Medieval Topics
• Art
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Early Medieval - (arthistoryresources.net)
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Gothic - (arthistoryresources.net)
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Renaissance in Italy - (arthistoryresources.net)
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Renaissance outside of Italy - (arthistoryresources.net)
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Books of Hours
• Hypertext version of 1599 Book of Hours text
- (medievalist.net)
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Book of Hours of the Virgin (1599)
• Book of Hours of Yolande of Flanders (14th C) (
google book pdf: 1909 edition)
• 32 Minatures from Book of Hours of Joan II, Queen of Navarre (14th C) (google book pdf:
1899 edition)
• Book of Hours attributed to Hans Memling (15th C) - (google book pdf:
1908 edition)
• Book of Kells' illustrations - c. 800 A.D. (google book pdf: 1920 edition)(
digitalcollections)
• A Parisian Book of Hours - illustrations - (
archive.org)
The following texts and sites include Latin manuscripts whose illuminations may be used as primary sources
• Books of Hours - full color illustrations of all pages within books for sale
• Book of Hours - 1524 (
Library of Congress)
• Book of Hours - Cistercian, late 13th C (
world digital library)
• Book of Hours of the Virgin Mary - Paris, mid-15th C (
world digital library)
• Loftie Hours - Dutch, mid-15th C (
world digital library)
• There are many others on world digital library as well...
• Byzantine/Orthodox • Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents - (
archive.org)
• Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives - (
archive.org)
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The Philokalia (
archive.org)
• Coptic • Ibn-Kabar (14C)
The Lamp that Lights the Darkness - (coptic.net)
• Crusades
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Chronicles of the Crusades: Narratives of the Crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion - (google book pdf:
1848 edition)
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The Medieval Sourcebook: Crusades - many excerpts from Crusade sources
• Dana Carleton Munro, ed.,
Letters of the Crusaders (Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History)
• Dana Carleton Munro, ed.,
The Fourth Crusade (Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History) (1896)
• James Harvey Robinson, ed.,
The Pre-Reformation Period (1896) (Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History)
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Drama - Mystery Plays •
Cornish Ordinalia - Volume 1,
Volume 2 - (google book pdfs)
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York Mystery Plays - (google book pdf)
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Towneley Mystery Plays - (google book pdf)
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N-Town - modernized version (University of Toronto)
• Coventry/Corpus Christi
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Shearmen and Taylors - (google book pdf)
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Coventry Mysteries - (google book pdf)
• Chester Plays -
Volume 1,
Volume 2 - (google book pdfs)
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Lollardy (followers of Wyclif) -
Bibliography of Primary Sources (on-line sources marked by red square) - (Lollardsociety.org) - includes additional non-Lollard devotional texts
• Mass / Eucharist •
Mass of the Roman Rite (Latin/English) •
The Assyrian Liturgy
• Monasticism
• Cistercian
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Charta Caritatis (osb.org)
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Benedictine Rule - (osb.org)
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Franciscan Rule - (ofm.org)
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Ancren Riwle - Rule for anchoresses
• Nestorian/Chinese •
Stele (781 A. D.) (Fordham)