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MMW Primary Sources pdf
Created by UCSD Soc Sci & Humanities Lib to help out with the challenging primary source! It's a 22 page clickable PDF.

The Avalon Project
Pre-18th century documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.

Daily Life Through World History in Primary Documents

De Re Militari
Primary sources on medieval military history.

The Early Church Online Encyclopaedia
Translations of Christian primary sources to the year 1500.
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Epistolae
A collection of letters written to and/or from women during the 4th-13th centuries.

Greenwood Daily Life Online
Medieval World section includes articles about domestic life, economic life, intellectual life, material life, political life, recreational life and religious life. Includes an historical overview as well as primary sources.

Guide to Early Church Documents
Canonical information, apostolic fathers, texts, creeds and canons, and other miscelleaneous texts related to the development of the early Christian church.

Historical Text Archive: Medieval Europe
Includes primary and secondary documents.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
This is the place to start. Huge collections of well-organized primary texts:
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

Internet Sacred Text Archive
Archive of primary texts relating to all major world religions and many other spiritual practices, including all major scriptures.

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Subject-oriented list of medieval resources. Allows limiting to primary source material.

Leeds Medieval History Texts in Translation
Primary source material related to the Pontificate of Gregory VII, the Crusades, and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily.

Monastic Matrix
A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities during the 5th - 15th Centuries.

The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
See especially sections titled E-texts and Reference Shelf for primary sources.

Primary Source Material in Religion and Politics
Primary source documents on issues relating to the interaction of religion and politics, categorized by era from ancient times to the present.

Silk Road Narratives
Historical letters and accounts of the Silk Road in Chinese history

UC Press e-Books
Primary sources can often be found (hyperlinked) in the bibliographies or footnotes of these scholarly e-books.

You can also try a Google Scholar search with your topic keywords and the word "primary source" in quotations. And, check out these ROGER search tips to find primary sources.