World Public Library ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies CURSUS An On-line Resource of Medieval Liturgical Texts The purpose of the CURSUS project is to employ the Extensible Markup Language (XML), together with transformations performed by the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT), to make data from sources of medieval Latin liturgy available on the Web. Funding sources: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Content types created: Dataset/structured data, Text Software tools used: EMACS, elisp, Pycoon, Swish-e Source material used: "The majority of text which appears in the manuscript files is stored separately in a repostory of antiphons, responds and prayers. Digital resource created: "Almost of our working files are encoded in XML. Access to digital resource: Open Access Data Formats created: Extensible Markup Language (XML), XSL Transformations (XSLT), Extensible Markup Language (XML) TEI-compliant XLST from XML Metadata standards employed: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Institutions affiliated with this project: Project staff and expertise:
History of the World The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks Every revolutionary age produces its own kind of nostalgia. Faced with the enormous social and economic upheavals at the nineteenth century’s end, learned Victorians like Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold looked to High Church models and played the bishops of Western culture, with a monkish devotion to preserving and transmitting old texts and traditions and turning back to simpler ways of life. It was in 1909, the nadir of this milieu, before the advent of modernism and world war, that The Harvard Classics took shape. What does the massive collection preserve? In its expert synergy of moral uplift and marketing, The Harvard Classics (find links to download them as free ebooks below) belong as much to Mark Twain’s bourgeois gilded age as to the pseudo-aristocratic age of Victoria—two sides of the same ocean, one might say. The idea for the collection didn’t initially come from Eliot, but from two editors at the publisher P.F. Related Content: W.H.
Medieval & Renaissance Games Welcome to a page specifically dedicated to Really Old Games. This page is intended to cover anything and everything pertaining to games in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. All are welcome to contribute; I am particularly looking for relevant sites to point to. Bookmarking this page: If you are bookmarking or creating a link to this site, please use the form: I own that domain, and it should always forward to the correct place, even if the actual location of the site changes. What's New: New files and changes to this site: Descriptions of Period Games, and Research Materials Rules for a variety of period games. Frequently Asked Question I'm looking for information on period games for children. While there is no site that I'm aware of dedicated to period kid's games in specific, the book "Medieval Games" is quite rich in games appropriate for children. Discussion of Period Games Recreating Period Games Related Sites Game Software Odds and Ends
Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project: Welcome Welcome "To strengthen Stanford University Library holdings in the field of Western Medieval thought and its influence on modern times" The goal is to digitize on an ongoing basis printed reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought. Current local research needs help to determine the material selected for digitization. Several special interest areas are being pursued. A facsimile of the work and searchable text is being created, cataloged in Socrates, and delivered over the web. Financial support for this project is from Smart Family Foundation and Allan Morgan Standish bookfund, established by Beatrix Mesmer Standish in memory of her husband, and sustained by Mrs.
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