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This section will help you unravel the mysteries of calendars, money, cockney, watermarks, and much more. PASE (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England) is a database that seeks to cover all of the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the end of the eleventh century. An online dictionary. Links to several different sites that help you to figure out how much old currency is worth in current amounts, and also what the purchasing power of old money was in a given year. See also Measuring Worth, which calculates the purchasing power of the British pound from 1264 to 2006. An ongoing project since 2003, this site aims to provide information on Old, Middle, and Early Modern Irish narratives that deal with the exploits of Irish kings, including a list of all the extant sagas together with plot summaries; notes on manuscript sources, translations, and editions; bibliographies of secondary literature; and character lists. The purpose is to provide students and teachers with the background necessary to read and appreciate these sagas. The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
Searchable Gazetteer of street names
A searchable version of the standard source for classical Latin. This project aims to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names; its site offers links to related resources. Covers the eleventh through sixteenth centuries. Explains the religious festivals and how they were celebrated. The definitive source.
The full OED is available only to licensed users, but this free site allows searches of the compact OED. Scéla: Catalogue of Medieval Irish Narratives and Literary Enumerations
Scottish Gaelic Learner’s Association With useful things like the Lord’s Prayer in Gaelic.
Delivers just what it promises. Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive Images of early watermarks for dating manuscripts.
A searchable index and paraphrase of printed Year Book Reports, 1268-1535, compiled by David J. Seipp. Includes lists of Year Books, bibliography, and links, for most entries, to images of the original Vulgate editions.
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