What's New on ORB

July 2002

Section editor:  Scott McLetchie

Featured Additions: 

• A major new section debuts in the Encyclopedia:  High Medieval Germany, ed. Rebecca L. R. Garber.
• Encyclopedia: Religion: Judaism now includes a link to The interdisciplinary seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism, the internet version of an ongoing research seminar of graduate students at the department of theology of Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). The seminar is directed by Alexander Golitzin, a professor of eastern Christian theology (Marquette University). The seminar started in March 2002 as an attempt to investigate Jewish mystical traditions in the eastern Christian theological and liturgical texts.

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 10 July 2002

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