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Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time

Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time is a collaborative initiative between New York University's Department of Italian Studies and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, and the Dante Society of America. The aim is to produce podcast conversations about all 100 cantos of the Divine Comedy, to be completed within the seventh centenary of Dante's death in 2021.

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Multimedia Learning

Pinakes

Search and browse bibliographical details about Greek manuscripts prior to the 16th century, with many links to digitized copies.

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Hypotheses.org (medieval manuscript blog from BnF)

Browse information and updates pertaining to the study of medieval manuscripts, hosted by the BnF.

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Mandragore

Search a database of manuscript illuminations dating from Pharaonic Egypt to contemporary times.

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Archives et Manuscrits

Search a large and helpful catalogue of pre-modern manuscripts, many of which have been digitized.

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Portail Biblissima

Search or browse a large collection of manuscripts, manuscript images, and bibliographical details pertaining to late antique, medieval, and early modern manuscripts.

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Museums and Image Databases

Agorha, database of l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)

Search medieval and early modern art by theme, medium, date, location, and other attributes.

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http://www.menestrel.fr/

Browse and search through online sources, studies, and many other resources, offered in French.

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The Aberdeen Bestiary online

View a high-quality digitized medieval manuscript, The Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24).

12th Century (1101-1200)

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Syllabi on "Otherness" in the Middle Ages

Browse a list of syllabi on the topic of otherness in medieval text and culture through themes of monstrosity and marginality.

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Maagarim: Tagged Hebrew Texts with Lexicon (in Hebrew)

Access a repository of tagged Hebrew-language texts, with ample query options and popup linguistic tools.

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Medieval Resources Online - an annotated list

Browse a categorized list of resources on medieval topics, grouped by chronology, geography, topics, texts, and miscellaneous.

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AHA Remote Teaching Resources

Access a wiki hosted by the American Historical Association, collecting resources for teaching online from all fields of history.

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Teaching with Digital Tools

Humanities Coronavirus Syllabus

Access a syllabus/bibliography for teaching the coronavirus from the perspective of the humanities.

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Pandemics and Plague

Teaching Coronavirus: A Sociological Syllabus Project

Access a crowd-sourced syllabus for teaching the coronavirus from a sociological perspective.

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Pandemics and Plague

#coronavirussyllabus: A crowdsourced cross-disciplinary resource

View a crowd-sourced syllabus for teaching (mostly modern) pandemics.

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Teaching Resources for Historians

Browse historical documents organized by geography, time period, and theme.

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Additional Open Access Resources

Browse two additional lists of open-access resources geared towards researchers and educators.

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Open access resources compiled by UK librarians

Browse a list of open-access resources, compiled by librarians in the United Kingdom.

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Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies.

Access Penn's journal focused on manuscript studies in the digital age.

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