What's New on ORB

April 2000

Section editor:  Scott McLetchie

• The ORB Textbook Library:   We have added an entirely new section on full-length classroom textbooks, written by experienced medievalists and tested both in the classroom and on the internet. All texts are subject to our usual copyright restrictions: they may be reproduced for classroom use only.  This section is edited by Teresa Reed.  Textbook additions during the past month include:
  • Ecclesiology:  A Short Course on the Medieval Church, by Yuri Koszarycz
  • Celtic Arts and Cultures, by Dorothy Verkerk
  • Old English:  An Introductory Course, by Murray McGillivray
  • Western Civilization by Skip Knox is now complete

• Major New Sections

• Expanded Sections
  • The Military Orders section (ed. Paul Crawford) has added a Bibliography of the Military Orders in the Iberian Peninsula by Jos˙ Vicente de BraganŽa
  • Bibliography on Magic and Witchcraft by Karen Jolly
  • The Hispanic Peninsula section (ed. Jim Brodman) has added links to the following monographs
    • Richard Fletcher: Saint James's Catapault: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmrez of Santiago de Compostela
    • Richard Fletcher: The Episcopate in the Kingdom of Leon in the Twelfth Century
    • Peter Linehan: The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century
    • John Shidler: A Medieval Catalan Noble Family: the Montcadas, 1000-1230
  • Urban Studies (ed. Stephen Alsford) has added the following
    • Bibliographic Essay: Early Modern English Towns, by Joseph. P. Ward
    • Bibliography: Early Modern English Towns, Sections 1-3, by Joseph. P. Ward
    • Bibliography: Early Modern English Towns, Sections 4-7, by Joseph. P. Ward 
    • a link to primary source material on The Rise of Towns in the Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  • The Historical Geography of Brabant page in the Low Countries section (ed. K. A. W. H. Leenders) has undergone extensive reorganization and expansion, including the addition of many new links
  • The Science and Technology section (ed. Bert Hall) has added a research project on the theories of Science and the Scientific Culture in the
    12th and 13th Century at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universit¯t, Frankfurt
    
• New Articles and Texts
  • The Trial of the Templars in Cyprus by Anne Gilmour-Bryson in the Military Orders section (ed. Paul Crawford)

• Links to Affiliated Websites
  
  • Our page of external links now points to a Medieval Manuscript Manual at the University of Budapest.
• Resources for Teaching
  • Resources/Illustration has added a link to Catalonian Manuscripts

Last updated 3 April 2000

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