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Medieval Studies: General Resources

Indexes & Databases

International Medieval Bibliography UIUC
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance UIUC
MLA Bibliography UIUC
Arts and Humanities Citation Index UIUC
FRANCIS UIUC

For more specialized databases see the Article Indexes and Databases page.

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Bibliographies

016.8F24B
Ferguson, Mary Anne. Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources, 1943-1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.

016.9091IN8
International Medieval Bibliography. Leeds: University of Leeds, 1977.

Q 016.9401B17M
Bak, János M. Medieval Narrative Sources: A Chronological Guide. New York: Garland, 1987.

016.9401C883M
Crosby, Everett Uberto, C. Julian Bishko, and Robert L. Kellogg. Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide. New York: Garland, 1983.

016.9401IS7R
Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi. 8 vols. Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-.

016.9401R76S
Rouse, Richard H. Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

909.07EN191
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Edited by Andre Vauchez, Barrie Dobson, and Michael Lapidge. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.

909.07EN19
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Edited by Norman Cantor. New York: Viking, 1999.

909.07D561
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. Edited by Joseph R. Strayer. New York: Scribner, 1982.

940.103 D561
Gauvard, Claude, Libera, Lain de, and Zink, Michel, eds. Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge. Paris: Quadrige; Presses Universitaires de France, 2002.

909.07ST74C
Storey, R. L. Chronology of the Medieval World, 800 to 1491. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

305.4090203 W842
Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.

305.40902 L423e
Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jennifer Lawler. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2001.

920.7203EX87
Levin, Carole, et al. Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.

189.2AU4ZA
Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Allan D. Fitzgerald. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1999.

Q.270.103D648:E
Encyclopedia of the Early Church. 2 vols. Edited by Angelo Di Berardino. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

281.503B568
The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Edited by Ken Parry, et al. Oxford & Molden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.

Q.291.65703EN19
Encyclopedia of Monasticism. 2 vols. Edited by William M. Johnston. Chicago, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.

398.03M46
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. 2 vols. Edited by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Q. 509.02 M468
Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Thomas F. Glick, Steven J. Livesey, Faith Wallis. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Q. 909.04924 M468
Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Norman Roth. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Q. 909.09767003 M468
Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Edited by Josef W. Meri. New York: Routledge, 2006.

923.1R73R
Ross, Martha. Rulers and Governments of the World. London & New York: Bowker, 1977-78.

929.703B797D
Broughton, Bradford B. Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: People, Places, and Events. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

940.10922L343
Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Clayton J. Drees. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

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Biographical Resources

920.04K96E
European Authors, 1000-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of European Literature. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Vineta Colby. New York: Wilson, 1967.

940.10922L343
Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Clayton J. Drees. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

920.7203EX87
Levin, Carole, et al. Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.

Q. 940.103 K52
Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Richard K. Emmerson. New York: Routledge, 2006.

World Biographical Information System Online Based on the digitization of K. G. Saur's Biographical Archives, WBIS Online compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21th century. It features biographical profiles of people, often obscure, from all countries and regions worldwide. In addition to 4.56 million digitized biographical articles from 24 Biographical Archives, the WBIS Online database currently provides an index to 36 Biographical Archives totaling short biographies on more than 4.2 million persons. This resource contains citations only and not full-text articles.

Writers Directory Contains up-to-date bibliographical, biographical, and contact information for nearly 20,000 living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication. Entries typically include name, pseudonyms, addresses, citizenship, birth date, specialization, career information, and a bibliography. Contact information includes e-mail addresses where available.

Literature Resource Center (via GaleNet) A bio-bibliographical guide to writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. The LRC includes Contemporary Authors, with biographical coverage of more than 124,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, with profiles of some of the most studied authors; and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, with more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works. Searchable by name, title of work, subject/genre, nationality, date and place of birth, honors, awards and more.

Biography Resource Center (via GaleNet) The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 427,000 biographies from over 960 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources with full-text articles from more than 270 magazines. Entries are arranged by narrative biographies, thumbnail biographies, magazine articles, and websites when available. Searchable by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, birth and death years and locations, and availability of images.

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English Studies

Bibliographies

Prof. Charlie Wright's (UIUC) Old English and Anglo-Saxon Studies Bibliography WWW

016.94202Al7a
Altschul, Michael. Anglo-Norman England 1066-1154. London, Cambridge U.P. for the Conference on British Studies, 1969.

016.94201B64a
Bonser, Wilfred. An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography 450-1087, 2 vols. Oxford : Blackwell, 1957.

016.941C354b1984
Chaloner, W. H. and R.C. Richardson. British economic and social history: a bibliographical guide. New York: St. Martin Press, 1996.

016.94204G98l
Guth, Delloyd J. Late-Medieval England 1377-1485. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Conference on British Studies, 1976.

016.94203W65h
Wilkinson, Bertie. The High Middle Ages in England, 1154-1377. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Serial Bibliographies

016.942AN7
Royal History Society. Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History (1974- ).

829.09AN4
Anglo-Saxon England (1972- ).  (Bibliographical supplement to Royal History Society, Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History .

Q.429.05OL
Old English Newsletter (1967- ). (Summer issues only) 

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Lexicons

942.01 B568
Lapidge, Michael et al., ed. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 

DA129 M43
Szarmach, Paul, ed. Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.

Surveys

820.9 C7386
Brown, Peter. A companion to medieval English literature and culture, c.1350-c.1500. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007.

792.0942 C144
Beadle, Richard. The Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1994.

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 English Language--Old English

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Grammars, Lexicons, Thesauri

Dictionary of Old English Corpus UIUC

Glossarial Database of Middle English UIUC

429B65 (Main Lib. Stacks, Main Lib. Ref. )
 Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary ("Bosworth-Toller") London, 1898), with a Supplement by Toller (1921) and Addenda by A. Campbell. (Oxford, 1972).

