LibGuides: British and Commonwealth Studies-Literature: Medieval

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MLA International Bibliography
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International modern language and literature bibliographic database. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, with citations from over 5,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers, and conference proceedings all together.

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International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
IMB Indexes books, articles, book chapters, and other publications on the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500 (USU's subscription is provided through the Tanner Endowment Fund). The IMB was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America.
Early English Books Online
Digitized books from the Short Title Catalog .
Note: Use the EEBO Text Creation Partnership interface for full text searching of the Short Title Catalog books.
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.
Acta Sanctorum
Encyclopedic Latin text examining the lives of Christian saints, organized by each saint's feast day. This resource is a principal source for research into the societies and cultures of early Christian and medieval Europe.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
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Full-text bibliographical database of religion and philosophy, with more than 300 full-text journals for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
Humanities International Complete
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Abstracts and some full text covering diverse subject areas of the humanities.
ARTstor
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The Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible collection of software tools for organizing and presenting research. NOTE: You must create an individual account to download images.
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WorldCat Discovery
Identify resources at your library and in the collections of the world's libraries.
WorldCat Discovery is available to all current OCLC FirstSearch subscribers as part of existing subscriptions. FirstSearch will operate in parallel with WorldCat Discovery through December 31, 2015. Items held by Utah State University are listed first in the search results.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Authoritative dictionary describing the evolution of the English language.
It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, etymologies, and pronunciation of over 600,000 words. It traces the usage of words through 3 million quotations from a wide range of international English-language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Updated quarterly.
TEAMS Middle English Texts
Middle English texts--excluding Chaucer and Langland.
Includes over 250 teaching editions occupying a significant place in the canon. The focus is upon literature adjacent to works by major authors such as Chaucer or Malory that are normally in print.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Gather background information from various general and specialized reference books, including dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Medieval Websites

Beowulf
Why lug around the Norton Anthology? Read a hypertext version of Beowulf!
Chaucer
Get the lowdown from Harvard on Chaucer's characters, courtly love, Middle English, and much more!
Domesday Book
What was the Domesday book? Explore the daily life and culture of 11th c. England through this colorful website.
Luminarium
Medieval through Restoration shopping mall of trivia, art, music clips, scholarly (and NON-scholarly) essays on the great and not so great authors and their works.
The Camelot Project
Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and much more. From the University of Rochester.
William Caxton's Versions of The Canterbury Tales
Compare beautiful scanned versions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales published by William Caxton in 1476 and 1483 and housed in the British Library,

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