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History: Medieval History

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Brill's Medieval Reference Library from Brill
Contains full-text of four encyclopedias: Brill's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Online; Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles; Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage; and Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Each title can be searched separately or as a group.
Historical Abstracts from EBSCO
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The standard indexing service for academic historical writings on all areas of the world, except the United States and Canada. Covers items published from 1972 to present.
International Medieval Bibliography from University of Leeds
Index of articles, reviews, and notes on medieval studies. A comprehensive, standard source. 1967-2003.

Using familiar, multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists, this database employs 120,000 index terms classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.). Covers publications in over 30 languages. Relevant to Classics, English language and literature, History and archaeology, Theology, Philosophy, Medieval European languages and literatures, Arabic and Islamic studies, Art history, etc.. Coverage begins in 1967.
JSTOR from JSTOR
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Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.
Manchester Medieval Sources Online from Manchester Hive
Includes 34 full-text e-books covering first-hand accounts during the Medieval Period.

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Defining Gender, 1450-1910 from Adam Matthew Pubs
Database of primary sources, mostly from Great Britain. Primarily "advice literature," also includes essays by contemporary scholars. 1450-1910.

Defining Gender includes indexing that directs researchers to larger holdings of similar literature available on microform.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) from ProQuest
Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in English, 1473-1700.

The collection contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). A wealth of subject areas includes English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. The Basic search mode allows searching using a combination of the following fields: keywords, author, title, subject, bibliographic number (from the short-title catalogues), or date. More about EEBO.
Empire Online from Adam Matthew
Full-text digital reproductions of primary documents relating to the British Empire. 1492-1969.

Documents are organized under five themes: Cultural Contacts, c. 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class & Colonialism, c. 1783-1969.

Europa Sacra Online from Brepols
Database providing detailed information on the medieval Roman Catholic Church, its structures, divisions, and leaders at all levels. 1198-1503.

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Although based on two standard print resources by C. Eubel and P. B. Gams, it will be enhanced to include information on members of individual religious orders and members of universities.

Making of the Modern World from Gale
Full-text documents from 1450-1914 in covering history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more.
Medieval Family Life from Adam Matthew
Five major letter collections from fifteenth century England .

Medieval Travel Writing from Adam Matthew by Adam Matthew
Manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The focus is on journeys to central Asia, the Far East, Mongolia, Persia, India, China, South-East Asia and the Holy Land.

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