Internet Databases in Medieval Studies

  • Inter Libros, Harvard University – a web site meant to facilitate and serve as a virtual gateway for classical and medieval research by evaluating the scholarly merit of selected print and digital resources, clarifying their contents and scope, highlighting their limitations and deficiencies, and maximizing their accessibility https://guides.library.harvard.edu/interlibros
  • The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham Center for Medieval Studies– designed for teachers to use in teaching; contains two parts: the first is made up of short classroom sized extracts, derived from public domain sources or copy-permitted translations; the second is composed of the full documents, or WWW links to the full documents. The Sourcebook includes texts on governmental, legal, religious, and economic concerns as well as women’s and gender history, Islamic and Byzantine history, Jewish history, and social history http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.asp
  • Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance http://www.itergateway.org.libezp.lib.lsu.edu
    • Free resources; includes, but not limited to:
      • Aestimatio –provides critical, timely assessments of books published in the history of what was called science from antiquity up to the early modern period in cultures ranging from Spain to India, and from Africa to northern Europe. The aim is to allow reviewers the opportunity to engage critically both the results of research in the history of science and how these results are obtained http://www.ircps.org/aestimatio
      • The Electronic Capito Project – provides access to the full text of letters from and to Wolfgang Faber Capito (c. 1478-1541) http://cf.itergateway.org/capito/
      • Baptisteria Sacra Index – an extensive inventory list of baptismal fonts dating from the early Christian period to the 17th century http://www.library.utoronto.ca/bsi/
    • Available with subscription (LSU PAWS); includes, but not limited to:
      • Iter Bibliography – a massive bibliography of more than 1.1 million citations for secondary source material about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700; available at LSU
      • IterItalicum – the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts in libraries and collections all over the world; available at LSU
      • The International Directory of Scholars – a listing of members of the Renaissance Society of America and the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, and individual Iter subscribers. Many records have not been updated in 3-5 years; effective May 2010, the Directory is no longer being updated; available at LSU
      • Early Theater – a peer-reviewed journal publishing new research in medieval or early modern drama and theatre history, rooted in the records and documents of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; available at LSU
      • Quadernid’italianistica – the peer-reviewed journal of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies, it publishes articles and book reviews in English, French, or Italian touching on any aspect of Italian literature from the origins to the present, Italian language, linguistics, and pedagogy; available at LSU
      • Confraternitas – a biannual, refereed journal publishing brief articles, news and notes of interest to colleagues, notices of forthcoming conferences or papers, and general queries about medieval and Early Modern confraternities (pre-1700); available at LSU
    • Iter Community – a site for collaboration, discussion, and social networking http://community.itergateway.org
  • The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, Georgetown University – open or restricted access, depending on research. Provides information on medieval studies and contains a wealth of links to many other medieval Web resources http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu
  • Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) – available with an LSU PAWS account; comprehensive online research database that combines key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history with original manuscripts and the latest web technologies
  • ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies – open access; an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students http://the-orb.net
    • WEMSK: What Every Medievalist Should Know – intended for the beginning to semi-advanced graduate student, this website serves to orient students to various subject areas within medieval studies; contains information about a range of topics, and is an indispensable guide for any student of medieval studies http://www.the-orb.net/wemsk/wemskmenu.html
  • Sexy Codicology. Open access blog that showcases images from medieval manuscripts. Provides an exhaustive list of the libraries that have placed free, digitized medieval manuscripts online. https://blog.digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/
  • Voice of the Shuttle (VOS):English Literature, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval, UC Santa Barbara – open or restricted access, depending on research; contains a list of calls for papers on medieval topics, links to medieval online images, such as the Bayeux Tapestry, and links to the homepages for several medieval journals (for example, Cahiers Elisabethains) http://vos.ucsb.edu