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Guides and Encyclopedias:
Guides and encyclopedias are a good source of overview information on a topic, and often provide a bibliography of major books, articles and primary sources.
The New Cambridge medieval history
Publisher: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995-c2005.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Publisher: New York : Scribner, c1982-c1989.
13 volume reference work on medieval Europe, edited by Joseph Strayer.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Publisher: Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
Two-volume work. Not as comprehensive as Strayer, but includes more recent scholarship.
Medieval science, technology, and medicine
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Encyclopedia available at Haverford and Swarthmore.
Finding Books:
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.
InterLibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow
The books and articles you need for your research may not be available from a Tri-College library. We have two systems to help you retrieve the materials you need. See this page to place your requests.
Finding Journal Articles:
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
International medieval bibliography-online.
Provides abstracts and citations to articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Iter
A bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, (400-1700). Includes articles, reviews, bibliographies and discographies.
Feminae
Provides abstracts and/or citation information to journal articles, book reviews and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E. Covers materials published since 1990.
Historical abstracts
Provider: EBSCO
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
Primary Sources:
Manchester Medieval sources
Provider: Manchester
"Web-based learning resource containing hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history." A modern collection of medieval documents organized around particular themes or events from throughout Europe. The documents are all translated into English. Most of the individual volumes in the series are also available in print in the trico.
Rerum britannicarum medii ævi scriptores, or, Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the middle ages
Publisher: [England? : Public Record Office?, 19??]
Multi-volume collection of medieval chronicles of the affairs of Great Britain. The set also contains a number of Year Books and Cartularies and some record materials.
Calendar of the patent rolls ... Edward I ...
Publisher: London : H.M.S.O., 1893-1901.
In the late 19th century, the British Public Records Office began publishing the Patent Rolls and Close Rolls -- the correspondence and court documents -- for English monarchs from the early 1200s to about 1500. Bryn Mawr has an extensive collection of these volumes, and a searchable online version of the Patent Rolls can be found at http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/patentrolls/.
Monumenta Germaniae historica.
Publisher: Hannoverae, Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani [etc.] 1826-
The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) is an extensive collection of edited documents related to German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. The first volumes in the series appeared in 1826, and new volumes continue to be published. The Bryn Mawr Library has much of the set, and it is also available online at www.dmgh.de
Internet Sites:
Internet medieval sourcebook
The Sourcebook addresses elite governmental, legal, religious and economic concerns, and also includes a large selection of texts on women's and gender history, Islamic and Byzantine history, Jewish history, and social history. All texts are offered in two formats: the first is short classroom sized extracts; the second is composed of the full documents.
Netserf: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
Beau A.C. Harbin provides a directory of Internet resources related to Medieval Studies. Topics include subject areas (Art, History, Literature, Religion, etc.) as well as such disciplinary resources as journals, mailing lists, and organizations.
The labyrinth
"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,"--Website (http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/info_labyrinth/info.html)