Author Archives: Lauri Kunnas

Digital Monumenta Germaniae Historica (dMGH)

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The digital Monumenta Germaniae Historica offers digital versions of classic MGH published source material. The site is in German and the material is focused on the Middle Ages and Central Europe.

The MGH are a research institution with a long and rich history. With over 200 years experience in publishing Medieval source material in text-critical editions and scholarly research on the Middle Ages in Germany and Europe, the MGH embody the classical tradition of source-oriented Medieval scholarship.

The MGH editions are one of the most reputable publications of source material for the history of the Middle Ages. They appear in the following series:

  • Scriptores (historiography)
  • Leges (laws)
  • Diplomata (charters)
  • Epistolae (letters)
  • Antiquitates (antiquities = poetry, necrologies)

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Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks Project (IHSP)

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The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. The project is maintained by Fordham University in New York. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a “western civilization” approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women’s history and LGBT studies.

The project however does not contain images of the actual text and therefore should not be used as a primary source for research. It can be useful as a place to browse historical documents before finding better versions of them.

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Digital Bodleian

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Digital Bodleian first launched in 2015 with the aim of bringing together digitized content from the Bodleian Libraries’ extraordinary and rich collections into a single portal. The Bodleian Libraries have been digitizing content since the early 1990s and Digital Bodleian was and is designed to enable access to that content for the widest possible audience.

The collection contains images of rare books, manuscripts and art mostly from the Medieval and Modern Ages.

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