Subject guides: Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Secondary sources

Databases

IMB : International Medieval Bibliography (1967-present)
References to articles, books and reviews on all aspects of the European Middle Ages; also the Middle East and North Africa during 400-1500.

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ABELL : Annual Bibliography of English Language Literature via Chadwyck-Healey (1920 - present)
References to international scholarship, including doctoral dissertations, on English Literature.
LEME : Lexicons of Early Modern English
An historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth and Restoration periods.
LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts via CSA (1960's - present)
A key resource for Linguistics. LLBA references abstracts to peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, books and book review citations. An increasing number of articles are available in full text.
Bible in English
Twenty-one different versions of the English Bible, including two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch, Jonah and New Testament.
Project Muse
Full text journal database useful for multidisciplinary research in arts, social sciences and humanities.

Google Scholar
An academic version of the famous search engine. Also useful for links to references which cite other academic articles. Using this link via the Library website means you can get the full-text of articles in journals to which the Library subscribes.

Dissertation & Theses Full Text
Access to full text doctoral dissertations and master's theses, mainly from US universities.
Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
One of the largest Humanities and Social Sciences databases with reasonable coverage of English Studies. It also provides citation analysis of authors and journals.

New Cambridge Medieval History 7 volumes
Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
Available through Cambridge Histories Online
Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
Available through Cambridge Histories Online
Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy
From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism 1100–1600.
Available through Cambridge Histories Online
Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450
Available through Cambridge Histories Online
Early Medieval Christianities c. 600–c. 1100
From The Cambridge History of Christianity.
Available through Cambridge Histories Online
Oxford Reference Online
Comprises over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Oxford English Dictionary
Online access to the 20 volume second edition.

The British Library Public Catalogue
The British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) is a web interface to the main British Library catalogues, describing over ten million items.

Libraries Australia
Searches the combined catalogues of Australian libraries and also includes Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW), PictureAustralia, the British Library Catalogue, Consortium of [British] University Research Libraries,Library of Congress Catalogue, and OCLC WorldCat.
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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.
Iter Bibliography
A bibliography of more than 1.45 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
The Labyrinth
Medieval Studies resources.
One of the largest sites for medieval resources, sponsored by Georgetown University. Searchable by category or keyword.