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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 "The Medieval Church," "Intellectual Life," and the "Social History," and further divided into chronological and thematic subcategories (such as "13th-14th Century Scholasticism" and "Rhetoric").
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Art History Resources on the Web: Gothic Art
This website doesn't contain original material; instead it provides access to dozens of links to other sites covering a variety of topics related to Gothic art (as well as many other cultures and time periods).
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHgothic.html

Timeline of Art History: Medieval Art
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. The site contains dozens of pages dedicated to aspects of medieval art and culture, including "Gothic Art," "Stained Glass in Medieval Europe," and "Romanesque Art." See also the site's section on South and Southeast Asian Art, which includes resources about Hindu and Buddhist 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=12

Internet Sacred Texts Archive: Christian Texts
This site is dedicated to providing visitors with access to sacred texts related to a wide variety of world religions. It contains a large selection of Christian texts, including a good number from the late medieval period. Available texts include the Summa Theologica, The Divine Comedy, and various writings by Peter Abelard. See also the site's collection of texts related to Sufism.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/index.htm#sufi

Project Gutenberg
At this expansive website, students can find a number of e-texts from the late medieval period in English translation, including works by Dante, Abelard, and Aquinas.
http://www.gutenberg.org

Web Gallery of Art
This website provides images of a number of works dating from the late medieval period. The contents of the website include Gothic and Romanesque architecture, stained glass windows, and manuscripts.
http://www.wga.hu/index1.html

Art Cyclopedia: Gothic
This compendious website catalogues links to other sites (usually museum websites) where students can find images of the works of specific Gothic artists (sometimes the links identify the specific artwork as well).
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/gothic.html

Louvre: A Closer Look at a Romanesque Virgin
This multimedia page on the Louvre's website provides background and analysis of a statue of Mary and an infant Jesus, which is believed to have been used as a reliquary. An audio commentary is accompanied by highlighted and zoomed views of the object.
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/dossiers/detail_oal.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673229911&CURRENT_LLV_OAL%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673229911&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=0&bmLocale=en

The Princeton Dante Project
This website contains a wealth of material related to Dante. Visitors can find his Divine Comedy in the original Italian and English translation, as well as maps of medieval Italy, a biography of Dante, and translations of his minor works.
http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/index.html

From Stage to Page: Medieval and Renaissance Drama
This website contains transcripts of a large number of medieval mystery and morality plays, including Everyman.
http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/drama/comedy/index.html

Choral Public Domain Library
This website offers access to the scores of a large number of composers, often accompanied by audio files (midi and mp3) of several of the composer's pieces. Searches can be made according to composer or musical era or style. Among the composers whose works can be heard on this site is Pérotin. The site also contains scores and audio files of a large number of motets.
http://www.cpdl.org








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