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| The Web Gallery of Art- This site is great, you can search by time period, country, artist and metier. Bodlian Library- Oxford University's electronic manuscripts The Grand Register of Robert Bagrit- A huge site with tons of reenactment groups, mostly from Eastern Europe. If you don't want to dig around museum and library sites, this is the place to go. Lots of high quality pictures of good kits The UK Living History website- A case of why reinvent the wheel. Links to groups worldwide, sorted by period. Also has forums where you can ask questions |
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| Non-electronic research | ||||||||||
| The internet can be an invaluable resource, but really, you can't beat books for indepth information or just a good overview. Here's some I recomend checking out from your local library or getting on interlibrary loan. (ILL): This service is an absolute godsend when you live out away from major towns. Osprey Military- good overviews, take the artist's interpretations with a grain of salt, use the bibliography to dig deeper. Daily Life in Elizabethan England by Jeff Singman Daily Life in Chaucer's England by the same Daily Life in the Middle Ages by the same. Has some similarities to the Chaucer book, but covers a wider time period and isn't as Anglocentric. Life in a Medieval City by Francis an Joseph Gies. Part of a series of books on medieval life. The others are Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Town. the Gies' have written several books on the middle ages. The Burgermeister's Daughter by Steve Ozment 16th century German town life seen through the lens of a scandalous court case. |
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| All this is great, but I just want some quick reference pictures before I start digging into books and such. | ||||||||||