Scholars looking for medieval illuminations to illustrate their arguments need look no further than the Morgan Library. The Morgan has digitized and cataloged every image in its vast holdings of medieval manuscripts. While an image search can be made in CORSAIR, the general catalog of manuscripts and printed books, there is a specific area of […]
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New Books in Butler Provide a Different View of the Middle Ages
Challenge your pre-conceptions about the Middle Ages (don’t you call them Dark!) with books recently added to the Butler Library collections. Motherhood, religion, and society in medieval Europe, 400-1400 is a collection of essays, edited by Oxford University’s Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith, that honors the work of scholar Henrietta Leyser (appropriately enough, Conrad’s […]
New database: Medieval Family Life
Just added to the Columbia Libraries roster of medieval resources, Medieval Family Life contains scanned images of 15th- and 16th-century correspondence along with full transcriptions. The papers of the Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armbrugh families are accompanied by additional resources such as concurrent historical and family chronologies, an interactive map, family trees, and many […]