Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library: Beowulf
This website provides a modern translation of the classic Anglo-Saxon epic.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AnoBeow.html Art History Resources on the Web: Early Medieval Art
Although it contains no original material, this website provides a large number of links to outside sites with images and descriptions of early medieval artwork. The links are catalogued thematically and chronologically. See also the links under Art in Early Europe on the same website.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHmedieval.html Britain's Bayeux Tapestry at the Museum of Reading
Students can use this website to explore the Bayeux Tapestry in its entirety, with helpful editorial comments explaining the content of each separate scene.
http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/ Internet Medieval Sourcebook
This website provides access to a wealth of sources related to medieval history. The sources are divided into major categories, such as "Early Germans," "The Carolingians," and the "Crusades," and further divided into chronological and thematic subcategories (such as "Carolingian Culture" and "Carolingian Decline and Division").
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Project Gutenberg
At this expansive website, students can find a large number of e-texts from the early medieval period, including Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and several works by Chrétien de Troyes.
http://www.gutenberg.org Web Gallery of Art: Goldsmiths' Works (12th Century)
At this webpage, students can examine images of the various items (including book covers and altarpieces) rendered by medieval goldsmiths. The page can be found under the "Decorative Arts" section of the website.
http://www.wga.hu/ The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts: The Art of Asia
This website provides an excellent introduction to the arts of the Far East. It houses images of porcelain, landscape paintings, and other items, as well as historical information, maps, and explanatory videos. Visitors can view the artworks by type or by dynastic period. This site is a good source for examining the artistic accomplishments of the Song (Sung) and Tang (T'ang) dynasties.
http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/ Timeline of Art History
This website, maintained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides access to a good combination of images and thematic essays divided according to culture, time period, and medium. There are large sections devoted to Medieval and Asian arts. Sections of interest include "The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages," "Samurai," and "Landscape Painting in Chinese Art."
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=15
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=Asia The Samurai Archives Japanese History Page
This wiki provides a good introduction to samurai, their culture, and their place in Japanese history.
http://www.samurai-archives.com/index.html UNESCO Global Heritage Pavilion: Tale of Genji
This website offers the text of the world's first novel, accompanied by seventeenth-century illustrations by Harumasa Yamamoto.
http://webworld.unesco.org/genji/en/ The Nibelungenlied
This website provides an early twentieth-century English translation to the famous German epic of the early Middle Ages. It is prefaced with an introductory sketch.
http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/Oral-Lit/German/Nibelungenlied/nib-tr.html Selections from Carmina Burana
This website houses a number of poems from the Carmina Burana in the original Latin, accompanied by English translations by David Parlett.
http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/cburana/index.html University of Wisconsin Digital Collections: A History of the Crusades
This website provides access to a digital version of a six-volume scholarly history of the Crusades, which details the course of the Crusades from the end of the eleventh century through the fifteenth century. Among the subjects covered are the art and architecture of the Crusader States and the impact of the Crusades.
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/subcollections/HistCrusadesAbout.html Crusades-Encyclopedia
This expansive website contains a wealth of information about the Crusades. Resources are divided into subjects such as "Women and the Crusades" and "Islam, Judaism, and the Crusading Movement."
http://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/index.html | 