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Early Medieval Art 500-1000 CE
Selected Research Guides
Boyce,
Gray Cowan. Literature of medieval history, 1930-1975: a supplement
to Louis John Paetow's A guide to the study of medieval history.
Compiled and edited by Gray Cowan Boyce; sponsored by the Mediaeval
Academy of America; foreword by Paul Meyvaert. Millwood, N.Y., Kraus
International Publications, c1981. 5v. See,
especially, Part II: General history of the Middle Ages, Period I,
500-1100 AD. Includes a useful chapter on arts and culture. Volume
5 is an excellent index to the set.
Caenegem,
R.C. van. Guide to the sources of medieval history. With the
collaboration of F. L. Ganshof. Translation of Encyclopedie van
de geschiedenis der middeleeuwen. Amsterdam; New York,
North-Holland Pub. Co., 1978. xv, 428p. (Europe in the middle ages;
2) A
thorough introduction to resources in all areas of medieval history
including the arts. Use with updated French edition, below, if
possible.
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Introduction aux sources de l'histoire médiévale. Avec
la collaboration de F.L. Ganshof; traduction de l'anglais par B. van
den Abeele. Turnholti, Brepols, 1997. 649p. (Corpus Christianorum;
Continuatio Mediaevalis) This
edition includes and update of 200 additional pages of excellent
annotated bibliography arranged by subject, regional resources, and
period; it is otherwise identical to the Manuel, below.
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Manuel des études médiévales: typologie des
sources, historique, grandes collections. Avec la collaboration de
F.L. Ganshof. Louvain-La-Neuve, Université catholique de
Louvain; Turnhout, Brepols, 1997. 433p. (Reference works for the
study of medieval civilization) This
is a new translation to French of the 1978 edition of Guide to the
sources of medieval history, above.
Columbia
University: Ancient and Medieval Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/manc/manc.medieval.html
Interlibros:
Classical and Medieval Studies at Harvard
http://www.interlibros.net
Medieval
Art and Architecture. University of British Columbia Library. Fine
Arts Division
http://www.library.ubc.ca/finearts/medieval.html
Paetow,
Louis John. A guide to the study of medieval history. With errata
compiled by Gray C. Boyce and an addendum by Lynn Thorndike; prepared
under the auspices of the Mediaeval Academy of America. Millwood,
N.Y., Kraus Reprints, [1980] c1959. cxii, 643p. Still
very useful, this comprehensive guide contains chapters on pictorial
works, books and libraries, and medieval art, architecture and music.
Medieval
studies: an introduction. Edited by James M. Powell. Syracuse, N.Y.,
Syracuse University Press, 1992. xviii, 438p. Chapters
on archaeology by David Whitehouse and medieval art by Wayne Dynes
are invaluable for the beginning to intermediate researcher.
Also
includes excellent introductions to related
fields in medieval research.
SULAIR:
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources -
Medieval Studies. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/
Selected Bibliography
Constable, Giles.
Medieval monasticism: a select bibliography. Toronto; Buffalo,
University of Toronto Press, c1976. xx, 171p.
Crosby,
Everett Uberto. Medieval studies: a bibliographical guide. With C.
Julian Bishko and Robert L. Kellogg. New York, Garland Pub., 1983.
xxv, 1131p., ill. Wonderful
source despite its age; classified bibliography by media, region,
genre, etc. Many specific art and architecture sub-categories.
Ferreiro,
Alberto. The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain, A.D. 418-711: a
bibliography. Leiden; New York, E.J. Brill, 1988. lxii, 822p.
Includes
coverage of art, architecture, the minor arts, numismatics,
epigraphy, and funeraria.
Friedman, John
Block. Medieval iconography: a research guide. With Jessica M.
Wegmann. New York, Garland Pub., 1998. xxiv, 437p.
Historical
Association (Great Britain) Annual bulletin of historical literature.
[London], Historical Association, 1911- Excellent
bibliographical resource. Each issue contains references to new
publications of primary and secondary sources for the early medieval
period as well as other historical periods. Associated with the
journal, History. Also available full-text from 1997- through
Blackwell’s Synergy:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com
Identifier
sources et citations. Jacques Berlioz ... [et al.]. [Turnhout,
Belgique], Brepols, 1994.
336p. Very
well organized source, with extensive sections for iconography,
hagiography, bestiaries, etc.
Kaske, Robert
Earl. Medieval Christian literary imagery: a guide to
interpretation. In collaboration with Arthur Groos and Michael W.
Twomey. Toronto; Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, c1988.
(Toronto medieval bibliographies; 11)
Knögel-Anrich,
Elsmarie. Schriftquellen zur Kunstgeschichte der Merowingerzeit. Mit
einem Vorwort von Kurt Böhner. Hildesheim, New York, G. Olms,
1992. xii, 258p.
Medioevo
latino. Società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo
latino. Florence : SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 1998- The
bibliographical
appendix to Studi medievali. Now
also available on CDROM.
Nees, Lawrence.
From Justinian to Charlemagne: European art, 565-787: an annotated
bibliography. Boston, Mass., G.K. Hall, c1985. xvi, 278p., ill.
Rouse,
Richard H. Serial bibliographies for medieval studies. Assisted by
J. H. Claxton and M. D. Metzger. Berkeley, University of California
Press 1969. xiii, 150p. Another
still-useful standard. Good for use as supplement to online sources
for medieval studies journals.
Vernet, André.
La bible au moyen âge: bibliographie. Paris, Editions du CNRS,
1989. 131p.
Zotter,
Hans. Bibliographie faksimilierter Handschriften. Graz, Akadem.
Druck- u. Verlagsanst., 1976. 285p. Contains
an index that includes entries for individuals, places, and events
treated in MS as well as titles, authors, collections. Introduction
to the printed volumes and CD and list of facsimile series available
through Universitätsbibliothek Graz:
http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/ub/sosa/faksbib/faksbib-frame.html
Also available as a database with updates,
Bibliographie faksimilierter Handschriften: von den Anfängen
bis Ende 1992. Graz, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1996.
Selected Primary Sources
Archive
of Celtic-Latin literature: ACLL: Royal Irish Academy dictionary of
medieval Latin from Celtic sources. Compiled by Anthony Harvey
[et.al.]. Turnhout, Brepols, 1994. Texts
from the early Middle Ages. The first release, ACLL-1, contains texts
from key authors such as St. Patrick, Augustinus Hibernicus,
Columbanus, Sedulius Scottus, John Scottus Eriugena, Peter Abelard.
Over one hundred saints’ lives are included as well as many
theological works, liturgical, legislative and penitential works and
inscriptions. Contains more than 400 Latin works from over 100 known
and unknown authors.
CELT:
Corpus of electronic texts
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/
CELT,
the Corpus of Electronic Texts, provides a searchable online database
consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas,
including literature and the other arts.
The Dictionary of
Old English Corpus. Edited by Antonette diPaolo Healey.
http://www.doe.utoronto.ca
A
searchable collection of 3037 texts, representing a complete record
of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of
individual texts. New search tools being added periodically. Covers
Great Britain and Old English and Latin. A microfiche concordance was
published in 1980 by Centre for Medieval Studies, University of
Toronto. See "The Dictionary of Old English Corpus on the
World-Wide Web," OEN 33.1 (Fall, 1999), 21-28.
