English Calendar If your husband keeps carting Cheney's Handbook of Dates off to his office, you can use this online database to check regnal years, find out the date of Easter in a particular year or check out saints' feast days.

Medieval Calendar Calculator This calendar program generates a calendar in graphic format showing the days of the week, feast days, Roman dating, Golden Number and Dominical Letter from your entry of a year and a month. Very handy.

Calendar Tools A converter which takes a date either in modern format or kalens, nones, ides format and converts it into a range of medieval forms. Unfortunately it doesn't work the other way.

Easter Dating Method For the technically minded, this site explains the procedure for dating Easter from 326 to 4099 AD, with a little history of how Easter dating methods evolved. It is produced by the Astronomical Society of South Australia. Who says medieval history and rocket science don't mix?

ARTFL Project: Multi-lingual Bible A searchable Bible in multiple versions, including the Latin Vulgate. Handy for identifying those little passages.

Middle English Compendium As well as providing a large number of Middle English texts, this site hosts a Hyperbibliography and a Middle English Dictionary, both now available freely to all web users.

Gallica From the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, this site contains, among its many resources, numerous historic French dictionaries. As these are mostly scanned in as PDF files, it can be a bit clunky to use, but it beats making a trip to Paris to look up a few old words. Well, maybe it doesn't beat it, but it is cheaper.

ITALATIN A set of links to a long list of Latin dictionaries, translators' tools and general resources for dealing with Latin texts. You can also get professional translations done through here.

Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid From the University of Notre Dame, a simple search box for finding Latin words in a database, with loads of links to other Latin language resources. If you get terminally desperate, you can even find out where to hire a translator.

Babylon: Latin English Dictionary This site gives free access to several Latin dictionaries and word lists. The same commercial provider sells dictionaary software, but also provides free access to a range of Language dictionaries through Babylon: Free Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.

Quintus' Latin Translation Service A retired Head of Classical Languages at The Cheltenham Ladies' College, England can provide inexpensive Latin translations for you.

The National Archives in London also keeps a list of independent researchers who will do such things as translation work on commission. Fossick around their site to find them.

Latin Word List This simple medieval Latin word list in a single long plain vanilla text file appears on several websites since it was released for general use with the blessing of its academic owner. This particular source has good medieval street cred.

Saxo Grammaticus If you are very, very scholarly and also colourblind you may be able to use this genuinely medieval medieval Latin dictionary, with Latin instructions, on a canary yellow background. Donovan meets Bede.

Abbreviationes Introduction to and advert for a computerised dynamic dictionary of 60,000 medieval Latin abbreviations. Licensed users can now consult it online.

Lexicon Abbreviaturum This is a scanned book by Adriano Capelli, published in 1928, and is a dictionary of Latin abbreviations, with graphic images to show exactly how the abbreviation marks are made. It is on a German language site, but if you don't read German, just click on the appropriate alphabet letter in the navigation sidebar, and navigate through the section using the "Vorige Seite" (previous page) and "Nächste Seite" (next page) buttons. The main dictionary content is self-explanatory. Maybe not as comprehensive as the above site, but it is free.

Latin Place Names A simple list of modern equivalents of Latin place names in early printed books. Just plain useful.

ORBUS LATINUS online Another plain list of Latin place names in Europe, with their variants and modern equivalents, from a book written in 1909 by Dr J. G. Th. Graesse. This is just a plain vanilla alphabetical list, but a useful thing to have available.

List of Prices of Medieval Items A modest text page with lists of prices at particular dates, derived from listed secondary sources. This is a Society for Creative Anachronisms site, as reflected in the fantasy page design.

In Search of Medieval Manuscripts From Cornell University, a guide to finding medieval manuscripts in libraries and archives, on microfilm or in digital editions. It includes search strategies as well as direct links to catalogues.

Babelfish You may have noted that some interesting paleography and manuscript sites are not in English. If you go to Babelfish and type in the URL of the page it will translate it for you, sort of. It works about as well as you might expect for a Babelfish. Might be simpler to just go and have German lessons. Yes, the name was invented by the now departed Douglas Adams. Ave, so long and thanks for all the fish. Google also has a translation facility now and it is, well, pretty much the same. Language is too subtle for machines.