Bosworth and Toller Online WWW

820.9AN4
Bammesberger, A. Beiträge zu einem etymologischen Wörterbuch des Altenglischen. Heidelberg: Winter, 1979. Supplement to Holthausen (see below).

016.429 C1450
Cameron, Angus. Old English Word Studies: A Preliminary Author and Word Index. Toronto; Buffalo: Published in association with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto by University of Toronto Press, 1983. 5 Vols. in Microform.

429 C15O
Campbell, Alistair. Old English Grammar. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959.

429 H14C3
Hall, J. R. Clark. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 4th ed. with Supplement by H. D. Meritt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961.

429.3H74G
Holthausen, F. Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1934.

429.82421 H679I
Hogg, Richard. An Introduction to Old English. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

422 ON4O
Onions, C. T. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1966.

429.321 R542t
Roberts, Jane and Christian Kay, with Lynne Grundy. A Thesaurus of Old English: in two volumes. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

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General Resources for English Literature

Bibliographies

016.82B31C1969 v.1
Watson, George, ed. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969-.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Lexicons

016.875Sh24h
Sharpe, Richard J. A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540. Belgium: Brepols, 1997.

016.875 Sh24hadden.
Sharpe, Richard J. A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540: Additions and corrections, 1997-2001. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001.

Surveys

820.9 C7386
Brown, Peter. A companion to medieval English literature and culture, c.1350-c.1500. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007.

829.09ST2C
Stanley, E.G. ed. Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature. London: Nelson, 1966.

Texts

English Poetry Database UIUC  

English Poetry Database comprises the works of almost 1,350 poets from 600-1900.

Oxford Text Archive WWW

The OTA preserves high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching and currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings. Some texts are free.

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Old English/Anglo-Saxon Literature

Bibliographies

Q.429.05OL
Old English Newsletter (1967- ). (Summer issues only) 

829.09AN4
Anglo-Saxon England (1972- ).  (Bibliographical supplement to Royal History Society, Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History .

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Lexicons

Fontes Anglo-Saxonici WWW

A register of written sources used by authors in Anglo-Saxon England. The database contains records analysing the source-relationships of about 1143 texts and identifying the use of over 1000 sources. It also shows which texts were known in Anglo-Saxon England, how well texts and authors were known, and in what ways they were used. 

Surveys

820.9 C73811
Lambdin, Laura C and Robert T Lambdin. A companion to Old and Middle English literature. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 2002.

829.09 C143
Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

829.09 G837N
Greenfield, Stanley and Daniel Calder. A Critical History of Old English Literature, 2nd ed. New York: New York University Press, 1986.

942.01 B568
Lapidge, Michael et al., eds. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

820.9 C73816
Pulsiano, Philip and Treharne, Elaine, eds. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

Texts

Dictionary of Old English Corpus UIUC

University of Toronto's searchable full-text database of the surviving 3000+ Old English texts.

English Poetry Database UIUC

English Poetry Database comprises the works of almost 1,350 poets from 600-1900.

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Anglo-Latin Literature 

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879 L314A
Lapidge, Michael. Anglo-Latin Literature 900-1066. London: Hambledon Press, 1993.

870.9B63h
Bolton, Whitney F. A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 597-1066. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967.   Only volume 1, covering up to A.D. 740, was ever published.

875.9 R448h
Rigg, A. G. A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Middle English Literature 

Bibliographies

Prof. Charlie Wright's (UIUC) Middle English Literature Bibliography WWW

HyperBibliography (Accessible through Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse) UIUC  

The HyperBibliography includes all the Middle English materials which are cited in the Middle English Dictionary. Although this is not an exhaustive bibliography of Middle English writing, it offers the most comprehensive single list of ME materials at present available in electronic form, and is searchable in multiple ways.

Texts

Ancrene Wisse

Ancrene Wisse Preface is a prototype digital edition from the Early English Text Society. This trial electronic edition of the Preface to Ancrene Wisse is based on a non-electronic edition of the full text currently being prepared for publication by EETS. It includes most of the components of a traditional EETS edition, but the electronic edition also includes a translation (no longer provided by most EETS editions), and reproductions and transcriptions of the relevant sections of three important early manuscripts.  

Brut Chronicle UIUC

Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse UIUC

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia  WWW

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia features electronic full-text of Medieval English texts.

English Poetry Database UIUC

English Poetry Database comprises the works of almost 1,350 poets from 600-1900.

English Verse Drama UIUC

Contains more than 2,000 works by nearly 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works from the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century

Middle English Compendium UIUC

The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

Wessex Parallel WebTexts WWW

Wessex Parallel WebTexts is a project which aims to link research and teaching by producing scholarly editions freely available on the World Wide Web for student use. Its website offers an electronic anthology of Middle English works in prose and verse, together with background material for use in teaching.

Authors

016.821  AN25G
Andrew, Malcolm. The Gawain-poet: An Annotated Bibliography, 1839-1977. New York: Garland Pub., 1979.

016.821 B592g
Blanch, Robert J. The Gawain poems: a reference guide 1978-1993. Albany, N.Y.: Whitston Pub., 2000.

821 L26PVP
Pearsall, Derek . An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive  WWW

The long-range goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive is the creation of a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman.

398 M29YA
Archibald, Elizabeth and Edwards, A. S. G. A Companion to Malory. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1996.

398 M29YDI
DillDillon, Bert. A Malory Handbook. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

B.M2B.M255F
Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. Cambridge ; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1993.

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