[Sca-cooks] ORB review

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

Most people are probably familiar with this background resource, but I
thought it wouldn't hurt to post a review of it recently published in Tara
Calishain's ResearchBUZZ:

** Online Reference Book (ORB) for Medieval Studies

If you're doing medieval research, you've got to check out
http://orb.rhodes.edu/ . Here you'll find tons of
information on medieval studies in several different
categories.

>From the front page you'll find -- man, where do I start.
Okay. There are several sections off the front page. You'll
find an encyclopedia, which is organized by historical
period and top and covers a variety of areas, including
different countries, culture, and religion. The Textbook
Library contains over a dozen textbooks that are copyrighted
but available for classroom use.

WEMSK stands for What Every Medievalist Should Know; this
section contains 45 lists of references for particular
topics. For example, there's a list for Celtic Literature
that contains an extensive bibliography. The Daily Life
topic pointed me toward several books I want to get my hands
on. Resources for Teaching points toward several Web sites
and resources of interest to the medieval studies teacher. A
Guide to Online Resources is described as being for the
"nonspecialist," though it also looks like a good set of
resources for the nonstudent as well.

The External Links list is not large, but it's very well
annotated and the sites I visited from it were of high
quality. The Electronic Texts section contains links to
several medieval texts, while the Reference Shelf provides
an alphabetized link of online text resources from Michael
Adams to Aesop to Aristotle to Chaucer to Sir Walter Scott.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"Words can be your friend or your enemy, depending on who's
throwing the book, so watch your language." Stoppard