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Religion

Christianity
New Advent Catholic Website Aquinas' Summary of Theology (Summa Theologica) The Fathers of the Church
The Catholic Encyclopedia Plato's Timaeus, the basis for Christian theology and metaphysics in the Summary of Theology
Paul Spade's web page on Mediæval logic and Philosophy Paul Spade's web link page Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church., 1910 ed. (On CCEL) The Franciscan experience... since 1182 Vatican Official Site
The Jefferson Bible And Adam knew Eve Adam and Eve Archive
Adam and Eve Archive-Synopsis of Genesis 1-3 Early Church History Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Una Voce: Supporting and promoting the Tridentine Latin Mass Traditio, A Traditional Roman Catholic Internet Site Catechism of the Catholic Church (including corrections promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 8 September 1997)
Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi (Catholic) Holy Father's Message on Creation The "Dominus Iesus" Declaration (2000-08-06)
The Sacred College of Cardinals (Catholic Historical Website) Martin Marprelate Contraversy Martin Marprelate
The Bible Gateway Quelle, the Gospel of Q (source for Mark and Luke) Differences between Gospel of John and Synoptic Gospels
Suggested biblical translation errors Apocryphal addition (forgeries) in Gospel of Mark Questions on completeness of Gospel of Mark
A Primer for Second Semester Divinity School Students Comparison of the four Gospels Review of similarities between Jesus and pre-Christian Gods
Christian Gnosticism
Gospel of Judah (analysis) The Nag Hammadi Library The Gnosis Archive: Resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic Tradition
Hillel and Jesus The Gospel Of Thomas Homepage (link farm/ Amazon book sales) Gospel Thomas.org
Mysticism (Christian and others)
Reference material on alchemy. Library of Hermetic Philosophy
Neo-Paganism and Earth Centered Spirituality
Blessed Be, Neo-Pagan group in Mississauga Coven (Canadian Site) Mirror Bulfinch's Mythology - Home Page and Table of Contents
FAQ about Neopaganism The Witches' Voice (witchvox.com) The Wiccan Church of Canada (Canadian Site)
Stone Pages, European Megaliths Encyclopedia Mythica Hyperdiscodia, confusion for a new generation (Humour... sort of)
The Church of the SubGenius! Discordia, sponsored by Countess Nichtgelbschneeessen, High Priestess of the Cult of the Sacred Tentacled Kiwi Principia Discordia, which includes a silly Pope Card
Islam
International Muslims Organization of Toronto (Canadian Site) Islam Online Jannah.org
My Holy Quran.com (Real Audio) Salafi Publication (dialogues for people with different backgrouns) Palestinian National Authority
Judaism
The Qumran Library: the dead sea scrolls Torah on the Information Superhighway A Page from the Babylonian Talmud (Canadian Site)
Israel Gov't gateway Biblical Studies and Early Judaism How to Create a Golem From the Comfort of Home (humour)
Eastern Traditions
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library The Hindu Universe Baisakhi 1999, a humble tribute on the tercentenary birth anniversary of the Khalsa.

History

Canadian and General History
Canada's History Television network (Canadian Site) US History (History Channel) Dief the Thief, Destroyer of the Avro Arrow (Canadian Site)
'As We May Think' by Vannevar Bush. Essay originally published in the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly
Historical Text Online UK Primary Documents English Legal history
British Monarchy (gov.uk) Heraldry Society of Canada  (Canadian Site) Tempus Peregrinator's Little Heraldry Book (Canadian Site)
Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions The Orders of St John The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem
Mediæval History and philosophy
On-line Reference Book for Mediæval Studies (NYU) Mediæval Sourcebook (Fordham Jesuit University, NY) Renaisance Editions
English Printed Works Between the Years 1477 and 1799
Paul Spade's web page on Mediæval logic and Philosophy The Online Mediæval and Classical Library (sunsite.berleley) Battle of 1066. Nice site, but very graphic intensive
The Labyrinth: Resources for Mediæval Studies (Sponsored by Georgetown University) The Labyrinth: Mediæval Databases NetSERF, the Internet connection for Mediæval resources
MSU Medieval History U of T Center for Mediaeval Studies Heroic Age, an online journal of Early Medieval Europe (Canadian Site)
Elizabethan Renaissance Page A Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603) ARGOS: Ancient and Mediæval searches
Mediæal Dance Macabre PBS-NOVA special on the Vikings Meditrad, Mediaeval and Renaissance songs
Renaissance Dance Resources
Renaissance Dance (Canadian Site) Joy and Jealousy: A Manual of 15th Century Italian Balli SCA Arts and Science Home Page
Rosina's Dance Page (Canadian Site) LOC copy of Orchesography
Dance Manuals via Library of congress 'American Memory' Project Greg Lindahl's Rendance page Joseph Casazza's Renaissance Dance Sources
Il Leoncello - Scuola e Gruppo di Danza Storica Societa di danza (.it) Notes on the Gresley Dance Collection
The Sheet Music List (Eric Praetzel) (Canadian Site) Eric's SCA Dance & Music Page (Canadian Site) Saltatoris Dance Guild
Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society English Country Dance in Toronto (Canadian Site) Paige Whitley-Bauguess--Baroque Dance
Personal collection of PDF dance manuals. Please contact me for access Ian Engle's Dance Notes and Journal
c16 Italian Steps I (M Railing) c16 Italian Steps II (M. Railing) Mary Railing's Youtube Channel
Mediæval and Renaissance Cooking
Culinary History .org Medieval and Renaissance Cooking Home Page a boke of gode cookery
Two fifteenth-century cookery-books at hti.umich.edu Le Viandier de Taillevent Mediaeval Dutch (Facing Page)
Take a Thoulsand Eggs (link farm) Coriadoc's Miscelany (link farm) Martha Carlin, PhD. (link farm)
Mediæval and Renaissance Costume
Dame Helen Jones, Archeological Survey of Sewing Elizabethan Costume.net
Constance Fairfax Houpelades (SCA Lochac) Costume (SCA Jehanne de Huguenin)
The Mourners (Burgundian Tomb Sculpture) Web Gallery of Art C16th Flemish Market Woman's Costume (SCA Elizabeth Braidwood)
Reconstructing History (Retailer) Tudor Taylor (Retailer) Medieval Design (Retailer).
European Historical Hand to Hand Combat
FIORE DEI LIBERI Fiore Dei Liberi's Flos Duellatorum Flos Duellatorum
The Exiles Fiore Project The Exiles, Western Martial Artists Le site des Arts Martiaux Historiques Européens
So, you want to make your own armour? Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts (Canadian Site) Personal collection of PDF fencing manuals. Please contact me for access