Early medieval
art, 300-1150: sources and documents. Compiled by Caecilia
Davis-Weyer.
Toronto; Buffalo, University of Toronto Press in
association with the Medieval Academy of America, 1986. x, 182p.
Grinten,
Evert F. van der. Elements of art historiography in medieval texts:
an analytic study. Translated from the Dutch by Miss D. Aalders. The
Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1969. 152p.
Translations and analyses of excerpts
from medieval texts that contain commentary on architecture, art, and
artists.
Library
of Latin texts. Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium. Turnhout
[Belgium], Brepols, 2002- . Latin
texts with translations in English, French, German, and Italian,
chiefly from the following corpora: Corpus Christianorum. Series
Latina; Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Medievalis; Corpus
Christianorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum; Patrologiae cursus
completus. Series Latina; Patrologiae Latinae supplementum; Sources
chrétiennes; S. Bernardi opera omnia and Biblia
sacra juxta vulgatam versionem.
The Continuatio assembles
Christian texts from the Carolingian era to the end of the Middle
Ages. It includes also works absent from Migne's Patrologia Latina
or previously published incomplete. An example of a resource that
will guide the use of this tool may be found at the University of
Indiana,
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/help-services/QuickGuides/clclt/about-clclt3.html
Medieval
hagiography: an anthology. Edited by Thomas Head. New York, Garland
Pub., 2000.
xlix, 834p. Texts
in translation include a significant number from the early middle
ages. Includes introductions to each text, notes, and
bibliographies.
Medieval
Sourcesonline from Manchester University Press.
http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/
Hundreds
of full-text medieval history documents are available by subscription
at website, above. A free medieval studies portal is also available.
Monumenta
Germaniae historica. Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum. Scriptores
rerum merovingicarum. Edidit Societas Aperiendis Fontibus Rerum
Germanicarum Medii Aevi. Hannover, Hahn, 1884-1979. 7v., 27-31 cm.
Also available as: Electronic Monumenta Germaniae
Historica: eMGH [electronic resource]. Monumenta Germaniae
Historica, Munchen. Turnhout [Belgium], Brepols, 1996- . The
Monumenta Germaniae Historica was founded in 1819 by the
Gesellschaft für Deutschlands ältere Geschichtskunde. The
MGH is divided into five major series and into thirty-three subseries
covering a wide range of medieval historical documentation. The
search-software allows the user to distinguish the major series,
namely the Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata,
Epistolae and Antiquitates. eMGH-2 contains a
selection of more than 400 works from different series but offers the
majority of the texts that have been edited in the subseries,
Auctores Antiquissimi and Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum.
From the Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum the user will find
works of Gregory of Tours, Fredegar, and the complete Passiones
vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici. Other works that are
available are the Epistulae Bonifatii et Lulli, Concilia
aevi Saxonici et Salici, the Diplomata Ludovici II and the
Epistulae of Peter Damian.
The
Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
Searchable
and up-to-date online bibliography of full-text sources.
The ORB: Internet
Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
An
excellent aggregate website with many full-text excerpts and
documents. Primary source material are organized by epoch.
Selected Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Glossaries
Dictionary
of the Middle Ages. Joseph R. Strayer, editor-in-chief. New York,
Scribner, c1982-c1989. 13v., ill. 1 interim index (ix, 190p.)
[and] Supplement. William Chester
Jordan, editor-in- chief. New York, Scribner, c2004- v., ill.
Encyclopedia of
monasticism. Editor, William M. Johnston; photo editor, Claire
Renkin.
Chicago; London, Fitzroy Dearborn, c2000. 2v. (xxxiv,
1556p., [48] p. of plates), ill., (some col.)
Encyclopedia of
the Middle Ages. Edited by Andre Vauchez in conjunction with Barrie
Dobson and Michael Lapidge; English translation by Adrian Walford.
Paris, Editions du Cerf; Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers; Rome,
Città nuova, c2000. 2v., ill. (some col.), maps.
Jakobi-Mirwald,
Christine. Buchmalerei: ihre Terminologie in der Kunstgeschichte.
Berlin, Reimer, c1997. 255p., ill. Illustrated
dictionary of terms and visual motifs. Includes references to
manuscripts and extensive bibliography.
Lexikon
des Mittelalters. [Hrsg. von Robert Auty ... et al.]. München;
Zürich, Artemis-Verlag, 1977-1999. 10v. Also
available online by subscription from Brepols
http://www.brepols.net
Online version includes a word-by-word
translation tool. Now with links to references in the IMB:
International Medieval Bibliography.
Maier,
Bernhard. Dictionary of Celtic religion and culture. Translated by
Cyril Edwards. Rochester, N.Y., Boydell Press, 1997. xiii, 338p.
Medieval
archaeology: an encyclopedia. Edited by Pam J. Crabtree. New York,
Garland Pub., 2001. xxi, 426p., ill., maps. (Routledge Encyclopedias
of the Middle Ages)
Medieval
England: an encyclopedia. Editors: Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa
Tavormina, Joel T. Rosentha. New York, Garland Pub., 1998. lxiv,
882p., ill., maps. Very
good sections on architecture and the arts.
Medieval Iberia:
an encyclopedia. E. Michael Gerli, editor; associate editors, Samuel
G. Armistead ... [et al.]. New York, Routledge, 2003. xxx, 920p.,
ill.
Medieval Italy: an
encyclopedia. Christopher Kleinhenz, editor. New York, Routledge,
2004.
2v., xxx, 1290 p., ill., maps (Routledge encyclopedias of
the Middle Ages)
Medieval Jewish
civilization: an encyclopedia. Norman Roth, editor. New York,
Routledge, 2003. xxi, 701p., ill. (Routledge Encyclopedias of the
Middle Ages)
Medieval
Scandinavia: an encyclopedia. Phillip Pulsiano, editor; Kirsten
Wolf, co-editor; Paul Acker, associate editor; Donald K. Fry,
associate editor; advisers, Knut Helle ... [et al.].
New York,
Garland, 1993. xix, 768p., ill., maps.(Garland encyclopedias of the
middle ages; 1)
Ross, Leslie.
Medieval art: a topical dictionary. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press,
1996. xxiv, 292p.
Trade, travel, and
exploration in the Middle Ages: an encyclopedia. Editors, John Block
Friedman, Kristen Mossler Figg; associate editor, Scott D. Westrem;
collaborating editor, Gregory G. Guzman. New York, Garland Pub.,
2000. xxxix, 715p., ill., maps, (Routledge Encyclopedias of the
Middle Ages)
Selected Surveys/Monographs
Arts in General
Anker,
Peter. The art of Scandinavia. With a contribution by Aron
Andersson. London; New York, P. Hamlyn [1970] 2v. ill., maps, plates
(part col.). Still
extremely useful source for comprehensive coverage in English.
Strong in the early medieval period. Superb illustrations
throughout.
Approaches
to early-medieval art. Edited by Lawrence Nees. Cambridge, Mass.,
Medieval Academy of America, 1998. xi, 185p., [26] leaves of plates,
ill., map, plan.
Atroshenko, V. I. The origins of the
Romanesque: Near Eastern influences on European art, 4th-12th
centuries. With architectural drawings by Nigel Cox and other
drawings by G.M. Mundy. London, Lund Humphries, 1985. 176p., [16] p.
of plates, ill. (some col.), maps, plans.
