medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
ole George rattled my cage and made me think of another group of worthwhile
urls, part of the French Ministre de Kulture site :
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/bdd/index.html
all kinds of "basses de données," maybe even some of interest to middlevil
religionists.
my favorite is the "Mémoire : Fonds graphiques et photographiques conservés
par la Direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine.
275.000 notices dont 140.000 associées à une image."
http://www.culture.fr/documentation/memoire/pres.htm
it's worth putting up with the funky interface and the fantastic errors
because there are hundreds of thousands (!!) of frequently historically
important photgraphs just waiting to be ripped off and put
on one's site.
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/interior/no_tow_doors.jpg
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/interior/so_tow_doors.jpg
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/etampes/guinette/Guinette.html
do a "recherche experte" on, say, Chartres, and you end up with 1,355 hits.
but about 10% of the links are broken; and another 10% (at least!) have really
stupid cataloging errors in them (i.e., Chartres is sometimes in "haute
normandie").
i get the feeling that the guys who did the webwork don't know beans
about medieval art history, but had a very firm quota of work which they had
to finish before breaking for lunch.
reminds me of 18th c. ms inventories of the "titres" of various abbeys'
archives i saw --the guys were paid by the page, apparently, and were very
carefull to note who was present when they started a session, when the session
started, when they broke for dejuner, quit for the day, etc.
all within very, very wide margins and in a beautiful, large hand.
that's Civilisation for you.
la plus ca change...
c
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