Arts

Library Links
Richmond BC Public Library (Canadian Site) Great thinkers National Library of Canada (Canadian Site)
American Memory on US Library of Congres News Museum.org (US Centric, some world) Dewey Browse
Biblioteque nationale de France British Public Library
Museum and Gallery Links
Canada's Virutal Museum (Canadian Site) National Gallery of Canada/
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Canadian Site)
Art Gallery of Ontario (Canadian Site)
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (.fr) Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Louvre On Line
Web Museum Index The Smithsonian Institution
World of Escher Olga's Gallery - Online Art Museum. Sistine Chapel
Insomnia Gallery Cambridge Museum of Science and Technology Wide Arts Resources
NY Metropolitan Museum,   NY Museum of Modern Art (MOMA),   NY Guggenheim,  
NY American Museum of Natural History Museum of BAD art Gallery Museum of Depressionist Art

Cultures of the World

General Philosophy Resources

On line texts and other light reading

Gutenberg Project (main site) Wikipedia Open Source Web Encyclopedia Perseus Digital Library
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Text Book Revolution WWW Virtual Library
The Univeral Library (CMU) CMU Libraries SCA Books online (pre-1600 online books)
Gallica (Biblioteque Nationalle de France) Baen Free Library 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Canadian Encyclopedia.ca (Canadian Site) Mark Twain quotes
Grimm's Fairy Tales (CMU) On Line Books (U Penn) Banned Books (U Penn)
On Line book page COMPLETE LIST BY TITLE (U Penn) HUMBUL Humanities Hub (Oxford) Oxford Text Archive (requires Java)
Carrie, a virtual library Bookcase Library Literature World (Multilingual E-texts)
Decameron Web Athena, textes virtuel français Golden Legend, Inc. (rare books and fine prints)
Early Modern English Dictionaries Database Search Utility (Canadian Site) T E X T F I L E S
SYMBOLS.com -- encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms Children's Literature (uCalgary) (Canadian Site) Cliche Finder
Wiretap Area Library Wiretap, coke formula Wiretap, Atheism

Grammar and Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus The Grammar Lady Roger's Thesaurus
English from a Britsh viewpoint Buzz Whack.com The semantic rhyming dictionary
Composition Help (UVic) (Canadian Site) The Word Detective Word Spy
WAPedia, mobile encyclopedia Bartleby.com, Quotations, Enyclopedia, Anatomy, 100s more Online Etymologies Dictionary
Research it (dictionaries, conjugators, various resources RefDesk.com, very comprehensive site of references Translation-Guide Latin to English
Google Translations FreeTranslation.com (1800 words) Babel Fish (150 words)
Technical Terminology (this site) Grand Dictionaire Terminologique (QC) (Canadian Site) Free Online Courses from MIT

Popular Culture

Society for Creative Anachronism and other 'History Theme Clubs'
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) Hints for your first SCA event The Kingdom of Ealdormere, the Ontario Kingdom of the SCA (Canadian Site)
The Barony of Septentria, the GTA branch of the SCA (Canadian Site) The Royal Citie of Eoforwic, Toronto SCA Group (Canadian Site) Canton of Vest Yorvik (Halton-Peel branch (Canadian Site)
The Middle Kingdom (Midwest US) East Kingdom (Eastern Canada & North Eastern US Aethelmarc (Western NY & PA)
Crispin Sexi's Home Page Greg Lindahl's home page SCA Arts and Science Home Page (hosted by Greg Lindahl)
Eric Praetzel home page  (Canadian Site) Unnr, Viking Persona (Canadian Site) Rosina Renaissance Dance Laurel, Toronto Dance Practices (Canadian Site)
Cariadoc's Miscellany, a collection of articles and recipes with a mediaeval theme. Skjaldborga Scandinavian group. (Canadian Site)(email is info at their domain) the Dark Ages Re-creation Company (Viking) (Darrell Markewitz) (Canadian Site)
Primitive Ways, a prehistoric interest group Regia Anglorum, Anglo-Saxon, Living History (Canadian Site) The Tudor Group
Personal collection of PDF costuming resources. Please contact me for access La SHIM, Histoire du Canada français (Canadian Site) The Kingdom of Acre
Music and Lyrics
Pink Floyd RoIO Database Homepage 20,000 German and other Folksongs Scoutscan.com - Scouting and Guiding Songs
Songs of the Sea, Sea Chantys, work songs of seamen. SWIL FilkBook Songtext.net
Contemplations from the Marianas Trench/Folk Music of Britain, Ireland & America

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