleasure and Consummation
Sex and Medieval Authors
Book: Handbook of Medieval Sexuality - Bullough, Vern
Sexuality - Book Resources
Sexual Desire in Medieval Society

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Courtship, Wedding & Marriage
Catholic Encyclopedia: History of Marriage
Marriage Customs
Courtship, Love and Marriage in Viking Scandinavia
The Great Marriage Hunt: Finding a Wife in 15th Century England
The Medieval & Renaissance Wedding Site
The Main Characteristics of Courtly Love
The Perfection of Courtly Love
Handfasting Ritual
Medieval/Renaissance Wedding Information
Medieval Games, Weddings
About Medieval Weddings...
Surnames: What's in a Name? * Name Origins & Meanings *

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Women
The Beguines | Documents regarding Women | Education & Health | Family Life | General Information | Jobs | Religion | Specific Women | Where to find | | Writers & Composers |

The Beguines - Heresy or the First Women's Movement?
Catholic Encyclopedia: Beguines - women, Beghards - men
The Beguines
Sisters Between: Beguines
The Beguines - 13th century
The Beguine Movement in the Southern Low Countries: A Reassessment*
Sisters Between: Beguines - Gender & Medieval beguines
The Beguines - 12th century
Medieval Women Writers - the Beguines
Medieval Sourcebook: Bernard Gui: Inquisitors' Manual: Beguines
Medieval Sourcebook: Na Prous Bonnet: arrested for Heresy
Lambert le Bègue: revivalist Belgian priest, organizer of beguines community Belgium 11thc
Bruges: The Beguinage
Catholic Encyclopedia: Mysticism

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Documents regarding Women
Medieval Sourcebook: "Sale" of Daughter a concubine
Medieval Sourcebook: The Goodman of Paris 1392/4 - ideal marriage
Medieval Sourcebook: Oldradus's No.35 (Consilium) - marriage
Medieval Sourcebook: Manorial Marriage and Sexual Offense Cases
Medieval Sourcebook: Church Courts PursueE Adulterers
Medieval Sourcebook: Wife Sues to get her Husband Back

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Education & Health
Were Medieval Women Really Uneducated?
Medieval European Higher Education
Women's Health Issues
Medieval Understanding of Women's Physiology
Medieval Sourcebook: Sex and Gender
Gopher: Sex in the middle ages

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Family Life
Domestic Life - All Aspects
Children and Family in the Middle Ages
Medieval Women Writers - Introduction - Daily Life
Medieval Life and Times: Women
Medieval Project: Peasant Women's Lives In Medieval Times
Dominion & Domination of the Gentle Sex: The Lives of Medieval Women

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General Information
Camelot Village: Women in the Middle Ages
Medieval Women: Tradition & Counter-Tradition
Women In The Middle Ages
Poverty and Women of the Middle Ages
NetSERF: Women
Status of Women in Medieval Karnataka
The Changing Role of Women
Women of the Middle Ages
Notes from "Her Husband's Crown": Medieval Women

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Jobs
Working women in the Middle Ages
Women and Guilds in the Middle Ages
Sexual Division of Labor and Legal Limitations on Treatment
Women in Medicine
Early Women Composers Chronology
Maids
Brothels, Baths and Babes Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land
A Little Bit About Wet Nurses

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Religion - also see Beguines
Woman Under Monasticism
Open Monasteries for Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Fasting Among Medieval and Contemporary Religious Women
Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation
from jesus to christ: the first christians: the roles for women
Catholic Encyclopedia: POPESS JOAN
History House: Stories: Popess Joan
Bruce L. Venarde, "Praesidentes Negotiis: Abbesses as Managers in Twelfth century

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Specific Women
Trotula of Salerno
A Unique Memorial to a Learned Lady
Christine de Pisan
The Life and Works of Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen
Isabella d'Este
Margery Kempe (ca.1373-1438)
International Marie de France Society

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Where to find
The Medieval Feminist Index: Scholarship on Women, Sexuality, and Gender
Brave Women
Biographies
Female Hero of the Month - Women in World History Curriculum
Women of History
Women Artists

