Websites dealing with the
Middle Ages in general
Archives of
the Medieval-Religion Mailinglist
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html
Medieval
Academic Discussion Groups
http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/acalists.html
i.e.
MEDIEVAL-RELIGION mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk Medieval Religion
MEDIEVAL-RELIGION
is a forum for discussions related to religious life and thought in
join medieval-religion first name last
name (where first name is your first name, etc.) Its archives may be
accessed at the Mailbase Web Page (http://mailbase.ac.uk).
The
Medtextl Database
http://www.mun.ca/mst/medtext/
is
the full-text database for the Listserv discussion group Medtextl
1. broader topics (back to
top 2.glossaries and encyclopedias 3.particular topics)
German websites
Chronik vom Jahre Null bis 2000
http://www.geschichte.2me.net/
lists of regents
and popes, biographies and pictures
CMS-Centrum medievistických studií Praha
http://www.sendme.cz/trestik/deutsch.htm
centre for
medieval studies in Prague, treatises in German and English
Das Deutsche Mittelalter
http://www.tu-harburg.de/~vbp/docs/medi.html
timelines,
love poems, compilation of links, downloads (i.e.: chronological table for
medieval history of culture and history of life – 300 pages)
Deutscher Mittelalter-Ring
http://www.mittelalter-ring.de/
Webring
Erlanger Historikerseite
http://www.erlangerhistorikerseite.de/
Geschichtswebring
http://webring.parsimony.net/webring198/
Webring
Historische Hilfswissenschaften
(Uni München)
http://www.vl-ghw.uni-muenchen.de/hw.html#insgesamt
German: detailed site concerning the historical
auxiliary sciences
Historische Hilfswissenschaften
(Uni Passau)
http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/histhw/
German: very detailed site concerning the historical
auxiliary sciences
Historisches Seminar der Uni Tübingen – Abteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/mittelalter/
online tutorial, texts and
information relating to the seminars (sources and translations, pictures),
links, online edition of the False Capitularies of Benedictus
Levita (with search engine), events, medieval topics on TV
Jadu - Die
Mittelalterseiten
http://www.jadu.de/mittelalter/index.html
detailed site for history, legends, biographies,
clans, habits, cults and culture of the middle ages
Linksammlung zum Mittelalter
http://www.spinworx.de/Gimi/Mittelalter.php3
German: detailed link list concerning the Middle Ages
Mediaevum - Mediävistik im Internet
http://www.mediaevum.de/haupt2.htm
addresses,
links, sources, finding aids
Netzwerk für Wissensweitergabe
rubric
„Geschichte“: annotated catalogue, several surveys according to the Middle
ages, glossary with short bibliographies
Online-Tutorium
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/mittelalter/tutorium/
German: outline of
scientific working methods like research of literature, bibliography,
encyclopaedias, advises concerning theses ...
Projekte mit historischen Inhalten
http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD8/Research/geschichte.html
1st:
documents of the monastery Lorsch 2nd:
A data base of the higher nobility in Europe with bibliography (multilingual) 3rd:
European history
Skriptorium
http://www.hdbg.de/skriptorium/index.htm
German:
very detailed site about the production of books in the middle ages, with links
Sozialchronik
http://www.socialchronik.de/index.htm
this encyclopaedia offers many
information concerning social history
Zeittafel des Mittelaltershttp://www.mittelalter.de/html/zeittafel_des_mittelalters.html
chronology of the Middle Ages
English websites
CEU-Department of Medieval Studies, Budapest
referring to several projects
English Monastic Archives
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/englishmonasticarchives/archives/index.php
detailed database of monasteries and their documents
in England
Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
http://www.friesian.com/histindx.htm
maps, genealogical trees...
