Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Studying Medieval History
Contents
Using Primary Sources
Close Reading
Medieval Documents Paleography
Accessing Medieval Documents
- The Great Document Collections
There are a number of huge multi-volume published editions of medieaval sources. Some of the editions are not outdated and later scholarship has led to better editions. It is also extremely unlikely that high school or university undergraduate students would ever need to consult these.
- MIGNE PG Jacques Paul Migne. Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca All the volumes as scanned by Google Books and at the Internet Archive[Wikipedia: Patrologia Graeca]
- MIGNE PL Jacques Paul Migne. Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina All the volumes as scanned by Google Books and at the Internet Archive[Wikipedia: Patrologia Latina]
- MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica [MGH]
MGH
is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. [Wikipedia: Monumenta Germaniae Historica]
- RHC Recueil des historiens des croisades [Wikipedia: Recueil des historiens des croisades
The Recueil des historiens des croisades (trans: Collection of the Historians of the Crusades) is a major collection of several thousand medieval documents written during the Crusades. The documents were collected and published in Paris in the 19th century, and include documents in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Old French, and Armenian. [Links here to BnFGallica and to the Internet Archive e-texts.]
- Jacques Paul Migne. Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina All the volumes as scanned by Google Books and at the Internet Archive
- Muratori. Annali d'Italia ed altre opere varie di Lodovico Antonio Muratori 1838 [At Internet Archive]
- The Rolls Series "This work, commonly known as the Rolls Series, was published from 1858 to 1911. Herbert Thurston wrote: "The vast bulk of the texts . . . are in Latin, and these are printed without translation. Those in old French, Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, old Norse, etc. always have a translation annexed" ("Rolls Series", Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913, volume 13). Texts (including those in Latin) are accompanied by a commentary in English. Some volumes are entirely in English. For a partial index of the volumes, see 'Catalogue of Record Publications on Sale': [Quoted from Wikisource]
- Archives
- The English National Archives
The Uses of History
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