Medieval Europe - HIS 8208 - Rebecca Winer

Offers outstanding introductions to a wide variety of topics in medieval studies with an emphasis on Western civilization. Each bibliographic essay begins with a general overview and a list of reference works, followed by the historiography of the field and a list of critical journals for the subject. Generally, the essays also include a list of recommended primary sources in the original languages and in translation.
For example, the bibliographic essay on Spain by Olivia R. Constable covers the time period from Visigothic rule to the Christian kingdoms and discusses convivencia, Mozarabs, Muslims under Christian rule, Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain, and women in medieval Spain.

Each handbook introduces and surveys the state of scholarship in a field of study through review articles written by leading subject specialists. Some of the handbooks available in this collection are obvious choices such as the two volumes on early modern history (see the chapter on Islam and Muslims in Europe by Tijana Krstić in the first volume) and the one on medieval Christianity (see the chapter on the boundaries of Christendom and Islam by Amy G. Remensnyder). A general search will lead the reader to other handbooks with relevant chapters: examples include a chapter on Mediterranean history by David Abulafia in The Oxford Handbook of World History, a chapter on medieval medicine by Peregrine Horden in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, and a chapter on the medieval spice trade by Paul Freedman in The Oxford Handbook of Food History.

Covers global Islamic history, peoples, practices, politics, and culture. Includes access to The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, and The Encyclopedia of Islam and Law, to name just a few titles included in this collection, as well as online only content such as an essay on mudéjares, which comes with a list of recommended readings.

Presents authoritative biographies of influential people who lived in Britain. Covers only deceased subjects. Includes portraits, if available, and bibliographies with citations to works by and about featured individuals.

Offers access to authoritative scholarship on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion. The essays in the Encyclopedia are the work of recognized scholars and include recommended further readings. The Encyclopedia includes a long essay on Spain with contributions on Muslim Spain by Eliyashu Ashtor and on the reconquest period by Simon R. Scharzfuchs.

Offers access to authoritative scholarship on medieval history. This thirteen-volumes print set has withstood the test of time and remains one of the classics in the field.

Provides online access to the well-regarded Cambridge History series. Includes the New Cambridge Medieval History (7 volumes) together with a range of other histories that include volumes focusing on the Middle Ages. Examples include volume 6 of The Cambridge History of Judaism (The Middle Ages), volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam (The Western Islamic World, 11th to 18th Centuries), and volume 5 of The Cambridge World History (Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500 CE - 1500 CE).

Includes 26 essays on all aspects of medieval life including chapters on Jews and Muslims in medieval Europe and a chapter on medieval Europe in world history.

Selected print and digital encyclopedias and companions.

Presents a selection of interdisciplinary medieval studies resources including the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, access to over 150 monographs from reputed publishers in the field of medieval studies, a selection of study resources curated by major scholars, and a selection of visual sources.

Leverage keyword, subject, and author searches to identify primary sources in the Library's collection and narrow overly large results sets with the help of available facets.
Be sure to use the authoritative form of a writer's name. Start with a more flexible keyword search first (e.g., King Alfonso X) and use the author link (e.g., Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284) to pull up a consolidated list of all his/her works indexed in the catalog. Other examples include Ibn Arabi who is listed as Ibn al-'Arabi, 1165-1240 in the Library of Congress authority files. Try name variations to arrive at the authoritative spelling. For example, a search for Yehuda Alharizi comes up empty as the Library of Congress name authority is: Harizi, Judah ben Solomon, active 12th century-13th century.
Use the same approach for subject searches as subjects are also a controlled vocabulary. Start with a keyword search and use the hyperlinked subjects in the catalog records to discover related sources. Finally, here are a few examples of subject searches for inspiration: Spain - Civilization - 711-1516 - Sources; Spain - Ethnic relations - Sources; Aljamía - Texts; Jews - Spain - Sources.

Leverage keyword, subject, and author searches to identify primary sources not available in the Library's collection. Use the Borrow from another Library function to request titles through interlibrary loan, but pay attention to the number of holding libraries indicated in the record as rare items are unlikely to circulate.

Offers outstanding introductions to a wide variety of topics in medieval studies with an emphasis on Western civilization.
Search for a topic or writer and review primary sources listed in matching essays.

An annotated bibliography of printed and online primary sources for the Middle Ages.

Offers access to dissertations completed after 1997. Review the extensive bibliographies to discover primary sources.
Occasionally, dissertations may include transcribed or translated primary sources as part of the appendix. For example, David Nirenberg's 1992 dissertation on Violence and the Persecution of Minorities in the Crown of Aragon: Jews, Lepers and Muslims before the Black Death includes transcribed Latin documents on pages 276-364.