Hanover College, Department of History
“Electronic Databases and Historical Research”=
presents several data bases and library catalogues, online readable articles
from the “Hannover Historical Review”, Hannover Historical Texts Project
(letters of crusaders)
http://history.hanover.edu/maps.html
a guide to web sites with historical maps
http://history.hanover.edu/art.html
a guide to web sites with images of art and
architecture
History Central Catalog
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html [opens in a new window]
very extensive rubrics: „Research: Methods and Materials“, „Eras and Epochs“, „Historical Topics“...with search engine
History Ring
http://members.tripod.com/~PHILKON/ring.html
Humbul Humanitie Hub
Oxford Gateway to Medieval Studies
Hyper History Online
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
timelines for major civilizations; lifelines
of important persons; important events in science, culture and politics; accompanied by many maps and texts
Labyrinth Resources for medieval
studies
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Lieberknechts Homepage for Dantestudies
http://www.lieberknecht.de/dante/welcome.html
internet search engines,
bibliographic tools, dictionaries, glossaries, bibliographic reference,
sub-page for medieval religion
Life in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance
http://historymedren.about.com/homework/historymedren/mbody.htm
Who is Who in medieval history
(cross references, links, and bibliographic reference), E-Books, reviews,
links, clip arts
Marginality and community in
medieval Europe
http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/margin.htm
a project
designed by the History 84 students at Kenyon College; topics: methodologies, heresies, witches, Jews,
lepers, sexualities (each with bibliography and links)
Medieval
Christianity Syllabus
http://web.missouri.edu/~religjr/syllabus.html
Engl.: medieval texts
(Thomas Aquinas, Hildegard of Bingen...), order rules, chronology of the middle
ages, links
Medieval History
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Medieval.html
detailed link list
for medieval history
MEMDB: Medieval and early modern
data bank
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/memdb/
The New Labyrinth
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
select a category, subcategory, type
of materials, and/or type in a keyword.
Online Medieval and Classical
Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
links to important source
collections and large own collection
Online Reference Book for medieval
studies
chronological
and geographical index of essays, bibliographies, images, documents, links and
other resources,
Textbook Library (online readable full-length textbooks), links
Paul Halsall/FordhamUNI: Internet
History Sourcebook Projekt
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
several source compilations,
bibliographies and much more
WWW
Medieval Resources
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html
links to texts from and about the
Medieval period; medieval history, archeology and architecture; links to
discussion groups, data bases
WWW-VL Virtual library (History
Index-Medieval Europe)
http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm
very extensive link collection
French
websites
Abbaye
de Scourmont
http://users.skynet.be/bs775533/arm-fra.htm
French:
several articles concerning different religious themes, e.g. the rule of
Benedict, the general chapter; different bibliographies, texts of the chapters
of Scourmont
ABC des châteaux-forts sur
internet
http://cecf.chez-alice.fr/abc/index.htm
French: castles in
France: links to the appropriate homepages with description, research according
to alphabet, department or map, links to European sites
Châteaux
Celtes et Chimères – site pour les passionnées de l’époque médiévale
http://pages.infinit.net/celte/
French:
extensive site about the middle ages: life in the middle ages, important historical
dates, myths, legends and heroes, medieval cuisine, calligraphy and
illumination, medieval surnames (ordered by century), marriage in the middle
ages, pictures of medieval castles, extensive thematic link list, ...
De l’Antiquité au Moyen Age
http://perso.orange.fr/jean-francois.mangin/
French: extensive site
about the history of France from the antiquity until the middle ages,
Merovingians, Carolingians, Capetians
Enluminures
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/
French: high quality photos of more
than 80 000 illuminated medieval manuscripts of different French libraries
Histoire-Geographie sur le web-Le Moyen Age
articles and essays on selected themes
Historel : Moyen-Age
http://www.multimania.com/historel/moyenage/index2.html
index of persons, bibliography,
maps, and a classified presentation
Historia
2000
French:
numerous subjects about the middle ages in France (987 – 1492): social statuses,
monasteries, castles, battles, genealogies of kings and popes, ...
Le coin des historiens : histoire
médiévale
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/robin/histoire/index-med.html
detailed chapters (each with bibliographic reference): 1st:
education and cultures, 2nd: church and papacy, 3rd:
crusades and Byzanz …
L'Histoire - La célèbre revue de
vulgarisation historique
http://www.histoire.presse.fr/
statements of contents of all
volumes (some articles are readable online) with search engines, short reviews,
calendar of events,
links to online resources
Ménestrel – Un réseau de Médiévistes
http://www.ext.upmc.fr/urfist/mediev.htm
links to different medieval themes:
bibliographies, associations, auxiliary disciplines ...
