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A collection of links relating to medieval materials online. Their Medieval Glossary is also helpful.
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The best online collection of primary sources for medieval studies. I use this site frequently for teaching.
A website sponsored by Georgetown, with links on every subject, including archaeology, medieval Latin, medieval gender studies, cookery, and manuscripts -- including where to get a reproduction Viking bed with huge carved horses' heads...
An online version of a 1909 book by Dr. Grässe, which will give you the modern equivalent of any weird Latin place-name you come across. E.g.: Charlemagne's capital Aachen shows up in Latin as Aquisgranum, and York, England, started out as Eboracum. See how useful?
The Online Calendar of Saints' Days
See who your own personal saint is (mine is Ignatius of Antioch, which sounds like something out of Monty Python. . .).
A Catholic site incorporating the entire 1908 Catholic Encyclopedia (not infallible, but handy for basic info, esp. on saints and ecclesiastics); an English version of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica; a whole slew of writings (again in English) by the church fathers; and an ad for Ave Maria Singles (in case you're a good Catholic looking for a lifemate).
The Bible as the medieval world knew it; the text and numbering are slightly different from what Christians (Protestant or Catholic) use now.
A no-frills site, but perfectly useful; with English translation.
A guide to, and the text of, the later medieval bestseller. Everybody wanted one of these, and the workshops churned them out in a manner one might almost call mass production (no pun intended). Associated with the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Parallel Latin/English Psalter
The best-known part of the Bible during the Middle Ages.
THE medieval university textbook in theology; written c. 1140. Site includes biographical information and commentaries.
A longer list of websites related to manuscript studies and palaeography
An online course in medieval palaeography which incorporates text, images, and video.
A full-resolution scanned version of Franz Steffens' classic Lateinische Pälaeographie (1910).
An introduction to manuscript studies put together by the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central University of Budapest; gives the basics on different types of manuscripts, how they're made and put together, etc.
One of the largest databases of images from medieval manuscripts; a collaborative project based at Columbia and Berkeley.
Interesting images; mediocre accompanying text. I'm particularly fond of the flourished initials found here.
The Knighthood, Chivalry, and Tournaments Resource Library
See Labyrinth's good listing of Crusades websites, as well as De Re Militari, which contains sources, links, and images of things military, including several sections dedicated to the Crusades.
Peter Abelard
Biography from the Notre Dame Maritain Center
Biography and bibliography at medievalchurch.org.uk
Note: The guy who runs www.abelard.org is a crank. An amusing crank, but a crank nonetheless. Not a site with historical interest.
Dante Alighieri: Columbia's Digital Dante, and The Dartmouth Dante Project
Thomas Aquinas: A bibliography of texts in English on Aquinas.
Giovanni Boccaccio: Brown University's Decameron Web
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Geoffrey
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Giovanni
Boccaccio, The Decameron
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
Thomas Aquinas,
Summa theologica
Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus florum
Translates to "Bouquet of flowers": the text is a compendium of something
like 6000 Latin quotations attributed to a variety of classical, patristic, and
medieval authors; a very popular medieval literary genre.
William
Langland, Piers Plowman
Sites with good historical fonts include:
Fontcraft's Scriptorium
Jack Kilmon's Scriptorium
NB: Many of the demo fonts released by Fontcraft's Scriptorium can be found at Fontfreak. There are also lots of sites that have free runic fonts and fonts based on Tolkein--a basic Google search will be more productive than me trying to list them here.
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