HIS 310: Dowling

Part of Fordham's Internet History Sourcebook Project, the Medieval Sourcebook collects a wide variety of primary texts written in the period. It even has a helpful subpage for Sex & Gender.

This digital collection from Yale contains primary "documents in law, history, and diplomacy" starting with ancient documents (4000 BCE) and coming up into the 21st century.

A publishing project of Calvin College, this site contains full-text of some classics in Church History as well as reference works such as Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Through the combined efforts of generations of curators, researchers, and collectors, their collection has grown to represent more than 5,000 years of art from across the globe—from the first cities of the ancient world to the works of our time. You can use the advanced search to select art from the appropriate location or time period.

This page provides links to military-focused medieval primary texts, including works from late Roman/Byzantine conflicts and the Crusades all the way up to the 16th century.

"Digital.Bodleian is an effort to make portions of the Bodleian's extraordinary library collections open to a wide variety of users from around the world for learning, teaching and research." The collection includes digitized print volumes, manuscripts, maps, and more. The advanced search allows you to restrict your results to works created between 800-1500.

Houghton Library's collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts represents a significant resource for the study of the literature, art, history, music, philosophy, and theology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe.

A growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts.

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 Medieval primary source documents from European countries, organized by date range.

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts for use in history and humanities courses

Offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. These resources come from contributing organizations such as university libraries, which include many primary source documents and other scholarly materials. The Hathi Trust categorizes its materials using subject headings like those found in a library catalog.

Long running online resource that contains millions of digital objects from many different cultural heritage organizations. Searching can be a bit cumbersome and digital resources are not always described comprehensively.

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database is making readily accessible and searchable as much as possible of the early evidence for the cult of Christian saints (up to around AD 700), with key texts presented in their original language, all with English translation and brief contextual commentary.

Books of Duchesses collects, organizes, and presents data related to late-medieval laywomen and their books. Through an interactive map of Europe, users are able to visualize networks of manuscripts, texts, and readers and explore the libraries and peregrinations of woman book owners.