Digital Medieval Sources
- EuroDocsA large repository of online primary source documents throughout Europe's history.
- Iter: Bibliography This link opens in a new window
- Bayeux Tapestry This link opens in a new window
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England This link opens in a new window
- Early English Books OnlineEarly English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
Finding Articles Written by Historians
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBest database for world history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized. Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- Opac RegestaThis is a great site to go to for upper level medieval studies courses, where you have your topic thought out.
- Iter: Bibliography This link opens in a new windowA bibliography of more than 1.3 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
Finding Books
- Iter: Bibliography This link opens in a new windowA bibliography of more than 1.3 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
- Medieval Sources BibliographyA database collecting sources on the Middle Ages, with good filtering options for subject and document type.
You will get limited results if you try to search for "primary sources" in library databases since the Library of Congress does not use that subject heading. Try searching these subject headings instead:
sources
personal narratives
documents
manuscripts
texts
sermons
memoirs
letters
Online Manuscript Facsimilies
- Digital ScriptoriumThis database contains a substantial database of digitized manuscripts from a score of American university collections, including Rutgers.
- E-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of SwitzerlandA growing virtual collection of hundreds of medieval manuscripts housed in Swiss repositories.
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford UniversityThis site provides access to digital images of over 80 medieval manuscripts.
- Digital Library of Medieval ManuscriptsIncludes Roman de la Rose, a joint digital project based of Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Image Collections & Search Tools
