Links
General Resources
Internet History Sourcebooks A rich selection of primary and secondary resources.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Another great resource for Medieval Studies.
History of Spain: Primary Documents
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History Resources and articles for the study of medieval military history
New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia A good resource for information on those events, ideas, and figures related to the Medieval and Early Modern Period. It also contains the complete works of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica and documents of the early Church Fathers.
Historia Viva (Mostly in Spanish)
Power Point History of the Manuscript
Andreas Capellanus De Amore (1184-86) A Treatise on Courtly Love (Excerpts)
Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly love
Lovesickness in Medieval Times
Medieval Medical Texts on Lovesicknesss
Courtly Love and Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages
Courtly Society in Medieval Europe
The Reformation Guide Provides a wealth of internet resources on the reformation period
Project Wittenberg Fundamental site for works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutheran writers
Project Canterbury Contains a rich database of primary and secondary texts and resources on the Anglican Church
Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World
Sí Spain A site full of information concerning Spanish current affairs and its historical, linguistic and cultural development.
World Heritage Cities of Spain
Virtual Pilgrimage A virtual pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Viaticum Selection from this treatise on lovesickness
MIDDLE AGES: CHAUCER AND MARGERY KEMPE
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Early Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts
The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
MYSTICISM: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness by Evelyn Underhill.
Resources on the 16th Century English Reformation
The Tudors Excellent site on Tudor England
Age of Enlightenment Web links page
Books and Articles
Library guide for Honors 215/216
GVSU Library Databases This link will take you to the GVSU databases. From here you can acess the MLA Bibliography (as well as other pertinent databases).
Library of Iberian Resources Online A rich resource of scholarship about the Iberian peninsula.
Essays in Medieval Studies Publications of the Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association
In Parentheses Collection of primary works and scholarly studies. (Files in Adobe Acrobat Reader only)
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The University of California Press Scholarship Editions A rich selection of scholarly works (many open to the public) such as: Burns, Robert I., S. J. Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft429005rj/ Chazan, Robert. Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0w1003jg/ Delany, Sheila. The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9h4nb69s/ Dewald, Jonathan. Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4m3nb2k3/ Gilman, Stephen. The Novel According to Cervantes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3000050r/ Haliczer, Stephen. Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft958009jk/ Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2s2004t2/ Kuberski, Philip. The Persistence of Memory: Organism, Myth, Text. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3v19n97j/ Leonard, Irving A. Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1f59n78v/ Meyerson, Mark D. The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2q2nb14x/ Navarrete, Ignacio. Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft30000518/ Perry, Mary Elizabeth, and Anne J. Cruz, editors Cultural Encounters: The Impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft396nb1w0/ Reynolds, Dwight F., editor Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2c6004x0/ Ruderman, David B., editor Preachers of the Italian Ghetto. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft829008np/ Sawyer, Jeffrey K. Printed Poison: Pamphlet Propaganda, Faction Politics, and the Public Sphere in Early Seventeenth-Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7f59p1db/ Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4j49p00c/ te Brake, Wayne. Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft500006j4/ Tracy, James D. Erasmus of the Low Countries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5q2nb3vp/ Van Vleck, Amelia E. Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft358004pc/ de Zayas, Maria. The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and Exemplary Novels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft638nb3jd/ |
Art and Architecture
Music
Instruments to Play Medieval Music (in French)
Al-Andalus
El Legado Andalusí. Lots of information pertaining to art, history and culture.
Mezquita de Córdoba.Take a virtual tour through the Mezquita in Córdoba (begun in 786 by Abd al-Rahman I). (In Spanish)
About Arabs and Islam A page of resources from the website of the AL-HEWAR CENTER. The Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue. See the study, Averroes - The Great Muslim Philosopher Who Planted The Seeds of the European Renaissance" by Habeeb Salloum
Islam Spain and the history of technology
Islamic political philosophy: Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes
DEFENDERS OF REASON IN ISLAM –THE CASE OF AVERROES (1126-1198 AD)
Avicenna A brief biography
Avicenna: The Prince of Physicians and A Giant in Pharmacology
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) - doctor of doctors
Contributions Of Islam To Medicine
Ibn Zaydun and the Princess Wallada
Granada: the Alhambra and the Generalife
Alabina Youtube
Jews in Spain and Europe
Sefarad A web site with information about the Jews in Spain. Pages in English and Spanish.
