Medieval Studies  

Find books, journals, and media collections held by UMass Libraries and the Five Colleges.

Combined catalog of most North American and many world libraries.

Borrow books from libraries outside of the Five Colleges or request copies of articles and materials from any library.

A citation management service for storing and formatting bibliographic references.

Citations, abstracts and full-text articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to social sciences, humanities, education, physical, and biological sciences. Covers 1975 to present.

Citations to journal articles, books and book chapters in all European languages, on medieval studies. Citations 1967-present on the historical period 400-1500.

A bibliography of scholarly publications on the Middle Ages and Renaissance; the ITER Italia manuscript catalog; and three journals. Covers the period 400-1700; citations date back to 1784.

Digital version of the majority of extant Latin texts, searchable by author, word(s) in text, period, and more. Before 200 B.C.E.–1965.

Use this website to find and view descriptions and images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library, one of the richest collections in the world.

Designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.

An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions.

Epistolæ is a collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to the 13th century. The letters include references and translations.

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is provided by Fordham University and is a large collection of internet resources.

An anthology of Middle English Literature collected online and provided without subscription.

Comprehensive series of carefully edited and published sources for the study of German history (broadly conceived) from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. This collection, as well as the menus, are in German with no English translation.

he Online Medieval and Classical Library is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students.

Extensive collection of early Christian Latin texts (from Tertullian 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III 1216 AD). The entire collection is in Latin with no English translation.

TEAMS Middle English text series makes available to teachers and students Middle English texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions.

An online collection of links provided by Georgetown University for the Medieval Studies.

Essential bibliographic guide to the field (part of Orb: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies listed above)

About a thousand images of Illuminated Manuscripts in Oxford University's Bodleian Library can be reached from this page. Information about the manuscripts and the digital images can be found at the bottom of this page, and at the bottom of the pages with the images themselves.

The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization provides Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to work with maps.

Harvard’s collections of Islamic manuscripts, and maps from the 10th through 20th centuries.

MARGOT is a research project dedicated to publishing fully searchable editions of texts from the French Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.

Interactive maps and sources of Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe

The Aberdeen Bestiary is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript.

Domesday Book is a detailed survey of the land held by William the Conqueror and his people, and is one of the earliest surviving public records.

Bibliotheca Laureshamensis - digital, gathers 300 medieval manuscripts from 68 different libraries.