Medieval Studies: Introduction
Resources: Start Here
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Full-text articles covering the period from the 5th to the 15th century, with a focus on Europe and Christianity.
Resources: Main
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Interdisciplinary bibliography of scholarly research on the period from 400 to 1700.
Historical Abstracts
Index of journal articles, books, etc. on world history (NOT Canada or the U.S.) from 1450 to the present.
Resources: Also Useful
Literature Online
Full text of more than 355,000 works in English, American and Canadian literature.
OED : Oxford English Dictionary
The full text of the 20-volume 2nd edition (1989) plus regular updates.
Patrologia Latina
Searchable database of the 221 volumes of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina.
Scholars Portal Journals
Several thousand full-text electronic journals; especially strong in sciences and social sciences.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials
Index with some full text for articles and books on religion and theology.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
Interdisciplinary database with articles from more than 1200 English-language periodicals.
Medieval Studies @ EBSCOhost
Selected EBSCOhost databases for Medieval Studies.
Medieval Travel Writing
Important manuscripts by European travellers.
JSTOR
Current and back issues of journals in arts and sciences.
Atla Historical Monographs Collection
Monographs from 13th century to early 1900s on religious language, development, and relationships with other issues.
Medieval Family Life
Medieval documents on the topics of family, business, the law, violence, etc.
Early English Books Online
Full text, in facsimile, of more than 125,000 literary and historical texts as listed in the English Short Title Catalogue.