EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Please note these sites are all also linked to the relevant class outlines

Official Louvre website in English: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp. This website to one of the world’s greatest collections of art is searchable and also contains good descriptions and background on many works.

DEAD SEA SCROLLS An excellent website of an Exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html.Roman and Early Medieval Scripts: The Origins of the Carolingian Scripts: http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/ARTH/ARTH212/Carolingian_Culture/carolingian_scripts.html Some nice examples of early scripts from an art history class website.

Encyclopedia Brittanica online article on early Christian millennialism:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-235307/millennialism (Submitted by Mark Grinstein-Camacho.)

Myarmoury.com http://www.myarmoury.com A site for historical armor enthusiasts, albeit
with a definite SCA slant. It has all of the problems associated with
textbooks, for example often giving wide-sweeping statements like “The Roman
scutum … was used into the third century AD” (
http://www.myarmoury.com/feature_shield.html ) without backing them up. It
also has a depressing tendency to focus on the high middle ages and early
modern periods (and occasionally antiquity) and skim over the early middle
ages. But it has a lot of interesting descriptions of swords and armor from
many periods of history, as well as notes on how they were probably used and
often contemporary depictions of them (such as Greek vases, woodblock prints,
etc). (Submitted by Mark Grinstein-Camacho.)

Tertullian: http://www.tertullian.org/ A site maintained by a
present-day follower of Tertullian, containing many translations of his works
and summaries of them.
(Submitted by Mark Grinstein-Camacho.)

The British Library of Illuminated Manuscripts
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm
On this site, there are many different examples and pictures of illuminated
manuscripts from different years. There is also a glossary of terms
relevant to the time period which seems very thorough. (Submitted by Ashley Jahrling.)

St. Pachomius Library: A First Draft for a Living Encyclopædia of Orthodox
Christianity http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html This is an encyclopedia of Byzantine texts, including many saints’ lives. It
contains some primary source as well as secondary sources for most all of the
texts. However, I found a few links did not work on the website. (Submitted by Megan Strathearn.)

Church History: http://www.ritchies.net/churchhi.htm http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/churchhi/churchh.htm These two websites deal with church history prior to and through the Middle Ages. I added them so that you might have a better understanding of church history from a Christian perspective. +Katherine Curry

The Shroud of Turin: http://www.shroud.com  The most studied artifact in human history. I believe it to be the burial cloth that wrapped the Lord Jesus Christ. But the controversy rages on, is it the cloth that wrapped His crucified body, or simply a medieval forgery, a hoax perpetuated by some clever artist? See for yourself and decide.

+Katherine Curry

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