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Liaison Librarian: Karen Gilles

Email:kgilles @ seattleu.edu

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Books - Reference Resources

Atlas of Medieval Europe

Ref/G/1791/M2/2007

Chronology of the Medieval World: 800 to 1491

Ref/D/118/S855/1973B

Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Ref/D/114/D5/1982 (13 vols.)

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Ref/PN/669/E53/2000

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (online)

Ref/D/114/E53/2000 (2vols.)

Encyclopedia of Women iin the Middle Ages

Ref HQ 1143 L38 2001

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Medieval Civilization

Ref/CB/353/G7

Medieval England: An Encyclopedia

Ref/DA/129/M43/1998

Medieval Folklore

GR35 .M43 2000

Medieval France: An Encyclopedia

Ref/DC/33.2/M44/1995

Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia

Ref/DD/157/M43/2001

Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia

Ref/DP/99/M33/2002

Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia

Ref/DS/124/M386/2003

New Catholic Encyclopedia

Ref/BX/841/N44/2003 (15 vols.)

New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

Oxford Dictionary or Byzantium online

Ref DF521 .O93 1991

Oxford Dictionary of the Popes

Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

Women and Gender in the Middle Ages, an Encyclopedia

Ref HQ 1147 E85 W66 2006

Women in the Middle Ages

Ref HQ 1143 W643 2004

Databases

Academic Search Premier

A large interdisciplinary database with full text for articles from more than 4000 scholarly publications dating back to 1975.

ATLA Religion

Citations from international journals in religion and theological studies. Many articles available full text.

Early Modern Women Database

"The Early Modern Women Database provides links to Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period from ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 and includes links to Web sites about the Medieval period and 19th Century as well. Resources have been selected for their scholarly value by librarians of the University of Maryland Libraries. Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here are free. Some require a license for access".

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Since 1996, the open web source database Feminae has indexed journal articles, essays and book reviews focusing on women, gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.

Humanities Abstracts

Citations for articles in fields such as history, literature, fine arts, philosophy and theology

ITER -- Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Index to literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

JSTOR

Full text backfiles of articles from core scholarly journals in fields such as history, literature and philosophy.

Middle English Compendium

Electronic version of Middle English Dictionary, HyperBibliography based on the MED and a Corpus of Medieval English Prose and Texts

MLA Bibliography

The database of the Modern Language Association, covering literature, languages and linguistics.

Philosopher's Index

Citations and abstracts for journal articles and books in philosophy. Extensive international coverage.

Project MUSE

Covers scholarly journals in the humanities. Many articles are available full text.

Social Sciences Abstracts

Citations for articles in fields such as archaeology, sociology, geography, political science and economics.

E books

ACLS Humanities E book project

Online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities from the American Council of Learning Societies

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

A site which provides full text of many medieval sources. Located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.

Middle English Collection

This collection is from the Etext Center at the University of Virginia and includes in addition to many anonymous works, "major writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, John Gower, Robert Henryson, William Langland, and Layamon".

ORB: the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Hosted by the College of Staten Island, "The ORB Encyclopedia features links to other Web sites, as well as informative essays and bibliographies by scholars."

Other Women's Voices- Translations of Women's Writings before 1700.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

TEAMS- Teaching of the Middle Ages

With a focus on literature, these online texts were chosen for classroom use by TEAM and the University of Rochester.

 

Voice of the Shuttle

A major gateway to Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature

Internet Sites

Dartmouth's Dante Project

"The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia"

Decameron Web

Brown University's hyermedia archive of materials.

IRHT Institute de rechere et d'histoire des Textes

Labyrinth.

Gateway to medieval studies." Resources are carefully selected from the Internet and include primary texts, secondary texts and articles, course materials, bibliographies, images, maps, and other items".

Medieval English Towns.

Robust and up-to-date website on urban history. Focus is on English towns, but there are links to towns outside of England

NetSERF:Medieval Women

Online Medieval & Classical Library

This e-text site is hosted by Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.

Stanford University (SULAIR: Medieval Studies)

Keyed to the holdings of Stanford University, it included a preliminary list of medieval works translated into English in addition to references to important resources in the field

Women Writers of the Middle Ages

A bibliography of primary and secondary texts of women writers maintained by the University of Rochester. (Check Lemieux's catalog first for titles and for unavailable titles, request through interlibrary loan).

Yale University: Medieval Studies Research Guide

Includes links to gateways and web sites, as well as tools and sources only available at Yale. A strong feature of this website is its annotated bibliography of history and reference sources

Journals

Chaucer Review

Early Medieval Europe

Lib. has: v.1- (1966-) Also available electronically through Project MUSE

Exemplaria; a Journal of Theory in Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Journal of Medieval History. 1995-Present

Medieval Feminist Forum

Lib. has: v.16- (2004-)

Mediaeval Studies

Lib. has: v.1- (1939-)

Medium Aevum

Lib. has: v.1- (1932-)

Speculum: a journal of mediaeval studies

Lib. has: v.1- (1926-) Also available electronically through JSTOR

Tradition; studies in ancient and medieval history, thought and religion

Lib. has: v.1- (1943-)

Andy Holt Virtual Library

Links to journal titles and abstracts and to some open access ejournals in the field of medieval studies

Associations and institutions

Medieval Academy of America

The web site of the largest organization in the world devoted to medieval studies. Supports research, publication and teaching in the field

Medieval Feminist Forum

Medieval Institute (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo)

Medieval Studies Institute, University of Notre Dame

The web site of one of the country's largest and most active medieval studies programs.

Medieval Studies Program -- SU College of Arts & Sciences