Red de Juderías Take a virtual tour through the Jewish communites of Medieval Spain. (In English and Spanish)
The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Cordoba See also pages about the Jews in Granada, Malaga and Seville. These pages form part of the Virtual Jewish History site, containing a great wealth of information.
Who are the Sephardim? A Brief History
The Rambam - Moses Maimonides (born 1134 - died 1204). Being Jewish & A Professional: An Ancient Tradition
Maimonides, The 13 Principles and the Resurrection of the Dead
Etext of the Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
The Poetry and Prose of Yehudah ha-Levi
The Popular Arabic Literature of the Jews
Flavius Josephus Home Page Site dedicated to the works of this important Jewish historian (37 CE-c.100 CE).
Background on the Ritual Murder Accusation
Middle Ages and the Jews Site concerning medieval Jewish subjects: Christian Images of the Jews, the First Crusade, Anti-Jewish Myths, Patterns of Discrimination, "Usury," the Jewish Community, Expulsions and the Black Death, and the Jews of Poland and Lithuania. ****
Blood Libel and Host Desecration Myths
The History of the Jews in England
Sites on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
St Augustine: From "On Marriage and Concupiscence"
Medieval Sourcebook: Innocent III: Letters on Marriage, and Women
Female Heterosexuality in Late Medieval Europe Compiled by two students at Birmingham-Southern College. Themes include institutionalized misogyny and medieval notions of conception, contraception, female anatomy, and the morality of sexual behavior.
Medieval Women: An Interactive Exploration An enjoyable site for exploring medieval life.
Dominion and Domination of the Gentle Sex: The Lives of Medieval Women An excellent student-developed site on medieval women.
Women Philosophers of the Medieval Period
Sex, Society and Medieval Women
European Exploration
The European Voyages of Exploration
Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution: Readings, Resources, Research
Works and Authors
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Images and Allusions: Dante in Literature and Art
Danteworld Multimedia tour
The Divine Comedy: Salvador Dalí
Notes and Questions on Dante's Divine Comedy
Aphra Behn (1640-to 1689)
Aphra Behn: a brief chronology
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
The Decameron Web Contains a wealth of materials dedicated to the Decameron.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Cervantes Society of America Bibliography of scholarly articles
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer Metapage Chaucer resources that include his works, biography, bibliography and links to resources.
Geoffrey Chaucer Information on Chaucer's life and works as well as some essays.
Baragona's Chaucer Page A site with lots of links to electronic resources
The Chaucer Pedagogy Page Useful resource for students and teachers
Pilgrims Passing to and Fro: The Life and Times of the CanterburyTales Pilgrims
Chaucer Bibliography Online Searchable database of articles and studies.
The Canterbury Tour Take a virtual tour of the city of Canterbury.
Pilgrimage in the Age of Schism
Canterbury Tales A modern edition
Galileo
Galilieo's Battle for the Heavens
Margery Kemp (ca.1373-1438)
The Margery Kemp Page Pages from the Luminarium site of Medieval through 17th-century English literature. Contains a biography, text selections, a bibliography and other resources.
Treatise of Contemplation from her Book as reprinted in The Cell of Self-Knowledge.
Lazarillo de Tormes
Lazarillo de Tormes Movie Trailer
Leonor López de Córdoba (c.1362-1412)
Life and Non-life: Plagues and Slaughter
Christopher Marlowe
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
"The Variations of Dr. Faustus"
Photos of a Stage Production of Dr. Faustus
Dr. Faustus A hyper-text edition
The Marlowe Society of England
The Marlowe Society of America
The Faust Book Information and text of this earliest version of the German novel (1568-81).
Videos Clips of productions of Dr. Faustus
Francesco Petrarch
Francesco Petrarch Page on his life, works, and thought.
Francesco Petrarch the Father of Humanism
Petrarch: A young lady beneath a green laurel
Jean Jacques Rousseau
William Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Resource Center
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock
"The Bard" Watch a series of lectures on aspects of Shakespeare and his theatre
Virtual Tour of the Globe Theater
Hollywood rivals battle to bring The Merchant of Venice to screen
19th-century Etchings of Othello
Voltaire
Resources for Writing and Research
Ways to Approach a Literary Text
Close Reading of a Literary Passage
A Guide for Writing Research Papers
Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Paper guidelines Helpful suggestions for writing interpretive and analytical papers on literature from Dr. Schwartz
Also, see her Essay Evaluation Sheet
What is an academic paper? Good materials from Dartmouth College