LibGuides: European History: The Middle Ages

Primary Sources

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Maintained by Paul Halsall at Fordham University, and updated regularly.
Icelandic Saga Database
An online resource dedicated to publishing the Sagas of the Icelanders -- a large body of medieval Icelandic literature. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries AD.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
A collection of medieval music manuscripts.
Medieval Primary Sources - Carleton College
Translated primary sources in pdf format.

Books

Mysteries of the Middle Ages : the rise of feminism, science, and art from the cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill
Call Number: CB351 .C22 2006
ISBN: 0385495552
Publication Date: 2006
Available at the Pensacola Campus library.
The Early Middle Ages : the birth of Europe by Lynette Olson
Call Number: D117 .O57 2007
ISBN: 1403942080
Publication Date: 2006
Available at the Pensacola Campus library.
The House of Wisdom : how the Arabs transformed Western civilization by Jonathan Lyons
Call Number: CB251 .L96 2009
ISBN: 1596914599
Publication Date: 2009
Available at the Pensacola Campus library.
The inheritance of Rome : a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
Call Number: CB351 .W49 2009
ISBN: 0670020982
Publication Date: 2009
Available at the Milton and Warrington Campus libraries.
The Race for Paradise : an Islamic history of the crusades by Paul M. Cobb
Call Number: D157 .C58 2014
ISBN: 0199358117
Publication Date: 2014
Available at the Milton Campus library.
King John : Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England : The Road to Magna Cart by Marc Morris
Call Number: DA208 .M68 2015
ISBN: 1605988855
Publication Date: 2015
Available at the Pensacola Campus library.
The Hundred Years War : A People's History by David Green
Call Number: DC96 .G74 2014
ISBN: 0300134517
Publication Date: 2014
Available at the Pensacola Campus library.
Lost to the West : the Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
Call Number: DF552 .B76 2009
ISBN: 0307407950
Publication Date: 2009
Available at the Pensacola Campus library.

Websites

Monastic Matrix: A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE
Provides scholarly information about women's religious communities, biographies, vocabularies, images, commentaries, and bibliographies of materials.
Medievalists.net: Where the Middle Ages Begin
A curated list of websites related to studying Medieval European History, including digitization projects, online collections, and social networking.

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