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Paul Halsall, ORB sources editor

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is now part of 
ORB, the Online Reference Book 
for Medieval Studies.

Last Modified: March 27, 2007 

Guide to Contents

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• Main Page will take you back to Sourcebook main page.
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• Saints' Lives will take you to the page on hagiography.
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• Search the Sourcebook will enable searches of the full texts of all the source texts at Fordham, at ORB, or selected ancient, late antique, and medieval text databases.

Medieval Maps

• Medieval Map Quiz
  Try this simple map quiz.

If the map you want is not here, try:

• WEB Odden's Cartographic Bookmarks. This is by far the best starting point for maps on the net.
• WEB PCL Map Collection [At UTexas]
  Has over 230,000 maps covering every area and period of the world history.

• General
  • Europe: Outline Map(BW) or PCX version
  • Europe on the Eve of the Barbarian Invasions, 395 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: Medieval and Modern, (London: 1911)
  • Europe, 476, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Europe, 526, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Europe, 600, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Europe, 800, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Europe, 900, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Europe, 1099(Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Europe, 1360, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Europe, 1519, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Rome
  • The Western Empire, 395 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Byzantium
  • The Eastern Empire, 395 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Byzantium: The Theme System (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Fourth Crusade, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Constantinople (Col)
  • Constantinople, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Islam
  • Satellite Map of the Middle East (source unknown)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
  • The Middle East in the Sixth Century,   from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [At UPenn]
  • Muslim Expansion in the Time of Muhammad from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [At UPenn]
  • Map of Muslim Expansion until A.D. 661, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]
  • The Growth of Muslim Power: First 25 Years (BW)  [At Medieval Sourcebook] Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
  • Muslim Expansion in the West in the Umayyad Period (661-750)
  • The Umayyad Empire c.A.D.750, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [At UPenn]
  • The Muslim Empire: 750 CE (BW) Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)  [At Medieval Sourcebook]
  • The Abbasid Caliphate (786-809) from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [At UPenn]
  • The Mediterranean in the Ninth Century from R. Roolvink et al., Historical Atlas of the Muslim Peoples (Amsterdam, 1957) [At UPenn]
  • The Late Abbasid Caliphate c.A.D.900, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam [At UPenn]
  • The Muslim World c.A.D. 1300, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]
  • The Muslim World c.A.D. 1500, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]
  • The Middle East in the Nineteenth Century, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]
  • Map of Saudi Arabia [At Mt Holyoke]
• Spain
  • The Umayyad Caliphate in the Second Half of the 9th and the Second Half of the 10th Centuries  [At UPenn]
  • Spain after the Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate in the Periods of the Party Kings and of the Almoravids  [At UPenn]
  • Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Reconquest by the Christian Kingdoms of the North. The Kingdom of Granada [At UPenn]
• Persia
  • The Muslim East in the First Half of the 13th Century  [At UPenn]
  • The Later Timurid Period; and Map of Safawid Persia in the 16th and 17th Centuries  [At UPenn]
• Turks: Seljuqs and Ottomans
  • Map of Almoravid, Saldjuk, and Ghaznavid Expansion c.A.D. 1100, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981) [At UPenn]
  • Growth of the Ottoman Empire From the Early 14th Century Till 1512  [At UPenn]
  • The Ottoman Sultanate in the 16th and 17th Centuries  [At UPenn]
  • The Ottoman Empire: 1556 (BW) Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922) 
• India and Far East
  • Map of the Sultanates of Java in the 16th and 17th centuries, from W.C. Brice. An Historical Atlas of Islam (Leiden, 1981)  [At UPenn]

Merovingians and Carolingians

• Frankish Domains 511-561 (BW)
  Source: Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, trans. Ernest Brehaut,(New York: Columbia University Press, 1916)
• Frankish Domains at Time of Charles Martel (BW)
  Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
• Europe at Death of Charlemagne, 814 (BW)
  Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
• The Division of the Carolingian Empire: Verdun 843 and Mersen, 870 (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

Crusades

• The First Crusade, 1099(Col)
  A clickable map of all of Europe in 1099
  Source: Adaptation of "Europe at the time of the First Crusade", in Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• The Crusader States in the Early 12th Century (BW)
  Source: George Richard Potter, The Autobiography of Ousama, (New York: 1929 [copyright seems to be expired])
• Crusader States, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Jerusalem, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• Second and Third Crusades, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• The Empire of Sultan Salah Al-Din(1171-1193) and the Crusaders' Principalities in Syria and Palestine  [At UPenn]
• Fourth Crusade, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

Growth of European States

• GERMANY/HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
  • Germany, c. 962, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Germany Under Frederick Barbarossa, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• ITALY
  • Italy in the 11th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Italy in the 12th and 13th Centuries, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • North and Central Italy during the Renaissance, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• FRANCE
  • France in 1032, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • The Growth of the French Royal Domain, 1182-1350 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • France at the Treaty of Bretigny, 1360 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • France at Height of English Power, 1429 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • France in the Late 15th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• ENGLAND/BRITISH ISLES
  • The Angevin Empire, c. 1174 (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Medieval England, c. 1399, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Medieval London, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Wales in the 13th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
  • Spain: the Reconquista, 1037-1270, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • Iberia, 1492, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
• OTHER STATES
  • The Hanseatic League, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • The Baltic Region in the Later Middle Ages, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)
  • The Low Countries in the late 15th Century, (Col)
    Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

The Mongols

• The Mongol Empire at the Death of Genghis Khan, 1227 (BW)
  Source: H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World, (London: 1922)
• The Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan, (Col)
  Adapted from Muir's Historical Atlas: (1911)

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