Project Status: Ongoing

An online collection of nearly 4,700 secondary and primary works sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, available with an institutional subscription. Individuals without a subscription may still view table of contents free of charge, and hundreds of books are added each year. The collection may be browsed or searched, and includes the following special series of interest to medievalists: Cambridge University Press; Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Texts and Commentaries; College Art Association Monographs; Fordham University Press; Medieval Academy Books; Records of Civilization (Columbia University Press); Transformation of the Classical Heritage (University of California Press); Villa I Tatti; West Virginia University Press.

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Resource details:

Resource Type: CatalogE-bookSearchable DatabaseText: MedievalText: Modern

License: All/Some Content for MembersInstitutional LicensePaid

Modern Language: English

Language of Modern Translation: English

Medieval content details:

Dates: 1 - 1600

Subject: ByzantiumCarolingiansChivalryChurch FathersClassics, HumanismClergyConfession, PenanceConversionCosmologyCourtly LoveCrusadesEarly Germanic PeoplesEconomyEducation, UniversitiesFamily, Children, MarriageGenderHeresyHistoryLawMaterial CultureMedicineMonasticismMuslims, IslamNobility, GentryPapacyPeasantsPhilosophy, TheologyPietyPlague, DiseaseProsopographyReformReligion - Institutional ChurchRoyalty, MonarchsSaintsScience, MathematicsSlaveryTheologyTowns, CitiesTravel, PilgrimageWarWomenWomen Religious

Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Advice, Instructional TextsBiography, MemoirsChronicles, AnnalsCommentary, Gloss, ExegesisEpiscopal RegistersHagiographyLetters, PetitionsLiteratureReligious TextsTextual EvidenceTreatises

Records of Civilization series includes a number of primary source texts.

Geopolitical Region: AfricaAsia, East and SouthEuropeMiddle East

Original Language: Arabic (Middle)FrenchItalianLatin

Medieval Creators: William of TyreSylvester IIUsamah ibn-MunqidhRobert de ClariPhilippe De NovareOtto of FreisingOrosiusMarsilius of PaduaHugh of Saint VictorJean de VenetteHelmold of BosauGregory of ToursGregory VIIErasmus, DesideriusChrétien de TroyesCassiodorus, Flavius Magnus AureliusBonifaceBodin, JeanAmbroiseAdam of Bremen