Project Status: Ongoing

Three searchable databases for primary and secondary sources relating to the study of medieval science and medicine. The first, eTK, is a digital resource based on the print edition of Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge UP, 1963) and its supplements; the second, eVK2 (last update: 2014), is the result of Linda Ehrsam Voigts’ and Patricia Deery Kurtz’s Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: an Electronic Reference (U of Michigan, 2000), originally published as a CD-ROM, and later revised and supplemented; the third, eVK2 bibliography, is a searchable bibliography of secondary literature related to the Voigts-Kurtz database. Also included is a searchable name list of variant spellings of authors’ names.

Resource details:

Resource Type: Catalog, Searchable Database

License: Must provide credit, No Fee

Modern Language: English

Medieval content details:

Dates: 500 - 1500

Subject: Cosmology, Medicine, Plague, Disease, Science, Mathematics

Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Medical Works, Textual Evidence, Treatises

Geopolitical Region: England, Europe

Original Language: Latin

Hundreds of medieval authors, including Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Jordanus de Nemore, and many others.