Lexikon des Mittelalters
The Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA) is an indispensable tool for
medievalists across all disciplines. It deals with all branches of
Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the
whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. The
ancient roots of Western Culture, as well as neighbouring cultures, such
as the Byzantine, the Arabic and the Jewish, occupy a prominent
position in the encyclopaedia.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
The Monumenta Germaniae Historica was founded in 1819 by the
Gesellschaft für Deutschlands ältere Geschichtskunde. It is without
doubt one of the most prestigious editorial undertakings for the
critical publication of medieval historical texts. The MGH has
established for all Western scholarship a standard for critical
editions. The search-software offers a wide range of search
possibilities.
International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages
The purpose of IEMA is to offer newly-written, commissioned, articles,
fully peer-reviewed that supplement Lexikon des Mittelalters and offer
supplementary notes to the original LexMA articles. The chronological
range of IEMA is 300–1500 CE, and it covers all of Europe, North Africa,
and the Middle East.
Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale
The Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM) has been established
by the Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (Université
de Poitiers) and aims to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography
of monographs.
International Directory of Medievalists
The International Directory of Medievalists Online is the continuation
of the printed editions and contains 15,000 names and addresses of
specialists from over 70 different countries with for the majority their
fields of study.
Papal Letters Online (LITPA)
The database Ut per litteras apostolicas represents an electronic
version of the renowned Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle
(32 vols.; Rome, 1883- ) and the Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe
siècle (48 vols.; Rome, 1899- ). This publication provides access to
valuable sources not only for church historians but those interested in
politics, socio-economic affairs, warfare, cultural history, even the
environment.
In Principio
The database contains over 1,000,000 incipits covering Latin literature
from the Pre-classical Age to the Renaissance. It is aimed at all those
scholars and libraries interested in the writers, texts and manuscripts
of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It is an inevitable tool when studying
or publishing a particular text or to make an inventory of manuscripts.
Vetus Latina Database (VLD)
The huge panoply of Latin biblical texts which were in existence and use
from the second century AD/CE until the time when the Vulgate became
predominant are known under the common rubric of the Vetus Latina, or
the Old Latin, Bible. The term Vetus Latina refers to all those biblical
texts translated into Latin which are not found in the Vulgate. This
database contains every citation, listed by book, chapter and verse of
the Bible. The citations (over 300,000) can be searched individually or
as a whole, following the biblical structure. The result of a search is
an image of the card file available in the Vetus Latina Institute.
Dictionnaire d’Histoire et de Geographie Ecclesiastiques (DHGE)
This online encyclopaedia is an unparalleled source of information for
anyone interested in the history of the Church. It comprises a vast
amount of information: 30 volumes, 70,000 entries and sub-entries, over
50,000 columns by specialists, aimed at an academic readership. Every
year, about 1,000 articles are updated to further enrich the database.
Revue d’Histoire Ecclesiastique Bibliographie (RHE)
The RHE bibliography covers the literature that deals with the different
aspects of the Church's history. However, the bibliography does not
limit itself to Church history stricto sensu: every theme touching
Church history is covered (political history, social and economic
history, archaeology, history of art, music, architecture, relations
with Islam and Judaism, etc.) which makes the RHE a first line tool for
the different disciplines.
Europa Sacra Online
Europa Sacra offers complete coverage of Church prelates, information on
all 1300 medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates and
prosopographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops and
patriarchs.
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
The Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature Online is a full-text database of
the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from
the period 400-1200 A.D. It contains more than 450 Latin works spanning
the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography,
poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters,
inscriptions, etc.
Aristoteles Latinus Database
The ALD is a full-text database of the corpus of medieval translations
of the works of Aristotle. The Latin versions of these texts constituted
the main tools for the study of science and philosophy in the Middle
Ages.
Library of Latin Texts B
Library of Latin Texts (former abbreviation: CLCLT) is the world’s
leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning
of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of
the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the
classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive
corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior
latinitas.
For questions, contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu
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