[A collection of VERY ANTIQUE older links: hopefully a useful start, and please add more in comments…]
UBC Medieval Studies Resources
UBC Early Romance Studies research cluster: online resources for Early Romance studies
For pre-1800 Romance languages, literatures, and culture; almost all are free and publicly-accessible, some (projects, usually) may require subscription.
• literature (including online texts)
• manuscript studies (and online manuscripts)
• cultural and contextual materials (history, art, music, science)
Meta-meta-medieval (O’Brien): material sources
Primary materials. Primarily, freely-available online texts, in the broadest sense of WRITTEN THINGS:
• documents, manuscripts, printed books, music, and images
• transcriptions, facsimiles, editions, and translations
• hyperprojects: digital humanities, electronic, hypertext projects; featuring encoded or marked-up text, relational or searchable databases, etc.
• digital catalogues (especially of manuscripts)
and hyperprojects
MMM: manuscripts & manuscript studies
MMM: Medieval & Renaissance resources
Sites and meta-sites around the world providing FREE AND OPENLY/PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE online information about Medieval and Renaissance studies.
MMM: literature online
Mainly but not exclusively Medieval and Renaissance European.
MMM: medievalist blogography(Way out of date… see also: #medievaltwitter )
FOUR-STAR ONE-STOP RESOURCES
Major multi-purpose meta-sites. Modus operandi: based on the Michelin star system. The following not only satisfy every criterion for the award of one, two and three stars; they transcend the requirements for the latter, being as they are at the meta-level. Hence four stars. NB: there is some overlap with super-stellar super-sites awarded three stars for their coverage of manuscript matters; the latter category is at a less “meta” level (subset vs. superset).
- **** Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (links page)
- **** Consortium: medieval resources on the web (Michigan State University)
- **** Globe-Gate: Medieval and Renaissance sections of Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links (University of Tennessee)
- **** Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies / Paul Halsall, ORB sources editor)
- **** Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Libraries)
- **** Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University)
- **** Ménestrel: possibly the best and most up-to-date centralised resource for links to (mainly European) libraries and museums (the Sorbonne & Poitiers libraries, Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale – Poitiers/CNRS, Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales – Caen, Centre de recherches historiques CNRS/EHESS, Central European University – Budapest, École nationale des chartes, IRHT, Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris – CNRS/Université Paris 1-Sorbonne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Nancy 2)
- **** NetSerf: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources (The Catholic University of America)
- **** ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
- **** PIMS: Internexus: online resources (Pontifical Insitute of Mediaeval Studies)
- **** RSA: Renaissance Society of America links database: from antiquity to ca. 1700
- **** Wikipedia
TEXT & TEXTUALITY
For/in the Romance languages, and some Latin:
- AND: Anglo-Norman Dictionary Project (Aberystwyth University and Swansea University)
- Anglo-Norman Online Hub (Anglo-Norman / Old French dictionary (the AND) and texts; hyperlinked, marked up, searchable, etc.; Aberystwyth University and Swansea University)
- ARLIMA: Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (excellent research resource, inc. bibliographies; international team of contributors across a wide range of Medieval literatures)
- Arnaut’s Babel / Baroque Forms of Poetry – medieval Occitan poetry (click on TROUBADOURS)
- ARTFL Project: includes texts and early dictionaries (University of Chicago)
- Arthuriana and Arthurnet (Southern Methodist University)
- Base de Français Médiéval (Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines, Lyon)
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (Universidad de Alicante)
- Bibliotheca Augustana (Fachhochschule Augsburg)
- Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (Université François-Rabelais, Tours; CNRS)
- British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog (London): one of the best medievalist blogs and one of the best medieval manuscript collections AND one of the best libraries, rolled into one beautiful joy …
- Camelot Project (University of Rochester, New York)
- Centre d’Études des Textes Médiévaux: Liens (Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne)
- Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
- CURSUS: Medieval Liturgical Texts (University of East Anglia)
- Debora B. Schwartz’s Web Resources and Online Readings (Cal Poly – resources for Medieval English & French literature and women’s studies)
- Decameron Web (Brown University)
- Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXème au XVème siècle de Frédéric Godefroy (1880) c/o DicFro: click on “Open a dictionary” then “français” then “GdF 1880”. The Complément (1895) and the Lexique (1901) are here too.
