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    Medieval Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books on the Middle Ages: 909.07.
    Also search under the History of individual countries.

    Full Text Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • FindArticles.com
      • Search for articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
      • Note: Text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc. Nor does it provide volume, issue, or page numbers.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text history journals, magazines, etc.. Cannot search for articles.
    • Scholarly Publications (from the Labyrinth)
      Links to monographs, articles, journals and electronic journals, many in full text.
    • Social Science Online Periodicals (UNESCO)
      • Links to over 190 scientific periodicals with full text in the social sciences. Cannot search for articles.

    Indexes with Citations

    • Humanities Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes about 500 journals and magazines in archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
      • 2/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format:  4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 001.3 H918)
    • Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics (UniversitŽ Laval, Canada)
      • Citations and abstracts of articles from over 300 journals dealing with the study of the church fathers. Can be searched only in French, but abstracts may be in English.
    • Digital Scriptorium (Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
      • Image database and visual union catalog of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Includes the collections of Univ. of California, Berkeley, Columbia Univ., Huntington Library, Univ. of Texas, and New York Public Library.
    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.
    • Medieval Feminist Index
      • Citations from over 300 journals as well as essay collections (i.e. books) about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. 1994 on.

    General Resources

    Bibliographies

    Byzantine Studies

    Chivalry and Heraldry

    Medieval England

    • Medieval England (Labyrinth)
      • Links to sites on manuscripts, art and archaeology, living history, and other resources.
    • Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
      • (Call number: R 942 M489)

    Medieval France

    • Centre d'études des Textes Médiévaux (Université Rennes 2 - Haute Bretagne, France)
      • Online medieval texts. In French.
    • Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.
      • (Call number: R 944.003 M489)

    Glossary