Selected Primary Sources for Ancient History
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Ancient History SourcebookA website with links to ancient texts, most in English translation. If a link has become inactive, try locating the source using a search engine. Compiled by Paul Halsall at Fordham.
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Aristoteles Latinus Database This link opens in a new windowContains texts that have been critically edited in the printed Aristoteles Latinus series. It includes also Latin translations of Aristotle’s works published outside the Aristoles Latinus series and translations of Greek commentaries.
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Avalon ProjectOnline repository of legal, historical, and diplomatic documents from all time periods. Maintained by Yale Law School.
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JSTOR Image Search This link opens in a new windowArtstor is now on JSTOR. Digital image library offering searchable collections of images and descriptive information including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and more, encompassing many time periods and world cultures.
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Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (ETANA)"ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative project initiated in August 2000, as an electronic publishing project designed to enhance the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East."
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EuroDocs, History of Prehistoric and Ancient EuropeRich website linking to primary sources for all periods of European history. This link goes directly to the Ancient Europe page. Includes transcriptions, facsimiles, and, sometimes, translations. Scope goes beyond the classical Mediterranean. Maintained at Brigham Young University.
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryThis multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.
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Library of Latin Texts This link opens in a new windowProvides the world’s leading database for Latin texts, offering texts from the beginnings of Latin literature down to the present day.
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Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new windowThe digital Loeb Classical Library offers an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin Classical literature, history, philosophy, and more.
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Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology This link opens in a new windowSearchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century.
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Perseus Digital LibraryAn open source website covering history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. Contains texts and images.
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Project GutenbergContains thousands of free online books that are in the public domain. Look for translations.
Selected Primary Sources for Medieval History
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JSTOR Image Search This link opens in a new windowArtstor is now on JSTOR. Digital image library offering searchable collections of images and descriptive information including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and more, encompassing many time periods and world cultures.
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Avalon ProjectOnline repository of legal, historical, and diplomatic documents from all time periods. Maintained by Yale Law School.
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British Library: Digitised ManuscriptsView digital copies of thousands of manuscripts from the British Library’s collection.
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British Library: Discovering Literature: MedievalDigitized manuscripts and prints with contextual essays. Includes Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The Book of Margery Kempe, and more.
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Byzantine Saints' LivesBibliography of published translations (many into English) of Byzantine Saints' lives. Maintained at Dumbarton Oaks.
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The Digital Walters"The Walters Art Museum houses an extraordinary collection of some 850 illuminated manuscripts from diverse cultures around the world. Full digital surrogates of many of these manuscripts are available on this website."
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryThis multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.
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The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval StudiesA guide to online Medieval resources; includes primary texts, secondary sources, and bibliographies.
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Library of Latin Texts This link opens in a new windowProvides the world’s leading database for Latin texts, offering texts from the beginnings of Latin literature down to the present day.
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Medieval Murder MapsFrom researchers at the University of Cambridge, interactive maps of London, Oxford, and York based on coroner's rolls.
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Medieval Sources Online This link opens in a new windowA collection of primary source material containing over three thousand pages of medieval texts.
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Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology This link opens in a new windowSearchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century.