Man and nature in the Middle Ages / Feast and daily life in the Middle Ages, © Christian Rohr 2002
The Middle Ages in the WWW
(updated October 2002)
Man and nature in the Middle Ages / Feast and daily life in the Middle Ages
Novosibirsk State University, Oct. 22nd – Nov. 1st, 2002
Christian Rohr, christian.rohr@sbg.ac.at
These links and some more are also available on my homepage:
http://www.sbg.ac.at/ges/people/rohr/mawww00.htm
Standard search engines:
 Google: http://www.google.com
 AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com
 Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com
 General Problem: mostly you will get thousands of results, when entering only one
keyword; therefore, it is extremely necessary to link several keywords accurately by using
the so-called Boole operators (AND, OR, AND NOT, etc.)
Special introductive sites on university homepages (a little choice):
 Salzburg: Salzburg Medieval Studies Online (SAMS.on), an interdisciplinary studies
programme: http://www.sbg.ac.at/ger/samson/samsonhome.htm
 Salzburg: Online tutorium on auxiliary sciences (with introductive texts in German,
edutainment, further links, etc.): http://www.sbg.ac.at/ges/katnew/intro.htm
 Erlangen: http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1ges/ma_resso.html (general access to all
fields of medieval research, see also the English translation of the introductive page in
German)
 Tübingen: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/mittelalter/tutorium/ (auxiliary sciences)
 Bamberg: http://www.mittelalterzentrum.uni-bamberg.de/ (general access to all fields of
medieval research)
 Zurich: http://www.adfontes.unizh.ch/1000.php (a virtual visit to an archive, 13th to 18th
centuries, including exercises to read historical writings)
Library catalogues:
 Austrian National Library: http://www.onb.ac.at/ (all titles available from 1501 onwards,
either via database or via the so-called Katzoom system)
 Karlsruhe virtual catalogue: http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/virtueller_katalog.html (access to all major library catalogues in the Western world, including the
German catalogue communities, British Library in London, Library of Congress in
Washington, Bibliothèque National de Paris)
 Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich: http://www.mgh.de (large library specialized
in auxiliary sciences)
Bibliographies, online review journals
 Medieval Feminist Index: http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/
mfi.html (on all fields concerning feminist and gender studies, full text of the articles can
partly be downloaded)
 The Medieval Review: http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr large online journal for review
articles (mostly literature in English, review articles always in English, all fields,
possibility to subscribe without charge)
Man and nature in the Middle Ages / Feast and daily life in the Middle Ages, © Christian Rohr 2002
Special fields of research (a small choice):
 Vatican library and museums, Rome: http://www.christusrex.org//www1/vaticano/ (a
choice of treasures from the Vatican, including frescoes, manuscripts, arts in general, not
only Middle Ages)
 Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris: http://www.bnp.fr large online exhibitions (changing
every year, including manuscripts, not only Middle Ages, mostly also English version
available)
 British Library, London: http://www.bl.uk, including a full copy of the first printed book,
the Gutenberg bible
 Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters, Krems (Austria) / Institute for daily life pictures
and artefacts: http://jupiter.imareal.oeaw.ac.at:8080/real/ (database with a large choice of
pictures)
 European Society for Environmental History (ESEH): http://www.eseh.org the leading
society for all fields of environmental history (together with the ASEH, the American
Society for Environmental History), also large list for contacts and forthcoming projects
 H-Soz-Kult: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de the most important forum for social
and cultural history in the German speaking countries, free subscription available to
receive actual information via email
Databases on CD-ROM and local networks:
 International Medieval Bibliography (IMB): database on all fields of medieval sciences,
International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds
 Medioevo Latino: Italian database on Latin sources from the Middle Ages (also available
in print)
Commercial homepages:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com, the largest online bookseller worldwide (also with second
hand books, which are out of print)