Medieval Studies

The Index of Medieval Art is the largest database of medieval art, documenting nearly 80,000 works of art dating from the 1st century CE to 1550, without geographic limitation. It is based on the analog archive at Princeton University. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and stained glass. The subject matter of each work is classified under one or more of 28,000 subject terms, and a full-text description accompanies each work. The online database-presently contains more than 100,000 images and nearly 50,000 bibliographic records covering iconography, art history, archaeology, religion, and classical studies.

This resource contains full colour images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, where they are available. The original images and the transcriptions can be viewed side by side.

This collection-presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia.

Provides access to the Parker Library's remarkable collection of 559 manuscripts spanning the sixth to the sixteenth centuries; a fully-tagged version of M. R. James' well-known catalogue (A DescriptiveCatalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Cambridge UniversityPress, 1912) updated and expanded by a project team at work since 2005; and bibliographic entries for more than 6,000 secondary works and more than 18,000 citations linking those works to individual manuscripts. The site also offers access to digital copies of some editions and secondary works.

Translated Texts for Historians makes available historical sources from A.D. 300800 translated into English, in many cases for the first time. Now the Translated Texts for Historians E-Library offers this collection as a digital resource, containing 54 volumes from the series that bring together a wealth of important historical texts with scholarship from leading academics. Types of writing include histories, chronicles, letters, annals, formularies, compendia, political speeches, military and theological handbooks, poems, documentary sources, records of church councils, biblical and theological commentaries, sermons, church histories, Christian treatises, Christian and pagan panegyric and polemic, Neoplatonic texts, Lives of saints, bishops and popes. The translated texts have been translated into English from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish.