WISER: Medieval Studies
Charlotte Goodall, Classics
Isabel Holowaty, History
Sue Usher, English
Hilla Wait, Philosophy & Theology
Aim of the session
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Overview of key resources
Introduction to variety of resources
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Bibliographical resources
Texts
Reference
Manuscripts
Maps
Visual material
Portals
Using OxLIP+
Subject menus
History > Medieval history
Philosophy > Ancient and
medieval philosophy
Theology > Medieval resources
Classics & Ancient history
English
Reference
Other Options
Any word = medieval
Brepols databases (via OxLIP+)
Bibliographic resources
• International Medieval Bibliography
• Iter Bibliography
• Bibliography of British & Irish History
• Philosopher’s Index & ATLA
• MLA Bibliography
International Medieval Bibliography
includes Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale
Indexes books & articles published in
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periodicals (journals)
miscellany vols. (conference proceedings, collected
essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues)
Covers:
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Middle Ages 300-1500 AD
Europe, the Middle East and North Africa
International Medieval Bibliography
Iter Bibliography
Indexes
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Books
Journal materials (articles, reviews, bibliographies, etc.)
Essays in books (incl. Festschriften, encyclopaedias,
conference proceedings)
Covers:
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Middle Ages and Renaissance 400-1700
Iter Bibliography
ITER screenshot
Bibliography of British & Irish History
• Covers Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth
from 55 BC to present
• incl. book, journals articles, book essays
• covers historical events, concepts, guide to
primary sources, historical methods
• good for local history
Bibliography of British & Irish History
ATLA & Philosopher’s Index
ATLA - Core e-title for Theology
Church history, patristics, medieval theologians
600,000 articles from journals and multi-author works
375,000 book reviews
Abstracts (sometimes) Links (sometimes) to full text
Indexes back to 1949, with selected records going back to 1818
X-searchable with
Philosophers Index - Core e-title for Philosophy (from 1940)
Logic & scholasticism; medieval philosophers
And with
MLA International Bibliography
ATLA & Philosopher’s Index
Link to
full-text
MLA Bibliography
• Indexes articles published in
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Journals
Books
Conference proceedings
Bibliographies
Websites
• Literature, language, linguistics, folklore
• 1926 – present
More than 2 million articles from over 4,400 titles
• updated 9 times p.a.
MLA Bibliography
Reference
Cambridge Collections Online
Blackwell Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Handbooks Online
Middle English Compendium (MEC)
Lexikon des Mittelalters (via Brepols)
Cambridge Histories Online (CHO)
Cambridge Companions Online
N.B. Take the
CCO Guided Tour!
Blackwell Reference Online
N.B. Check out the Resources list,
including the Guided Tour
Middle English Compendium
Check out:
About the
MEC
Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
http://www.pase.ac.uk/
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
via British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Europa Sacra
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Chronicles & annals
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC)
Medieval Sources Online
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online
(Rolls, etc.)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Various free digital versions:
• Gutenberg project
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/657
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://omacl.org/Anglo/
Medieval Sources Online
Chronicles, e.g.
Annals of Fulda
Annals of St-Bertin
Collections of documents in translation:
The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages
The Black Death
Women in England, 1275-1525
Medieval Sources Online
Medieval and Early Modern Sources
Online (MEMSO)
Large library of books to the study of medieval
and early modern England, Scotland and Ireland
Selections of:
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annals and chronicles
calendars and registers
saints’ lives
Rolls’ Series
HMC reports
Statutes of the Realm
MEMSO
Medieval governance & law
Domesday Book
Parliamentary Rolls of Medieval England
Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
Domesday Book
• First public record describing condition of
England south of the river Tees in 1066 and 1086.
• Record of human and natural resources
• Useful for history of villages, social classes, and
economy.
• View mss, transcriptions, translations and maps
Parliamentary Rolls of Medieval England
Official records of the meetings of the
English parliament from the reign of Edward
I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII
(1485 - 1509)
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
A corpus of historical works, charters, legal texts,
letters, political texts, and literature for the Holy
Roman Empire.
Five series (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae,
Antiquitates) and thirty-three sub-series.
2 e-versions:
• Free digital version at dMGH (http://www.dmgh.de/) good for
browsing
• Brepols version better for searching.
Charters, Rolls, etc.
Anglo-Saxon Charters (Regesta Regum Anglorum,
etc.)
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/charthome.html
Calendars of Close Rolls, Patent Rolls, Fine
Rolls (via BHO http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ or MEMSO)
Henry III Fine Rolls Project
http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/
MEMSO
Henry III Fine Rolls Project
Church History
• Acta Sanctorum
• Europa Sacra
• MEMSO
• Papal Letters & the Vatican Archive
• British History Online
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Ecclesiastical Calendar
http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html
Greek and Latin primary sources
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
• Full text searching of Ancient Greek texts. The
TLG corpus encompasses the totality of Greek
literature, including Early Modern Greek, and
Byzantine texts.
Library of Latin Texts (formerly Cetedoc)
• LLT provides full text searching of Latin texts
from antiquity to modern times.
Patrologia Latina
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
•Search by
author name,
date, generic
or geographic
epithet
•Or, do a
search across
the entire
canon
Select word forms to search from list,
or do a Lemmatized search, retrieving
all inflected forms linked to a
dictionary entry.