Good introduction to the transmission of styles during the early
middle ages.
Beckwith, John.
Early medieval art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque. New York,
Oxford University Press, c1974. 270p., ill., (some col.)
Benton,
Janetta Rebold. Art of the Middle Ages. New York, N.Y., Thames &
Hudson, 2002. 320p., ill. (some col.) (World of art)
Bullough, Donald
A. Carolingian renewal: sources and heritage. Mancheste; New York,
Manchester University Press, c1991. viii, 343p., ill.
Carolingian
culture: emulation and innovation. Edited by Rosamond McKitterick.
Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
xvii, 334p. : ill., music.
Celtic
arts and culture
http://www.unc.edu/depts/art/verkerk/celtic/celtic/index.html
Chastel,
André. French art. Translated from the French by Deke
Dusinberre. Paris; New York, Flammarion, c1994- v., ill., (some
col.). See
volume 1: Prehistory to the middle ages. Chastel’s last
work is beautifully illustrated and enhanced by an excellent
bibliography.
Early
medieval art in the British Museum and British Library. By Ernst
Kitzinger. London, British Museum publications, 1983. 127p., 16p. of
plates, ill., (some col.)
Focillon,
Henri. The art of the West in the Middle Ages. Edited and
introduced by Jean Bony; [translated from the French by Donald King;
with a glossary by P. Kidson]. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University
Press, 1980, c1963. 2v., ill. See
the Introduction and Chapter I, “The Great experiments: the
eleventh century.”
Grégoire,
Réginald. The monastic realm. With Léo Moulin, and
Raymond Oursel.
New York : Rizzoli, 1985. 287p., ill. (some col.).
Good
coverage of the early medieval period. Excellent, color
illustrations throughout.
Hubert,
Jean. Europe of the invasions. [Translated by Stuart Gilbert and
James Emmons]. New York, G. Braziller [1969] xv, 387p. illus. (part
fold. col.), facsims. (part col.), col. maps (3 fold.), plans (part
col.)
________. The
Carolingian renaissance. New York, G. Braziller [1970] xi, 380p.
illus. (part col.), col. maps (part fold.), plans (part col.)
Jope, Edward
Martyn. Early Celtic art in the British Isles. Oxford, Clarendon;
New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. 2v.
Karolingische
Kunst. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Braunfels und Hermann Schnitzler.
Düsseldorf, L. Schwann [1965] 590p. illus. (part fold., incl.
plans), 38 col. plates. (Karl der Grosse: Lebenswerk und Nachleben,
Bd. 3)
Kidson, Peter.
The medieval world. New York, McGraw-Hill, [1967] 176p. illus. (part
col.) maps, plans.
Lasko, Peter. Ars
sacra, 800-1200. New Haven, Yale University Press, c1994. xii, 319p..
ill. (some col.), maps. (Pelican history of art)
Medieval panorama.
Edited by Robert Bartlett. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum,
c2001
336p., ill., (chiefly col.).
Megaw, M. Ruth.
Celtic art: from its beginnings to the Book of Kells. New York, N.Y.,
Thames & Hudson, 2001. 312p., ill., (some col.), maps.
Merowingerzeit:
die Altertümer im Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte.
Redaktion, Marion Bertram; Fotos, Klaus Göken. Mainz am Rhein,
P. von Zabern; [Berlin], Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, c1995. 115p.,
ill. (some col.). Contains
essay describing the classification and exhibition of of Merovingian
objects in the late 19th and early 20th century
in German collections. Many color illustrations of glass, metalwork,
and pottery.
Nees,
Lawrence. Early medieval art. Oxford; New York: Oxford University
Press, 2002. 272p., ill., (some col.), col. maps, ports. An
excellent bibliographical essay intended for inclusion in this volume
may be found at http://www.udel.edu/ArtHistory/oxbibl.htm
The Northern
world: the history and heritage of northern Europe, AD 400-1100.
Edited by David M. Wilson; texts by Christine E. Fell ... [et al.].
New York, H. N. Abrams, 1980. 248p. ill., maps.
Ryan, Michael.
Studies in medieval Irish metalwork. London, Pindar Press, 2002.
608p., ill.
Schapiro, Meyer.
Late antique, early Christian, and mediaeval art. New York, G.
Braziller, 1979. xvi, 414p., ill.
Snyder, James.
Medieval art: painting-sculpture-architecture, 4th-14th century.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall; New York, H.N. Abrams, 1989.
511p., ill., (some col.), maps, plans.
Stokstad, Marilyn.
Medieval art. New York, Harper & Row, c1986. xxix, 446p., [8] p.
of plates, ill. (some col.), maps, plans.
Stone, Lawrence. Sculpture in Britain: the Middle Ages.
Harmondsworth, Eng., Baltimore], Penguin Books [1972]xxii, 297p. ill.
Wright,
David H. Art in the dark ages. New
Haven, Yale University Press, NYP. (Pelican history of art) Due in
2006.
Zarnecki, George.
Art of the medieval world architecture, sculpture, painting, the
sacred arts. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1975. 476p.,
ill., (some col.)
Manuscripts/Painting/Mosaics
Brown, Michelle P.
A guide to Western historical scripts from antiquity to 1600.
London, British Library, 1993. 138p., ill., facsims.
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Understanding illuminated manuscripts: a guide to technical terms.
Malibu, Calif., J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British
Library, c1994. 127p., ill., (some col.).
Carolingian
painting. Introduction by Florentine Mütherich; provenances and
commentaries by Joachim E. Gaehde. New York, G. Braziller, 1976.
126p., ill. (some col.).
Codices
latini antiquiores; a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts
prior to the ninth century, edited by E.A. Lowe ... Oxford, The
Clarendon Press, 1934-1966. 12v. facsims. & supp. “A
succinct description ... of all known Latin literary manuscripts on
papyrus, parchment, or vellum which may be regarded as older than the
ninth century, accompanied by a specimen, unreduced, of the script,
and supplemented by a selected bibliography. Contents: I. The Vatican
city.--II. Great Britain and Ireland.--III. Italy:
Ancona-Novara.--IV.Italy: Perugia-Verona.--V. France: Paris.--VI.
France: Abbeville-Valenciennes.--VII. Switzerland.--VIII. Germany:
Altenburg-Leipzig.--IX. Germany: Maria Laach-Würzburg.--X.
Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, and Holland.--XI.
Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United States,
and Yugoslavia.
De
Hamel, Christopher. A history of illuminated manuscript. London,
Phaidon Press, 1994. 272p., ill. (some col.). See
chapters I & II and the excellent bibliographical essay.
______. Scribes and illuminators.
Toronto; Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, c1992. 72 p., ill.
(some col.) (Medieval craftsmen)
Farneti, Manuela.
Glossario tecnico-storico del mosaico: con una breve storia del
mosaico = Technical-historical glossary of mosaic art: with an
historical survey of mosaic art. Ravenna [Italy], Longo, c1993. 236
p., ill., (some col.).
Fitzgerald, Wilma.
Ocelli nominum: names and shelf marks of famous/familiar
manuscripts.
Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
c1992. 170p.
Grabar, André.
