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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Home
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members, not only for her own immediate benefit, but for the broadening and deepening of all true science, literature and art -- all come within the scope of the Catholic Encyclopedia. [522]
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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JewishEncyclopedia.com
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This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. [521]
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JewishEncyclopedia.com
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manybooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA
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 There are a number of places to get books online, but this recent addition
to that cadre of websites is definitely worth a look. The staff members at
Manybooks.net have adapted the e-texts created by the Project Gutenberg DVD
and placed them online in a host of formats, including pdf, eReader, and as
Palm document files. Visitors can begin by browsing by author, title,
category, or language. [528]
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Manybooks.Net
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Medieval Writing
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Developed and maintained by Dr. Dianne Tillotson, this site is a good
location to begin learning about handwriting and manuscript production in
the Middle Ages. Needless to say, the art and science of deciphering these
manuscripts is terribly time-consuming and complicated. The site is divided
into approximately thirteen sections, and first-time visitors would do well
to read the "What is paleography?" essay first, in order to learn about this
elaborate decoding process. The other sections of the site describe (through
words, illustrations, and photographs) the life of a scribe during the
Middle Ages, the tools utilized to produce the manuscripts, and the various
forms that manuscripts took during this historical era. One rather
delightful aspect of the site are the paleography exercises where visitors
can try their hand at deciphering various passages from medieval
manuscripts, including Dante's Inferno and the Book of Hours. [Flash] [435]
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Dr. Dianne Tillotson
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg was the first to begin digitizing the great works of civilization. It began work in 1971 to enter texts into computers and then eventually to make them available via FTP, the Gopher, and now the Web. [128]
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Michael Hart
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The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
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Widely understood to be one of the single most important inventions in human
history, the development of movable type by Johann Gutenberg in the 15th
century made it possible to produce a large number of copies of a single
work in a relatively short period of time. Utilizing their own copy (one of
48 remaining around the world) of Gutenberg's Bible, the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has created
this informative site about both this amazing book and the printing process
used to create this work. [414]
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In Your Classroom:
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Most visitors will want to start by viewing
selected passages from this remarkable book available here, among them
excerpts from Genesis and the 23rd Psalm. One particularly engaging feature
is the "Anatomy of a Page" section where visitors can learn about the
different parts of the pages in the Gutenberg Bible, including the
abbreviations made by the scribes, the illuminations, and rubrics added by
the scribes indicating the conclusion of a given book within the Bible.
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Hart Ransom Humanities Research Center
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The Medici Archive Project
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The Medici family is widely considered one of the most famous and respected
patrons of arts during the Renaissance, and their legacy perseveres in the
numerous works of art, music, and sculpture that were produced as a result
of their beneficence. The archive of the Medici Grand Dukes contains almost
three million letters, and offers "the most complete record of any princely
regime in Renaissance and Baroque Europe." Currently, the Medici Archive
Project is developing this site to place many of these letters online, along
with a strong interest in the history of costumes and Jewish history during
the Renaissance. [397]
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In Your Classroom:
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This site would make a great dedicated resources for advanced Western Civilization independent studies. Teachers might also use the art work in class presentations.
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The Medici Archive Project
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