LibGuides: HIST 114: Medieval Europe (Dr. Safstrom): Find Secondary Sources

Find Secondary Sources

Clase and Periodica
What's included?
*Documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities
*2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages
JSTOR
What's included?
*Full-text to academic journals and primary sources in multiple disciplines
Project MUSE
What's included?
*Full access to the Humanities Collection

ATLA Religion Index
A database containing citations and full text to more than 1100 international journals, essays, and publications in religion and related fields. Also annually indexes more than 14,500 book reviews from over 450 international journals (including New York Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement) in religion and related fields.
Subject area: Religion
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
"Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages."
Fordham University Internet Medieval Sourcebook
"Welcome to The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use." This links to the IHSP's page on secondary sources for Medieval Studies, but the Medieval Sourcebook does also include primary sources.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. It provides indexing to more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
L'Année Philologique
Guide to articles, essays, and conference papers on subjects from the Classical time period. Includes references to articles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Searches may be limited to one or more of these languages. Limited to five simultaneous users.
Subject areas: Classics; Philosophy; Religion
Medieval History Commons (Digital Commons Network)
"The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work."
MLA International Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.2 million citations. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Early Medieval Europe
"Provides information and debate on the history of Europe from the later Roman Empire to the eleventh century. Topics include archaeology, palaeography, literature, diplomacy, art, history, linguistics, as well as more traditional historical approaches."
Essays in Medieval Studies
"ach volume has had a thematic focus based on the theme or topic of the annual meeting of Illinois Medieval Assoc. Recent themes have included children and the family, medieval communities, and emotions in the Middle Ages."
Medieval Encounters
"Centers around discussion across cultural, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries on the interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim cultures during the period from the fourth through to the sixteenth century C.E."
The Medieval History Journal
"The Medieval History Journal (MHJ) is a peer reviewed journal and derives its distinctive profile from encompassing the entire medieval world in scope and its multi-disciplinary foci."
Mediaeval Studies
"Studies, texts, translations, reference works, and collections of articles relating to the history and culture of the Middle Ages."
Medieval Worlds: Comparative & Interdisciplinary Studies
"medieval worlds provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. "

OneSearch provides a simple way to search for books, eBooks, videos, articles, digital media, and more, all in one place. In the search box above, you will see a drop-down list of options for filtering your search. To find books, you have several options:

Library holdings only: Our catalog includes physical items found on the shelves in the Tredway Library, as well as electronic items like eBooks and videos. This search also includes items in Special Collections and the Swenson Center.
All I-Share Libraries: This searches for physical books and media from other academic libraries across Illinois. Many of these items can be requested for delivery to Tredway Library through a service called I-Share (eBooks, with some exceptions, are normally not available to request due to licensing restrictions).
Tredway resources (Library holdings + Articles): This searches all of the library's physical and electronic resources (books, eBooks, videos, journal/magazine articles, and electronic references sources). This search also includes items in Special Collections and the Swenson Center.