Resources

This page is very much a work in progress. As the semester progresses, we will fill it with links to useful websites on subjects related to the class. If you come up with a good site, let me know! At the moment, the links point to sites I happen to use and is not meant to serve as an exhaustive list.

Recommended Sites

• Livius.org - Massive Ancient History Page. It seems to have everything.
• Labyrinth. A virtual universe of medieval resources, sponsored by Georgetown University.
• ORB. The Online Resource Book for medievalists.

General Medieval Historical Information Pages

• Net SERF. Architecture, art, history, law, literature, music, religion and useful research resources.
• DScriptorium. Digital images of medieval manuscripts.
• Medieval Feminist Index. Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Virtual Museums

• Art Institute of Chicago - Look at the webpage, take a field trip!
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Virtual museum home page
• Museum of the History of Science
• Art Guide of Florence
• The Vatican Museum.
• Museums in the Ether
• "Virtual Library of Museums    

Specific Topics

• Le siècle des Lumières dans la peinture des musées de France
• The Romans in Scotland Exhibition from the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow
• James Ford Bell Library - An archive of early modern material connected to trade and travel.
• Medieval Art and Architecture - Astounding Database of Images

Ancient Societies

• The British Museum's site on Mesopotamia
• A collection of clay tablets housed at the University of Minnesota
• Another collection of images of clay tablets
• A summary and discussion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, with comparison to Genesis
• National Geographic's site on Peter Ballard's exploration of the Black Sea, trying to see if it could have been the location of the flood.
• Another page of images of Ziggurats
• General Iran heritage site - Amazing depth of material, some pro-Iranian bias perhaps

Rome

• Roman Coins
• On the Roman Emperors - An astounding site with excellent biographies of each emperor.

Early Middle Ages

• An extremely DENSE site on the German kingdoms
• Medieval Coins, especially good on Franks

Some Modern Topics

• Saddam and Nebuchadnezzar
• General Iran heritage site - Amazing depth of material, some pro-Iranian bias perhaps.