Medieval Studies—Indexes & Abstracts
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Pazienza! Couragio! The plethora of online resources are no less byzantine in design, searchability, turgidity, and opaqueness than are/were many of their print analogs. Browsing the print versions may convey a better sense of organization and limitations. One may find it usefull to construct a vocabulary of relevant terms, particularly for foreign languages. Through time and across languages personal and place names may vary and cross-references may be lacking or incomplete.
International
Medieval Bibliography Online
(IMB). The print set covering 1967- is shelved in the Lane Room (Z6203.I63).
This is the best general 
coverage index and runs about three years behind. Major weaknesses
are its lack of abstracts as well as its currency. The online IMB
incorporates the book entries from Cahiers
de civilization médiévale
which covers the 10th-12th centuries.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(400-1700), is being developed and should be watched for its potential
utility. Currently it provides author/title/journal access to 400
interdisciplinary journals from 1859 on, but has no abstracts and
few subject headings.
For the topics women, sexuality, and gender:
Feminae
Medieval Women and Gender Index covering journal articles, book
reviews, and essays in books about women, 1995-.
Online national historical bibliographies include Royal
Historical Society Bibliography, Irish
History Online,
Jahresberichte
für deutsche Geschichte: Bibliographie zur deutschen Geschichte
von ihren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Traditional print annual
bibliographies are listed on the subject
pages.
For 500-1300 there is the excellent annual bibliography produced
at Spoleto Medioevo
Latino,
Bolletino bibliografico della cultura europea dal secolo VI al XIII
(Z6203.M4, Lane Rm). Its section "Auctori e testi" is an excellent
source for updating older guides and manuals covering Latin
authors and text editions. Its CD-ROM version is part of the
Lane Room digital collection; call number D117.A12 M42.
For the later Middle Ages there is Bib.
annuelle du Moyen Âge (D113.B53, Lane Rm.), specifically
intended to update the Répertoire
bio-bibliographique des auteurs latin, patristique et médiévaux
(MTXT MFICHE 1102), which lists editions, manuscript locations,
and textual studies in journals and books. The Répertoire
is the microform of the card file established by the
L'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Paris.
For Antiquity and early Medieval Latin studies:
L'Année
philologique ;
coverage can extend to the 8th century.
For the Renaissance: Bib.
Int. de l'humanisme et de Renaissance .
The successful use of this index, like most, whether in paper or
online version, requires patience. Its first section is a personal
name listing which gives secondary works and editions. It covers
15th and 16th century topics broadly and runs about five years behind. Furthermore:
There is only one user allowed access at a time, so if you get a "busy" notice, try again later. And remember to log off when you are done. This resource is the online index of BIHR from 1965-1997. Regarding scope: "In the context of this bibliography ‘Humanism’ and ‘Renaissance’ are flexible terms that encompass a wide range of human activities – economic, legal, scientific and technological, literary, philosophical, religious, and artistic –without restricting the timeframe to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in each country. In Italy, in order not to exclude Petrarch (1304–1374) or Boccaccio (1313–1375), the period has to be brought forward by half a century to c.1350. Conversely, in Spain the Siglo de Oro lasts well into the seventeenth century. Likewise the late development of the humanist movement in Eastern Europe makes it necessary to extend the period to the mid-seventeenth century. (Sarah Sussman)
There are numerous, ongoing, long-established bibliographies, and
many are identified in Rouse (1969) Serial
Bibliographies for Medieval Studies. This artifact of an earlier
world of research and bibliography remains useful for some subjects.
other
important online indexes
Other subject-related indexes are listed in the separate sections
of this guide. All indexes require patience on the part of the user
to learn how to navigate their eccentricities and shortcomings.
There are master lists of networked
indexes and of stand-alone
CD-ROM's available to library users.
Electronic
journals
Access to online journals is expanding, though in most cases only
recent years are available. The JSTOR project includes complete
backsets, except for the current 4-5 years. Search journal titles
in Socrates or the library ejournal
gateway for the most up-to-date information. Titles freely available
in part or full on the internet are listed on several sites including
The
History Guide/InformationsWeiser, a subject gateway to scholarly
relevant websites in history. A selection of journals available
online:
Periodocal
Contents Index (PCI)
indexes the table of contents only of older issues of many
journals, including:
- Analecta Bollandiana
- Bibliothèque
de l'école des Chartres
- Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters
- Early
Medieval Europe
- Frühmittelalterliche Studien
- Historische Zeitschrift
- Journal
of medieval history
- Mediaeval Studies
- Moyen âge
- Quaderni storici
- Revue historique
- Traditio
- Viator
- Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte.
Germanistische Abteilung
- Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte.
Romanistische Abteilung
Speculum and other journals useful for medieval history
(e.g., English Historical Review, Church History,
Journal of Ecclesiastical History, inter alia) have
up-to-date indexing with abstracts in Expanded
Academic
and Academic Search Premier,
which are also useful for identifying recent book reviews: How to
find book reviews
Last modified:
May 19, 2008
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