Indexes, describes, and selectively presents medieval art objects with a focus on Christian iconography. Also includes Jewish, Islamic, and non-ecclesiastical subjects. Records include descriptive information, provenance, location and ownership information, bibliographical references, and, when available, a photographic reproduction of the work of art. Formerly known as Index of Christian Art.

The series provides a wide-ranging corpus of texts, most of them translated for the first time, concerned with the history of the crusades and the crusader-states.

Offers access to a growing collection of translations of key primary sources. Series editors are Rosemary Horrox and Simon MacLean. Most volumes are also available in print.

Selected volumes from this series are available in print format in the local collection. Discover additional volumes by consulting WorldCat.

Almost all of the texts selected and edited for this project appear in English translation for the first time, and in some cases, the translation here is entirely new and has been made without reference to previous versions.

This series features translated primary sources about women and/or written by women. Each volume includes introductions and extensive annotations by scholars to provide context. Selected volumes are available online.

Offers translated sources related to women's religious communities from 400-1600. Selected print copies are available locally. Peregrina Publishing Co. ceased publication of this series in 2004.

Each print volume presents a collection of translated primary sources that focus on a theme or a period.

Presents legal texts related to the status of religious minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world (5th-15th centuries). The sources are presented in their original language (Latin, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, etc.) together with English and French translations, notes, commentaries, and bibliographies. Conference proceedings published by the RELMIN project are available in the open access archive HAL. A detailed description of this project written by its director was published in Medieval Worlds. The project was funded by the European Research Council and directed by John Tolan, Université de Nantes.

Edited by Paul Halsall, the Sourcebook, is a vast archive of freely available transcribed and/or translated medieval primary sources. The Sourcebook can be searched and browsed.

Features a collection of Latin texts spanning the Classical, Patristic, Medieval, and Neo-Latin periods. Many of the texts are taken from the well-regarded Corpus Christianorum series. Primarily designed for finding Latin word forms within the works included in this collection.

Features a collection of Latin text of all genres and periods. Complements Library of Latin Texts, Series A. Primarily designed for finding Latin word forms within the works included in this collection.

Provides the full text of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, a collection of the works of the Church Fathers in Latin covering the history of Western Christianity until AD 1216.

Biographical descriptions of the live of the saints in Latin. The content is organized by the feast day of saints.

This resource manages a collection of links to transcribed and/or translated texts by medieval English writers including the works of Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, Kempe, Malory, Lydgate, and others. The site also offers a collection of links to essays and articles authored by a variety of scholars including student essays.

Epistolæ is a collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to the 13th century. The letters, written in Latin, are linked to the names of the women involved, with English translations and, where available, biographical sketches of the women and some description of the subject matter or the historic context of the letter.
Columbia University

Provides access to virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. Includes books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and newspapers.

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A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat highlights books available locally and offers a convenient inter-library loan request option for books that are not available.

Indexes and abstracts articles, book reviews, and book chapters. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Features a freely available and comprehensive bibliography of medieval research. Captures journal articles, essays, monographs, and conference proceedings.

Offers outstanding introductions to a wide variety of topics in medieval studies with an emphasis on Western civilization. Each bibliographic essay begins with a general overview and a list of reference works, followed by the historiography of the field and a list of critical journals for the subject.

This journal promotes discussion and dialogue across cultural, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries on the interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim cultures during the period from the fourth through to the sixteenth century C.E.

Hsy, Jonathan and Julie Orlemanski. \"Race and Medieval Studies: A Partial Bibliography.\" postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 8, no. 4 (2017): 500-531. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-017-0072-0.

Provides a full text archive of academic journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The most recent three to five years of a journal are usually not included.

Indexes academic journals, books, book chapters, book reviews, and dissertations pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Covers the years 400 to 1700. Includes publications in the major European languages from the middle of the 19th century to the present.

Indexes and selectively abstracts journal articles, book reviews, and book chapters about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Coverage includes important articles published througout the world in the field of Judaica, mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, and offprints of articles from journals or collections in the library.

Includes reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies back to 1993. Formerly known as the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review.

Indexes reviews of fiction and nonfiction English-language books. Reviews are selected from academic journals and library review journals. Includes selected full text. Coverage goes back to the early 1980s.

Indexes reviews of fiction and nonfiction English-language books. Reviews are selected from academic journals, magazines, and library review journals. Covers reviews published between 1903 and 1982.

Indexes reviews of fiction and nonfiction English-language books. Reviews are selected from academic journals, magazines, and library review journals. Includes selected full text. Coverage goes back to the early 1960s.