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Writers & Composers
Women Writers Of The Middle Ages
Women writers of Medieval ages
Early Women Composers/Artists/Poetry
Medieval Feminist Index: Comprehensive List of Subject Headings
A Celebration of Women Writers: by Century or Country
ORB: Medieval German Women Writers (1100-1450) Biographies and Sources
Women Writers of the Middle Ages
The Aphra Behn Page
Christine de Pizan
Dhouda - A Mother's Book
The Perdita Project
Hadewijch

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Literature
Boccaccio | Chaucer | Dante | Everyman | General Information | Illuminations, Manuscripts & Images | Langland | Mallory | Misc. Others | Petrarch or Petrarca | Robin Hood | Shakespeare | Villon | Women Literary Figures

Boccaccio
Catholic Encyclopedia: Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron Web: Boccaccio
Boccaccio (general note)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
The Age of Decameron - 13 & 14th centuries
The San Antonio College LitWeb Giovanni Boccaccio Page
TSUFR Library - Giovanni Boccaccio
Welcome to Beowulf to Lear: Text, Image and Hypertext
Giovanni Boccaccio Biography
Giovanni Boccaccio

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Catholic Encyclopedia: Geoffrey Chaucer
The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage
Canterbury Tales Project/index
The Life of Chaucer (general note); with A Brief Chronology
Patterson on Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer : an overall survey
Chronology of Geoffrey Chaucer's life and times
Why Chaucer?
Chaucer and Spain
A Chaucerian Cookery
Geoffrey Chaucer
Hanly's Chaucer Scriptorium
Canterbury Tales Listing
The Legend of Good Women
geoffreychaucer.org: an annotated guide to online resources
EXEMPLARIA: Teaching Chaucer in the 90s
The Canterbury tales : Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400
Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English for Canterbury Tales

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Dante
Dante Alighieri (general note)
ORB: Dante Alighieri: A Guide to Online Resources
ILTweb Digital Dante
Dante Alighieri
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
The Classic Text: Dante Alighieri
Project Gutenberg Edition of The Vision: or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, text or zip
The World of Dante
Dante Alighieri
Dante's Message for Modernity
Dante's Hell
a Diagram of the Inferno
Map of Hell
Map of Purgatory
Map of Heaven
Another Map of Hell
List of Popes Placed in Hell by Dante
List of Popes Placed in Purgatory by Dante
Dante's Inferno: Life, Cantos, Humor and more
Dante's Hell
Gutenberg Etext of Paradise, by Dante Aligheri
Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante Exhibitions and Illustrations
Dante Publications Online
Botticelli's Illustrations to Dante
Lecture 28: Aquinas and Dante
Holloway: Chancery and Comedy: Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri
Dante's vs. Niven & Pournelle's Inferno
Dante Resources on the Internet
Through a Dark Wood: Essays on Dante's Divine Comedy
THE WAY TO PEACE: Dante on One Government by Sanderson Beck
Dante on the Web

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Everyman
Everyman: (John Skot, 1521-1537?)
Everyman - Analysis of Everyman
Allegorical Plot of Everyman
Everyman (after 1485)
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse: Everyman
Everyman: an Introduction
Everyman and the Parable of the Talents
Encarta: Everyman
Everyman Links
E-Text: Everyman

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General Information & Major Collections
Aquinas and Dante
Catholic Encyclopedia: LITERARY OR PROFANE LEGENDS
Influential Twentieth-Century Books in Medieval History
EAWC Essay: Literature and the Middle Time
The End of Europe's Middle Ages - Language & Literature
The End of Europe's Middle Ages Intellectual Life
NetSERF: Medieval Literature by Author
NetSERF: Medieval Literature by Title
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE)
Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature
The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa
VoS English Literature: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval
Corpus of M.E. Prose and Verse
Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts
University of Virginia -- Michigan Early Modern English Materials
English Literature from the Beginning to 1500 Bibliography
Medieval Europe: Theology
Literary Resources -- Medieval
Labyrinth Library Main Directory
The Library of the Medieval Institute
Anglo-Saxon Writings
Classics Resources
The English Server
Medieval Sourcebook: Intellectual Life
Medieval Sourcebook: Early Renaissance
Ravensgard Medieval Arts and Crafts
Dark Age On-Line Text Sources

