Research Guides: Art History & Architecture History: Medieval Art and Architecture History

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International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary index for medieval studies, covering 450 to 1500, primarily in Europe.
Indexes journals and festscriften published 1967 to the present. Search by author, title, publication name, year, language, subject terms, geographic areas, century, repository, and more.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Enormous bibliography the includes articles, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews.

Internet Medieval Source-book
Online site for medieval sources. Contains links to both short excerpts of sources (for teaching) and full text of translated sources (for research).
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)
Includes primary and secondary sources related to medieval studies.
The Labyrinth
A gateway to site pertaining to medieval studies organized by topic. You never know what you will find and it can be difficult to gauge the quality of the site you've been linked to.
Netserf
Wide-ranging site for medieval studies.
Middle English Teaching Resources Online (METRO)
Contains work by Chaucer, the Wakefield Plays, and the Gawain stories in original Middle English.
Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters
Includes original manuscript information along with translations.
Digitized works by Marie de France
De Re Militari
Many sources digitized by the Society for Medieval Military History, with application to non-military historians as well.
The International Dunhuang Project; The Silk Road
Site devoted to the digitization of English translations of sources related to the eastern silk road.
The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily: Image Database
This website was created to collect, host and display images made by travelers, mapmakers, historians, architects and artists of medieval and early modern monuments and cities of Southern Italy.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index This link opens in a new window
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online archive of peer reviewed/scholarly journals in all disciplines.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Searches the full text of electronic journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Search over one million digital images in the fields of the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
As of August 1, 2024 the former Artstor website is now completely incorporated into JSTOR. All content is now located there.
Index of Medieval Art This link opens in a new window
Records for works of art from early apostolic times to A.D. 1400 (and through the end of the sixteenth century for manuscript holdings), with an emphasis on western art.
These records are illustrated by more than 60,000 images. This database is considered a premier resource for iconographical studies. NOTE: Browser must allow popups to view images.

ArchNet: Islamic Architecture Community
Database of images, encyclopedia-style entries, and bibliography on buildings primarily from the Islamic world.

Guide to the Study of Medieval History by Louis J. Paetow
Call Number: Z6203.P25 1980 (Knight Library)
Literature of Medieval History, 1938-1975 by Gray C. Boyce
Call Number: Z6203 .P25 1980 Suppl (Knight Library)
Supplement to Paetow's A Guide to the Study of Medieval History.
Guide to the Sources of Medieval History by R. C. Van Caenegem
Call Number: D117 .C2213 (Knight Reference)
Overview of sources for medieval history, does not contain content newer than 1978.
Repertorium fontium historiae Medii Aevi : primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura collegii historicorum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum by Genicot
Call Number: Z6203 .R4 (Knight Library)
Each volume dedicated to a specific form of source from the Middle Ages. Multiple languages.
Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources by Clarissa Palmer Farrar
Call Number: Z6517.F3 (Knight Library)
Does not contain content newer than 1946.
Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources, 1943-1968 by Mary A. Ferguson
Call Number: Z6517 .F47