Links
Books and Articles
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.
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/
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/
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)
Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne [Einhardi vita Karoli Magni] On-line translation.
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)
Andreas Capellanus De Amore (1184-86) A Treatise on Courtly Love (Excerpts)
Backgrounds to Romance: Courtly love
Lovesickness in Medieval Times
Courtly
Love and Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages
Royal Collegiate Church of St. Isidore of Leon Take a virtual tour.
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
APS Guide to Resources in Theology
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. http://www.clues.abdn.ac.uk:8080/seek_idx.html
World Heritage Cities of Spain
Virtual Pilgrimage A vitual 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
Hypertext Introduction to Italian Humanism by Robert Barrie
Renaissance Drama: From its Medieval Origins to the Closing of the Theatres
Resources on the 16th Century English Reformation
The Tudors Excellent site on Tudor England
Al-Andalus
Moorish Spain Detailed chronology of the history of the Moor in Spain with links to images and photos.
Cultural Itineraries in Spain, Morocco and Portugal Lots of information pertaining to art, history and culture. Also see the presentation El Legado Andalusí.
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
Articles on Avicenna, Averroes and Maimonides
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
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.
Background on the Ritual Murder Accusation
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.
European Exploration
The European Voyages of Exploration
Literary Works and Authors
Song of Roland
Charlemagne, Roland and Turpin
Charlemagne the King A biography from Will Durant's STORY OF CIVILIZATION (1950)
Song of the Cid
Cantar de mio Cid An excellent site in which to explore visually and aurally the unique manuscript of the CMC. Includes a collection of images, a paleographic and normative transcriptions of the ms as well as an English translation.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Images and Allusions: Dante in Literature and Art
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
The Decameron Web Contains a wealth of materials dedicated to the Decameron.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaurcer Chaucer site with information pertaining to his works, biography, bibliography and links to resources.
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 resouce 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.
Erasmus
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.
Leonor López de Córdoba (c.1362-1412)
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
Francis Petrarch: An Introduction
Francesco Petrarch Page on his life, works, and thought.
Petrarch: A young lady beneath a green laurel
Selections from his Correspondences
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
Shakespeare's Globe Research Database
Hollywood
rivals battle to bring The Merchant of Venice to screen
Resources for Writing and Research
Discussion Guide ***An excellent guide to responding to discussion questions and what to avoid.
A Guide for Writing Research Papers