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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 totalling 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 availablity of images.
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Internet Resources
WESS German Studies Web WWW
Intute: German Studies WWW is a service dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cataloging online resources in the humanities and provides online access to this growing collection of records.
Women and written culture in the Middle Ages WWW
This site aims at creating a database of women recorded
as being involved in the creation of manuscripts up to and including the
fifteenth century.
Indexes & Databases
Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica UIUC
*Available on CD-ROM at Classics Library
Reference Area.*
Middle High German Conceptual Database WWW
MHGCD is the result of a close co-operation between the
long-standing projects Names in Medieval German Literary Texts (University of Kiel: Dr.Horst P. Pütz) and The Conceptual Dictionary of
Medieval German Literature (Bowling Green State University: Prof. Dr.
Klaus M. Schmidt); both projects operate jointly since 1992.
Bibliographies
Annotated Bibliography of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias WWW
Dictionaries & Encylopedias
Q.943.0203M468
Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia. Edited by John Jeep. New York &
London: Garland, 2001.
940.1 M57c1999
Neumüllers-Klauser, Renate ed. Res medii aevi = Kleines Lexikon der Mittelalterkunde. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999.
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437.02L59MI
Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, von Dr. Matthias Lexer. 3 vols.
Leipzig: S. Herzel, 1872.
Internet Resources
Joseph Wright's A Middle High German Primer, Third Edition WWW
Grammars
437.02P28M1989
Paul, Hermann. Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik. 24. Auflage. Tübingen:
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998.
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Internet Resources
Mediaevvum.de's Altohochdutsche Text im
Internet (8-10 Jahrhundert) WWW
Mediaevvum.de's Frühmittelhochdeutsche
Texte (11. Jahrhundert) WWW
Mediaevvum.de's Mittelhochdeutsche Texte
des 12. Jahrhunderts WWW
Mediaevvum.de's Mittelhochdeutsche Texte
des 13. Jahrhunderts WWW
Mediaevvum.de's Mittelhochdeutsche Texte
des 14. Jahrhunderts WWW
Brian Zahn's Middle High German
Poetry WWW
Emory University's Walther von der
Vogelweide WWW
Bibliotheca Augustana: Germanic WWW
Bibliographies
Prof. Stephen Jaeger's (UIUC)
Magic and the
Miraculous in Courtly Romance Bibliography WWW
Prof. Charles Wright's (UIUC) Old and Middle
German Bibliography WWW
Encyclopedias and Companions
831N51FN511
Gentry, Francis G. et al. The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopedia.
New York; London: Routledge, 2002.
830.9 G31736
Hasty, Will ed. German literature of the High Middle Ages. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006.
830.9C73817
Gentry, Francis G., ed. A Companion to Middle High German Literature to
the 14th Century. Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, 2002.
This volume is intended as a guide to medieval German
literature from its beginning in the 8th century to the 14th century for
the "motivated student and colleague who has an interest...in the European
Middle Ages but who lacks knowledge of the German language." The work
covers a wide-range of literary types and included introductory chapters
on the historical context of Medieval Germany and development of the
German language.
Primers and selections of poems
437.02W93M1960
Wright, Joseph. A Middle High German Primer. 5th ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960.
830.81L11M1977
Des Minnesangs Frühling, unter Benutzung der Ausgabe von Karl
Lachmann. 36. Auflage. 2 vols. Stuttgart: Hirzel, 1977.
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