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Medieval History Resources Search This search box will generate results only from the pages listed below. General Guides to Web-Based Medieval Resources:NetSERF - Directory of web-based medieval resources (Catholic University)The Labyrinth - Directory of web-based medieval resources (Georgetown University) The ORB - Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island) Ménestrel - French directory of web-based medieval resources Mediaevum - German directory of web-based medieval resources Medievalismo - Spanish directory of web-based medieval resources Reti Medievali - Italian directory of web-based medieval resources Medioevo Italiano - Italian directory of web-based medieval resources Intute: Arts and Humanities - a collaborative effort to catalog online humanities resources Stanford's Medieval Studies Resources Yale's Medieval Studies Research Guide Cornell's Research Guide for Medieval Studies University of North Carolina's Medieval Studies: A Selective Guide to Resources Saint Louis University's Resource Guide to Medieval Studies Columbia's Internet Resources for Medievalists Georgetown's Selected Resources for Medieval Studies University of Connecticut's Resources for Medieval Studies Medievalists.net - A website "for the community of people who are interested in the Middle Ages" Adrienne DeAngelis's Sources for Medieval Studies on the Web Otto Vervaart's medieval history links Thomas Head's "Links to other sites of interest to medievalists" Middle Ages Subject Collection at the Internet Public Library The WWW Virtual Library History Index: Medieval Europe (out-of-date) for additional general bibliographies see below  Selected Journals and Full-Text Secondary Sources OnlineGeneral Medieval Bibliographies (for specific subjects see below)The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) (Institute for Medieval Studies, Leeds University) Iter - "Gateway to the Middle Ages" (University of Toronto) Journal Indexes (many with links to full-text articles, most require a personal or institutional subscription) Scirus "is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet," but it also picks up a lot of medieval material Google Scholar "provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature" Jstor - "The Scholarly Journal Archive" (subscription required) EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier indexes 8,000 journals, and provides full text of 4,500 (subscription required) Brepols Publishers has a range of important primary and secondary medieval material online (subscription required) Periodicals Index Online - a ProQuest service that indexes thousands of journals (subscription required) Gale Databases has a number of online resources, the most significant for medievalists is the "Expanded Academic ASAP" (subscription required) Persee is a French website "for scientific journals in social and human sciences" Editoria Italiana Online (EIO) is a collection of full-text Italian research publications (subscription required) Project MUSE provides the full texts of a large number of journals (subscription required) EBSCOhost's ATLA Religion Database (subscription required) OCLC's Francis indexes humanities and social science resources (subscription required) ISI Web of Knowledge is a wide-ranging index of academic resources (subscription required) OCLC's ArticleFirst is another wide-ranging index (subscription required) ABC Clio's Historical Abstracts (subscription required) E-journals - German site listing free online journals Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini" - index of periodicals, many with complete tables of contents The Magazine Stacks - Tables of contents of historical journals (mostly in German and English) Full-Text Secondary Sources Google Book Search - the place to start any research project  The American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Project (subscription required) Stanford's Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project eScholarship Editions provides some free scholarly material Full texts (most out of copyright) from the Internet Archive Questia - "The Online Library of Books and Journals" (subscription required) The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) - Many scholarly works about medieval Spain and Portugal Many articles on medieval military history from De Re Militari The Catholic Encyclopedia (published in 1907) Selected Medieval Studies Journals (many require subscription) Jorge Maíz Chacón's Catalogue of Periodical Publications (Medieval History) - .pdf file Speculum - on Jstor (subscription required) The Medieval Review - reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies Viator - 1970-1995 available on Periodicals Index Online Journal of Medieval History Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies - on Academic Search Premier Nordicum-Mediterraneum - Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies International Journal of Maritime History Mamluk Studies Review Online Medieval Archeology al-Masaq Disputatio Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes - 1979-2000 on Persee Exemplaria - Journal's website Anuario de estudios medievales - index Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies - 1996 to 2007 on Academic Search Premier Mediterranean Studies - index Medieval History Journal Reti medievali rivista - 2000 to present English Historical Review Past and Present Mediterranean Historical Review - Journal website; 2001-2006 American Historical Review - 1895-2001 on Jstor; and 1975-present on Academic Search Premier Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia Rivista Storica Italiana Journal of Ecclesiastical History - 1993 to present on Gale Databases Assorted Full-Text Primary Sources OnlineGoogle Book Search - the place to start any research projectThe Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Paul Halsall & Fordham University) Internet Medieval Sourcebook Internet Islamic History Sourcebook Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (annotated) Full texts (most out of copyright) from the Internet Archive Stanford's Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) - Hosted by UC Berkeley