Early medieval painting from the fourth to the eleventh century:
Mosaics and mural painting. Book illumination, by Carl Nordenfalk.
Translated by Stuart Gilbert. [New York], Skira, [1957] 241p., ill.,
(part mounted, part col.) map.
Hughes, Andrew.
Medieval manuscripts for Mass and office: a guide to their
organization and terminology. Toronto; Buffalo, University of Toronto
Press, 1995. xl, 470p., ill.
Koehler, Wilhelm
Reinhold Walter. Die karolingischen Miniaturen. Im Auftrage des
Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft. Berlin, B. Cassirer,
1930- (5)v.
Kristeller, Paul Oskar,
1905- Latin manuscript books before 1600: a list of the printed
catalogues and unpublished inventories of extant collections.
München, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 1993. Section
A: Bibliography and statistics of libraries and their collections of
manuscripts -- Works describing manuscripts of more than one city --
Printed catalogues and handwritten inventories of individual
libraries, by cities – Section D: Directories and guides to
libraries and archives. See
SULAIR for a description of how to use Kristeller in
conjunction with the microfilm indexes
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/mss/mancon.html
Matthiae,
Guglielmo. Mosaici medioevali delle chiese di Roma. [Roma] Istituto
poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato [1967] 2v. illus.,
plates (68 col.)
Matthiae,
Guglielmo. Pittura romana del Medioevo. Roma, Flli. Palombi,
c1987-c1988. 2nd ed.,
2v.,
ill., (some col.).
Mayr-Harting,
Henry. Ottonian book illumination: an historical study. London, H.
Miller Publishers, c1999. 2v. in 1. ill. (some col.), facsims., maps.
Nordenfalk,
Carl Adam Johan. Early medieval book illumination. Geneva,
Switzerland, Skira; New York, Rizzoli, 1988. 145p., col. ill.
Originally
published as Pt. two of Early medieval painting from the fourth to
the eleventh century. New York, Skira, 1957.
Ross, Leslie.
Text, image, message: saints in medieval manuscript illustrations.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, c1994. xix, 207p., [50]p. of
plates, ill.
Survey of
manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles. London, Harvey Miller,
1975- (6) v.
See
volume 1, Insular manuscripts, 6th to the 9th century by J. J.
G. Alexander and volume 2: Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, 900-1066
by Elżbieta Temple.
The
Utrecht psalter in Medieval art : picturing the Psalms of David .
Edited by Koert van der Horst, William Noel, Wilhelmina C.M.
Wüstefeld. Tuurdijk, Netherlands; London, Harvey Miller
Publishers , c1996. xii, 271p., ill., (some col.), map. Published
in conjunction with the exhibition ’Het Utrechts psalter,
middeleeuwse meesterwerken rond een beroemd handschrift,’
Utrecht, 1996. See also The Utrecht Psalter: Digital facsimile of
ms. 32 of Utrecht University Library (Microsoft Explorer only),
http://psalter.library.uu.nl/
Bestiaries and Herbals
Blunt,
Wilfrid. The Illustrated herbal. London, Frances Lincoln, 1994.
190p., ill, (some col.), facsims.
Collins, Minta.
Medieval herbals: the illustrative traditions. London, British
Library; Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. 334p., ill.,
(some col.)
Hicks, Carola.
Animals in early medieval art. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press,
1993.
ix, 309p., ill.
Links
to online herbal resources
http://www.lehigh.edu/~jahb/herbs/herblinks.html
The mark of the
beast: the medieval bestiary in art, life, and literature. Edited by
Debra Hassig. New York, Garland Pub., 1999. xxi, 219p., ill.,
(Garland medieval casebooks; 22)
Payne, Ann.
Medieval beasts. London, British Library, 1990. 96p.,ill., (some
col.)
Architecture and Sculpture
The
Anglo Saxon church: papers on history, architecture, and archaeology
in honor of Dr. H.M Taylor. London, Council for British Archaeology,
1986. xi, 226p., ill. Contains
an important essay in translation by C.M. Heitz, “The
iconography of architectural form.”
Barral
i Altet, Xavier. The early middle ages: from late antiquity to A.D.
1000. Photographs, Claude Huber, Anne and Henri Stierlin ; English
translation, Lory Frankel]. Köln; New York, Taschen, c1997.
237p., col. ill., maps, plans. (Taschen’s world architecture)
Well-conceived
parallel timelines that key historical events to architectural
monuments.
Braunfels,
Wolfgang. Monasteries of Western Europe: the architecture of the
orders. Translated by Alastair Laing. New York, N.Y., Thames and
Hudson, 1993. 263p., ill. The
first three chapters give an excellent introduction to monastic
culture and architecture in the early middle ages.
Conant, Kenneth John. Carolingian and Romanesque architecture,
800 to 1200. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1993. 522p., ill.,
maps, plans.
Fergusson, Peter. Medieval architectural scholarship in America,
1900-1940: Ralph Adams Cram and Kenneth John Conant in Studies in
the history of art (National Gallery, Washington DC)1990, v.35,
p.127-145.
Fontaine, Jacques.
L'art préroman hispanique. Photographies inédites de
Zodiaque. [La Pierre-qui-Vire] Zodiaque, 1973-[77] 2 v. ill., (part
col.)
Higham, Robert. Timber castles.
London, B.T. Batsford, 1992. 390p., ill., maps, plans.
The
idea and ideal of the town between late Antiquity and the early
Middle Ages. Edited by G.P. Brogiolo and Bryan Ward-Perkins. Leiden;
Boston, Brill, 1999. xvi, 265p., [32] p. of plates, ill., plans (The
transformation of the Roman world; 4)
See especially “Town images in late
antiquity and the early middle ages” by Carlo Bertelli and
“Ideas of the town in Italy during the transition period
“ by G. P. Brogiolo.
Lepage,
Jean-Denis. Castles and fortifed cities of medieval Europe: an
illustrated history. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Company, Inc.,
2002. vi, 329p., ill., maps, plans.
McClendon, Charles
B. The imperial abbey of Farfa: architectural currents of the early
Middle Ages. New Haven, Yale University Press, c1987. xvi, 197p., 138
p. of plates, ill.
Meaningful
architecture: social interpretations of buildings. Edited by Martin
Locock.
Brookfield, Vt., Avebury, c1994. 312p., ill. (Worldwide
archaeology series). Contains
papers on Carolingian palaces, Viking houses, British monasteries and
the medieval concept of space.
Nicholas, David.
The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early
fourteenth century. London; New York, Longman, 1997. xviii, 413p.,
maps.
Oursel, Raymond.
Invention de l'architecture romane. [La Pierre-qui-Vire] Zodiaque,
1986.
466p. illus., maps, plans, plates, (part col.).
Price,
Lorna. The Plan of St. Gall in brief. Berkeley, University of
California Press, 1982. xii, 99 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims.,
plans. "An
overview based on the 3-volume work by Walter Horn and Ernest Born
including selected facsimile illustrations in color and black and
white, and also a Note on architectural scale models, with
illustrations in color of the Reconstruction scale model of the
Monastery of the plan of St. Gall, as interpreted by Horn and Born,
and crafted in basswood by Carl Bertil Lund." See also,
Virtuelle Baustelle der Klosterplan von St. Gallen,
http://www.univie.ac.at/kunstgeschichte-tutorium/stgallen/index.htm
Stalley,
Roger. Early medieval architecture. Oxford; New York, Oxford
University Press, 1999.
