Mediaevum.de is conceived as an internetportal for students and scholars in medieval German and Latin studies (as explained in the impressum). We link only to pages of quality and use for our clients.

Many pages about the middle ages deal with a rather popular image of that times and are therefore not in our lists. You may will find here only very few links to the very basic information about the middle ages. Some are collected in our page 'Tools for undergraduates'. But it will be more useful to read an introduction to medieval literature and culture. Literary hints will be found at the (German) "Grundlegende Literaturhinweise zum Studium der Altgermanistik" by the "Lehrstuhl für Ältere deutsche Philologie" (Univ. Kiel) (Acrobat Reader needed). Further information can be found in the "Bibliographies".
 

The menu ist structured hierarchically. On the mainpage you choose the main area you are interested in. All pages of this area will have the same image on the left at the top to help you with the navigation.

The often complicated structure of our site may be the result of the amount of pages we link to. If you don't find what you are searching for, try our search-engine (available only in German) and search the whole homepage - or single areas - for keywords or have a look at the sitemap, which will provide you with an overview over our pages.
 

The image left at the top indicates in which of the eight main fields you are at the moment. To go back to the mainpage just click the blue logo at the top of every page.

On the orange navigation-bar below the logo you can switch to the impressum (click 'Impressum'), to the eMail-form (click 'Contact'), to the sitemap wich gives an overview over all pages of Mediaeuvum.de (click 'Sitemap'), the search-engine (click 'Search'), the 'Help'-page (this page), the guestbook and to the German version of this pages.

At the bootom of every page you will find a link to go to the top of the page ('Top of Page') as well as the link 'recommend'. By clicking this link you can tell a friend about this page by eMail.
 

The 'card' of every link has three areas. For example (just a jpeg; no link is activated):

 

In the dark grey field [1] is presented the link to the related page including a counter. If it is related to an external page, it will open in a new window. In the grey field below [2] you will find a short description of the content, quality and reliability of the referred page. The area left of them [3] contains further information. The value-image indicates the evaluation of the linked page, beginning with 1 (bad) to 10 (excellent) filled squares. Our example is valued on an average of 8 squares. Below the owner of the copyright for this pages is indicated; you further see the number of accesses ('Zugriffe'), in this case 311 since August 20, 2001. To give a value just click 'value link'. Links that are valued only bad will be removed. By clicking 'broken link' you can report a broken link or a totally changed page to the editorial staff. 

Mediaevum.de is a collection of internet pages relating to medieval studies, with own pages as well as links to external pages on the WWW. If you click on a link to an external page, your browser will open up a new window.
To get back to Mediaevum in this case you can close this second window or use the key combination ALT+TAB. Choose "www.mediaevum.de" on the taskmanager. 
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