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Illuminations, Manuscripts & Images
also see Development of Books & Manuscripts & Calendars & Book of Hours
DScriptorium
Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscript Facsimiles at Michigan State University
The Age of King Charles V: 1338-1380 - 1,000 Illuminations
Bodleian Library WWW Server - Towards an Image Catalogue
Aberdeen University Library - Welcome to The On-line Bestiary: digitised images of manuscripts
Penn Special Collections-Schoenberg Exhibit Intro
Medieval Manuscripts
Anglo-Saxon Texts & Images by FTP
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
St. John's Bible- A Bible For The New Millennium
Paging Through Medieval Lives: Illumination and Calligraphy From Selected Collections
Medieval Manuscripts on the web: a brief introduction by Albert Masters

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Langland
The Langland Home Page
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
William Langland (ca.1330-1387)
Literary Terms: Allegory

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Mallory
Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471)
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
Le Morte dArthur by Syr Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur Guide
Legends - Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Conflicting Medieval Notions of Piety
Sir Thomas Mallory
Thomas Malory: Encyclopedia of Self
Encarta: Mallory

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Misc. Other Literary Figures & Manuscriptss
Images & Texts of the Past
The Complete Works of Marlowe
Yvain or, The Knight with the Lion
The Song of Roland (DL SunSITE)
The Charrette project: Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180)
Medieval Sourcebook: Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education c. 1400
The Edmund Spenser Home Page
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Perpetua Text
Tales from Froissart
The Book of Kells
From the McMaster Collection: The Book of Hours
The Chronicle of the Cid
Icelandic Edda
Medieval Irish Poetry
Sir Clisto's Tome - Calligraphy

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Petrarch or Petrarca 1304-1374
Francesco Petrarch to Posterity
Francis Petrarch (general note)
Francesco Petrarch
Catholic Encyclopedia: Francesco Petrarch
Petrarch's Preface to his Familiar Letters
Francesco Petrarch: Selections from his Correspondences
Medieval Sourcebook: Francesco Petrarch: Letters, c 1372
Francesco Petrarch: Correspondence with Boccaccio and other Friends
Quotations from the letters of Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)
Petrarca
Petrarch's House
Francesco Petrarch - Biography
Quotes By Francesco Petrarch
Dr. Vess's World Civilization Virtual Library
WTS - Poetry Archives - Francesco Petrarch

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Robin Hood
The Robin Hood Project at the University of Rochester
Errol Flynn: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) a favorite old movie
Robin Hood and the Friar and Robin Hood and the Potter: Introduction
Legends - The Robin Hood Pages
Robin Hood's Merry England - Full Text: May 1998 British Heritage
Robin Hood and the Sheriff [John Marshall's edition]
'The Legend of Robin Hood'
Robin Hood
Robin Hood -- Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood
Welcome to the World Wide Robin Hood Society Sherwood
ORB Bibliographies: Robin Hood
Robin Hood -- The Search for a Real Robin Hood

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William Shakespeare
Shakepeare of Stratford - Biography
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon - history, his schools and more
Nicholas Rowe: The Life of Mr. William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Shakespeare FAQs
Shakespeare Quotes
Shakespeare Glossary
Shakespeare Play Chronology
Shakespeare Timeline
Timeline: Life, Works, Events & Publications Summary
Shakespeare: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
IPL William Shakespeare's Complete Works
Shakespeare Oxford Society Home Page - Edward de Vere or Shakespeare?
Shakespeare Authorship
Shakespeare Resource Center - The Great Debate
A Deception in Deptford - Christopher Marlowe's alleged death
Meeting the Ghost of Hamlet's Father | Carolyn Gage
The Historical and Political Background
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
The Drama and Shakespeare
Folger Library Teaching Shakespeare
Entrance to the new Shakespeare Web
Shakespeare Alive! Teaching Materials
Shakespeare Illustrated at Emory
Shakespeare Online: Your Ultimate Shakespeare Resource
Chill With Will - ThinkQuest
William Shakespere - Macbeth - online play
Words coined by Shakespeare: words Shakespeare added to the English language
Dr. Nighan's Shakespeare Guides: Table of Contents
Enjoying "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
A Teacher's Guide to William Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR
Webspeare: a Shakespeare educational resource for high school students and their teachers
Surfing with the Bard
Shakespeare Classroom 2000 - Macbeth: Main Character Studies
Shakespeare Alive! Home Page
Shakespeare by Individual Studies: Table of Contents
Surfing with the Bard: Play Zone ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide
Shakespeare's Canon
The Shakespearean Homework Helper
Shakespearean Insulter
SparkNotes - study guides

