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Project Gutenberg, first begun in the 1970s, aims to provide free access to reading materials via the internet. The project currently includes over 50,000 open-access works, covering multiple subjects and representative of many time periods. Some of the works will be of interest to medievalists; editions of the Divine Comedy can be found in Italian on the site, for example, and other works of potential interest, both primary and secondary, are certainly to be found within the large collection. However, both the search and browse functions are outdated given current search engines. Even given the large number of volumes included, medieval works are more sparse than one might desire for inclusion in the MDR.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Catalog, Downloadable data, E-book, Searchable Database, Text: Medieval, Text: Modern
License: Must provide credit, No Fee, Out of copyright
Modern Language: English
Language of Modern Translation: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 200 - 1600
Subject: Chivalry, Classics, Humanism, Clergy, Courtly Love, Crusades, Education, Universities, History, Manuscript Studies, Nobility, Gentry, Philosophy, Theology, Piety, Royalty, Monarchs, Saints, Theology
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Biography, Memoirs, Chronicles, Annals, Hagiography, Letters, Petitions, Literature, Religious Texts, Rules, Textual Evidence, Treatises
Geopolitical Region: British Isles and Ireland, Eastern Europe, Europe, France, German Lands, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Low Countries
Original Language: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Middle English
Texts by many medieval and Renaissance authors, including Abelard, Dante, Erasmus, and more.