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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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Digitized Archives and Manuscripts

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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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A Medieval Plague Lesson Plan

Merle Eisenberg, SESYNC,

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Pandemics and Plague

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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"Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts"

Find an article explaining the visual depiction of "bad bunnies" in Medieval art.

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Material Culture

List of ERC-funded research projects related to coronavirus

Access a list of research projects funded by the European Research Counsel that are related to coronavirus.

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Pandemics and Plague

Humanities Coronavirus Syllabus

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

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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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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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The Carolingian Canon Law Project

Browse a searchable, electronic edition of works of canon law used by Carolingian readers.

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