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Francois Villon 1431 - 1489
Francois Villon (1431 - 1489)
Medieval Sourcebook: François Villon: Ballades
VILLON, François
Three Translations from Franois Villon
Quotations
FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER by Robert Louis Stevenson
Relequary: Time (bilingual version of Villon's
"Ballad"
PARIS BY NIGHT - For Vampire: the Masquerade

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Women Literary Figures
Women Writers Of The Middle Ages
Women writers of Medieval ages
Early Women Composers/Artists/Poetry
Medieval Feminist Index: Comprehensive List of Subject Headings
A Celebration of Women Writers: by Century or Country
ORB: Medieval German Women Writers (1100-1450) Biographies and Sources
Women Writers of the Middle Ages Bibliography
The Aphra Behn Page
Christine de Pizan
Dhouda - A Mother's Book
The Perdita Project
Hadewijch

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Misconceptions & Myths
Misconceptions | Myths |

Misconceptions
Six Fallacies about the Medieval Era
ORB: Misconceptions about the Middle Ages Index
Two historians say chastity belts are purely medieval myths
Playing Card King Origins: The Four King Truth
Millennial Madness during 1000 CE
Misperceptions about Medieval Clothing
Notions of Gender in the Middle Ages: Myth vs. Reality

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Myths
The Lay of the Cid
The Aberdeen Bestiary Project - Table of contents
Myths about Leprosy
Castles on the Web: Myths and Legends
Robert Kirk: The Secret Commonwealth of Fairies
Medieval Scandinavia
An Introduction to the Doctrine of Signatures - Philosophy
At the Edge: Medieval fairies: Now you see them, now you don't
Robin Hood and the Monk: Introduction
The Robin Hood Project: Menu of Authors
Overview of the Robin Hood story
The Robin Hood Tale History
Beyond the Pale: Anti-Jewish Myths - 1
Medieval Sourcebook: A Blood Libel Cult: Anderl of Rinn
Why Bother with Beowulf? - Medieval History
Windows on the Universe - Mythology
Myths and Legends - frames
Mythology BookList FAQ Bibliography
Medieval Myths by Goodrich, Norma Lorre - Book
Myths & Legends

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Technology, Science & Inventions
Astrology | Development of Books & Manuscripts | Inventions | Plumbing | Printing Press & Gutenberg | Science | Stirrup Controversy

Astrology
Medieval Thought in Astronomy
Medieval Astrology
Brief History of Medieval Astronomy
Great Moments in the History of Solar Physics: 1223 BC: The oldest eclipse record
Astronomy and Astrology in the Twelfth century
Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy
The Planets and Their Children
Astrolabe
Aligning the Earth and Sky: Ancient Astronomy in Kinko Japan
The Aurora of 1192: Its Causes and Effects
The Leonids Are Coming: History
Islamic Astronomy Influence
Astronomical Models
Copernican System
The Earth and the Heavens - Maps

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Inventions & Technology
The Medieval Technology Pages Index
Medieval Technology Pages - Timeline
A Revolution in Timekeeping
The Water Projects of the Crusader Period
ORB: Iron and Steel Production in the Middle Ages
Early History of the Lens
Ninth Century Preparations for the Teeth
Wichamstow Village: Ironworks, Charcoal and others
NetSERF: Medieval Science and Technology
Ibn Rushd (Averroes), 1128-1198 C.E.
Medieval Sourcebook: Adelard of Bath: The Impact of Muslim Science - c 1137
Compass
Medieval Pest Control
Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions: Museum Directory

