France: From Antiquity through 1065
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- Including virtual visits to the Cave of Lascaux, other caves, and the ancient town of Vienne.
- (prehistoric to antiquity; facsimiles and reproductions)
- Images of a French cave, only discovered in 1994, containing art wonders from prehistory.
- (Facsimile images)
- Digital panorama of prehistoric art images in caves near the Ariège River in France.
- Placed on the web by National Geographic.
- (Interactive access to panoramic facsimiles)
- Photographs and virtual reconstructions of Paris during the Roman Empire.
- (Photo facsimiles and reproductions)
- (802; English translation)
- The Ordinance of Louis the Pious dividing the empire
- (817; English translation)
- (870; English translation)
- This mourning poem "is by far the earliest work written about the Normans from the Norman point of view...."
- It also serves as "an excellent laboratory in medieval philology."
- (943; Latin facsimiles and variant text transcriptions with English and German translations)
- 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)
- Medieval documents reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
- (7th to 16th centuries; photo facsimiles)
- 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)
- (987-1291; photo facsimiles, sound files and commentaries)
- 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.
- (843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file).
- Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.
- A growing collection of documented texts.
- (From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)
- Another version of this site is found at Fordham University as Livre des sources médiévales
- Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals
- of relevance to French national and regional history --
- available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
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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
