What's New on ORB

June 2002

Section editor:  Scott McLetchie

Featured Addition: 

• Leaves of Gold:  A collaborative project of the Philadelphia Musium of Art and the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL); website designed by Laura Blanchard (available via The ORB Encyclopedia:  Culture:  Art & Architecture)

Additions to The ORB Encyclopedia

• Late Medieval:  England
  • A hypertext edition of the portions of Holinshed's Chronicles for the reigns of Edward IV (partial), Edward V, and Richard III. It's linked from later medieval England
• Culture:  Art and Architecture 
  • Monumental Brass Society:  History, bibliography and 170 images of brasses and incised slabs, mostly medieval.
  • Symbols of the Four Evangelists (ed. Felix Just):  Site contains both text and images

• Religion:  
  • Crusades and the Latin Kingdoms:  Texts:  A History of the Crusades (ed. Kenneth M. Setton):  The entire text of this multi-volume series is online, with search and browse capabilities.
• Culture:  Women's Studies
  • Bibliographies:  Women and Warfare, an annotated bibliography by Valerie Eads
  • Resources for Teaching:  Matilda of Tuscany, by Valerie Eads
• Early Medieval:  To 1000:
  • Anglo-Saxon England:  many revisions to this section, including
    • Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature, by Carolin Esser.  Deals with manifestations of theological and poetic explorations of the apocalypse in Latin and Old English sources. Includes a rich body of contextual material.
• Culture:  Urban Studies:
  • Medieval English Towns:  Has added a link to a Biographical Master List, a central reference to the more substantive of the biographical sketches of medieval townspeople dispersed across various of the Medieval English Towns pages.
• Culture:  Literature
  • The Gesta Francor, ed. & trans. by Leslie Morgan, has a rewritten introduction and updated links.
• Early Medieval:  Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean
  • Recent Bibliography on Pagan/Christian Interaction in Late Antiquity
  • A link to Late Antique and Early Medieval Spain, AD 300-711: A Hand-List of Translated Texts, by Mark Handley
  • A link to Late Antique and Early Medieval North Africa: AD 300-700: A Hand-List of Translated Texts, by Mark Handley
  • A link to the Soci˙t˙ des Bollandistes
  • A link to Evagrius Ponticus, Monastic Theologian
  • On-going updates to the Conferences, colloquia, and workshops relevant to students of Late Antiquity page
  • Additions to the Journals for Late Antiquity -- On-line and In Print

Additions to E-Texts

• A Public Record of the Labor of Isabel de la Cavalleria, 1490, trans. Montserrat Cabre

Additions to the ORB Reference Shelf:

Additions to the ORB Library:  

Additions to Resources for Teaching

Additions to External Links (Disclaimer)

Additions to Medieval Studies for the Non-Specialist

• Bibliography of Women's History, by Rebecca L. R. Garber
• Medieval Mysteries by Historians, by Rebecca L. R. Garber

Last updated 1 June 2002

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