EuroDocs - Links to texts on Western European medieval history (BYU) Monumenta Germaniae Historica Éditions en ligne de l'École des chartes Gallica - the BNF's online text collection Medieval Sourcesonline from Manchester University Press Gratian's Decretum - Full text and searchable Decretalium Gregorii papae IX compilationis libri V The Corpus Iuris Civilis and translated by J. P. Scott as The Civil Law Fred H. Blume's Annotated Justinian Code (University of Wyoming College of Law) The Avalon Project at Yale Law School - legal texts An Index and Paraphrase of Printed Year Book Reports, 1268-1535 (Medieval English Legal History) The Anglo-American Legal Tradition - Medieval and early modern documents from the National Archives in London Hanover Historical Texts Project - With letters from crusaders Narrative Sources from the Southern Low Countries, 600-1500 Regesta Imperii - charters and sources for the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1519 Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) relating to the history of Ireland Florilegium Urbanum is a site with translations of primary sources related to medieval cities Works in Italian before 1400 Oxford Text Archive - some medieval material in Latin Medieval Latin Texts at www.thelatinlibrary.com Translation of Sahih Bukhari (d. 256 AH) - a collection of sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database of medieval Byzantine saints Early Church Fathers - Additional Texts St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica in English Translated texts of the major Catholic Ecumenical Councils Vulsearch 4 - a excellent piece of free software for using the Vulgate and Glossa Ordinaria Libraries and Library CatalogsFind
in a Library
- The non-subscription version of WorldCat
COPAC - Catalogue of 24 libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland The European Library (for searching the content of European national libraries) Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) - a simple and powerful international catalog interface List of National Libraries (University of Queensland) The Library of Congress (United States) The British Library La Bibliothèque nationale de France Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (di Firenze, di Roma) Harvard University Libraries Yale University Libraries University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries University of California-Berkeley Libraries University of Texas Libraries Stanford University Libraries University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Columbia University Libraries University of California-Los Angeles Libraries University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Cornell University Libraries New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library The Newberry Library (Chicago) Medieval Institute Library (Notre Dame) The Institute of Christian Oriental Research Library The English National Archives Archives et manuscrits at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Calames: Catalogue en ligne des archives et manuscrits de l'enseignement supérieur Portal de Archivos Españoles Archivi: Sistema Archivistico Nazionale - a portal for "sites of archives operating on Italian territory" Repositories of Primary Sources - A catalog hosted by the University of Idaho ProQuest Digital Dissertations Database (UMI Dissertation Publishing, subscription required) Directory of History Dissertations (American Historical Association) Dissertations and Interests (Medieval Academy of America) Dissertations and Theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland Theses in progress and complete (Institute for Historical Research, London) Dissertations from Outside the U.S. and Canada (Center for Research Libraries) How to Find Foreign Dissertations (UCLA Library) Periodicals Service Company sells back issues of periodicals and series Elibron sells reprints of old and rare books Used book sellers: Abebooks / Alibris / Amazon / Barnes and Noble / BookFinder Language and Paleography Resources:Tufts
University's Perseus Project - Latin
Morphological Analysis
Boston - Germany Lynn Nelson's Medieval Latin Word List William Whitaker's Words - a downloadable Latin dictionary (very useful) Lexicon Mediae Latinitatis - based on Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus Laura Gibbs's Medieval Latin Online Textbook (Univ. of Oklahoma) Prof. Rand Johnson's Latin 560 at Western Michigan University "Medieval Latin: An Introductory Bibliography" at University of Virginia Dag Norber's A Practical Handbook of Medieval Latin (Paris 1980) Medieval Paleography: An Introductory Course - David Postles, Leicester University Medieval and Early Modern Manuscript Studies (i.e. paleography) - Stephen Reimer, U. of Alberta Handwriting and Language - a page focused on English manuscripts 17th and 18th Century Paleographic (and other) Resources Online - Yale Univ. Library Rare Book Cataloging Team Diane Tillotson's Medieval Writing page Ductus - Impressive-looking medieval paleography software from the University of Melbourne (purchase required) Abbreviationes - Software for identifying medieval abbreviations (purchase required) The full text of Cappelli's Dizionario di Abbreviature Latini ed Italiani (1912 edition) Online Resources for Translators of Latin from Italatin Rhetorica - "Using Medieval Latin: A Toolbox of Resources" Glossary of terms in Saxo Grammaticus (Gesta Danorum) A site with basic definitions of Latin legal terms (not comprehensive) Ecclesiastical Abbreviations from New Advent's Catholic Encyclopedia The Record Interpreter by Charles Martin (1911) Tools for calculation of medieval dates: Lieberknecht / Binkley - Cheney Grotefend's Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit Calendars from Illuminated Manuscripts in Danish Collections Dr. J. G. Th. Graesse's Orbis Latinus (1909) - Latin place names Latin place names found in the imprints of books printed before 1801 (BYU) The news in Latin (!) Latin phrases, more Latin phrases Oxford English Dictionary (Subscription required) German-English dictionary (LEO) Italian-English dictionary (WordReference) Spanish-English dictionary (WordReference) Spanish dictionary (Real Academia