Online Indexes Available to Trent Students

The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500), with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. The "International Medieval Institute", based at the University of Leeds, is responsible for producing the bibliography.

The IMB now compromises [citations to] 330,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliogrphical records. Now online, the IMB offers an unparalleled tool for medievalists to identify the contents of current work published throughout Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region.
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The print version of this index is in the Reference stacks under the call number: Z 6203 .I6

Iter : Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Iter, meaning a journey or a path in Latin, is a not-for-profit research project with partners in Toronto (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe. Iter was created for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development of online resources.

Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

As well as the Bibliographic database, Iter offers specialized databases, including unpublished papers and directories of scholars in the field. For more information on these databases, go to Project Information.

Since the Iter search engine is not open-url enabled, there is no "Get it!" feature available within it. There is no full text of articles, either. When you're using Iter, you'll want to keep open a window in TOPCAT so that you can check availability of journals and books as you go along. Iter tells you where/when the articles were published, and TOPCAT tells you whether we have access to them. You can also input the citation into Get it! yourself, using the "Citation Linker".

This is an excellent place for finding scholarly information on almost any topic. The e-journals database provides access to the majority of our online journals.

MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dealing with literature topics. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

The JSTOR archive is a fully searchable electronic database of over 100 full-text major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines. JSTOR includes the complete backruns of the journals, from the first volume to 3-5 years from the present (no current volumes).

All articles are full text. Each title can be browsed or searched. A search of the entire database can be performed.

Journals of interest to Medieval History include: Speculum, Sixteenth Century Journal, Rennaisance Quarterly, Studies in the Renaissance.

Other Online Resources

Presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia. The collection also includes a number of important accounts of travels to or through the Holy Land although in this it makes no claims to full or even broad coverage: a separate collection, covering crusading and pilgrimage narratives, would be required for that.

It features a number of medieval maps such as the famous ‘Beatus’ and ‘Psalter’ maps, individual manuscript illuminations, and some modern translations of key travel texts.

A good number of manuscript images are provided in full colour. The original documents are in a range of languages including French, Latin, German, Spanish, Dutch and English. Translations will be an important feature of the project and the full text search capability will be especially useful for undergraduates. Supporting the manuscripts are relevant secondary texts, maps of journeys, bibliographies and glossaries.

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E-Books

Microforms

Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores : or, Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages. (Also known as "The Rolls Series".
MICROFICHE SET 14 NO.1 - 99. Within this set there are 99 subsets. Each subset has several fiche; most have about 40-50, some have as few as 10, others have over 100 fiche.

View a list of items in this set online or ask Microforms staff for the paper index.

Websites

The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Web.

The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies.

The ORB includes a library of primary documents, an online encyclopedia, and a Reference shelf.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Because of the explosion of research in Women's Studies during the past two decades, scholars and students interested in women during the Middle Ages find an ever-growing flood of publications. Identifying relevant works in this mass of material is further complicated by the interdisciplinary nature of much of the scholarship. In order to help researchers find current articles and essays quickly and easily, librarians and scholars began compiling the Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index in July 1996. Books written by a single author are not indexed in Feminae; for these, check library catalogs that have strong collections in medieval studies.