HIST 325: Faith and Profit in the Medieval Mediterranean: Primary Sources

Primary sources are first-hand accounts, that serve as original evidence documenting a period, event, people, idea or work. 

Primary sources can be printed materials like books or newspapers, manuscript and archival materials like diaries and documents, artifacts, and audio/visual materials. Primary materials can be found in analog, digitized, and born-digital forms. 

Some examples of primary sources include:

• Memoirs, speeches, writings, correspondence
• Papers of a political party, agency, or association
• Official documents such as congressional hearings and reports
• Contemporary magazine and newspaper articles
• Contemporary art, films, literature, and music
• Contemporary artifacts, such as buildings and monuments

From Fordham University, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts (primary sources). primary sources are available here mainly for use in high-school and university/college courses. Primarily documents associated with a "western civilization" approach to history also provides information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. 

A directory style format, this the Internet Medieval Sourcebook may be hard to navigate.  Useful links for your class below: