LibGuides: FYS 100 (48) (49): The Pious and the Profane: Monks, Nuns, and Medieval Society and Culture: Reference & Research Materials

Online Databases - Primary & Secondary Resources

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Medieval Studies
Provides thorough overviews of specialized topics within the field of medieval studies, complete with links and annotations to key literature.

Full-text; previous two years
British Literary Manuscripts II, Medieval & Renaissance
Includes hundreds of thousands of pages of poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence and other manuscripts dating from roughly 1120 to 1660.
Medieval Reference Library
This collection includes Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage, and Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles.
Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
Offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from Medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century.

Full-text; 2012
Historical Abstracts
Index to journal articles, dissertations, and reviews of historical literature on world history, from 1450 to the present.

Excludes the U.S. and Canada, which are included in the American History & Life database.; Abstracts; 1969 - present
JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journal literature

Interdisciplinary journal archive of titles in the arts, botany, business, ecology, general science, history, mathematics, and the social sciences. Many journal runs go back to the 19th century and before with subject coverage going back to the medieval period and up to within 3-5 years of current (depending on journal title).; Full-text and full image; Varies by title; current within 3-5 years; Coverage is constantly expanding with the addition of more scholarly journals to the collection. Moving wall publishes to within 3-5 years of most titles that are still in publication.
Cambridge Histories Online
250 volumes from the renowned Cambridge Histories series, including extensive bibliographies.

PDF full-text; 1960 - present
Project Muse
Resource of journals in humanities, social sciences, & mathematics

Coverage of journal articles in the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.; Full-text; 1993 - present

History Databases @UR

Reference & Background Resources

Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage
Covers the role of travel in medieval religious life.
Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450
Research on medieval dress and textiles from across the range of disciplines.
Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
Chronicles are the history books written and read in educated circles throughout Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. For the modern reader, they are important as sources for the history they tell, but equally they open windows on the preoccupations and self-perceptions of those who tell it.