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Designed for teachers, students, and members of the broader public who want to learn about Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (c. 300-1500 C.E.), this website provides resources for both teaching and research, including:
- Short videos by world-renowned experts accompanied by discussion questions and primary source materials
- Introductions to medieval digital projects
- Workshops on how to use digital tools to study the medieval past
- Curated links to associated websites with medieval content, images, digitized manuscripts, or other medieval materials.
Video Resources
Find here dozens of short videos offering introductions to medieval primary sources and to digital resources, provided by some of the world's specialists on various topics.
First Master of the Bible historiale of Jean de Berry (French, active about 1390 - about 1400)
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Aelia Eudoxia, 4th century, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett MK_RÖ_30078
Gospels of Luke and John British Library Egerton 768 f. 63
The Entry into Jerusalem, Ottonian, about 1030–1040, Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment, Leaf: 23.2 × 16 cm (9 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.), Ms. Ludwig VII 1 (83.MI.90), fol. 36.
Leaf from Commentarius in Apocalypsim Saint Beatus of Liébana (Spanish, about 730 - about 800) 1220–1235 Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment Ms. 77 (2003.103)
Getty Open Content Weltchronik 1400-1410 Ms. 33
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Getty open content Stammheim Missal, German, probably 1170s Ms. 64 (97.MG.21)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, c. 500-550, Accession Number:1998.69; 1999.99
Getty Saint Hedwig of Silesia with Duke Ludwig I of Liegnitz and Brieg and Duchess Agnes
British Museum Triumph of Orthodoxy 843
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Featured Resources
This video introduces the Gutenberg Bible and explains how various copies were created, used, and added to in the mid-fifteenth century. A copy of the Bible from Erfurt, Germany, which is now housed at Princeton University Library, is examined and its features discussed.
This video covers several issues regarding the assimilation of non-Romans into the late Roman military. Attila the Hun's 451 invasion, climaxing in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Chalons), is used as a case study of these phenomenona.
Workshop of the Bedford Master (French, active first half of 15th century)