Link: http://monasticmatrix.org
Project Status: Ongoing
Ongoing collection of texts (primary and secondary, in original and translation) and images of art and architecture related to religious women in medieval Europe. The site includes a repertory of over 3000 communities with links to related primary and secondary literature (Monasticon); an extensive bibliography of secondary sources (Bibliographia), along with original publications and edited primary sources hosted on the site (Commentaria and Cartularium), some of which are available for download as .pdf; a working list of terms related to religious women and their communities (Vocabularium); and profiles of religious women (Vitae).
* National History Day Selected Resource *
Resource details:
Resource Type: Dictionary/Glossary, Downloadable data, Images, Map, Searchable Bibliography, Searchable Database, Teaching Resources, Text: Medieval, Text: Modern
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: English
Language of Modern Translation: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 400 - 1600
Subject: Archaeology, Art, Gender, Nobility, Gentry, Nuns, Piety, Poverty, Charity, Religion - Institutional Church, Saints, Travel, Pilgrimage, Women, Women Religious
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Accounts, Advice, Instructional Texts, Architecture, Art and Artifacts, Biography, Memoirs, Cathedrals, Churches, Contracts, Property Transactions, Devotional, Doctrinal, Hagiography, Landscape, Letters, Petitions, Liturgy, Maps, Plans, Monasteries, Religious Objects, Rules, Sculpture, Sermons, Orations, Tapestries, Wall Hangings, Textual Evidence, Visitations, Wills, Inventories, Woodwork
Geopolitical Region: Europe
Original Language: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish