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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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#coronavirussyllabus: A crowdsourced cross-disciplinary resource

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

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Browse historical documents organized by geography, time period, and theme. 

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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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Gorgias Press Open Repository of books

Browse a collection of freely accessible online books from Gorgias Press. 

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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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Princeton University Library open-access resources

Explore links to expanded electronic-resources content temporarily available to Princeton University patrons.

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    Public Books database of open-access books

    Browse a database of open-access books from academic presses.

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    Ian Mladjov’s Resources, an excellent resource of historical maps.

    Ian Mladjov’s Resources is an excellent resource of historical maps.

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    Maps from The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

    Access a collection of scanned maps for teaching the medieval period.

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      Digital Repositories for Book History Teaching

      View Meghan L. Cook's list of resources for teaching book history.

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        Adam Bishop’s Library, with linked sources on the Crusades

        Access a large linked collection of research on the Crusades, with links to view and download volumes. Collected by Adam Bishop. 

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          Syri.ac: An Annotated Bibliography of Syriac Resources Online

           View digitized manuscripts, search annotated bibliographies, and  can be accessed through the list of authors and themes at the top right of the page

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          Mount Athos Repository

          Access digitized manuscripts, icons, coins, and other objects from Mt. Athos's collections.

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          Vatican Library

          Search through the Vatican's immense and growing digital collection of manuscripts and other materials that are of interest to scholars of medieval and late antique history and cultures. 

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          Cambridge Digital Library

          Search and browse through a large number of digitized manuscripts from the collections of Cambridge University and its colleges.

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          e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

          Search and browse through many hundreds of digitized medieval manuscripts held in Switzerland's libraries and museums. 

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          Monastic Manuscript Project

          Search a database of manuscript descriptions for texts pertaining to early medieval monasticism, compiled by Albrecht Diem. 

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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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