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Development of Books, Manuscripts & Examples
also see Calendars & Book of Hours
The Technology and Culture of the Manuscript Book c. 100 A.D. - c. 1500
Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Manuscript Books
The Infancy of Printing: Incunabula at the Golda Meir Library
BBC Education - An Animated History of Books - Home Page
Incunabula: Examples of Early Printing
Manuscript Images of the technology of the word in the Middle Ages
Medieval Manuscript Leaves: Western Europe: 12th - 16th centuries
Treasures of the State Library - The Antiphonal written on animal skin
The Book of Deer - The Earliest Known Scottish Gaelic
Collections Overview: Manuscripts (Getty Museum)
Parchment Making: A brief description of the Process
Parchment vs Vellum: What's the Difference?
Cyber-scriptorium * SCA scribal site
DScriptorium Home Page
Griffon's Medieval Manuscripts Explore the world of 12th - 16th Century Examples

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Printing Press & Johannes Gutenberg
Printing: History and Development
Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Printed Books
Gutenberg, Johannes, an Encarta Encyclopedia Article
Johannes Gutenberg
Johann Gutenberg: The Invention Of The Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg and The Printed Book
Gutenberg and the Historical Moment in Western Europe
Gutenberg's introduction of the moveable type printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
Media History Time Line: Johannes Gutenberg
Gutenberg's Type
The Infancy of Printing: Incunabula at the Golda Meir Library
600th Anniversary of the Birth of Johannes Gutenberg - stamp
Gutenberg Bible
The Gutenberg Bible: A History of the Book
Gutenberg Bible: Picture
Cyclotron Analysis of the Gutenberg Bible

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Plumbing
The History of Plumbing - Roman and English Legacy
History of Plumbing - Time Line
From Privy to Bathroom--The History of Plumbing
07/86 - "The History of Plumbing - Part One"
History of Plumbing- Castles
History of Public Toilets plumbing world
The Stone of Destiny a.k.a the Stone of Scone
Castles revisited

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Science
Science - Main | Muslim Science Contributions

Science - Main
Medieval Science of Europe
Medieval Science
Medieval Science to 1450 - People's Biographies
Introductory University Chemistry I: Introduction: Through the Middle Ages
NetSERF: Medieval Science and Technology
Medieval Science & Scientific Instruments
ORB: Medieval Science and Technology Index
Jacob M. Lowy Collection: Mathematics and the Sciences
HWC, Scientific Revolution
Alchemy and medieval universities
Björn's Guide to Philosophy - St. Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy
SCETI: Miscellany of Scientific Treatises - Contents 1450-1475
Growth of Agricultural And Commerical Civilizations 500 - 1500
Jesuits and the Sciences: 1540-1995
Church Magics
Scholasticism in the Thirteenth Century
The alchemy web site and virtual library
Catholic Encyclopedia: Alcuin 735 - 804
Catholic Encyclopedia: Empiricism
Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Catholic Encyclopedia: Nicolaus Copernicus
Early Protestant Hostility Towards Science
Technology as Religion - Agnosticism / Atheism
Catholic Encyclopedia: Galileo Galilei
The Galileo Project Homepage
The Galileo Incident: Does it Prove that the Catholic Church is Not Infallible, or that it is Intrinsically Hostile to Science?
Catholic Encyclopedia: Carolingian Schools

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Muslim Science Contributions
Muslim Scientists, Mathematicians and Astronomers Before European Renaissance, 700 - 1500 C.E.
Alchemy in Islamic Times
Muslim Scientists and Islamic Civilization: 740 - 1449
Setting the Record Straight, Islamic Science
The Islamic World to 1600: The Arts, Learning, and Knowledge (Astronomy)
History of Islamic Science part 1 , part 2 , part 3
Arab Gateway: The Arab Contribution To Science - also by discipline
SCIENCES: The Arabs who had wielded the arms with such remarkable success
Science and Islam
Astronomy and Islam
Science and Muslim Scientists
Medieval Sourcebook: Adelard of Bath: The Impact of Muslim Science
Medieval Technology - Islamic Astronomy - visual
Portraits of Twelve Muslim Scientists in Various Fields
Muslim Scientist and Thinkers 750-1350 Mirror Index - bios
Muslim Scientists and Scholars
Muslim Scientist and Thinkers
Muslim Scientists In The Middle Ages 700 - 1500 C.E.
Time Line: Timeline of Islamic Scientists
Columbus: What if??
Muslim advancements in Astronomy and their impact on the Renaissance
(Warning on above link: Worst case of popups I have ever seen!)

