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The following pages are highlighted as useful resources for educators.

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Medieval Academy of America
For the Tool Talks featured on the Medieval Academy of America Online Teaching Webinar, search "Teaching with Digital Tools."

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University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center COVID-19 Resources Page

Find images and other resources at the University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center. 

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Digital Bodleian Library (Oxford)

Find digitized manuscripts, maps, books, ephemera and other holdings from Oxford's Bodleian Library. 

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

Search for detailed information and high-quality digitized images of medieval manuscripts held in libraries around the world. 

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State Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum holds thousands of pieces of artwork and other materials from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries.

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J. Paul Getty Museum

Find a wealth of materials for medievalists. 

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Explore exhibition gallery guides, videos, articles, and more.

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Google Arts and Culture resources

Find images and information on a wide range of art and cultural resources from Google Arts and Culture.

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The British Museum 

Find a list of digital resources dedicated to all eras of the Middle Ages at the British Museum.

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Brill, Covid-19 Collection (available until April 30, 2021)

More than 30 leading STM publishers have committed to making all of their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications immediately accessible. Brill has opened up books and articles on topics such as public health, distance learning, crisis research. If any new related content is published with Brill, it will be added to this collection.

The content on this page will be freely accessible until April 30, 2021.

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Pandemics and Plague
Disease Transmission, Epidemics and Plague in Pre-Modern Islam

A Bibliography on Disease Transmission, Epidemics and Plague in Pre-Modern Islam, compiled by Elaine van Dalen.

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Bodleian History Faculty Library

Hosted/collated on diigo.com, the Bodleian History Faculty Library provides a list of over 190 searchable, tagged medieval digital resources, online projects, and primary sources.

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Bibliographies on De-centering the Global Middle Ages

Short bibliographies compiled by participants of the De-centering the Global Middle Ages symposium. Contains links to research and teaching resources that are helpful for moving the focus of the Middle Ages off of Europe. 

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A library guide for Byzantine studies with bibliographies and resources listed by topic.

Library Guide for Byzantine Studies compiled by Dave Jenkins, the Classics and Byzantine Studies Librarian at Princeton University. 

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Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (OMSB)

An annotated bibliography of printed and online primary sources for the Middle Ages (mostly translated). It is searchable by author, title, genre,…

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Women of 1000 AD

A blog with stories (and artistic interpretations) of women around the world who lived in the year 1000.

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Oxford Google Books Project

A massive collection of out-of-copyright books scanned for Google but not always accessible through Google books. Instructions for searching the collection are at the link.

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MEMSLib

A collection of resources for students of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, especially strong in literature, art, paleography/codicology, and English topics.

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The Medieval Academy of America: Medieval Digital Resources (MDR)

The Medieval Academy of America (MAA)‘s MDR provides a list of digital resources available online.

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Civic Chronicles from Medieval Italy

In this video, two historians discuss the history of chronicle writing in medieval Italy, in both the Latin and vernacular traditions.

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Abelard and Heloise

This video introduces letters to and from Heloise, a 12th-century abbess in France, discussing, among other matters, her efforts to get her son a better job.

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