HISTORY 310, EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Prof. GADDIS
HELPFUL INTERNET RESOURCES
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Probably the best single site for primary sources in translation; a staggeringly large assortment. Be sure to check out separate sections for Ancient History, Jewish History, Byzantine Studies, Women’s History, etc. In addition to primary texts, also includes helpful essays on critical techniques, methodology, research tools. Spend a good few hours exploring this one! The majority of your online assigned readings will be found here.
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: All sorts of medieval resources: an encyclopedia, excellent long bibliographic essays on a variety of topics, online textbooks, maps, images, links.
Labyrinth: A specialized search engine for medieval resources.
Netserf: Another search engine, and collection of medieval links.
About.com's Medieval and Renaissance section. Lots of great links, and a good historical map collection.
Henry-Davis: Great collection of maps dating from ancient and medieval times. See the world as the ancients saw it!
Perseus Project: Excellent general site for Classics/Ancient History (though not quite as good for late antique/early Christian). Translated texts of Greek and Latin authors. Huge library of images: art, buildings, archaeological site plans, coins, etc.
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An online encyclopedia of Roman and Byzantine emperors (search chronologically or alphabetically), with links to maps, portraits and coins, family trees, short biographies, up-to-date bibliography. Currently has excellent coverage for the fourth and fifth centuries, a bit spotty for second and third centuries.
Project Wulfila: The Gothic Bible online, with links to everything you ever wanted to know about Goths on the internet.
The Ecole Initiative: Hypertext encyclopedia and links for early church history on the web. Check out their collection of thousands of artistic images, medieval and early modern, mostly religious. Organized alphabetically by subject or name of saint.
Diotima: Best place to look for materials relating to women and gender in the ancient world. Primary sources, images, course syllabi, bibliographies, links.
Fathers of the Church: all 38 volumes of the massive Ante-Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series. Translations from Christian authors from the first to the sixth centuries, both Latin and Greek. Texts arranged preserving the order of the original print volumes. Footnotes hyperlinked; much easier to navigate and to find particular sections within a large text. Particular texts may be read online or downloaded as .txt, .zip or .pdf files. Alternate location: same texts, arranged alphabetically. Not as well formatted.
St. Pachomius Library: many early Christian, Byzantine and Greek Orthodox texts; an especially good selection of saints’ lives. Thoughtfully provides warning labels on texts considered "heretical."
Noncanonical Homepage: Apocryphal texts, both Old and New Testament; Nag Hammadi/Gnostic texts; some church fathers.
Patrologia Latina Database: For those who read Latin. A massive 200-vol collection of just about every word written in Latin by Christians up until about 1200. Now online with amazing word-search capabilities. Free access from anywhere on SU network.