272 p., ill, (some col.), col. maps,
plans, (Oxford history of art) Contains
an extensive and informative bibliographic essay.
Thompson, Michael
Welman. The medieval hall: the basis of secular domestic life,
600-1600 AD. Aldershot, England; Scolar Press, Brookfield, Vt.,
Ashgate Pub. Co., c1995. ix, 212 p., ill.
Vieillard-Troiekouroff,
May. Les monuments religieux de la Gaule d'après les œuvres
de Grégoire de Tours. Paris, H. Champion, [1976] 487 p., [8]
leaves of plates, ill., geneal. table, maps.
Topographical Surveys/Atlases/Timelines
The buildings of
England. Edited by Nicholas Pevsner. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1951-
Essential
ongoing series with extensive documentation of the early medieval
period. Arranged by county. Perhaps unsurpassed in combining
historical context, descriptive analysis, and bibliography for
individual structures. A text-only index available on CDROM,
compiled by Michael Good, was published by Oxford University Press in
1995.
Danmarks
kirker. Nationalmuseet København, Nationalmuseets forlag.,
Bd. 1- 1933-
Ongoing
project to document all Danish churches and their contents. Some
volumes have summaries in English. Related website has an
illustrated glossary of medieval building elements and construction
techniques, http://www.danmarkskirker.dk/index.htm
Denkmaltopographie
Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Braunschweig, Friedr. Viewig, 1988-
Rich
in illustrations and documentation, this series covers religious and
secular buildings of all periods. Includes architectural fragments,
archaeology, maps, plans, surveys, and early views
Handbuch
der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. [Begründet vom Tag für
Denkmalpflege 1900. Neubearbeitung besorgt durch die Vereinigung zur
Herausgabe des Dehio-Handbuches]. [München] Deutscher
Kunstverlag, 1964- v. illus.
Survey of Germany’s art and architectural monuments. Organized
by region and continually revised. Without illustrations but
comprehensive in coverage of major to minor monuments and buildings.
Haywood, John.
The Penguin historical atlas of the Vikings. London; New York,
Penguin Books, 1995. 1 atlas (144p.), col. ill., col. maps.
L’inventaire
géneral des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la
France. Inventaires topographiques. [Paris], Ministère des
affaires culturelles, 1969- . State
sponsored inventory of France’s cultural hertiage. Covers art
and architecture. Arranged by region. Includes extensive
bibliography and illustrations.
Die
Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz. Basel, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1927-
State-sponsored
inventory of art and architectural monuments in Switzerland and
Lichtenstein from the early middle ages. Arranged chronologically
within each region. Well-illustrated.
Matthew, Donald.
Atlas of medieval Europe. New York, N.Y., Facts on File, Inc.,
[c1983]
240p., col. ill., col. maps.
McEvedy, Colin.
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history. London, England; New York,
Penguin Books, 1992. 112p. col. maps.
The
ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies: Medieval maps
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbookmap.html
Österreichische
Kunsttopographie. Wien, A. Schroll, 1907-
State-sponsored
inventory of Austrian art and architecture. Arranged by region;
contains detailed descriptions of monuments and sites.
Well-illustrated with very detailed summaries. On a par with the
Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Steer, John. Atlas
of western art history: artists, sites, and movements from ancient
Greece to the modern age. New York, Facts on File, c1994. 335p., ill.
(some col.), maps, plans.
The World atlas of archaeology.
Foreword by Michael Wood. Boston, Mass., G.K. Hall, c1985.
423p.,
ill., (some col.), maps, plans. Very
good section on the early middles ages with entries on the arts, new
towns, and trade/commerce.
Ivories/Numismatics/Metal
Work
Belaubre, Jean.
Dictionnaire de numismatique médiévale
occidentale.
Paris, Léopard d'or, [1996] 151 p., ill.
Cherry, John F.
Goldsmiths. Toronto; Buffalo, University of Toronto Press, c1992.
72p., ill. (some col.), plan. (Medieval craftsmen)
Depeyrot, Georges.
Le numéraire mérovingien: l'âge de l'or.
Wetteren: Moneta, 1998. 4v., ill., maps.
Gannon, Anna. The
iconography of early Anglo-Saxon coinage: sixth to eighth centuries.
Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. ix, 230p., ill.
Grierson, Philip.
The coins of medieval Europe. London : Seaby, 1991. 248p., ill.
Ivoires médiévaux:
Ve-XVe siècle. Par Danielle Gaborit-Chopin; préface de
Daniel Alcouffe; documentation Marie-Cécile Bardoz; Musée
du Louvre. Département des objets d'art. Paris, Réunion
des musées nationaux, c2003. 645 p., ill. (some col.).
Karlsson, Lennart,
1933- Medieval ironwork in Sweden / Lennart Karlsson. Stockholm,
Sweden, Kungl. Vitterhets, historie och antikvitets akademien;
Almqvist & Wiksell International, c1988. 2v., ill., (1 col.)
Medieval Coins
Group
http://www.medievalcoins.50g.com/links.htm
Medieval
Coins Group© is a place for the collectors and students of
Medieval Numismatics to share knowledge and information about
Medieval European and Crusader coins. The group is for the novice and
the experienced alike.
Ryan, Michael.
Studies in medieval Irish metalwork. London, Pindar Press, 2002.
608p., ill.
Archaeology
ArchNet:
Archeological Research Institute
http://archnet.asu.edu/
Extensive
links to a wide range of European archaeological research,
organizations, publications, and images.
The archaeology of
Anglo-Saxon England: basic readings. Edited by Catherine E.
Karkov.
New York, Garland Pub., 1999. xxi, 500p., ill., maps.
biab:
the british & irish archaeological bibliography
http://www.biab.ac.uk/
Available
by subscription from the Council for British Archaeology. Contains
datasets covering publications from AD 1695 to the present day on
archaeology and the historic environment, historic buildings,
maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the
conservation of material culture with a geographical focus on Britain
and Ireland.
Effros, Bonnie.
Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early Middle
Ages. Berkeley, University of California Press, c2003. xviii, 272p.,
ill., 1 map.
Gilchrist,
Roberta. Gender and material culture: the archaeology of religious
women. London; New York, Routledge, 1994. xiii, 222p., ill.
Hamerow, Helena.
Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in
Northwest Europe, 400-900. Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press,
2002. xiii, 225p., ill., maps. (Medieval history and archaeology)
James, Edward.
The Merovingian archaeology of south-west Gaul. Oxford, British
Archaeological Reports, 1977. 2v. (529 p.), ill., maps, plan.
Keevill, Graham.
Medieval palaces: an archaeology. Stroud, Gloucestershire;
Charleston, SC, Tempus, 2000. 192p., [16] p. of plates, ill. (some
col.), maps, plans.
Monastic
archaeology: papers on the study of medieval monasteries. Edited by
Graham Keevill, Mick Astonm, and Teresa Hall. Oxford, Oxbow, c2001.
202p., ill., maps, plans.
O'Keeffe, Tadhg.
Medieval Ireland: an archaeology. Stroud, Tempus, 2001. 192p., [16]p.
of plates, ill., (some col.), maps, plans.
