Medieval Studies: Selected Websites

"Allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization."

Epistolae is a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected here date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation. The letters are organized by the name and biography of the women writers or recipients. Biographical sketches of the women, descriptions of the subject matter of the letters, and the historical context of the correspondence are included where available.

Links to online collections of digitized primary source documents, organized by country.

Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Created by Fordham University, this has primary sources in translation from the Medieval to Renaissance.

Provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world.

Stanford University

A digital collection of manuscripts curated by the New York Public Library

Beautifully digitized versions of outstanding illuminated manuscript artwork from the Morgan collections.

This website features the Online Chaucer Bibliography which includes materials from the Annotated Chaucer Bibliography (published annually in Studies in the Age of Chaucer). If you locate relevant articles in this catalog, search for full-text materials in one of the Geisel Library databases.

Cultivated and curated by the New York Public Library (NYPL), this site has hundreds of beautiful scanned manuscripts from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

This site provides full-text electronic copies of works whose copyright has expired.

This website provides a "structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources" in the humanities. It organizes online resources according to subjects such as cultural studies, literature (in English and other languages), literary theory, and media studies and presents resources in general and specific categories.