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Geographic Shift

I know I tend to be a little down on medieval Europe these days, in a mostly "been there, done that" sort of way, but I just came across one of those impressively huge collections of lore that makes me ooh and ahh. Fordham hosts the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, which is lots and lots of text on the middle ages, mostly translations of primary sources. A lot of it's religious (so they have St. Augustine, St. Anselm and Thomas Aquinas), but they also have translations of Dante, the full text of the Decameron(!), legal stuff (the Code of Justinian, texts from Gratian on the origins of common/civil law), economic sources (toll records, even!) and just about... well... everything. Including Saint's Lives and excerpts from the Angl-Saxon Chronicle (no surprise - neither are exactly rare).

(Also, but it's sort of funky to read the various letters that medieval folks - especially medieval church folks - sent back and forth to each other. A lot of them read like internet flame wars. Only, you know, without the internet.)

The site's little hard to navigate, at times, but this is a rich source of information. Very cool.

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