- Dictionnaire des femmes de l’Ancienne France (Dictionary of Women in Medieval and Early Modern France, 5th-18th c.; c/o SIEFAR – Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime)
- DMF : Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (ATILF-Nancy-Université et CNRS)
- DEAF: Dictionnaire étymologique de l’ancien français (Universität Heidelberg).
- Digital Dante Project (Columbia University)
- Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts (Sheffield Hallam University)
- École Nationale des Chartes (see PUBLICATIONS EN LIGNE)
- Electronic Boethius (Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky)
- ETRC Textbase: Early Modern French Women Writers (University of Minnesota)
- French Medieval Drama Database Project (Brigham Young University)
- Gallica: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris): provides some useful, if basic, information – click on “découverte,” click on appropriate term in the main image, then follow the icons (”thèmes,” “chronologies” and “iconographies” are better). Ever-increasing numbers of digitised manuscripts, some good introductory online guides ans virtual mini-exhibitions too.
- International Alain Chartier Society
- International Arthurian Society (Université Rennes 2)
- International Joan of Arc Society (Southern Methodist University)
- Internet Classics Archive (MIT)
- IRHT: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS)
- Jean Froissart Project (University of Sheffield)
- LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online (U of Central Arkansas)
- Lives of the Saints: The medieval French hagiography project (Amy Ogden, University of Virginia)
- The Medieval Bestiary and Chimaera: Bestiary blog (David Badke, University of Victoria)
- Medieval Travel Writing: (Adams Matthew Digital, c/o UBC Library; NB only accessible on-campus or via UBC myVPN)
- Obscenity in Renaissance France (AHRC-funded project; University of Exeter; dir. Hugh Roberts)
- Online Froissart (The University of Sheffield, University of Liverpool, and AHRC)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library (University of Berkeley)
- Opere di Dante lemmatizzate (Università di Pisa, CiBit – Consorzio Interuniversitario Biblioteca Italiana Telematica)
- ORB: Reference Shelf: The On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies’ online textual resources (not just Medieval)
- Partonopeus de Blois (Penny Eley, Penny Simons, Mario Longtin, Catherine Hanley, and Philip Shaw; published by the Humanities Institute of the University of Sheffield; supported by the University of Sheffield and the AHRC)
- Performing Medieval Narrative Today: a video showcase (Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York University)
- Perseus Digital Library (Classical history, literature, and culture; Tufts University)
- The Philological Museum (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham): humanistic and neo-Latin texts on the Web
- Princeton Charrette Project (first phase Princeton University, second phase Baylor University)
- Princeton Dante Project (Robert Hollander, Princeton University)
- Project Gutenberg: the Internet’s oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)
- Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629): online exhibition (University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, and the Newberry Library)
- Reti Medievali: Iniziative on line per gli studi medievistici (Università di Firenze, Napoli, Palermo, Venezia e Verona)
- Rialc: Repertorio informatizzato dell’antica letteratura catalana (Università di Napoli Federico II)
- Rialto: Repertorio informatizzato dell’antica letteratura trobadorica e occitana (Università di Napoli Federico II)
- Roman de la Rose Digital Library Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts (joint project of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- SATORBASE: Société d’analyse de la topique romanesque (database of topoi in French narrative literature of the Medieval to Early Modern periods; conseil d’administration inc. McMaster University, Université de Montréal, Université de Paris VII, … )
- Timaeus Project (a.k.a. The Digby 23 Project; at Baylor University; dir. K. Sarah-Jane Murray)
- Le Trésor de la langue française: Renaissance and Early Modern French – go to “Recherche d’un mot” (Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue française, CNRS) OR use this link + click on your type of connection + “Entrez dans le dictionnaire” OR c/o ARTFL Reference Collection
- Tristania (Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona)
- University of Virginia Library Digital Collections: used to be the Electronic Text Center (1992-2007), currently in process of migrating to new site
- VOS: Voice of the Shuttle (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Wikisource
- World of Dante (Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia)
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