Medieval/Renaissance

Contents: Medieval/Renaissance Databases | Trial Database | General Literature Databases | CD-ROMS | Web Starting Sites | Centers for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Library Web Guides | Special Collections | Reference E-Books | Online Aids | Electronic Texts | Language/Paleography | Discussion Lists

Medieval/Renaissance Databases

Dictionary of Old English (Concordance to Old English) Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: The Corpus contains all surviving Old English material, excluding some variant texts.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1475-1700) Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: EEBO contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing bibliographies. Also the Thomason Tracts.

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) Location: Internet (http://estc.bl.uk): ESTC contains descriptions of English or English-language letterpress materials published before 1801.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1842-) Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: The goal of Iter (meaning "a journey" or "a path" in Latin) is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500).

Middle English Compendium Location: Library Databases: Contains an e-version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and an associated network of electronic resources.

Trial Database

Go to Trial Databases page for Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership

General Literature Databases

Academic OneFile Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals in a variety of subject areas. Provides the full text of many articles.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: ABELL indexes monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: Indexes arts and humanities periodicals for years 1975 to present.

Expanded Academic ASAP Plus Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: Indexes a wide variety of scholarly and popular periodicals from 1980 to the present. Provides the full text of many of the articles indexed.

Literature Resource Center Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: LRC combines biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information to provide full-text information on authors and their works.

MLA International Bibliography Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: The key index to scholarly research published on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

Project MUSE Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: Provides access to the full text of nearly 250 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

CD-ROMs

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare (full set) Location: Instructional Media Collection Dept. Desk (CD-Audio/various numbers)

Beowulf/The Complete Story: A Drama Location: Instructional Media Collection Dept. Desk (CD-Audio no. 100)

Dictionary of Old English A-F (A-F only) Location: Student Multimedia Design Center (CD-ROM 1641)

Electronic Beowulf Location: Student Multimedia Design Center (CD-ROM 1589)

The Wife of Bath's Prologue Location: Student Multimedia Design Center (CD-ROM 564)

World Shakespeare Bibliography Location: Student Multimedia Design Center (CD-ROM 874)

Web Starting Sites

The British Academy Portal Location: Internet (http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/index.html)

Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES) (University of Cambridge, UK) Location: Internet (http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/links.htm)

Early Modern Literary Studies (Matthew Steggle, editor) Location: Internet (http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsweb.html)

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University) Location: Internet (http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsweb.html)

Luminarium (Anniina Jokenen, editor) Location: Internet (http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm)

NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources (Andrea R. Harbin, editor/Beau A.C. Harbin)
Location: Internet (http://www.netserf.org/)

Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature (University of California, Santa Barbara) Location: Internet (http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2740)

Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th Century (University of California, Santa Barbara) Location: Internet (http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749)

Centers for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Location: Internet (http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/links/links.html)

University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of English: The Early Modern Center Location: Internet (http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/)

The Ohio State Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Location: Internet (http://cmrs.osu.edu/resources/)

University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies Location: Internet (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/index.html)

University of Michigan Medieval and Early Modern Studies Location: Internet (http://www.lsa.umich.edu/mems/resources/)

University of Pennsylvania Medieval Links Location: Internet (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/medieval/home/links/links.html)

University of Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies: Resources for Electronic Research Location: Internet (http://www.crrs.ca/)

Western Michigan University: The Medieval Institute Location: Internet (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/index.html)

Library Web Guides

The Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web (Med/Ren Studies by Margaret Vail Anderson, librarian, Cortland, NY) Location: Internet (http://www.digital-librarian.com/medieval.html)

EEBO Online Tutorial (Brock University) Location: Internet (http://www.brocku.ca/library/subres/selector.php?id=19)

Medieval Studies (Stanford University Libraries and Academic Resources) Location: Internet (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/medieval.html)

Medieval Studies: A Selective Guide To Resources (University of North Carolina) Location: Internet (http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/hum/medieval.html)

Medieval Studies: Gateways, Subject Guides, and More (American Library Association) Location: Internet (http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2005/April05/medievalstudies.htm)

Medieval Studies Program Library Resources (University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign) Location: Internet (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mdx/medstud/medstudies.htm)

Special Collections

Access to Archives (A2A): The English Strand of the UK Archives Network (The National Archives, UK) Location: Internet (http://www.a2a.org.uk/)

The British Library Location: Internet (http://www.bl.uk/treasures/treasuresinfull.html)

Bodleian Library Location: Internet (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm#intro")

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads Location: Internet (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm)

Dscriptorium (Jesse D. Hurlbut, BYU) Location: Internet (http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/)

English Short-Title Catalogue Location: Internet (http://estc.bl.uk)

Free Library of Philadelphia Digital Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Location: Internet (http://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/)

National Archives (UK) Location: Internet (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/dates.asp?date_id=1)

Oxford University Early Manuscripts Location: Internet (http://image.ox.ac.uk/)

Stanford University Medieval Studies Gallery Location: Internet (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/mss/gallery.html)

The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection (University of Toronto) Location: Internet (http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/)

Reference E-Books

Cambridge Guide to Literature in English Location: Library Databases (via Credo Reference) [restricted to UD]

Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English Location: Library Databases (via Credo Reference) [restricted to UD]

Dictionary of British History Location: Library Databases (via Credo Reference) [restricted to UD]

Dictionary of Shakespeare Location: Library Databases (via Credo Reference) [restricted to UD]

The Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance Location: Library Databases (via Credo Reference) [restricted to UD]

Online Aids

Chaucer Bibliography (The University of Texas at San Antonio) Location: Internet (http://uchaucer.utsa.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First)

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (Haverford College) Location: Internet (http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html)

Printers' Devices (George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) Location: Internet (http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/)

Electronic Texts

The Edmund Spenser Home Page (University of Cambridge) Location: Internet (http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/texts.htm)

The English Emblem Book Project (Penn State University Libraries) Location: Internet (http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/)

The Oxford Text Archive (University of Oxford) Location: Internet (http://ota.ox.ac.uk/)

Renascence Editions (University of Oregon) Location: Internet (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm)

Language/Paleography

LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English (University of Toronto) Location: Internet (http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/)

Palaeography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500-1800 (The National Archives, UK) Location: Internet (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/default.htm)

Discussion Lists

Medieval Academic Discussion Groups (Towson University) Location: Internet (http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/acalists.html)

Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature (University of California, Santa Barbara) Location: Internet (http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2740)

Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th Century (University of California, Santa Barbara) Location: Internet (http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749)

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