- Amiens
Cathedral
- Coodinated by Stephen Murray of Columbia University, this virtual tour
in the making uses computer enhancement to show a unique perspective on
this masterpiece of Medieval architecture. Users may check out a variety
of media on the cathedral, including some computer-generated photographs,
line drawings, regular photographs, moving videos and even a sound file.
While this site is still under construction, it will nonetheless provide
an overview of scope and glory of this Medieval cathedral. Amiens
Cathedral. A Multimedia Project for the Columbia University Core
Curriculum is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Britannia
- Bullfinch's Mythology:
The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur
- Bullfinch's Mythology:
Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages
- Byzantium: Byzantine
Studies on the Internet
- Prepared by Paul Halsal of Fordham University and EAWC's Associate
Editor for Medieval Europe, Byzantiam features many resources on
Eastern Mediterranean Medieval history, including links to syllabi,
images, primary texts and articles. It also includes an impressive list of
links to other sites. The section titled "Reference Docs" provides some
helpful information, in tabular form, including several chronologies of
Byzantine rulers. This site is well-designed, informative, and easy to
use.
- Columbus
and the Age of Discovery
- The
Glory of Byzantium
- The
Knights Templar
- The Labyrith:
A World Wide Web Server for Medieval Studies
- This site "is a global information network providing free, organized
access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide
Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and
hypertext links provide automatic connections to databases, services, and
electronic texts on other servers around the world." The Labyrinth
is a comprehensive collection of resources including on-line
bibliographies, pedagogical resources, professional news and information,
a collection of texts in Latin, French, Italian, Old English, and Middle
English, and individual pages dedicated to the British Isles, Anglo-Saxon
culture, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia.
- Medieval English
Towns
- Maintained by Stephen Alsford at the Canadian Museum of Civilization,
this site provides histories of six English towns: Norwich, King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Colchester,
and Maldon.
It also provides a glossary of medieval terms and an extensive number of
links to other sites on Medieval England.
- NetSERF: The
Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
- Sponsored by the Department of History at Catholic University,
NetSerf is an extensive index of internet resources relating to
Medieval Europe. It features special sections on 1) art and architecture,
2) history and archeology, 3) literature, and 4) law, religion and music.
The site also features a "Research Center" that includes several articles
and other useful information on Medieval Studies. Attractive and
well-designed, NetSerf is maintained by Beau Harbin.
- ORB: On-Line Text Materials
for Medieval Studies
- "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative
effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online
textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web." A
work-in-progress, ORB already includes many helpful essays on a variety of
Medieval topics. It also features a nice collection of links to other
sites, sample course syllabi, and, most impressively, the Internet Medieval
Sourcebook, a lengthy compilation of many primary sources from
Medieval Europe by Paul Halsall. Orb is managed by Carolyn Schriber of
Rhodes College.
- Renaissance Dante
in Print (1472-1629)
- The University of Notre Dame, the ARTFL Project, and the Newberry
Library have joined together to bring this site to the Internet. "This
exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the
John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame,
together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library. The Zahm
collection ranks among the top Dante collections in North America.
Purchased for the most part by Zahm in 1902 from the Italian Dantophile
Giulio Acquaticci, the 15th- and 16th- century imprints presented here
form the heart of Zahm's collection, which totals nearly 3,000 volumes,
including rare editions and critical studies from the Renaissance to the
present."
- Secrets
of the Norman Invasion
- This site is an on-line book that intends to bring "to the attention
of the reader new evidence concerning the events of the Norman Invasion.
The evidence in this text relates purely to establishing the correct site
of the Invasion and Norman camp from the examination of authentic
manuscript documents of the time, in conjunction with geographical and
archaeological evidence, that has never before been available." In 59
parts, this book carefully lays out new and exciting evidence of an
important event leading up to the Battle of Hastings. Secrets of the
Norman Invasion was written by Nick Austin.
- Rome
Reborn
- The Library of Congress and the Vatican Library have joined together
to bring to the internet "some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious
manuscripts, books, and maps -- many of which played a key role in the
humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. The
exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as the
intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and
scholarly superpower during the Renaissance." Rome Reborn features
nine sub-exhibits: The Vatican Library, Archeology, Humanism, Mathematics,
Music, Medicine and Biology, Nature Described, the Orient to Rome, and
Rome to China.
- 1492: An Ongoing
Voyage
For more information about this website or to report any problems, please email Tony Beavers.