Medieval History: Portals and Web Directories

A Medieval Studies Group Blog with contributing authors: Jeffery J. Cohen, Jonathan Hsy, Mary Kate Hurley, Boyda Johnstone, Eileen A. Joy, and Karl Steel.

Provides and overview of the topic from the British Library.

Includes medical narratives and governmental documents from 1348-1530.

The Labyrinth 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. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Web.

Browse this online image gallery to see the intricate beauty of selected manuscripts from The Medieval Imaginationexhibition. Read about the history of each manuscript, how it was used, what the artwork and text means, and more.

The WWW offers a vast array of sites in the area of Medieval Studies. Those listed below can be considered at best a sampling of what is available, according to this author's own criteria, system of organization, and patience for searching. This site is composed of pages I have constructed and links to various subjects. For the reader's convenience, the sites found so far have been organized this way: major, umbrella collections (several subjects grouped together) have been placed first; individual subject areas follow below. There will be some overlapping of sites, but I hope that this method will combine both convenience and inclusiveness. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

A list of more than 150 Websites for the study of Medieval and Renaissance history and culture.

Matrix is an ongoing collaborative effort by an international group of scholars of medieval history, religion, history of art, archaeology, religion, and other disciplines, as well as librarians and experts in computer technology. Our goal is to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe.

A large, unannotated collection of Internet Medieval resources, this site provides access to an impressive array of scholarly resources on Medieval times.

This site is organized into the ORB Encyclopedia; the ORB Textbook Library; the ORB Reference Shelf; Resources for Teaching; General Interest; External Links; and E-Texts – a good site to begin serious research.

The principal Italian guide to the 'Internet for medieval studies. It provides access to a wide variety of resources including articles, bibliographies, links to other sites, and a list of conferences on medieval topics.

A general resource for the study of the humanities, with selection of links for many areas of medieval studies, including links to images, texts, conferences, publications, etc.

Intended for the beginning to semi-advanced graduate student, this website serves to orientate students to various subject areas within medieval studies. Contains information about a range of topics, and is an indispensable guide for any student of medieval studies.

This site is a part of a much larger one, the WWW Virtual Library. It is organized into the areas of Reference, Chronological, Geographical, Topical, and Other. There are numerous links and subheadings under each of these divisions.

"a fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation."