New Electronic Resources: May 2006 Archives

Temple now has access to the premier database for medievalists, The International Medieval Bibliography Online (IMB), which contains over 300,000 articles in thirty different languages. The articles come from journals, conference proceedings, essay collections, and festschriften chosen by a “worldwide network of fifty teams to ensure regular coverage of 4,500 periodicals and a total of over 5,000 miscellany volumes”. Extensive indexing--including separate indexes for subjects, people, places, repositories, and time periods--allows for precise searching. The IMB covers the period from 300 to 1500 CE and the geographic regions of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, making it relevant to scholars of classics, religion, philosophy, art and archaeology, history, literature, and Islamic studies.

In addition to the IMB, here are some other electronic resources relevant to the study of various aspects of the Middle Ages:

Encyclopedias:

• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages;
• Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium;
• Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance;
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy;
• Encyclopedia of Religion;
• New Catholic Encyclopedia;
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Databases:

• ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance;
• Index Islamicus;
• ATLA--the database of the American Theological Library Association;
• Bibliography of the History of Art;
• Philosopher’s Index;
• MLA International Bibliography--the database of the Modern Language Association.

--Fred Rowland