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UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Primary Sources: Online | CD-ROM | Major Microfilm Sets | Special Collections
Reference Resources: General Works (online) | Article Databases | Other Internet Resources
Dissertations
Acta Sanctorum
A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
ARTFL
The American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language is a cooperative project of the CNRS and the University of Chicago. It is a large goup of licensed and freely available databases including the following:
Provençal Poetry,
Textes de Français Ancien (TFA),
Translation of the Bible by Louis Segond,
and B.A.S.I.L.E.: Le Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Age au XXe siècle: Romans, Contes, Nouvelles.
Early English Books Online
Citations from early English texts from 1475 to 1700, presented as digital images. Includes works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership
Searchable SGML/XML text editions of image files contained in Early English Books Online.
Literature Online: LION
An array of literary databases (including the full text of poems, plays, and fiction), reference works (including bibliographies, encyclopedias, etc.), and links to other Web resources for the study of literature. The complete text of journal articles is available on the database for all or some of the journals indexed. Click on Complete Contents on the left menu to see the groups of works listed chronologically.
Patrologia Latina
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. It comprises the works of the Church Fathers, Tertullian (200 A.D.) to Pope Innocent III (1216).
Renaissance Women Online
This is a special subset of the database Woman Writers Online; a collection of 100 Renaissance texts accompanied by contextual and topical essays.
Located in the Microform & Media (YRL 2nd floor).
L'atelier historique de la langue française : l'histoire des mots du haut Moyen âge au XIXe siècle.: Ancien et moyen français : Dictionnaire historique de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye--XVIIe siècle : Dictionnaire de Furetière--XVIIIe siècle : Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1762)--XIXe siècle : Dictionnaire d'Emile Littré--Curiosités françaises de Oudin--Dictionnaire philosophique de Voltaire et compléments--Dictionnaire universel des synonymes de Guizot. PC2625 .A84 1999
Corpus de la littérature médiévale en langue d'oil des origines à la fin du XVe siècle prose narrative, poésie, théatre PQ1301 .C67 2001
Corpus Montaigne PQ1642.E5 B8 1997
Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
The electronic version of the series is being published in installments. A large part of the 300 volumes are already available on the fifth installment. DD3.M8 E44
Sagas of Icelanders / Íslendinga sögur. PT7261 .I85 1996
Thomae Aquinatis Opera omnia. B765 T5
Books printed in the low countries before 1601. Individual titles of the collection are listed on Melvyl. SRLF
Canon Law KBR195 C36 Guide to the collection
French Books before 1601. Individual titles of the collection are listed on Melvyl. SRLF
German Books before 1601.
SRLF. Includes over 3000 German, Swiss and Austrian printed books from the 15th and 16th centuries. Individual titles of the collection are listed on Melvyl.
Hispanic Culture Series.
This collection includes Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, covering both belletristic writings and critical and scientific works in all fields. Individual titles of the collection are listed on Melvyl. CRL
Incunabula: the printing revolution in Europe, 1455-1500.
UCLA Library has: Chronicles and Historiography (Units 4-5); Printing in Italy before 1472 (Units 7-10); Incunabula Hebraica (Units 16-17)
Italian Books before 1601. Individual titles of the collection are listed on Melvyl. SRLF
Manuscripta: microfilms of rare and out-of-print books. Individual titles of the collection are listed on the UCLA Library catalog.
Scandinavian Culture Series (Books before 1701) Searchable guide linked to UCLA Library catalog record. PT7013
Medieval Manuscripts Collection. List of the manuscripts held in the different Special Collections of UCLA.
Bound Manuscripts Collection. Over 700 manuscripts from the 7th to the 19th century.
Ahmanson-Murphy Aldines Collection. More than 750 publications of Aldo Manuzio. Checklist of the collection
Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana. Collection of books and materials concerning Leonardo da Vinci and the Italian Renaissance.
Consilia Statuti Collection. A collection of juridical works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, containing material for the legal history of the later Middle Ages and the early modern period, especially in Italy. -Search for title "Consilia Statuti" on the catalog for individual titles.
International Directory of Scholars
A comprehensive resource which accommodates not only the usual directory contact information to scholars in the Medieval and Renaissance field, but also detailed information on their research and teaching careers.
Oxford Reference Online
See particularly the reference sources to History, Literature, Mythology and Folklore, Religion and Philosophy
Oxford English Dictionary
Provides authoritative definitions of half million words, and traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through quotations.
Digitalized catalogues of the manuscript holdings of the Bibliothèque Nationale Française
UCLA subscribes to a large number of bibliographic, biographic, reference, full text, etc. databases that may provide the materials and information you need. Review the selected list of UCLA E-resources. The following is a short list of resources that focus on Medieval and Renaissance studies.
Electronic databases are the best tools for finding articles, biographical information, statistical or economic data, and legal information. Some of the databases present and offer for search not only the bibliographic information (author, title, subject etc.) of the articles but the full texts of the articles themselves too.
The yellow UC eLinks symbol leads to UCLA or UC holdings of the item retrieved.
International Medieval Bibliography
Interdisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East for the period 300-1500. Comprehensive current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E., with citations for Russia extended to 1613. Subject coverage for gender and sexuality means that articles on masculinity and male homosexuality are included. Publications indexed are in English, French, German, and Spanish, and in Italian since 2001.
Index of Christian Art
Index to medieval art in books, manuscripts, and photographs. Records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1971 and early 2002.
Bibliography of the History of Art
International Index to the Performing Arts IIPA Full Text
Besides general journals on theater, cinema, opera, popular and even folk culture, the database includes entries on journals like, for example, the Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England [Full text available], Medieval English Theatre, and Renaissance Drama [Full text available].
Historical Abstracts
Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life) published since 1967.
FRANCIS
A bibliographic index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art and literature from 1984 to the present. Represents a wide range of materials, including serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports. Prepared by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS.
Periodicals Archives Online (formerly PCI Full Text)
Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs.
International Bibliography of Book Reviews
This database contains over one million entries about book reviews from 1985 onwards. It is international (mostly from Europe and the United States) and interdisciplinary and its reviews have been published in more than 6600 academic journals, mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
JSTOR
Full text of core scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes bibliographic data of journal articles, dissertations, collected works in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present. (Search guide to MLA International Bibliography and CSA)
Project Muse
Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Includes a large number of medieval sources (full text as well) organized by language, culture, and area.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Comprehensive resource for medieval studies.
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
Comprehensive resource for medieval studies.
Dartmouth Dante Project
Contains the full text of "La Commedia" and commentaries by more than 70 authors.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E., with citations for Russia extended to 1613.
Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
A database of medieval architecture sites in France and Britain.
Images from the history of medicine
Access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
IMMI : a guide to the Index of Medieval medical images database
Covers the objectives, organization and use of the IMMI database that describes and indexes the content of all medieval manuscript images (up to the year 1500) with medical components presently held. In North American collections.
Monastic Matrix
A scholarly resource for the study of women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE edited by Lisa Bitel and Katherine Gill (University of Southern California). The database is a collection of primary and secondary sources, as well as images, related to religious women in premodern Europe.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
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Illustration copied with the kind permission of C. Otis Sweezey from his web site: The History of Costume by Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880, Plate #12.