CMRS

CMRS Links


USEFUL LINKS TO MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SITES

	The following links have been divided into several categories.  
The first group consists of guides to the tangible reference materials 
available in the Duke Libraries or through Inter Library Loan. The other 
three categories will guide you to online materials. Georgetown's 
"Labyrinth" is the most highly recommended point of entry; it is 
wide-ranging and easily navigable. The third category consists of several 
sites which offer a large, thematically varied selection of primary 
documents online. The last group of links features sites with a 
combination of primary and critical information about specific subsets of 
Medieval and Renaissance studies.  
Happy hunting!


Guides to Library Reference Sources

Duke University Libraries Resources in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/subjects/medieval/medieval.htm

Joline Ezzell (our patron-saint library specialist in Perkins Humanities
Reference) has compiled a handy annotated listing of research guides,
databases and indexes, electronic journals, and Internet resources held
by or accessed in the Duke collections. Especially note the Guide 
to Medieval and Renaissance Microfilm Sets at Duke University 
Libraries, which lists microfilm sets of primary sources valuable for 
research; and the Guide to Selected Medieval and Renaissance Sources at Duke University 
Libraries, which includes a list of encyclopedias, general surveys, 
and reference works, as well as bibliographies and other research guides 
for locating books and journals.

The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
Click "Enter databases," and then click "IMB"

The IMB is the world's leading interdisciplinary bibliography of
the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East, and North
Africa in the period 400-1500. The database comprises over 300,000
articles derived from regular coverage of some 4,500 periodicals and 5,000
miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections,
Festschriften, and exhibition catalogues). All articles are classified
with full bibliographical details and subject classifications and indexing
familiar to medievalists. The IMB was founded in 1967 with the support of
the Medieval Academy of America. Its editorial staff is based at the
International Medieval Institute at the University of Leeds, and the
project is supported by over 50 teams of contributors in Europe, North
America, Australia, and Japan. Perkins Library subscribes to this major
resource.

Iter
http://www.itergateway.org/

An index of journals pertaining to all aspects of the European Renaissance 
and Middle Ages


THE Best Place to Start

The Labyrinth
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth

Online library of primary documents in French, Iberian, Italian, Latin, 
Middle English, and Old English, as well as modern online journals.  
Extensive collection of resources (articles, links, etc.) grouped by 
national cultures, topics of international culture (e.g., archaeology, 
cartography, music, etc.), and special topics (e.g., Arthurian studies). 
Also features an extensive list of links to medieval organizations and 
publications.


Primary Documents, Multi-Topic

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook 
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Thousands of full-text primary documents, indexed by topic.  Very 
well-organized.  Also includes a great selection of maps and reviews of 
medieval movies.

The Luminarium
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

Biographical and critical commentary, as well as full-text versions of the 
works of: 9 medieval authors, 29 Renaissance authors, and 25 17th-century 
authors.

TEAMS series
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm

Searchable versions of many of the texts printed in the Middle English 
Texts Series (TEAMS).

Bodley Manuscripts
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm

Access to approximately 1,000 images from manuscripts in Oxford's 
Bodleian Library.


Resources, by Topic

	Art

Index of Art and Art History
http://www.medievalarthistory.com
Index of nearly 500 links pertaining to medieval art and art history, 
searchable by topic and geographic location.

Art and Architecture
http://www.pitt.edu/~medart
Source for historical and visual information about medieval art and 
architecture, searchable by geographic location.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=17
An online catalogue of some of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval 
art collection, considered to be one of the richest in the world.

	Byzantine Studies

Index of Byzantine Studies
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb
Index of links pertaining to Byzantine medieval studies.

	Church History

The Catholic Encyclopedia
http://newadvent.org/cathen
Online version of the 15-volume reference work.  The material is 
wide-ranging, but sometimes dated.

Guide to Early Church Documents
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html
Annotated links to files relating to the early church, including canonical 
documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic fathers, and other 
historical texts.

Catholic Writings
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/mosaic/common/omega/Web/
People/spok/catholic/writings.html
Links to documents ranging in topic from Scripture to modern popes.

	Iberian Studies

The Library of Iberian Resource On-line
http://libro.uca.edu
Features full-text versions of recent, but out-of-print books on the 
Iberian peninsula in the Middle Ages

	Italian Studies

Index of Italian History
http://frenital.byu.edu/classes/ital420/html/site_info.html


Extensive, well-annotated index of links to sites concerning Italian 
history from Paleolithic to contemporary times, each era divided into 
subcategories such as art, biographies, bibliographies, science, etc.

	Language Resources

The Old English Aerobics Room
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/OEA/index.html
Texts and exercises for students of Old English.

Medieval Latin/English Word List
http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary/HyperText/

	Philosophy and Theology

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu

Index of Internet Theology Resources
http://www.csbsju.edu/library/internet/theochht.html

	Science

Index of Science
http://members.aol.com/mcnelis/medsci_index.html
Index of links pertaining to medieval science, organized by topic.

	Shakespeare

Shakespeare Resources 
www.lib.duke.edu/reference/subjects/shakes.html
This is a comprehensive bibliography of printed and electronic sources at 
Perkins Library for studying Shakespeare and the culture of Elizabethan 
and Jacobean England, including electronic editions, biographical 
resources, language tools, historical resources, journals, and internet 
sites.

	Women

Women's Religious Communities
http://matrix.bc.edu/MatrixWebData/about.html
A collection of resources for the study of women's religious communities 
in medieval Europe.  Includes biographies, profiles of religious 
communities, primary sources, and an image library.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index 
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
Database of journal articles, book reviews, and essay collections about 
women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.