The Libraries have added several resources for Medieval Studies in the last year.

These include:

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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance

Based at the University of Toronto, Iter is a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Iter is a portal to several subscription and freely available resources.

  • Iter Bibliography lists secondary sources, including books and book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, conference papers, and theses and dissertations,
  • Early Theatre, is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research in medieval or early modern drama and theatre history, rooted in the records and documents of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
  • Aestimatio provides critical, timely assessments of books published in the history of what was called science from antiquity up to the early modern period in cultures ranging from Spain to India, and from Africa to northern Europe.
  • Romeo and Juliet: Searchable Database for Prompt Books includes two fully-searchable databases containing information from approximately 170 prompt-books for productions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. These productions range from the seventeenth century to the 1980s.
  • Iter International Directory of Scholars provides a directory of scholars working in Medieval and Renaissance studies.
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Dictionary of Old English and Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus

Taken together, these two resources represent the first six centuries of the English Language, (C.E. 600 – 1150). The Web Corpus attempts to collect and present at least one version of every surviving Old English Text. These texts form the basis for the Dictionary of Old English (DOE).

The DOE defines the vocabulary Old English language by listing by headword of every spelling which is attested for a word in the Web Corpus, providing frequency counts and noting the type of texts and authors where the words tend to occur.

 

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Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature

This collection of texts used thus far by the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources allows you to search across the corpus for specific strings of text, browse the Table of Contents to view specific works, or explore by the distribution of word-forms.

 

These resources join our existing offerings, such as the International Medieval Bibliography, Index Islamicus, JSTOR, Religion Index, Patrologia Latina, Acta Sanctorum, and ARTstor that help you illuminate the history, literature, arts and beliefs of the middle ages.