France: 1066 - 1453
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- Georeferencing and imaging of monuments of the Franks.
- Includes parts of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland.
- (Antiquity to Middle Ages; interactive maps, images)
- Medieval documents reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
- (7th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
- An exhibition of the Getty Museum utilizing manuscripts to illustrate French medieval history.
- (1250-1500; facsimiles and commentary)
- Seals with images important for establishing official portraits and to show legitimacy and provenance of accompanying documents.
- A collection of facsimiles at Notre Dame's Medieval Institute Library.
- (Facsimiles and commentary)
- Royal seals of the Bourgogne dynasty reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
- (9th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
- Reproductions of manuscript illuminations and decor.
- Preserved in French municipal libraries, linked in a database searchable by multiple criteria.
- Produced through the auspices of CNRS.
- (8th to 18th centuries; facsimiles and metadata)
- Database of the Charters of the abbey of Cluny.
- Project developed by the University of Münster.
- Website also available in German, French, Spanish, and Italian.
- (10th to 12th centuries; Latin facsimiles)
- (987-1291; photo facsimiles, sound files, and commentaries)
- This section includes primary documents of post-1066 France online.
- See especially the section for France.
- (1066-1603; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- (1177-1217; English translations)
- (1173; Latin transcription and English translation of letter)
- The Roman de la Rose, written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun.
- Digital library of all known manuscript copies, about 300.
- (13th century; facsimile manuscripts)
- Facsimiles from the Bibliothèsue Nationale.
- (1318-1380; photo facsimiles of manuscripts)
- Excerpts from an 1805 translation by Thomas Johnes.
- Edited by Steve Muhlenberger of Nipissing University (Canada).
- (14th century; English translations)
- Excerpted accounts of the Hundred Years' War.
- Provided by the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
- (1369-1410; English translations)
See also details for reading Froissart's chronicles on the web in the original French or in modern French translation.
Faits d'armes (Deeds of Arms)
- Edited by Steve Muhlenberger of Nipissing University (Canada).
- (14th to 15th centuries; transcriptions from Scots English, Middle English, Middle French and Latin; also English translations)
- Alabaster "mourners" from the tombs at Dijon.
- For the Burgundian dukes, Philip the Bold (1342-1404) and John the Fearless (Jean sans peur 1371-1419).
- Online facsimiles are scalable and 360° turnable.
- (Late 14th to early 15th centuries; three-dimensional sculpture facsimiles)
Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry
(A medieval book of hours)
- (ca. 1412-1416; photo facsimiles)
- The Book of Hours of Jeanne de France, produced on the occasion of the nuptials of the third daughter of King Charles VII.
- Classified as a French national treasure, of great historic and artistic interest.
- 694 folios, digitized by Gallica at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- (1452; Latin-language facsimiles)
- From the Rise of Capetian France through the Hundred Years' War.
- (Transcriptions and translations)
- (1412-1431; mostly English translations)
- A contemporary chronicle of Joan of Arc's life by Christine de Pisan.
- (ca. 1429; facsimile and original French transcription with English translation)
- Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution.
- Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings.
- Under construction in reverse chronological order. Most recent years available first.
- (843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file)
- A database of images, texts, charts, and historical maps of French Gothic architecture.
- (12th to 15th centuries; facsimile images, maps, architectural plans, texts, and narratives)
- A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities.
- (Facsimiles)
- A growing collection of documented texts.
- (From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
- Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases, and official seals.
- Available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
- Exhibition showcasing the development of courtly fashion as depicted in the art of Medieval France and the Netherlands.
- Timeline spanning from the "Fashion Revolution" (c. 1330) to the beginning of the Renaissance in France.
- (1325-1515; manuscripts and descriptions)
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles, and commentaries, mostly in English)
- Historical documents and commentary on the former duchy of Savoy.
- (1100 to present; French and Latin transcriptions, facsimiles, and commentaries)
- The Roubaix Digital Library in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais aims to concentrate all the local primary sources for the history of the city in one digital library.
- Browse by theme, collection or chronological era.
- (15th to 20th centuries; facsimiles, pictures, and descriptions)
EuroDocs > History of France: Primary Documents > 1066 - 1453
EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu
