Internet Resources for Medievalists

Table of Contents

• Some Columbia Sites of Interest
  
• Databases
  
• Medieval History Sources on the Internet
  
• Medieval Literature on the Internet
  
• Selected Materials Regarding Christianity
  
• Arabic Texts
  

Some Other Columbia Sites of Interest

LOCATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL HELP

• The Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library
  
• The Butler Library Reference Department - Where one goes for information and guidance.
  
• Columbia's Medieval Guild - an interdisciplinary organization for graduate students in medieval studies.
  
• The Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  
• The Electronic Text Service
  

SITES WITH USEFUL CONTENT

• Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, and Mythological Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
  
• Beginning Bibliography of Medieval Studies: useful guide to major works in a variety of areas (© 1993)
  
• Digital Scriptorium
  
• Locating Papal Documents
  
• The Monumenta Germaniae Historica--a guide
  
• Orbis Latinus: the second edition (1909) of the classic guide to the vernacular equivalents to Latin placenames.
  

Databases

ARTICLES, BOOKS, DISSERTATIONS

• International Medieval Bibliography Online
  
  
• Iter--Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  
  
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  
  
• Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale
  

FULL TEXT

• The Patrologia Latina Database - a full-text, searchable version. This database is available only to affiliates of Columbia University.
  
  
• The Acta Sanctorum Database - a full-text, searchable version (as of 5/2001, only January, February, April and May are available). This database is available only to affiliates of Columbia University.

REFERENCE WORKS

Medieval History Services on the Internet

• Amsterdam Society for Medieval Studies - Sources for the Middle Ages, 800-1200
  
  
• Argos - a peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on the World-Wide Web. It has been designed to cover the ancient and medieval worlds.
  
  
• Arisitum: Histoire et Archeologie en France - News on the publication of texts, etc. - provided by the Association pour la Diffusion de l'Information Historique et Archeologique en France.
  
  
• The Bodleian Library - A collection of digitized images taken from the Library's slide collection of manuscripts.
  
  
• The British Library
  
  
• Conference Calendar from Labyrinth
  
  
• DScriptorum - A location devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts
  
  
• The Ecole Initiative: A Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World Wide Web - a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet
  
  
• Gregorian Chant Home Page - again, for those interested in such...
  
  
• Hill Museum & Manuscript Library - a Guide to this important collection.
  
  
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver - the Medievalist's Fons Fontium
  
  
• Medieval Academic Discussion Groups - a descriptive list
  
  
• The Medieval Academy of America
  
  
• The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University - Includes information on the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo
  
  
• The Medieval Science Homepage, editor James McNelis
  
  
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica: The Official Web Site of the MGH.
  
  
• Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) - a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web.
  
  
• The World of the Vikings project - for those interested in such things...
  
  
• WWW Medieval Resources - Links to texts, databases, homepages, manuscript facsimiles, art et al.
  
  

Medieval Literature on the Internet

• ARTFL
  • ARTFL introduction
    
    
  • ARTFL bibliography, Reference Manual and other Documents
    
    
  • Search the ARTFL database via WWW (Restricted to the members of Columbia University and other subscribing institutions)
    
    
  • Connect to the ARTFL Database via the PhiloLogic system (Personal account I.D. and password required)
    
    
  •  ARTFL Project: Provengal Database
  
  
  
• The Canterbury Tales Project
  
  
• Dante, Chaucer and the Currency of the Word - Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry
  
  
• Digital Dante Project at the Institute for Learning Technologies of Columbia University
  
  
• Dartmouth Dante Project - When you reach the Dartmouth Library, type "connect dante"
  
  
• The Labyrinth Library - a subset of the larger Fons Fontium
  
  
• Medieval Literature Virtual Library - from Princeton
  
  
• The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, UVa
  
  
• Old English Pages
  
  
• Il progetto Duecento
  
  
• Il progetto Duecento: List of Texts
  
  
• Textual Databases in Italian
  
  
• Topics in Arthurian Legend - also from Princeton
  
  

Selected Materials Regarding Christianity

• The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia [ECOLE] - an effort to create a hypertext encyclopedia of early church history - in its infancy but well worth a look.
  
  
• Early Church Documents c.96-150 CE
  
  
• Guide to Early Church Documents
  
  
• ARTFL Project: Latin Vulgate Bible Search Form
  
  
• Listservs in Christianity - Listservs of interests to students & scholars of Christianity organized by era & broad subject
  
  
• Virtual Christianity: Bibles - an extensive resource for identifying Biblical texts

Arabic Texts (including translations)

• Islamic Texts and Resources MetaPage (MSA @ University at Buffalo)
  
  
• Search the Quran (Y. Ali's and M. M. Pickthall's translations)
  
  
• The Quran (E.H. Palmer's translation)
  
  
• The Quran (M.H. Shakir's translation)