Bibliographies Online
This deeply annotated bibliography contains sections of background, critical, and primary sources on various writers and sub-topics. Part of a larger blog for teaching the medieval period.
Race & Medieval Studies: A Partial Bibliography
This list includes blog posts and journal essays, as well as books and article collections
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Surrey Medieval - This blog includes an annotated set of links revealing the intense scholarly interest in these issues right now.
Medieval Philosophy
Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology - From Catholic University of America, annual bibliographies of work
Averroes:
General Online Resources
- Academic Discussion Groups List (Edwin Duncan)
- Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online
- Digital Sciptorium
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine)
- Luminarium Medieval Literature (Anniina Jokinen)
- MEMDB: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (Rudolph M. Bell)
- Medieval Disability Glossary
- Online Medieval Sources Bibliography
- The ORB (On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
- The Online Medieval & Classical Library (Search or Browse by: Author, Title, Genre, Language)
- NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
- Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English
- TEAMS Middle English Texts Series (METS)
- Teaching the Middle Ages in Higher Education
- Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon & Medieval
- Wessex Parallel WebTexts
The Public Medievalist - a freely available online journal
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Caravan on Silk Road, from Catalan Atlas, 14th c.; in Bib.Natl. de France Colombus Notes on Marco Polo's Livre des Merveilles, 15th c.; in Biblioteca Colombina, Sevilla
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Books
Search for books in any of Colby's catalogs, expanding your search with subject linking
- for readily available books
WorldCat - search catalogs of libraries worldwide
Center for Research Libraries - includes rare materials that may not be available elsewhere. Note that these may be on microfilm
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More ways to search:
by Author, typing in the family name first.
by writer as Subject, e.g.:
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Research Strategies
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For background information, look in:
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Continue your research using terminology and facts learned from the background information to search for articles in:
- JSTOR - A collection of scholarly journals, many embargoed for the most current 5 years.
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Iter - Citations for secondary sources on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 400-1700
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International Medieval Bibliography - Multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, 300-1500
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Historical Abstracts - Bibliographical coverage of the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present
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Philosopher's Index - Citations and abstracts from hundreds of journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields, 1940 to present
- Index Islamicus - scholarly literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world
- Literature Resource Center - Includes "Overviews" of works
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Articles in academic journals reflect current scholarly debate Look for a sidebar in databases that will allow you to limit searches by date, type of source, language, etc.
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Explore digitized primary sources in:
- The Online Medieval & Classical Library
- ArtStor - images of paintings and other art, searchable by keyword, period, artist, place Use Advanced Search!
- Index of Medieval Art - Princeton University's index of art -- primarily from the medieval era -- presenting Christian iconography as well as Jewish, Islamic, and nonreligious subjects
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Investigate the notes and bibliographies of every good source you find for leads to more. For a quick video on how to look up and request articles you find cited, click here. Think about what sorts of publications the information you need might be published in.
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