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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Summary: This is a distinct part of ORB, maintained by Paul Halsall, "ORB sources editor." It offers three major sections: Selected Sources, Full Text Sources, and Saints' Lives. A medly of "Supplementary documents" follows these, as well as a search engine, help on using the site, and information about the site.
Selected Sources
Selected Sources are (generally) excerpts from primary texts, in modern English translation, arranged topically and chronologically. A sidebar at the left lists the main topics as quick links; these topics reappear further down the first page of Selected Sources in expanded outline form. Each major topic is linked to a page of subtopics, and under the subtopics one finds links to individual, selected texts.Go to Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Selected Sources
Full Text Sources
Links to many texts, presented topically.
Though subtitled "Full Text Sources for Medieval History" that term is understood broadly and the list incorporates not only philosophical and religious texts but also literary ones. Subsections include (among others): writings of the Church Fathers, Byzantium, Islam, literary texts (Latin and the various European vernaculars), medieval thought, medieval spiritual writing, and texts from the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Counter Reformation. Under English Literary texts one finds links to Arthuriana and to other Middle English Texts (particularly those at UVA, UMI, UPenn, and Berkeley's Online Classical and Medieval Library). Chaucer is generously represented.Go to Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Full Text Sources
Saints' Lives
Links to Web resources for the study of hagiography: includes online saints' lives by era and nation, post-medieval saints, modern lives of medieval saints, and appendices on such topics as canonization, relics, women and sanctity, mystical writings by, or ascribed to, saints. Go to Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Saints' Lives
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