Subject Guides | Bibliographies, Indexes, & Reference Works
Collections of Texts | General Resources
Organizations & Institutions | Relevant Columbia Sites

• Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale
  A companion to the index of articles in the International Medieval Bibliography Online, this database indexes books and book reviews on the same topics.
• Chaucer Name Dictionary
  A guide to astrological, biblical, historical, literary, and mythological names in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer
• 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.
• International Medieval Bibliography Online
  Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
• Iter--Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  Contains electronic resources for researchers in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700); provides online access to Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum (a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts).
  
• Orbis Latinus
  The second edition (1909) of the classic guide to the vernacular equivalents to Latin placenames.

• Acta Sanctorum
  The database contains the complete Acta sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. It comprises the works published over a period of three hundred years by the Societe de Bollandistes and includes materials on the lives of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the sixteenth century.
• The ARTFL Project
  A consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.  Includes some public-access databases as well.
  
  
  • ARTFL-FRANTEXT Database
    Over 2900 texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the 12th to the 20th century.
  • Latin Vulgate Bible Search Form
  • Provençal Poetry
    38 collections of texts from the 12th and 13th centuries.
  • Textes de Français Ancien (TFA)
    103 works from the 12th through 15th century.
  • Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database
    1,780 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as many lesser-known texts.
• The Canterbury Tales Project
  The Project aims to investigate the textual tradition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to achieve a better understanding of the history of its composition and publication before 1500, via transcription, collation, analysis and publication.
• Digital Dante Project
  Dante-related academic resources developed by the Institute for Learning Technologies of Columbia University.
• Dartmouth Dante Project
  A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
• Digital Scriptorium
  The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
• DScriptorium
  A site devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of medieval manuscripts.
• The Labyrinth Library
  A subset of the larger Fons Fontium
• Patrologia Latina
  A full-text electronic version of the Latin portion of the first edition of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, published by nineteenth-century ecclesiastical publisher Jacques-Paul Migne.  Its 221 volumes cover the works of the Latin Fathers, from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216.
• Il progetto Duecento
  Il Duecento è un archivio che raccoglie testi della poesia italiana antica, del periodo che va dalle origini fino a Dante.
• Textual Databases in Italian

• Dante, Chaucer and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry (1983)
  A monograph by R. A. Shoaf
• The Gregorian Chant Home Page
• Guide to Early Church Documents
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver
  The Medievalist's Fons Fontium
• Medieval Resources
  Edited by Dan Mosser, a listing of links to texts, databases, homepages, manuscript facsimiles, art et al.
• The Medieval Science Homepage
  Edited by James McNelis, this page is intended to provide a convenient and comprehensive set of links to all Internet resources worldwide which deal with aspects of medieval science, both in Western and other cultures.
  
• Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)
  A cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies.
• Virtual Christianity: Bibles
  An extensive resource for identifying Biblical texts

• The Bodleian Library
  
• The British Library
• Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
  HMML preserves manuscripts, printed books and art at Saint John's University and undertakes photographic projects in regions throughout the world.
• Medieval Academic Discussion Groups
  A listing of discussion groups, along with the addresses of the listservers that host them.
  
• The Medieval Academy of America
  Includes a useful conference calendar.
• The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University
  Includes information on the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica
  The official website of the MGH.
• The University of Virginia Library
  U.Va.'s collection of e-texts includes many texts in Middle English.

• Columbia's Medieval Guild
  An interdisciplinary organization for graduate students in medieval studies