Website Mapping Margery Kempe ©, a project of Sarah Stanbury and Virginia Raguin, technical implementation Robert
Henry and Mark Benotti. Supported by grants from the Hewlett Mellon Fund of the College of the Holy Cross and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Other Raguin Websites listed under Website Structures of Faith

GOOD EXTERNAL WEBSITES

IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE   © Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh
extensive site, most rich in French art, easily searchable

MANUSCRIPTS
Calendar section of the Trés Riches Heures. This famous Book of Hours was painted some time between 1412 and 1416 by the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Hermann and Jean. The artists came from Nimwegen in what is now Flanders but were generally referred to as Germans. See also more extensive overview of the entire manuscript.  The entire manuscript, with explanations of the illustrations and commentary on the art is available at this Website supported by Christusrex.

The Aberdeen Bestiary: an exquisitly illustrated bestiary manuscript of about 1200. A bestiary is a medieval manuscript containing descriptions of real and mythical animals, accompanied by moralising explanations. This one is one of the most famous of the Middle Ageas, in the Library of Aberdeen University, Scotland.

The Huntingfield Psalter, a manuscript produced for private use about 1220 probably in Oxford, England, now Pierpont Morgan Library Ms.43. This is a Latin Psalter (book of psalms) prefaced by a calendar, twenty leaves of narrative pictures totalling 92 scenes, and a full-page, historiated Beatus.

Life of St Edward the Confessor  is a masterpiece of mid thirteenth-century English illumination. The manuscript in the CambridgeUniversity Library( MS. Ee.3.59) contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse of the Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and  preserved in this manuscript, executed c. 1250-60. .

BUILDINGS
Assisi:  Monuments at Assisi including the Basilica of St Francis and the Church of St Clare. Extensive images of the frescos in the basilica. by Giotto on the life of Francis (about 1400 based on the Francis's life as recounted by St. Bonaventure), and Simoni Martini's frescos of the Life of St. Martin executed between 1318 and 1339
Art of Giotto part of the Christusrex Website. Extensive survey of frescos in Padua and Florence as well as Assisi

Durham cathedral. and Durham Cathedral and Castle (UNESCO Site) Durham Official Cathedral Webpage. Explanation of history, devotional practice, and art

Cities/Buildings Database by Meredith Clausen, University of Washington, .  Search Engine can be used on the site.  High quality images from medieval through modern.  Sometimes extensive overview of a building not available from other sources.
 
ARCHIVE OF ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES: Jeffery Howe, Boston College
Bruges: well-preserved medieval city:

ARCHIVE OF ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES: Jeffery Howe, Boston College
Bourges Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass

ARCHIVE OF ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES: Jeffery Howe, Boston College
Vézelay,  Architecture and Sculpture

ARCHIVE OF ARCHITECTURAL IMAGES: Jeffery Howe, Boston College
Chartres:  Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass