Primary Sources

Documents

• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook : The best collection of primary texts from the Middle Ages available online.

• Internet Women's History Sourcebook : Extensive collection of sources focusing on women, including a large section on the Middle Ages.

• The Ecole Initiative : Massive site filled with documents, images, and other primary and secondary sources.

• Eurodocs : Collection of links to primary sources from all over Europe.

• The Fathers of the Church : The Collected writings of the Early Church Fathers and others.

• The Saint Pachomius Library : Large collection of sources focused on religious topics.

• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School : Large Collection of documents mostly having to do with law and politics.

• The Middle English Collection : Collection of texts in Middle English--mostly literature.

• ORB Text Library : Contains a small but growing collection of Medieval primary sources.

• The Labyrinth Library : Good collection of primary sources from Western Europe, mostly texts.

• In Parentheses : Site dedicated to translated primary sources of literature and history.

• L.I.B.R.O. : The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Excellent site containing some nice documents and entire books online. Most of the titles are recent.

• De Re Militari : Primary sources focusing on medieval military history (click here for secondary sources.)

• British History Online : Extensive Collection of digitized British archival sources.

• Online Medieval and Classical Library : An online library full of medieval and classical texts.

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Images

• DScriptorium : Excellent collection of digital images of Medieval manuscripts.

• The Bibliotheque Nationale : Collection of illuminated manuscripts from the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

• The Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry : Site devoted to one of the most beautiful and ornate of Medieval manuscripts.

• Tacuinum Sanitatis : Medieval health manual.

• Images of Medieval Art and Architecture : Useful link with many images of churches, castles, monasteries, etc.

• Nixnet Medieval : Good collection of links leading to art and architecture images.

If you can not find what you are looking for in these links, I suggest a wider web search on Google or Answers.com.

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