| -- Medieval Resources available from the AHDS -- These page shows some of the most commonly used medieval resources available from the AHDS. It is organised according to the conference themes of IMC 2004 -- Archaeology, Landscape and Material Culture --The AHDS presents wide ranging collections relating to landscape-use and material culture. Some examples include: From AHDS Archaeology / ADS *
Dunadd: an Early Dalraidic Capital – one of the most significant archaeological sites in Scotland, and one of the most important early medieval sites in Britain
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Ave Valley Survey Project, Porto – looks at the impact of Roman annexation on the indigenous landscape of a region which had a sophisticated Pre-Roman Iron Age Culture
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ArchSearch - provides details of research on some 600,000 sites and monuments
From AHDS History *
Wheat and Trade and Wheat Prices in France, 1486-1913
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Town and Countryside in West Berkshire, c. 1400-1600
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Peasant Land Market in Southern England, 1260-1350
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Wages and Prices in Scotland, c.1580-1780
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Feeding the City II: Demesne Agriculture in the London Region, 1375-1400
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Trans-national Database and Atlas of Saints’ Cults (TASC) (awaiting cataloguing)
-- Music and Liturgy --The [Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music]
(DIAMM) is hosted by AHDS Performing Arts. The project obtains, archives and enhances digital images of European sources of medieval polyphonic music. These are then made available on the project website. -- Language and Literature / Literacy and Communication --[AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics]
provides over 2,500 texts and corpora; many of these are relevant to medieval studies *
Theological texts range from Apostolic and Patrisic Texts to ‘Saints’ Lives’ and ‘Sermons’
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Authors from Boethius and Bede to Gregory and Gratian;
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Additionally, a number of anthologies and text based corpora, from ‘Alliterative Verse: Samples from 14 Medieval Poems’ to ‘Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots’ to ‘Complete Corpus of Old English: The Toronto Dictionary of Old English Corpus’.
-- Government and institutions --A host of institutionally-based collections appear in AHDS collections *
European State Finance Database; Italy, 1390-1805
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English Revenues, 1485-1816
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Medieval Wool and Cloth Exports and Imports, 1280-1547
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Castilian Finances in the 15th Century
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English Economic Indicators, 1209-1816
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French Economic Indicators, 1308-1817
-- Art and Architecture --A range of images are available via AHDS Visual Arts for illustrative and research purposes. These can be searched via the [AHDS Visual Arts image search]
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Woodcuts from The Triumph of Maximilian series – c. 1512-1519 (Includes work by Durer and Burgkmair)
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Illuminated 13th- and 14th-century manuscripts
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Other examples of medieval decoration & design
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