Shaping
community: the art and archaeology of monasticism. Edited by Sheila
McNally.
Oxford, Archaeopress; Hadrian Books [distributor], 2001.
viii, 189p., ill. maps. See
especially
Feeding
communities: monasteries and urban development in early medieval
Ireland by John Soderberg and Inside and outside the precinct wall:
the communities at Cluny by David Walsh.
Major Exhibition Catalogs
799,
Kunst und Kultur der Karolingerzeit: Karl der Grosse und Papst Leo
III. in Paderborn: Beiträge zum Katalog der Ausstellung,
Paderborn 1999. Herausgegeben von Christoph Stiegemann und Matthias
Wemhoff. Mainz, P. von Zabern, 1999. 2v.
The Celts. Edited
by Sabatino Moscati, coordinator ... [et al.]; with the assistance of
Ermanno Arslan, Daniele Vitali. New York, Rizzoli, 1991. 711p., ill.
(some col.), maps.
Convivencia: Jews,
Muslims, and Christians in medieval Spain. Edited by Vivian B. Mann,
Thomas F. Glick, Jerrilynn D. Dodds. New York, G. Braziller in
association with the Jewish Museum, 1992. xiii, 263p., ill.
Gardens
of the Middle Ages. By Marilyn Stokstad and Jerry Stannard.
Lawrence, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1983. 224p.,
ill., (some col.).
The
Golden age of Anglo-Saxon art, 966-1066. Edited by Janet Backhouse,
D.H. Turner, Leslie Webster; with contributions by Marion Archibald
... [et al.]. [London], British Museum Publications, for the Trustees
of the British Museum and the British Library Board, c1984. 216p.
xxxii p. of plates : ill. (some col.) The
first in an outstanding series of exhibitions followed by Romanesque
art (1984) Age of chivalry (1986), and The making of
England (1991), below.
L'enfance
au Moyen Age. Pierre Riché, avec Danièle
Alexandre-Bidon. Paris; Seuil, Bibliothèque nationale de
France, c1994. 219p., ill., (chiefly col.)
The Making of
England: Anglo-Saxon art and culture, AD 600-900. Edited by Leslie
Webster and Janet Backhouse; with contributions by Marion Archibald
... [et al.]. London, British Museum Press, c1991. 312 p., ill. (some
col.), maps, facsims.
Medieval art in
America: patterns of collecting, 1800-1940. By Elizabeth Bradford
Smith; with Kathryn McClintock, R. Aaron Rottner and Sarah Andrews
... [et al.]. University Park, Pa., Palmer Museum of Art, The
Pennsylvania State University, c1996. 243p., ill. (some col.), ports.
Mirror
of the medieval world. Edited by William D. Wixom; with
contributions by Barbara Drake Boehm ... [et al.]. New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1999.
xii,
280p., ill. (some col.) For
an excerpt of this past exhibition with images see,
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Mirror/newmed2.htm
Otto der Grosse:
Magdeburg und Europa. Herausgegeben von Matthias Puhle. Mainz.
Philipp von Zabern, 2001. 2v., ill. (chiefly col.), facsims., geneal.
table, map, plans.
Paris de Clovis à
Dagobert. Catalogue établi sous la direction de Michel
Fleury, Guy-Michel Leproux, Dany Sandron. Paris, Centre culturel du
Panthéon, 1996. 170p., ill. (some col.), facsims., map.
The way to
heaven: relic veneration in the Middle Ages. By Henk van Os; with
contributions by Karel R. van Kooij and Casper Staal. Baarn, De Prom,
2000. 223p., ill. (some col.)
'The Work of
angels': masterpieces of Celtic metalwork 6th-9th centuries AD.
Edited by Susan Youngs with contributions by Paul T. Craddock ... [et
al.]. London, British Museum Publications, c1989. 223p., ill. (some
col.), map.
History/Philosophy/Religion
Butt, John J.
Daily life in the age of Charlemagne. Westport, Conn., Greenwood
Press, 2002.
xiv, 210p., ill., maps.
The Cambridge
companion to medieval women's writing. Edited by Carolyn Dinshaw and
David Wallace. Cambridge, UK; New York, Cambridge University Press,
2003. xix, 289p.
Contains
a very detailed timeline of the historical and literary record of
women in the middle ages.
The Cambridge
illustrated history of the Middle Ages. Edited by Robert Fossier;
translated by Janet Sondheimer. Cambridge [UK]; New York, Cambridge
University Press, 1986-1997. 3v., ill. (some col.)
Cantor,
Norman F. Inventing the Middle Ages: the lives, works, and ideas of
the great medievalists of the twentieth century. New York, W. Morrow,
c1991. 477p. Contains
a useful “core bibliography” of medieval studies
publications for beginning to intermediate researchers.
Duby, Georges.
Art and society in the Middle Ages. Translated by Jean
Birrell.
Cambridge, UK, Polity Press; Malden, MA, Blackwell
Publishers, 2000. 119p., ill.
The Early Middle
Ages: Europe 400-1000. Editor, Rosamond McKitterick. Oxford; New
York, Oxford University Press, c2001. xvi, 308p., ill., maps.
The Early years of
art history in the United States: notes and essays on departments,
teaching, and scholars. Edited by Craig Hugh Smyth and Peter M.
Lukehart. Princeton, N.J., Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton
University, c1993. xxiii, 205 p., [64]p. of plates, ill., ports.
Evans, Gillian R.
Fifty key Medieval thinkers. London; New York, Routledge, 2002.
xxxiv, 183p. (Routledge key guides)
Food
in the Middle Ages: a book of essays. Edited by Melitta Weiss
Adamson.
New York, Garland Pub., 1995. x, 214p.
Late Merovingian
France: history and hagiography, 640-720. Translated and edited by
Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Gerberding. Manchester; New York,
Manchester University Press, 1996. x, 397p., maps.
Medieval
scholarship: biographical studies on the formation of a discipline /
edited by Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil. New York, Garland
Publishing, 1995-2000. 3v., ill., ports.
Volume
3 is Philosophy and the arts.
The
medieval world. Edited by Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson.
London; New York, Routledge, 2001. xix, 745p., ill., maps.
The new Cambridge medieval history. Cambridge [England], New York,
NY, Cambridge University Press, 1995- v., ill.
Classic
reference work in new editions. Volume II, edited by Rosamond
McKitterick, covers
c.700-900
and contains, among many fine entries, an excellent chapter by
Lawrence Nees on art and architecture. Many genealogical tables,
maps, and comprehensive lists of primary sources for the period are
included. Volume I, c.500-c.700 and edited by Paul Fouracre is due in
March 2005.
The Oxford history
of medieval Europe. Edited by George Holmes. Oxford; New York,
Oxford University Press, 1992. x, 395 p., [8] pages of plates, ill.,
maps.
The Oxford
illustrated history of medieval England. Edited by Nigel Saul.
Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press, c1997. xii, 30 p., [12] p.
of plates, ill., (some col.), maps.
The Oxford
illustrated history of the Vikings. Edited by Peter Sawyer. Oxford;
New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. xv, 298p., [18] p. of
plates, ill., (some col.), maps.
Rosenwein, Barbara
H. A short history of the Middle Ages. Peterborough, Ontario; Orchard
Park, NY, Broadview Press, c2002. 219p., ill., (some col.), maps (1
col.).
Verdon,
Jean. Night in the Middle Ages. Translated by George Holoch. Notre
Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, c2002. ix, 235p.
Interesting
example of material culture studies. Bibliography contains many
primary sources.
Selected
Monographic Series & Serials
L’atelier du
médiéviste. Turnhout, Belgium, Brepols, 1993 (7v.)
Art de
l'enluminure. Dijon, Éditions FATON, [2002]- v., col. ill.
Arte medievale.
Roma Viella, 1983-
Avista forum
journal. Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art. Haverford, Pa.,
AVISTA, [2001-
BAR
(British Archaeological Reports). Comprised
of several sub-series, e.g., British Series, International series.
Excellent sources of scholarly, well-documented studies. See
especially for Anglo-Saxon and Celtic topics.
Bibliographie zur
Symbolik, Ikonographie und Mythologie. Baden-Baden, Verlag V.
Koerner, 1968- Ergänzungsband. Baden-Baden, Verlag V. Koerner,
1982-
Bulletin of
international medieval research. Leeds, U.K, International Medieval
Institute, University of Leeds, c1995-
Bulletin
monumental. Paris, Société française
d'archéologie, Musée des monuments français,
1834- A
portion of the author, title, subject, index of Bulletin
Monumental which includes publications of the Congrès
Archéologique de France is available on the Bulletin’s
website, http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sfa.sfa/
Garland medieval
bibliographies. New York, Garland
Garland medieval
casebooks. New York, Garland
Gesta.
Fort Tryon Park, N.Y. [etc.] International Center of Medieval Art,
1964-
Gesta
was first published in 1963 soon after the founding of ICMA. The
major English-language journal devoted solely to the art of the
Middle Ages, Gesta
embraces all facets of artistic production from ca. 300 to ca. 1500
C.E., including the arts of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures
in the European, Mediterranean, and Slavic worlds.
Iconographica.
Firenze, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002-
Medieval
archaeology. London, Society for Medieval Archaeology, 1957-
Medieval
craftsmen. Toronto; Buffalo, University of Toronto Press
Medieval history
and archaeology. Oxford; New York, Oxford University Press
Perspicuitas:
Internet-Periodicum für
mediävistische
Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
http://www.perspicuitas.uni-essen.de/
Speculum.
Cambridge, Mass., Mediaeval Academy of America, 1926-
Speculum
is the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages
defined as approximately A.D. 500-1500. The primary geographic focus
of the journal is on Western Europe, but Byzantine, Hebrew, Arabic,
and Slavic studies are also included. There are no restrictions as to
subject matter: the journal publishes articles and book reviews on
any and all aspects of the Middle Ages, including art, history,
literature, philosophy and theology, music, science, law, and
economics. Now available in full-text from JSTOR for the years
1926-1998.
Studi medievali. Torino, Giovanni
Chiantore, 1928-
Studies
in iconography. Kalamazoo, Mich., Medieval Institute Publications,
Western Michigan University [etc.], 1975- Annual
for the study of visual culture before 1600 focussing on the theory
of iconography and cross-disciplinary studies. Explorations in areas
such as semiotics, cultural anthropology, gender studies, ideological
critique, and social history. Perspectives based on the new art
history, new historicism, and other histories of representation are
encouraged.
Toronto medieval
bibliographies. Toronto, University of Toronto Press in association
with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1967-
Typologie des
sources du Moyen Age occidental. Directeur, L. Genicot. Turnhout,
Belgium : Brepols, 1972-<c2001>
Selected Internet Resources
Online Catalogs
Art
Libraries Network—Florence/Munich/Rome
http://www.kubikat.org/index.en.htm
The
Union Catalogue of the three German research institutes was initiated
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Amongst its special
features are coverage of articles in periodicals etc., and intense
subject indexing for titles entered since 1996. The database is
increasing with the retrospective conversion of the card catalogues.
The database currently (January 2004) contains about 660,000 titles,
of which 222,000 articles.
British
Library Manuscripts Catalogue
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/
Online
catalog of British Library manuscript collections without images.
May be searched by keywords of manuscript number. Contains all types
of handwritten material in Western languages; documents ranging in
date from the pre-Christian era to the present day; manuscript
acquisitions of the British Museum and British Library from 1753
onwards.
Illuminated
manuscripts in Austrian collections from c.780 – c.1250
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Martina.Pippal//hssdata.htm
Search
by library/museum or manuscript identifiers. Includes extensive
bibliography of publications on Austrian manuscripts.
Universitat
Karlsruhe Universitatsbibliothek: Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog KVK
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
English
language interface with the ability to search across multiple
international catalogs.
Literature
Indexes and Databases
AATA
online via Getty Research Institute
http://aata.getty.edu/NPS/
AATA
Online enhances the preservation of our global cultural patrimony
by providing high quality, peer-reviewed abstracts of the
international literature of conservation and heritage management in a
free online database. Updated quarterly, AATA Online currently
includes abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners
from many fields of heritage preservation to identify and select
resources relevant to their work. Links to CHIN: Canadian
Hertiage Information Network.
Abbreviationes
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm
Available
by subscription from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
“Abbreviationes™,
the first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations, is a
powerful database designed for use in both learning and teaching of
medieval Latin paleography. Abbreviationes™ is also a highly
useful reference and research tool. It consists of a database (Main
Dictionary) and a database application (Abbreviationes™) …
our database currently comprises over 70,000 entries, nearly five
times as many as you would find in the printed dictionaries by
Walther, Chassant, De la Braña, Cappelli, and Pelzer combined.
Plans for annual updates and enhancements will continue to enlarge
dictionary.
Feminae:
Medieval Women and Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
International
medieval bibliography. [Leeds, Eng.] University of Leeds [etc.],
1967-
and
IMB: The International Medieval Bibliography Online
By
subscription from Brepols http://www.brepols.net
A
comprehensive, current bibliography of journal articles, essay
collections and conference proceedings in this interdisciplinary
field. Areas covered include classics, English language and
literature, history and archaeology, theology and philosophy,
medieval European languages and literatures, Arabic and Islamic
studies, history of education, art history, music, theatre and
performance arts, rhetoric and communication studies. Contains more
than 300,000 records.
In
Principio: incipit index of Latin texts
Available
online by subscription from Brepols http://www.brepols.net
In
Principio features over 1 million incipits, covering Latin literature
from its origins to the Renaissance. A research tool for those
scholars and libraries interested in the writers, texts and
manuscripts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Users
have the option of directly entering search terms in one or more
fields, searching terms from a browselist, checking "hits"
before displaying results, and exporting records
Image Databases
Bibliothèque
Municipale de Lyon
http://sgedh.si.bm-lyon.fr/dipweb2/phot/enlum.htm
Searchable
database with images of manuscripts held by Bibliothèque
Municipale de Lyon. Contains 44 manuscripts dated before 1000 CE.
British
Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscript
http://prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/welcome.htm
This
website currently includes descriptions of and images from
approximately 200 manuscripts, drawn from across the regions and
periods represented. It will expand, collection by collection, to
include approximately 9,500 manuscripts.
The
British Library Manuscripts Collection
http://www.bl.uk/collections/manuscripts.html
Very
well-organized site with links to digital images and other useful MS
resources. Includes a very high quality digital version of the
Lindisfarne Gospel with page-turner application.