Library of Latin Texts
•Full text searching of all Latin
Texts
•Series A and Series B: Series A
is more complete, containing
works in Latin from Classical to
Modern period. Series B
currently is smaller and contains
more specialised works but will
grow in the future.
•CDS: allows you to search both
series A and B of LLT
simultaneously, as well as the
eMGH, Archive of Celtic-Latin
Literature (ACLL) and the
Aristoteles Latinus Database
(ALD).
Library of Latin Texts
•Limit searches by period,
author, title, century or
“clavis” (number in Clavis
Patrum Latinorum).
•Full text searching across
the entire corpus
Library of Latin Texts:
Word search, e.g. essentia in Aquinas
•Select specific forms of the word(s) you
wish to search for
•Search within a specific work or full corpus
Database of Latin Dictionaries
Cross searching of Latin Lexica:
• Lewis and Short
• Blaise Medieval
• Blaise Patristic
• Forcellini Lexicon
• Forcellini Onomasticon
• Souter
• Du Cange
• Firmini Verris Dictionarius
• Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius
• Le Talleur
Database of Latin Dictionaries
Browse
between
definitions
across all the
dictionaries
in the DLD
Patrologia Latina
J-P. Migne’s collection of reprints of the
writings of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian
(c 200) to Innocent III (1216).
Editions range in date from the early 16th
century to 19th century.
Includes prefatory material, scholarly
apparatus, etc.
Patrologia Latina
Other full-text sites in Latin/English
Past Masters
Electronic Grossteste
Corpus Thomisticum
Alberti Magni E-Corpus
Past Masters
Anselm: Major Works
Anselm: Opera Omnia
Aquinas: Collected Works
Aristotle: Complete Works
Augustine: Opera Omnia
Augustine: Works
Francis of Assisi
The Latin Background 1100-1550
Becket; John of Salisbury;
Bacon; Wyclif; Fox
Ockham
Past Masters
Expand package → author→ title
Using Table of Contents
Changing the display
Navigating the text
Full-screen
contents
ToC
navigation
Text
hierarchy
Page
turning
Fullscreen
text
option
Finding Biblical resources
BibleWorks:
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best resource for exegesis
Oxford Biblical Studies On-line:
Bible
works
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reference material
verse identifier
maps & images
OBSO
Literary works: OE
Teaching materials
• Old English Coursepack (WebLearn)
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/engfac/undergradu/
old_english/page/old_english_cou
• Internet Old English
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/
• Old English Aerobics
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/
Sources
• Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/engfac/undergradu/old_english/page/old_english_cou
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
Literary works: OE
Editions of texts & facsimiles of MSS
• Literature Online
• Electronic Beowulf
• Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry
• Caedmon/Bede/MS Junius 11
• Aelfric’s Homilies/Parker Library on the Web
• Alfred/Boethius/Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Parker Library on the Web
Literary works: Middle English
Editions & Facsimiles
• LION
• Piers Plowman/Electronic Archive/MSS
• Chaucer/General Prologue/EEBO/ECCO
• Malory/Arthur/Chretien de Troyes (Corpus de la
Litterature Medievale)
Check out: About EEBO and
Information Resources
127K titles published in English,
1473-1700
180K works, published in the UK
in the 18th century, primarily
in English.
Check out:
Research Tools
Archives & manuscripts
Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c. 1500
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/specialcollections/western_rarebooks/medieval
British Library MSS catalogue
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts
Archives Hub
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk
Latin palaeography tutorial (TNA)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latinpalaeography/
Bodleian contact: Dr Martin Kauffmann, martin.kauffmann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Digital Archives
Parker Library on the web (OxLIP+)
Celtic and Medieval Manuscripts or 'Early Manuscripts at
Oxford‘ http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/collections/celtic.htm
Images of Medieval Manuscripts
http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/collections/medieval.htm
British Library: Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm
English Monastic Archives
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/englishmonasticarchives/
Images
ArtStor: Illuminated mss, architecture, artifacts
Index of Christian Art
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)
http://www.vads.ac.uk/
ArtSTOR
Bernard of Clairvaux search
Index of Christian Art
Bernard of Clairvaux search
Maps
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html
Cartographic images
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/
Grässe: Orbis Latinus
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html
- medieval place-names
Internet Medieval Sourcebooks - Maps
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Useful portals
The ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
http://the-orb.net
British History Online
Intute
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Gallica – Bibliothèque Nationale Française
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Digitale Bibliothek – Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/
Subject Librarians
Sue Usher, English Librarian susan.usher@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Isabel Holowaty, History Librarian isabel.holowaty@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Hilla Wait, Philosophy & Theology Librarian hilla.wait@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Charlotte Goodall, Classics Librarian charlotte.goodall@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Martin Holmes, Music Librarian martin.holmes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Clare Hills-Nova, Italian (Lang & Lit) & History of Art Librarian
clare.hills-nova@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Nick Hearn, French (Lang & Lit) & Slavonic Subject Librarian
nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Jill Hughes, German (Lang & Lit) jill.hughes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Martin Kauffmann, Medieval Manuscripts martin.kauffmann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Questions & hands-on
Thank you for coming and get in touch if you
need.