# Finding Material on the Middle Ages

## SANCTUARY
### Visual & Material Culture
- [Sainte-Chapelle apostles – Musée de Cluny](https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/en/collection/apostles-from-the-sainte-chapelle.html)
- [Divine Light / Cathedral glasswork – V&A Museum](https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/ONDKgZzNJWn/divine-light)
- [Hellscapes in art](https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-11-nightmarish-depictions-hell-art-history)
- [Byzantine and Islamic textiles – GWU Collection](https://collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collection/?f=Textile&v=2)
- [Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection](https://www.doaks.org/visit/museum/collections/byzantine-collection)
- [Medieval bestiaries](https://bestiary.ca/)

### Harvard & Online Resources
- [Harvard Art Museums – Medieval Wing](https://harvardartmuseums.org/visit/floor-plan/2/2440)
- [Ancient Coin Collection](https://harvardartmuseums.org/publications/special-collections/ancient-coins) (religious iconography on coinage)
- [Houghton Library Medieval Manuscripts](https://library.harvard.edu/collections/medieval-and-renaissance-manuscripts) – illuminated Psalters and Books of Hours
- [The Met Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History](https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/timeline-of-art-history)

### Broader Context
- [Middle Ages for Educators](https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/)
- [Princeton Index of Medieval Art](https://theindex.princeton.edu/)

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## HOME

### Visual & Material Culture
- [Medieval Arabic cookbooks](http://aljazeera.com/features/2020/9/13/medieval-arabic-cookbooks-reviving-the-taste-of-history)
- [Medieval babies in art](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/13y0plg/why_were_babies_in_medieval_paintings_so_ugly/)
- [Ethiopian collection – Walters Art Museum](https://art.thewalters.org/browse/category/ethiopia/)
- [Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A8s_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry) – domestic and seasonal scenes

### Harvard & Online Collections
- [Harvard Art Museum – *Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge*](https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16354) – domestic technology and reading practices
- [Victoria & Albert Museum – Art of the Mughal Empire](https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-arts-of-the-mughal-empire?srsltid=AfmBOooDhCA6DPtpB0xgJzENpEvHB3Kuwzhd7u3oJsudXRLHZTxl6c4_)

### Additional Reading
- [Going Medieval (blog)](https://going-medieval.com/) – essays on daily life, gender, and households
- [Medievalists.net](https://www.medievalists.net/) – searchable for domestic topics

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## PALACE

### Visual & Material Culture
- [Pallava art and architecture](https://vajiramandravi.com/upsc-exam/pallava-art-and-architecture/)
- [Manuscripts from the Holy Roman Empire – The Morgan Library](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/imperial-splendor)
- [Art of the Mughal Empire – V&A Museum](https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-arts-of-the-mughal-empire?srsltid=AfmBOooDhCA6DPtpB0xgJzENpEvHB3Kuwzhd7u3oJsudXRLHZTxl6c4_)

### Harvard Resources
- [Harvard Art Museum – Ancient Coin Collection](https://harvardartmuseums.org/publications/special-collections/ancient-coins)
- [Houghton Library – Byzantine Poetry Manuscript](https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:422128641$1i)

### Contextual Sources
- [A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe (blog)](https://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/) – politics and monastic networks
- [MedievalBooks (blog)](https://medievalbooks.nl/) – manuscripts and book culture in elite courts

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## CLASSROOM


### Harvard & Online Collections
- [Houghton Library Medieval Manuscripts](https://library.harvard.edu/collections/medieval-and-renaissance-manuscripts)
- [Print and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe](https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16354)
- [Digital Scriptorium](https://digital-scriptorium.org/) – manuscript database
- [The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales](https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/)

### Broader Learning Resources
- [Middle Ages for Educators](https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/)
- [Manuscript Road Trip (blog)](https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/)
- [Princeton Index of Medieval Art](https://theindex.princeton.edu/)

### Pedagogical Inspiration
- [Stanford’s Geography of the Middle Ages](https://bartholomew.stanford.edu/geography.html)
- [Medieval European medicine](https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ancientmedicine_goyette/medieval)

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## ROAD

### Visual & Material Culture
- [Medieval European maps](https://www.geographyrealm.com/types-medieval-european-maps/)
- [Ancient Chinese maps](https://www.viewofchina.com/ancient-chinese-maps/)
- [Imaginary creatures – Sciapod illustration](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Sciapode.jpg)
- [Fighting snails in manuscripts](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231221-the-mystery-of-the-medieval-fighting-snails)

### Global Connections
- [Byzantine and Islamic textiles – GWU Collection](https://collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collection/?f=Textile&v=2)
- [Ethiopian Christian Art – Walters Museum](https://art.thewalters.org/browse/category/ethiopia/)
- [Chinese medical drawings](https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ancientmedicine_goyette/chinese)

### Broader Reading
- [Manuscript Road Trip (blog)](https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/)
- [MedievalBooks (blog)](https://medievalbooks.nl/)

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## GENERAL RESOURCES

### Aggregated Image Sources
- [Artstor](https://www.jstor.org/site/artstor/)
- [Lorena Alessandrini’s Image Set for Course Themes](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NNOWujZNsX4LS55213QZdT0vlgxSUbM9)

### Museum Collections
- [Walters Art Museum Manuscripts](https://manuscripts.thewalters.org/)
- [Victoria & Albert Museum Collections](https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections#collections)
- [Yale Beinecke Digital Collections](https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/digital-collections-beinecke-library)
- [The Morgan Library & Museum Online Collection](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online)

### Blogs & Scholarly Portals
- [Medievalists.net](https://www.medievalists.net/)
- [Going Medieval](https://going-medieval.com/)
- [A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe](https://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/)

### Medieval Playlist
* [medieval playlist with links to songs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RCnWIAi8dKB4_f3gKqI00ujGH0xmWX1AI0Gf3MMf5ec/edit?tab=t.0)
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## MAKING YOUR VIDEO

### Tutorials
- [Canva video editing tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlrC-XaKwew)
- [Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials](https://www.adobe.com/learn/premiere-pro)
- [iMovie tutorials](https://support.apple.com/guide/imovie/welcome/mac)

### Creative Tools
- [Create your own Bayeux Tapestry](https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/)

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