Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Our newest online resource for history enthusiasts---check it out!
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Index of Christian Art
Need a picture of an everyday medieval activity, a saint, or a medieval artifact? From enamels to liturgical combs, you'll find them here. Append “and Public” to your search to get items linked to images.
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Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: an Encyclopedia
Scientists from Roger Bacon to William of Ockham, with sidelights on Fibonacci, Ibn Sina, and Maimonides. Also paints, [medical] instruments, housing, optics, music theory, calendars, agronomy, gunpowder & gynecology.
REFERENCE 509.02 M489m
Atlas of the Medieval World
Trying to sort out the decline of the Abbasid Caliphate, the Mongol empire, the paths of the Crusades, the extent of the Black Death, the 14 th century Papal split, the territories of Burgundy , Britain , or Sung China? Maps and text: REFERENCE 909.070223 M158a
Trade, Travel, & Exploration in the Middle Ages : an Encyclopedia
Did Marco Polo really go to China? How would you use a portolan chart? What kind of a boat is a hulk? What was it like to go on pilgrimage? Where is Scythia?
REFERENCE 909.0703 T763t
Medieval Jewish Civilization: an Encyclopedia
Eccentric, complex and informative on topics from Jewish food, clothing, and education to the history of the Hasidim and the Qabbalah.
REFERENCE 909.04924 M489m
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Medieval life and history, full text, in translation. Looking for a bill of sale for a slave girl, college statutes, a description of the fall of Roman Britain? Look here:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html