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Stirrup Controversy
Medieval Technology Pages - The Great Stirrup Controversy
Medieval Technology Pages - Stirrups
The Stirrup Thesis

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Mathematics
History of Medieval Mathematics 320-1660AD
History of Mathematics: Europe - Mathematicians through 1500
Empiricism, Mathematics, and Experiment in the Middle Ages
Where Was Math Used in the Middle Ages?
The Art of Algebra by Karen H. Parshall
Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci 1170 - 1250
Who was Fibonacci?
Biography of Leonardo Fibonacci
The Fibonacci Numbers
Fibonacci (c.1175 - c.1240)
The Fibonacci Numbers and Golden section in Nature
Fibonacci Numbers, the Golden section and the Golden String
Jacob M. Lowy Collection: Mathematics and the Sciences
Mathematics (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture)
History of Mathematics

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Agriculture
World History - Growth of agricultural and commerical civilizations: 500 A.D. to 1500
medieval agrarian history
The Horse Harness
The Great Harness Controversy
The Heavy Plow
Technical change in medieval agriculture & transition process to capitalism
From Land to Subsistance
Trends in Agrciulture 11 - 12th centuries Bibliography
Medieval England 1066-1399 - Seminar Programmes
Byzantium and rise of Islam: Agriculture
An Agrarian History of South Asia - Index
Low Countries, history of Consolidation of territorial states 1384-1567
Russian Agrarian History and Soviet Debates on the Peasantry
Medieval Yemeni Agriculture and Science - Book Review
Review: "The Medieval Machine" (Jean Gimpel)
Medieval Sourcebook: Emperor Louis the Pious: On Tithes, 817
Map: 'Medieval agrarian history' - charters granted

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Castles
Basic Castle Information | Falconery & Hunting | Glossaries | Plans | Specific Castles | Tournaments

Basic Castle Information
The History of the Castle
An Introduction to the Fief and Castle
About Castles
Types of Castles
Life in a Medieval Castle
The Middle Ages - Life In Castles
Life in a Medieval Castle
Hall Stewards in the Late and Current Middle Ages
History House: Stories: A Day in the Life of a Peasant
The Middle Ages: Feudal Life
Chivalry, Knighthood, and Castles
Island Castles
Ians Land of Castles
Journey Through the Middle Ages
Armouries.com - Castles and Keeps

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Falconery & Hunting
History of Falconry - Index
Medieval Hunting
The Highland Trail - Falconry Today
Sports as Art
Frederick II.: A Passionate Falconer and Curious Scientist
The New Forest - a history illustrated with photographs - 1079 by William I
Medieval Hunting

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Glossaries
Castles On The Web Glossary
Castle and Siege Terminology
Castle Terminology
EMG Glossary of Castle Terminology

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Plans
Castle Map Room - Scot, Brit & Wales
Castle Ground Plans
Castles: Some History, Pictures and Plans
Build a Medieval Castle

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Specific Castles
The British Monarchy - Official Buckingham Palace History
Welcome to Buckingham Palace - miniature
Tower of London
Castles on the Web
Castles of the World
The Castles of Wales
Welsh Castle Index
Castles of Britain
Skipton Castle
Buckingham Palace - British Heritage Feature
Castles and Palaces of Poland
Castles of Scotland
The Castles of Germany
A Virtual Tour of Raglan Castle
Basing House, Basingstoke
Staffordshire Museums and Heritage
Lancelot's Castle

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Tournaments
Tourneys Index
Medieval Tournai
KCT Library: Tourneys
Jousting

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Knights