Digital
Scriptorium
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/
The
Digital Scriptorium was conceived as an image database of dated and
datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite
scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and
scholarly research. Catalog entries include images and bibliography.
Searchable via multiple indexes.
CEEC:
Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis
http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/
Highly
technical, rich webpage with hundreds of high resolution ms,
including many from the early Middle Ages. Static pages are
available in English. Also includes a link to a useful source in
English, the Medieval Manuscript Manual created by
http://gandalf.hit.uib.no/non/echt/budapest/ManMan/home.html
Enluminures
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/
A
joint production of CNRS and Direction du livre et lecture (BNF),
this searchable database includes more than 14,000 images from over
1200 illuminated manuscripts
Hill
Monastic Monastery Library
http://www.hmml.org/
Kalkmalerier
i danske kirke
http://www.kalkmalerier.dk/pages/links.html
From
the Department of History at Copenhagen University, a searchable
image-database containing more than 5,000 images of medieval
wall-paintings from churches across Denmark. Additional images are
added regularly. In Danish and English.
Liber
Floridus
http://liberfloridus.cines.fr/
Contains
index allowing iconograhical and other searches of illuminated
manuscripts preserved in the Bibliothèque Mazarine and the
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
Mandragore
http://mandragore.bnf.fr/html/accueil.html
Database
of manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Nationale with many images. Can
search by iconographical keywords.
Manuscripta
Medievalia
http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/
Very
rich site with high quality digital images of nearly 100 MS, multiple
indexes to iconography and MS literature. Very good “links”
section. Can search by manuscript identifiers or thematically.
The
Marburger Index: Bilddokumentation zur Kunst in Deutschland
http://www.fotomarburg.de
This
index, with limited England language interface, contains
approximately one million photographic reproductions. It cover every
type of media: art, architecture, furniture, paintings, drawings,
manuscripts, reliefs, facades, portals, glass, ceramics, sculpture,
mosaics, collages, and so on. Coverage is from medieval Germany to
the present.
.
.
Medieval
Images
http://www.medieval-image.org/
In
English. Extensive image bank of medieval Scandinavian art. Search
across multiple languages in major museum and project databases.
Medieval
Illuminated Manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the
Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/
Records
for Medieval Medical Images in the RLG VIM File
http://www.rlg.org/legacy/ftpd/pub/r-focus/16oct95/immi.txt
The
records of IMMI, the Index of Medieval Medical Images in North
America, catalog the content of medieval pictures on medical topics
in books and manuscripts held in 40 North American libraries have
been added to the RLIN VIM file. The pictures range in date and genre
from those in a faithful copy of an ancient illustrated pharmacoepia,
a Dioscorides manuscript from the 880s, to pictures of medical saints
in books of hours from the 1400s and early 1500s. Each record
contains the name of the holding institution, the shelf mark of the
manuscript, and the folio or page on which the image
Resides.
Websites
with Medieval Art and Medieval Studies Content
The
Alchemy Website: Database of Alchemical Manuscripts
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/alch_mss.html
Encompasses
every conceivable aspect of study of alchemy. Database aims to
include descriptions of all alchemical manuscripts in U.S. and
European collections. Extensive bibliography and images.
Bild_Theologie
http://www.uni-koeln.de/ew-fak/Bildtheologie/diathek/
Database
indexing project with reference to more than 10,000 image of God in
works of art. May be searching thematically by image type or
narrative event. Contains links to other art history and religion
online research tools. In German.
Cantus
planus: Study and technical analysis of Gregorian chant
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_I/Musikwissenschaft/cantus/index.htm
In
English, French, and German.
Catholic
Encyclopedia:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
Full
text of 1908 edition available through New Advent. Browse by article
title; no keyword search.
Celtic Art and
Culture:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/art/verkerk/celtic/celtic/index.html
DScriptorium:
http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/
Aggregate
website for online medieval manuscript resouces.
International
Center for medieval art
http://www.medievalart.org/
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
Access
to databases now requires a subscription. The bibliography is
available without charge.
The
Labyrinth: resources for medieval studies
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Manuscript
libraries in Austria
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ksbm/lit/fr_8500.htm
Comprehensive
list of MS in Austrian collections linked to extensive bibliography.
Can be searched by institution or MS name/shelfmark. Also contains
links to MS websites and digital projects. Not entirely up-to-date
but still quite useful.
Mediaevum.de:
Mediävistik im Internet
http://manuscripta.mediaevum.de/manuscr6.htm
Up-to-date
aggregate website with links to organizations, discussions groups,
conferences, resources.
Medieval
Manuscripts on the Web: a brief introduction
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9451/medieval.html
Medieval
Monasticism
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/4950.shtml
An
extensive course website for medieval monasticism with primary and
secondary sources on Merovingian and Carolingian monasticism.
Ménestrel:
médiévistes sur l'internet
http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/urfist/mediev.htm
In
French. Online articles from numerous medieval studies organizations
and links to wide variety of international resources.
Mittelalterliche
Frauenklöster
http://www.frauenkloester.de/
Women’s
religious communities. In German. Links to international resources.
Monastic
Matrix: a scholarly resource for the study of women’s religious
communities from 400 – 1600 CE
http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/
“Contains
a repertory of communities, hospitals, oratories, reclusaria and
other places associated with religious women, lay and professed,
primary source material of every literary and diplomatic genre,
secondary sources, articles and research references, brief
biographies of persons of documented significance to women's
religious life and communities, digital images of art objects,
architecture, archaeological remains, site-plans, & maps,
bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and a glossary of
terms.”
Mother
of all art & art history links page
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/
Art
history Links from the University of Michigan with a section of
medieval art.
NetSERF:
the internet connection for medieval resources
http://www.netserf.org
New
York Carver: Medieval stone, art, architecture … in the Middle
Age:
http://www.newyorkcarver.com/
The
ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net/
Portal
Kunstgeschichte: http://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/
Discussions,
events, publications, news on medieval art history topics
RCIM:
Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts:
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/sub_index/research/rcims/rcims.html
Scriptorium:
http://mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/ibrowse.html
Interactive,
educational site suitable for a wide audience at introductory levels.
Scriptorium:
international review of manuscript studies
http://www.scriptorium.be/en/frameset2.htm
Index
to 140,000 class marks of medieval manuscripts and 1056
bibliographical references
Society
for Medieval Feminist Scholarship:
http://smfs.uoregon.edu/
Organization
to promote scholarship and discussion on feminist perspectives.
Includes link to bibliography on medieval feminist studies in
monographic and periodical literature.
Vocabulaire
codicologique
http://vocabulaire.irht.cnrs.fr/
WWW
Virtual Library History Index: Medieval Europe
http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm
Medieval Echoes & Revivals
Appropriating the
Middle Ages: scholarship, politics, fraud. Edited by Tom Shippey
with Martin Arnold, associate editor. Cambridge, UK; Rochester, NY,
D.S. Brewer, 2001. 264p. : ill.
Harty, Kevin J.
The reel Middle Ages: American, western and eastern European, Middle
Eastern, and Asian films about medieval Europe. By Kevin J. Harty.
Jefferson, NC, McFarland, c1999.
vii, 316 p., ill.
Medieval New York
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