background: the Medieval and Early Modern Romance world – including manuscripts online, music, and Medievalist & Renaissanceur culture today. There is some cross-over with RESOURCES LITERARY.
[Some resources are not in English: but should remain usable, ex. images, dates, proper nouns...]
**** = 4-star resource, usually one of the major multi-purpose metasites. So good they’re listed twice.
THE 4-STAR RESOURCES
- **** 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
- (last but not least) **** Wikipedia
THE COMPLETE LIST
- Archimedes Palimpsest
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (on-line resources)
- ARLIMA: Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (excellent research resource, inc. bibliographies; international team of contributors across a wide range of Medieval literatures)
- Arthuriana and Arthurnet (Southern Methodist University)
- British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Calendoscope (CNRS): re. Medieval liturgical calendars
- Camelot Project (University of Rochester, New York)
- CANTUS PLANUS: Data Pool for Research on Gregorian Chant(Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Regensburg)
- CANTUS: Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant (University of Western Ontario)
- Cartulaire Blanc de Saint-Denis (École des chartes)
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. Hosted by UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, this site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.
- Centre d’Études des Textes Médiévaux: Liens (Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne)
- **** Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (links page)
- **** Consortium: medieval resources on the web (Michigan State University)
- 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)
- DIAMM: Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- 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)
- Digital Medievalist
- Digital Scriptorium (Columbia University)
- Early Modern Women Database (University of Maryland)
- e-codices: Virtuelle Handschriftenbibliothek der Schweiz(The goal of e-codices is to provide access to the medieval manuscripts of Switzerland through a virtual library. Complete digital reproductions of manuscripts are linked to scholarly descriptions in e-codices.)
- École Nationale des Chartes
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (Haverford College)
- Galileo Project Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Rice University)
- Gallica: Bibliothèque Nationale de France: 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).
- **** Globe-Gate: Medieval and Renaissance sections of Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links (University of Tennessee)
- Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin)
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Visual Resources Online. In 1965, Saint John’s Abbey and University embarked on a mission of preserving manuscripts on microfilm and providing access to these resources to scholars. Over the years, other collections of art, rare books, photographs, etc., have been added to HMML’s collection.
- Historians of Netherlandish Art: Exhibitions
- IMS Study Group “Cantus Planus” (International Musicological Society)
- **** Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies / Paul Halsall, ORB sources editor)
- IRHT: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS)
- **** Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Libraries)
- **** Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University)
- Manuscripta Mediaevalia (Cataloguing information on all mss in German libraries, and in some others.)
- Manuscriptorium (Manuscriptorium is a system for collecting and making accessible on the internet information on historical book resources, linked to a virtual library of digitised documents. The Manuscriptorium service is financed by the National Library of the Czech Republic)
- Mappamundi (Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University)
- MATEO: Frauen des Humanismus (Universität Mannheim)
- Medieval Academic Discussion Groups: comprehensive list, maintained by Edwin Duncan (English, Towson University)
- The Medieval Bestiary and Chimaera: Bestiary blog (David Badke, University of Victoria)
- Medieval Logic and Philosophy (Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana University)
- Medieval Manuscripts Online: list of online resources, maintained by Siân Echart (English, UBC)
- Medieval Science Page (James McNelis, Wilmington College)
- Medieval Scribes (University of York)
- Medieval Technology Pages (Paul J. Gans, New York University)
- Medieval Travel Writing: (Adams Matthew Digital, c/o UBC Library; NB only accessible on-campus or via UBC myVPN)
- MEMO: Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization
- **** 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)
- Meta-meta-medieval: concatenations
- Monastic Matrix: a scholarly resource for the study of women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 C.E. (University of Southern California)
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- Musical Sources (9th–15th Centuries) in the Austrian National Library
- **** 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)
- ORBIS LATINUS (Graesse): Latin place-names; Dr. J. G. Th. Graesse (1909); c/o Columbia University
- Panurge: Actualités de la recherche autour de la Renaissance.
- Pecia: Ressources en médiévistique: Online community for Medievalists interested in medieval books and manuscripts, paleography, codicology, medieval libraries, &tc, everything to do with bookmaking in the Middle Ages …
- Perdita: Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Catalogue (AHRB and Nottingham Trent University, in conjunction with Warwick University)
- Performing Medieval Narrative Today: a video showcase (Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York University)
- **** PIMS: Internexus: online resources (Pontifical Insitute of Mediaeval Studies)
- Popular Culture and the Middle Ages: including the Medieval Comics Project and Medieval Studies at the Movies
- Renaissance Lit: Happenings and cavorts in the Early Modern world
- Reti Medievali: Iniziative on line per gli studi medievistici (Università di Firenze, Napoli, Palermo, Venezia e Verona)
- **** RSA: Renaissance Society of America links database: from antiquity to ca. 1700.
- St. Gall Monastery Plan (Prof. Patrick J. Geary, University of California, Los Angeles)
- Thesaurus musicarum italicarum (Universiteit Utrecht)
- **** Wikipedia
- Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) – Medieval Studies
See also:
- RESOURCES LITERARY
- resources, blogography, and filmography @ Meta-meta-medieval
- resources @ UBC Early Romance Studies Research Cluster
