Economic and Social History

  • Building Community: Medieval Technology & American History, Penn State – website for teachers of curricular and educational materials on the transfer of medieval milling and iron manufacture technology to the American colonies http://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/

  • Epistolae: Medieval Women’s Latin Letters – collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to the 13th centuries. In Latin with English translations. Includes biographical material https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/

  • The Gode Cookery – website dedicated to medieval cooking http://www.godecookery.com

  • The Medici Archive Project (MAP)– open access. Database catalogues the letters of one of the most exhaustive and complete courtly archives of early modern Europe: the Medici Granducal Archival Collection (Mediceo del Principato). This archival collection ― comprising over four million letters distributed in 6,429 volumes and occupying a mile of shelf space ― covers a chronological span of two hundred years, from 1537 to 1743. It documents the political, diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military and medical culture of early modern Tuscany and Europe http://www.medici.org

  • Medieval Family Life – subscription required – unavailable at LSU http://www.amdigital.co.uk/m-collections/collection/medieval-family-life/

  • Medieval Travel Writing – subscription required – unavailable at LSU http://www.amdigital.co.uk/m-collections/collection/medieval-travel-writing/

  • RegiaAnglorum – Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman, and British Living History http://www.regia.org

  • RetiMedievali: Online Initiative for Medieval Studies– open access; an on-line community of medievalists that aims at offering texts, working tools and reflections on historiography in accordance with the present trends in Italian research and teaching practice http://www.rm.unina.it/index.php

  • King Richard II, authoritative, brief account, open access, links to political affairs and visual images: http://www.history.ac.uk/richardII/richardII.html