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The core collection for Medieval Studies is the Medieval Institute Collection which occupies most of the 7th floor of the Hesburgh Library. The concentration of some 100,000 specialized volumes around a staffed reading room is a signal aspect of this collection, making it an outstanding facility which has long attracted researchers from all over the world. In addition to major reference works and primary source collections, the Medieval Institute Reference Collection of over 21,000 volumes includes the celebrated Astrik L. Gabriel History of Universities Collection, the extensive Manuscript Studies Collection, as well as support materials for the Ambrosiana Collection. That collection of microfilms and photographs of manuscripts from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan is also housed on the 7th floor, together with the microfilm section of the History of Universities Collection. Medieval manuscripts, incunabula and rare books relevant to Medieval Studies are preserved in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, on the 1st floor. Access to a large number of specialized electronic resources (see below) is provided by the Libraries to users associated with the University of Notre Dame, and some additional resources relevant to Medieval Studies are scattered throughout the Hesburgh Library according to subject matter. This is the list of Medieval Studies resources which are currently highlighted on our website. Please note that this is not the complete list of resources in this area which the library owns or to which it has access. If you have any questions or need further direction, please contact either the librarian indicated below or the reference department of the Hesburgh Library.

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Recommended Resources (All Resources: 64 databases | 37 e-journals )

• Bibliographie de civilisation medievale

  
  
  A comprehensive, current bibliography of monographs worldwide and listings of miscellany volumes. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select Bibliographie de civilisation medievale.

• Database of Latin dictionaries

  
  
  The aim of the database is not only to integrate different types of Latin dictionaries, whether modern, medieval or early-modern, but also to build in links between these different tools. Where the dictionaries provide Latin terms and vernacular equivalents or explanations (whether in contemporary or historic forms of English, French or German), searches will be possible on both the Latin lemmata and the English, French or German lemmata. This database will provide an unsurpassed tool since all Latin word-forms that appear concretely in texts will have a link to entries in relevant dictionaries and from there the user can go and read the selected dictionary entry. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select Database of Latin dictionaries.

• International encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages:

  
  
  Intended as a complement to Lexikon des Mittelalters. Access info: Click on "Enter databases" then select International encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.

• International medieval bibliography online

  
  

  Coverage:

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  Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

  
  
  Contains electronic resources for researchers in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Enables users to access citations in journal, book, and reviews databases; provides online access to Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum (a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts); provides access to the International directory of scholars (a comprehensive directory of contact information, and information on the research and teaching careers of scholars around the world).

• Labyrinth

  
  
  Provides free, searchable access to electronic resources in medieval studies with connections to databases, services, texts, and images.

• Lexikon des Mittelalters online

  
  
  An electronic version of the Lexikon des Mittelalters, a fundamental medieval studies encyclopedia covering Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.

• Library of Latin texts

  
  
  "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. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select Library of Latin texts.

• Medieval review

  
  
  Since 1993, The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible. The electronic medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews.

• Menestrel

  
  
  Selective inventory of electronic resources for medievalists, with particular emphasis on French-speaking areas.

• Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Online)

  
  
  A selection of texts from all five divisions of Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates). Access info: Click on "Enter databases" then select Monumenta Germaniae Historica

Other Medieval Studies Resources

Organizations: Archives

Formats: Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Manuscripts · Maps and GIS · Microforms · Photographs and images

Research tools: Abbreviations · Bibliographies · Biographies · Catalogs · Dictionaries · Directories · Encyclopedias · Guides and finding aids · Indexes and abstracts · Quotations · Reviews (book, film, etc.)

E-Journal Collections: Blackwell Synergy · Brill Academic Publishers · Cambridge University Press · Duke University Press · HighWire Press · IngentaConnect · JSTOR · Open Access Journals · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · Routledge · ScienceDirect · Springer LINK · University of Chicago Press · Walter DeGruyter

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