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Featured Resource Pages

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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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
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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The Medieval Index website

A chronological catalog of tools, research aids, courses, and primary source narratives. Many entries include direct links to the sources online. Edited by Nick Smith.

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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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Race and Ethnicity
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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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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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Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ITSC)

The British Library

This site catalogs surviving editions of 15th century printed books, with more than 12,000 links to digitized editions.

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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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TORCH Humanities Center at Oxford

Find a list of online resources for medievalists, including podcasts, videos, and websites, compiled by Karl Kinsella.

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