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Ancient Web: Princeton's Medieval Geomancy Page Preserves a Forgotten Divination System

Elizabeth Bennett's Princeton-hosted geomancy site explains a medieval Islamic divination system, its European adoption, step-by-step practice, bibliography, and a full transcription of a seventeenth-century English text.

Ancient Web: Medieval Cookery Turned 20 Years of Food Research Into a Working Reference Library

Daniel Myers's MedievalCookery.com collects transcribed recipes, menus, cookbook statistics, Middle English cooking terms, source books, spices, fruit varieties, and practical reconstructions built from more than two decades of research.

Ancient Web: Medieval Writing Taught Paleography with Flash and Netscape 4

Dr Dianne Tillotson's Medieval Writing site turns manuscripts and paleography into a free teaching project, complete with old frames, Flash exercises, British Library material, script history and a wonderfully blunt warning that the iPad cannot do the exercises.