This page is meant to be a guide to resources available on the Web
for people who are interested in the history, culture, literature
and re-creation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
There are hundreds of sites on the Middle Ages on the Web.
I know I have only a small percentage of what is out there, but I have tried to
organize this site so that you will have an easier time finding what you want.
Please e-mail me
to let me know about good sites that I haven't included yet.
Welcome to my site. Feel free to explore, and please come back again, because I'm
always adding new resources to the list.
This site has a list of links and a listing of library collections.
It also has a large
bibliography of translations of Medieval texts.
At the moment, access to all but a few of the on-line texts are restricted to
people affiliated with Stanford University.
A general site on Alchemy, it includes information on Alchemy in
the Middle ages and Renaissance.
The Alchemy Reference Library includes transcriptions and images
from, and analyses of, source documents on alchemy, including some
Medieval and Renaissance texts.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
by Richard Hacken at Brigham Young University
This site provides links to transcriptions, translations and facsimiles
of documents from all periods of European History, including
Medieval & Renaissance Europe.
From the collection of Comedies and Tragedies edited by Nicholas Brylinger, Basle, 1540. Translations of the plays, and information about the works and their authors.
Transcriptions of Middle English works, including Chaucer and
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Part of the
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
Some resources at this site are restricted to UVA users, but most of
this archive is publically available.
"The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is an archive being
assembled as a service to the Internet....Douglas B. Killings is responsible
for this project..." The texts archived here include Chaucer, several
Norse Sagas, and more.
This chronicle is a very important document for early British history.
A transcription of the original Old English manuscript is given here,
no translation.
Their introduction says, "The Charrette project is a complex,
scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval
manuscript tradition -- that of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier
de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180). It is developed and
maintained by the Department of Romance Languages, Princeton
University.
The author of the web site says "William Langland's Piers Plowman
is a fourteenth-century alliterative, satiric, allegorical quest poem."
The site contains a critical text and a variety of related information.
A site devoted to the Decameron, a mid-14th century text by Boccaccio.
The site contains the text of the stories in Italian and in English
translation. There is also a great deal of supplementary material
on the author and the time period.
A huge collection of on-line images, mainly of paintings. Only a
portion is Medieval and Renaissance, but the site is well
indexed to make things easy to find.
Athena Review:
Quarterly Journal of Archaeology, History and Exploration
This site contains a large number of interesting articles and an
archive of images. It is not primarily focused on the Middle Ages,
but it has a great deal of relevant material
The author of this site has collected a great deal of information
on this important battle, including genealogies, images of the Bayeux
Tapestry, photos of re-creations of the battle, and his own articles.
This site contains information on a wide variety of styles of
Renaissance Dance. There are also audio and sheet music files for
the music for many of these dances.
There are mirrors of this site in
Australia and
Canada.
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The English Dancing Master
There are two sites that I know of that contain transcriptions
of this renaissance dance manual. There is a copy transcribed by
Filip of the Marche, and a copy on the site of the SCA's
Shire of Cynnabar.
This dance manual was written by Playford and published in 1651.
It is the main source for English Country Dance. -->
A page on Welsh history, literature and culture. The history section
includes some very good primary source materials from
the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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