What's New on ORB

September 2000

Section editor:  Scott McLetchie

• Godfrey of Winchester's Epigrams (Godefridus Prior, pseudo-Martial, Martialis Coccus)
• Peter Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis 
• Cassiodorus's Variae, Book 1
• Cassiodorus's Variae, Book 2 
• Alcuin's De Rhetorica 

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The ORB Encyclopedia

• Culture: Music:  (eds. Margaret Hasselman and Cynthia Cyrus) additions to Patricia Gray's Web Animations
• Culture: Books and Universities (ed. Richard Clements) has added a link to the Gutenberg Bible on-line
• Early Medieval: To 1000: Scandinavia: (ed. Tamsin Hekala) some nice pictures of the MAHS Viking Boat Project at Kalamazoo 2000
• Hispanic Peninsula (ed. Jim Brodman) as added links to the following monographs at LIBRO
  • John Boswell, The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century
  • Henry Chaytor, A History of Aragon and Catalonia
  • Helen Nader, The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350-1550
  • Sara Nalle, God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650
  • Scott, S. P. (ed. and trans.): The Visigothic Code (Forum iudicum)
• High Medieval: Germany (ed. Rebecca L. R. Garber) has made additions too numerous to enumerate, but including many links to the The Oekumenisches Heiligenlexikon (in German)

The ORB Textbook Library

• The Textbook Library has added a new textbook, Lectures on Medieval Literature, which is ready to accept submissions; contact Teresa P. Reed with suggestions, additions and submissions.

Resources for Teaching

• Specialized Bibliographies has added a bibliography on the relationship between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages, compiled by Patrick Nugent and the Medieval-Religion Discussion List, edited by Dawn Marie Hayes
• More than 500 files of Teaching Material for Medieval History from John Illsley (Formerly Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Wales, Bangor)

• Living History:  The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum of Historic Houses and Buildings

• The Repertorium Fontium Medii Aevi, founded in 1953 and published by the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, is a detailed overview of medieval Latin Literature providing bibliographic data on thousands of titles, organized by genre.  The Institute's lemmario offers a searchable index to those titles by key word. The coverage of the Repertorium is great enough that the ability to search quickly for given titles or simply to browse is something that serious students of the Middle Ages cannot afford to ignore.

Kalamazoo 2000:  Let's Start a Web Page!  What Were We Thinking? Outlines, papers, etc. from May 6 session at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

• Problems of Navigation -- Laura Blanchard, University of Pennsylvania Library
• Problems of Diplomacy -- Paul Crawford, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
• Problems of Currency -- M. Bradford Bedingfield, University of Oxford
  • Paper | Handout 1 | Handout 2 -- all require Adobe Acrobat Reader Handout 3 (HTML)

Last updated 4 September 2000

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• June 2000
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