Theleme -
Techniques pour l'Historien en Ligne
http://theleme.enc.sorbonne.fr/dossiers/
French:
digital facsimiles of different medieval documents with French translation and
information about the document as well as a list of French abbreviations used
in the texts, a help for recognizing every single word!
Italian websites
Reti Medievali
Ital.
(unfortunately only partly in English): E-text-library (scientific articles,
annotated bibliographies, E-books for download ...), calendar of events, guide
to online resources, links
Storia medievale
http://www.mondimedievali.net/
Italian: portal for medieval history, heresy,
churches, abbeys and monasteries in Italy, castles, fortifications, art
history, medieval sources online (Latin), extensive literature list (often with
summary, predominantly English and Italian titles)
2.glossaries and
encyclopedias (back to top 1. broader
topics 3.particular topics)
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
http://mdz.bib-bvb.de/digbib/lexika/adb/
German:
digital version of the general German biography (of 1912)
Britannia Lexicon
http://www.britannia.com/history/resource/gloss.html
the
Britannia Lexicon of strange legal, feudal, chivalric, monastic, military and
architectural terms
Britannica
with search engine
Cantus
http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/
database for Latin ecclesiastical
chant
Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
English:
encyclopaedia with alphabetical order
Das Wörterbuch-Netz
http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/
German: dictionaries for German
dialects and Middle High German
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (DRW)
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~cd2/drw/
German:
digital dictionary of the elder German law language
Encyclopaedia of the Orient
http://lexicorient.com/e.o/index.htm
Feudal terms of England
http://eserver.org/langs/feudal-dictionary.txt
glossary
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz-Online
Germ., French, Italian: historical
lexicon of Suisse, not yet realized completely
Inkunabelkatalog INKA
http://www.inka.uni-tuebingen.de/
German: catalogue of incunables
Legal terms in Landrecords
http://www.ultranet.com/~deeds/legal.htm
LEO - Wörterbuch
German-English, German-French,
German-Spanish dictionary
Lexikon Mittelalter
http://netzwerk.wisis.de/text/104.htm
= http://www.susas.de/MA3_2.htm
German: a
virtual encyclopedia for the middle ages explaining general medieval terms
Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon (Greek in Latin transliteration)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?display=&lang=greek
Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank
http://mhdbdb.sbg.ac.at:8000/index.de.html
English and German database of
Middle High German terms
Onelook.com
more than 4 million words in more
than 700 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine. (You
can search for translations and definitions.)
Orbis Latinus online
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html
Regnal Chronologies
http://www.hostkingdom.net/regindex.html
succession lists of the imperial
ecclesiastic states incl. convents and abbeys, dynasties, glossary of titels
Reimer Hemmingseni glossarium latine-latine
http://www.rostra.dk/latin/abc.html
Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi
http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/isime/lemmi/vola.htm
Thesaurus
Precum Latina
http://home.earthlink.net/~thesaurus/index.htm
contains
also: translation and pronunciation aids,
calendarium
WWW-Words by William Whitaker
http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/WORDS.EXE?gemmis
Latin-English dictionary
3.particular topics (back to top 1. broader topics 2.glossaries and
encyclopedias )
Architecture/ Art
Music/Literature Maps Urban
History Miscellaneous
Art History Resources
on the Web: The Middle Ages
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html#Medieval
English: detailed site concerning medieval art, with many links and images
Artlex
art dictionary for artists, students
and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics and education
Glossaire ecclésiastique
http://www.fabrice-muller.be/divers/glossaires/glossaire-eccl.html
[öffnet sich in
neuem Fenster]
French: glossary of ecclesiastic
establishment and objects, links
Glossar zur mittelalterlichen Buchmalerei
http://www.gutenbergbibeldruck.de/Glossar1.html
German: glossary about medieval book
painting
Der hoch- und spätromanische Bauschmuck des Naumburger Domes im
Zusammenhang der Baugeschichte
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2002/glaeseker/glaeseker.pdf
German: dissertation about the
Romanesque ornaments of the cathedral in Naumburg
Index of Christian Art
