A page of chronicles of the Crusades. Most valuable is the complete Recueil des historiens des Croisades published by the Académie [Royale] des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: five volumes of Western historians, five volumes of Eastern historians, two volumes of Greek historians, two volumes of Armenian historians.
A whole page for Deitsh, the Germanic language still spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio and in pockets elsewhere. It includes grammars, studies of the language, dictionaries, and literature in Pennsylvania Dutch. We have also cleaned up and organized the language section a little, adding pages for Romance languages, Germanic languages, and various ancient languages.
From The travels of Certaine Englishmen into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea. And into Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, Mesopotamia, Damascus, Canaan, Galile, Samaria, Iudea, Palestina, Ierusalem, Iericho, and to the Red Sea: and to sundry other places. Begunne in the yeere of Iubile 1600, and by some of them finished this yeere 1608. The others not yet returned.
Everything you need to get started reading Ælfred, Ælnoth, Æthelwulf, Æthelweard, Æthelstan, and all the various Ælfrics.
A new page, a sub-page of our Geography section, collects high-resolution scans of atlases and other maps. The scans are usually good enough for republication, and most of the originals are long out of copyright, so this section will be a boon to publishers of historical works looking for illustrative maps.