Española) French-English dictionary (WordReference) French dictionary Selected Professional Organizations, Institutes, Conferences, and List-ServsMedieval Academy of AmericaAmerican Historical Association American Catholic Historical Association Medieval East Medievalists The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain Canadian Society of Medievalists Society for Italian Historical Studies The Society for the Medieval Mediterranean The Mediterranean Studies Association Società Internazionale per lo Studia dell'Adriatico nell'Età Medievale De Re Militari - The Society for Medieval Military History Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East Episcopus - the Society for the Study of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Middle Ages Hortulus - an online community and journal for graduate students in medieval studies Medieval Academic Discussion Groups by Edwin Duncan Mediev-L - The Medieval Mailing List... (Archives of Mediev-L, January 2001-September 2004) Medieval-Religion - email discussion list H-Mideast-Medieval- The Mailing List for the Medieval Middle East Medieval Academy of America's Conference Calendar International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University) International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds) University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute University of Leeds's Institute for Medieval Studies Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies University of Reading's Graduate Center for Medieval Studies University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies Boston University's Institute for Medieval History Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies (Toronto) Institute for Historical Research (London) The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge Institute of Ismaili Studies The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies Centro Studi per la Storia del Notariato Genovese "Giorgia Costamagna" The Mediterranean Seminar is a collaborative venture that supports a number of projects Medieval Manuscript Resources:Guides and CatalogsIn Search of Medieval Manuscripts (Cornell University) Catalogue of Online Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts (CRMS, UCLA) Manuscripta Mediaevalia - catalog of hundreds of manuscript collections Medieval Manuscripts on the Web Otto Vervaat's medieval manuscript links Index of Medieval Manuscripts (University of Saskatchewan) Pontificalia: A Repertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals (Richard Kay, Univ. of Kansas) The Andy Holt Virtual Library (web resources for manuscript-based textual scholarship) BYU's DScriptorium Scriptorium - an international journal of medieval manuscript studies Index of Medieval Medical Manuscripts (UCLA) Medieval Manuscript Manual (Central European University) L’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes Libraries and Collections Enluminures - Illuminations from manuscripts in French libraries Illuminated manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek British Library's Images Online website The “Codices Electronici Sangallenses” (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen) Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina Free Library of Philadelphia’s digital collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Manuscripts at Syracuse University Hill Museum and Manuscript Library of Saint John's University (MN) The Getty Museum- Search for "manuscripts" The British Library's Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Illuminated manuscripts from the Danish Royal Library Bodleian Library Manuscripts Manuscripts from the Cary Collection at R.I.T. The Illuminated Middle Ages - Manuscript illumination from French libraries Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis - Digital library of ecclesiastical manuscripts at Cologne The Parker Library on the Web (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University) Specific Manuscripts and Exhibitions The Normans (Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University) The Cambridge Illuminations (Fitzwilliam Museum) The Macclesfield Psalter (Fitzwilliam Museum) Illuminating the Law (Fitzwilliam Museum) The Bagpipe Iconography Page (many medieval images) Tower of London Manuscript I.33 has great images of medieval combat c. 1280 The Murthly Hours at the National Library of Scotland The Saint Albans Psalter at the University of Aberdeen Trésors Carolingiens - Online exhibit on the Carolingians at the BNF Images from Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria Le livre de chasse de Gaston Phebus - online exhibition of the BNF Die Miniaturen der Manesseschen Liederhandschrift - fantastic images of daily life in 13th-century Europe The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - online exhibition of the BNF The Maciejowski Bible has incredible illuminations Maps Index of Medieval Maps 400-1300 Maps from the 15th-century Liber insularum Archipelagi of Christoforo Bondelmonti Charts held at the National Maritime Museum (UK) Portolan charts at the University of Minnesota Timothy Pont's maps of Scotland (1580s/1590s, National Library of Scotland) The Tabula Peutingeriana - a Roman road map The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (subscription required) Nice maps and charts from Pearson-Longman's Civilization in the West textbook Selected Medieval Art & Architecture Resources: Online
Resources for Medieval Art and Architecture
(Harvard University)
Lorenzetti's Frescoes on Good and Bad Government (Siena) Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry - at WebMuseum Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York Medieval Collection at the Walters Art Museum The Islamic Art Network Medieval Art History Links The Max van Berchem Foundation - Islamic art and architecture Web Gallery of Art An exhibition of Ethiopian icons The Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral Sculpture and Architecture resources France's National Museum of the Middle Ages Les Vitreaux de la Cathédral de Chartres (Stained Glass) Images from the photo-bank developed by the journal Peregrinations |
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