This video explores the earliest illustrated Yiddish manuscripts, which were all illuminated by their Jewish scribe.  Such manuscripts are sometimes overlooked because of their amateurish style, but they offer a window to understanding the middle rank of Jewish society.  The video focuses on a book of customs that presents a  positive view of the Jewish religion and community, highlighting the roles of women in ritual observance.

This video introduces students to Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Abdūn's (active between the late eleventh century and early twelfth century) risāla, which is a guide for medieval market inspectors. By providing students with a "slice of life" primary source, they can better understand the complex, nuanced ways that Muslims, Jews, and Christians interacted in al-Andalus.

This video introduces the first tool produced within the "FEMIber" project (2022-present): an open-access website that provides structured information on every woman mentioned in the anonymous Crónica de Castilla (ca. 1300, Castile-León). This research and educational tool offers filtered and free-text search options to explore medieval women from multiple perspectives.

Florence As It Was presents point clouds of cultural heritage sites and photogrammetry models of the artworks inside, transcriptions of selected documents pertaining to their creation, annotations that explain their importance to Medieval audiences, translations of early modern descriptions of those sites through the eyes of Italian and German specialists, and a geo-referenced database of nearly 2000 images pinned to their original locations on the Buonsignori Map of 1584. In collaboration with the proprietors of two dozen historic institutions in Florence, this project begins the process of returning to their original locations some of the images that formed the backbone of the visual vocabulary of Medieval residents during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

This video surveys the significance of chess in medieval Europe, reflecting on the capacity of games to provide commentary on contemporary standards of behavior, respond to societal changes, and mediate relationships.

This video introduces the power of autodidactic inquiry as a way of gaining understanding of both the universe and ourselves by discussing twelfth-century Andalusi Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan.

This video introduces Garrett MS 26, a deluxe fifteenth-century manuscript from Princeton University Library that illustrates several events of Jewish life.

This video introduces The Book of Count Lucanor, a mid-fourteenth century collection of exempla, or short stories, written in Spanish, and suggests how to read two of the stories in this book.

This video is a discussion of item 27 in Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett Additional Box no. 20 at the Princeton University Library. This document of sale was written in 980 CE on behalf of the Coptic Christian Yuhānnis ibn Suqayna and his wife Maria, residents of the small town in the Fayyum called Buljusuq. They were buying a house from Maria’s father, Ibn al-Ḥillī. The document was registered by the notary Shuʿayb ibn Zakariyā and witnessed by several Muslims, including Muḥammad ibn Ḥisān ibn Dāwud who made a noticeable typo while writing his testimony. 

Skjærvø, Prods Oktor. The Spirit of Zoroastrianism. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2011.

The Multimedia Yasna: https://muya-film.soas.hasdai.org/yasna/

Boyce, Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs…

This video introduces The Book of Count Lucanor, a mid-fourteenth century collection of exempla, or short stories, written in Spanish, and suggests how to read two of the stories in this book.

Access a resource that catalogues the people, places, and practices of the Medieval Middle East.

View an exhibit on the New Testament Book of Revelation through medieval and Renaissance objects produced after about 1100 C.E.

View extensive bibliographies on early, late antique, and medieval Christian apocrypha (anonymous and pseudepigraphical narratives, gospels, and epistles). 

Browse resources, news, updates useful for teaching in medieval studies at the undergraduate, secondary, and elementary school level through the provision of resources and the sharing of techniques.

View a listing of freely accessible online resources pertaining to papal documents. 

Browse illuminating articles about how to get the most out of new and old technologies in the classroom, with many practical activities for busy teachers. 

Access a teacher-friendly recipe and instruction sheet for helping students recreate and understand ancient writing technologies through the creation of a papyrus. 

Browse a collection of resources pertaining to Early Christian churches and monasteries in the Holy Land. 

Hear a podcast from BBC dealing with the idea and experience of Christian pilgrimage in Europe from the 12th to the 15th centuries, which figured so strongly in the imagination of the age.