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[lollardfish]

Being able to legally download and print an old-French crusade chronicle from a 19th-century edition of the BNF site pretty much rocks.

But not as much as being to download 5 600-1000 page 19th-century collections of crusade sources. I love technology today.

Edit: It turns out that the French have been very, very, busy generating .pdfs of lots of stuff in the national library. I'm in the academic equivalent of a child who just ate tons of chocolate cake. Very happy. A little sugar-shocked.

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[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming you've found all the medieval illustrations and illuminations (well, not all, but various searchable ones in the database). I'd think those might be quite inspiration for your art.