presentation of the project
Medieval Art
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval.html
part of the AICT- project (Art
Images for College Teaching)
romanes.com
French,
English, Spanish, Italian: site concerning Romanesque, Gothic, Cistercian and
in general medieval architecture with many
photos,
restricted on French regions, interactive map and satellite pictures, plans,
chronology, small history encyclopaedia, detailed bibliography, search engine,
links
Zittauer
Fastentuch - ein spätmittelalterliches Kunstwerk
http://www.zittauer-fastentuecher.de/index2.htm
article about the
theological programme; description and images
Music/Literature
Architecture/ Art Maps Urban
History Miscellaneous
Archéologie
musicale médiévale
French: several
articles about medieval music, medieval instruments and musical themes in
Romanesque sculptures
Byzantine Chant studies Page
several articles, also information
about iconography, links
CANTUS – Database for
Latin ecclesiastical chant
http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/
English: site about Latin ecclesiastical chant providing access to the texts
and manuscripts, with search engine
Charles W. Nelson --
Medieval Studies
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~cwnelson/cwn.htm
English: collection of links concerning medieval and Renaissance literature
Gregorian Chant Homepage
http://www.music.princeton.edu
link collection
Instruments
médiévaux
http://www.instrumentsmedievaux.org/pages/depart.html
French: presentation
of medieval instruments with photos, medieval forms of songs, lyrics and
examples as mp3, book illumination, Romanesque and Gothic architecture
containing medieval instruments, ...
Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi
the most important page concerning
the medieval theory of music
Literature of the French Middle Ages
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/lit/middle.ages.html
360 links to works (by author) and
related topics
Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (
publications, inventory of microfilms
and photos
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/
large collection of texts from the 5th
to the 17th century
Maps
Architecture/ Art Music/Literature Urban History Miscellaneous
Cartographic
Images
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/
Ebstorfer Weltkarte
http://weblab.uni-lueneburg.de/kulturinformatik/projekte/ebskart/content/start.html
German: detailed description of the
„Ebstorfer Weltkarte“, texts of the map in Latin and German
The
History of Cartography
http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
Mobilität im Mittelalter
http://www.gelit.de/mmm/complex/index.htm
mobility and maps, history of
cartography, world map of Ebstorf, download, ...
Sphaera Terrae – das
mittelalterliche Bild der Erde und die kosmographische Revolution
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2000/vogel/index.htm
German: whole online dissertation as
download
Urban History Germany
Frankfurt am Main
http://www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de/service/chronik/chronik_0.html
German,
partly English: detailed chronicle of the town with timeline and images
Halle
http://www.halle.de/index.asp?MenuID=163
German:
short urban history, with images
Münster - Armut, Not und gute Werke
http://www.muenster.de/stadt/armut/index1.html
social
foundations in Münster
Speyer
http://www.speyer.de/de/tourist/geschichte
German:
informative site about the urban history, with many images
Traunstein
http://www.traunstein.de/index/buerginf/info/geschich/geschich.htm
German:
detailed information on the urban history, with literature and images
Miscellaneous
Architecture/ Art Music/Literature
Urban History Maps
Alltagsgeschichte des Mittelalters
http://www.kleio.org/mittelalter.html
by Maike Vogt-Lüerssen; (detailed
information on the daily life in a monastery, glossary)
Anglo-Saxon charters on the WWW
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/
a project of the
Archäologische Befunde zur Entsorgung im Mittelalter
http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/110/pdf/band1.pdf
German:
dissertation concerning disposal in the middle ages
Ars
Medicinae
French: survey
about medical art in the middle ages: surgery, medicine, pharmacy; press
articles, links
Beginenhöfe
http://opus.kobv.de/udk/volltexte/2005/10/pdf/witt_gabriele.pdf
German: dissertation concerning beguines and the donations of the countesses of
Beiträge
zur Geschichte des Augustinerchorherrenstiftes Weyarn in der Barockzeit
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~GML/abstracts/mag-2002.htm
German:
short abstract of the thesis of Florian Sepp concerning the history of the
canons regular of Weyarn in the baroque era
Christian Hagiography/ Société des
Bollandistes
detailed information about „Acta
Sanctorum“, „Analecta Bollandia“ ,and „Subsidia Hagiographica“, bibliographies,
links to organizations and periodicals world wide, reference books and
dictionaries, calendar of congresses on hagiography
Computatio
http://online-media.uni-marburg.de/ma_geschichte/computatio/
bills of the late middle ages and the modern times with glossary and bibliography
Costume Link Page
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/medievalinks.htm
Link-Page on medieval costumes
Das
Verhältnis zwischen Bischof und Domkapitel am Beispiel des Bistums Mindens
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/p/cma/6-03/kruppa.pdf
German:
dissertation about the relation between bishop and chapter in the diocese
Die materielle Kultur in den Lüneburger
Testamenten 1323 bis 1500
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/1998/mosler/inhalt.htm
German: dissertation about the
material culture in testaments of Lüneburg
the English Medieval Calendar
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/holiday/calhome.html
Epigraphik
http://www.epigraphica-europea.uni-muenchen.de/
German: detailed introduction, lexicon concerning the
epigraphy, literature
Formen und Funktionen des Krieges
im Mittelalter
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_III/Geschichte/mittlere/Krieg/
German:
presentation of a research project about war in the middle ages
Fürsten-Grafen-Herren:
Landesherrschaft im Späten Mittelalter
http://online-media.uni-marburg.de/ma_geschichte/landesgeschichte/
with bibliography, sources (excerpts
are readable online) and links
Genealogie der Franken
http://www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/
genealogy of the franks
Genealogie im Deutschen Reich bis zum Ende der Staufer – a collection of materials–
http://www.genealogie-mittelalter.de
popes,
archbishops, bishops, dynasties, kingdoms and dukedoms
Georges Dubys „Krieger und Bauern“
http://www.maubu.de/soz_1/reader.htm
German: some chapters of „Warriors
and peasants“ from G. Duby and other texts online available
Heinrich
der Löwe
http://mitglied.lycos.de/wpeter/heinrich.htm
very
detailed information including biography, timelines, bibliography, coins,...
Historikerwerkstatt – Der
Aufbau einer Urkunde
http://www.hdbg.de/fra-mitt/german/urkunde/01_originalurkunde.html
German: this site offers a detailed explanation of the parts of a
medieval charter and shows them
Homosexualität im späten Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit
http://www.sfn.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/koerper/tbarb_de.html
German: text about homosexuality in
the history
Internetquellen zu Handschriften, Inkunabeln, Nachlässen, Alten Drucken
http://www.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/webmania/lhsn.htm
classified collection of online
resources
Kalender und Kirchenjahr
http://www.mediaevum.de/kalender.htm
links to calendar tools
Kindheit im Mittelalter
http://www.sbg.ac.at/ges/people/janotta/sim/kindheit.html
German: detailed text about
childhood in the middle ages, with bibliography
Kirchhöfe im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit
http://www.muenster.org/august/gesellschaft/spurensuche/kirchberg/andreas_jobst.htm
German: article of Andreas Jobst
about cemeteries and funerals
Leprosen in der mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2003/schelberg/schelberg.pdf
German: dissertation about leprosy
in the middle ages
Mary`s Gardens Homepage
extensive texts about medieval symbolism
of plants
Mittelalterliche Kriegsgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte
http://www.amg-fnz.de/projekt.php?ID=63
German: project analysing war in the
middle ages
Pest, Geißler, Judenverfolgung: Das 14. Jahrhundert als Krisenzeit
http://online-media.uni-marburg.de/ma_geschichte/pest/
with bibliography, sources (excerpts
are readable online) and links
Royal Participation In Episcopal
Elections In Merovingian
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V3N3/johnson.html
Some
Clothing of the Middle ages
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html
historical
clothing from archaeological finds, primarily focusing on
Stammbaum
der Welfen
http://mitglied.lycos.de/wpeter/stbaum/stbaum.htm
genealogical tree of the house of
Welfen
tempora nostra – Projekt zum
Alltagsleben des Hochmittelalters
project on the daily life in the
High Middle Ages
Turba Delirantium
http://turba-delirantium.skyrocket.de/index.htm
German: detailed site about the
medieval world, with links, literature, images
„Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit“ von Dr. H. Grotefend
http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/grotefend.htm
HTML-version by Dr. Horst Ruth
