WISER: Medieval Studies

Charlotte Goodall, Classics

Isabel Holowaty, History

Sue Usher, English

Hilla Wait, Philosophy & Theology

Aim of the session

• Overview of key resources• Introduction to variety of resources

• Bibliographical resources• Texts• Reference• Manuscripts• Maps• Visual material• Portals

Using OxLIP+

Subject menusHistory > Medieval history

Philosophy > Ancient and medieval philosophy

Theology > Medieval resources

Classics & Ancient history

English

Reference

Other OptionsAny 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 • periodicals (journals) • miscellany vols. (conference proceedings, collected

essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues)

Covers:• Middle Ages 300-1500 AD• Europe, the Middle East and North Africa

International Medieval Bibliography

Iter Bibliography

Indexes • Books

• Journal materials (articles, reviews, bibliographies, etc.)

• Essays in books (incl. Festschriften, encyclopaedias, conference proceedings)

Covers:• Middle Ages and Renaissance 400-1700

ITER screenshot

Iter Bibliography

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 IndexATLA - Core e-title for TheologyChurch history, patristics, medieval theologians

600,000 articles from journals and multi-author works

375,000 book reviewsAbstracts (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 philosophersAnd with

MLA International Bibliography

Link to full-text

ATLA & Philosopher’s Index

MLA Bibliography

• Indexes articles published in• Journals

• Books

• Conference proceedings

• Bibliographies

• Websites

• Literature, language, linguistics, folklore• 1926 – presentMore 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)

N.B. Take the CCO Guided Tour!

Cambridge Companions Online

N.B. Check out the Resources list,including the Guided Tour

Blackwell Reference Online

Check out:About the MEC

Middle English Compendium

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: • 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 Projecthttp://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/

MEMSO

Henry III Fine Rolls Project

• 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

Church History

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

•Search by author name, date, generic or geographic epithet

•Or, do a search across the entire canon

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

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).

•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

•Select specific forms of the word(s) you wish to search for

•Search within a specific work or full corpus

Library of Latin Texts:Word search, e.g. essentia in Aquinas

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

Browse between definitions across all the dictionaries in the DLD

Database of Latin Dictionaries

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 WorksAnselm: Opera Omnia

Aquinas: Collected WorksAristotle: Complete WorksAugustine: Opera Omnia

Augustine: Works Francis of Assisi

The Latin Background 1100-1550 Becket; John of Salisbury;

Bacon; Wyclif; FoxOckham

Expand package → author→ title

Using Table of Contents

Changing the display

Navigating the text

Page turningFull-screen

contents

Text hierarchy

Full-screen

text option

ToC navigation

Past Masters

Finding Biblical resources

BibleWorks: • best resource for exegesis

Oxford Biblical Studies On-line:• reference material

• verse identifier

• maps & images

Bibleworks

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 Englishhttp://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/

• Old English Aerobicshttp://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: OEEditions 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 EnglishEditions & 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 andInformation Resources

127K titles published in English,1473-1700

Check out:Research Tools

180K works, published in the UKin the 18th century, primarilyin English.

Archives & manuscripts

Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c. 1500http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/specialcollections/western_rarebooks/medieval

British Library MSS cataloguehttp://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/

ImagesArtStor: Illuminated mss, architecture, artifacts

Index of Christian Art

VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)

http://www.vads.ac.uk/

ArtSTORBernard of Clairvaux search

Index of Christian ArtBernard 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

Enlarged section

Internet Medieval Sourcebooks - Maps

Useful portals

The ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies) http://the-orb.net British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Gallica – Bibliothèque Nationale Française

http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Digitale Bibliothek – Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/

Subject LibrariansSue 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 Librarianclare.hills-nova@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Nick Hearn, French (Lang & Lit) & Slavonic Subject Librariannick.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.