Language Tools

This post is more for the medievalist rather than the passing history buff but I thought it would be useful to compile useful sites for translating and using medieval documents.

I'll update this periodically if I find any more useful sites, or if any become out of date.

For those of you that expected more than a page of links, here is a nun picking penises from a tree:

- Read more about penis trees 

- and a more academic look 

Latin glossary:
http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/

Latin glossary:
http://comp.uark.edu/~mreynold/recint1.htm

Medieval latin dictionary and conjugator:
http://archives.nd.edu/words.html

Verb conjugator, not very smart though as sometimes it will invent conjugations:
http://www.verbix.com/

How to translate latin verbs into English:
http://www.uvm.edu/~bsaylor/latin/cheatsheet.html

More for classical latin, but useful if you're trying to find alternate beginnings or endings for a word:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?redirect=true&lang=Latin

Latin abbreviation dictionary (Online version of The Record Interpreter)

https://archive.org/details/recordinterprete00martiala

Latin abbreviation dictionary (online version of Cappelli)

http://www.hist.msu.ru/Departments/Medieval/Cappelli/

Latin place names

http://placenames.org.uk/browse/mads/epns-deep-96-b-subparish-000073

Whole list of useful online palaeographic resources:
http://www.rechtshistorie.nl/en/home/palaeography

Online palaeography course:
http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography

Another online palaeography course:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/

Middle English dictionary:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/

Numerous dictionaries including old English and French:

http://www.wikiwords.org/

Dictionary of French equivalents for Latin place names:

https://archive.org/details/dictionnairelat00unkngoog

Digitised MS images:
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm