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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: Catalog, E-book, Searchable Database, Text: Medieval, Text: Modern
License: All/Some Content for Members, Institutional License, Paid
Modern Language: English
Language of Modern Translation: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 1 - 1600
Subject: Byzantium, Carolingians, Chivalry, Church Fathers, Classics, Humanism, Clergy, Confession, Penance, Conversion, Cosmology, Courtly Love, Crusades, Early Germanic Peoples, Economy, Education, Universities, Family, Children, Marriage, Gender, Heresy, History, Law, Material Culture, Medicine, Monasticism, Muslims, Islam, Nobility, Gentry, Papacy, Peasants, Philosophy, Theology, Piety, Plague, Disease, Prosopography, Reform, Religion - Institutional Church, Royalty, Monarchs, Saints, Science, Mathematics, Slavery, Theology, Towns, Cities, Travel, Pilgrimage, War, Women, Women Religious
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Advice, Instructional Texts, Biography, Memoirs, Chronicles, Annals, Commentary, Gloss, Exegesis, Episcopal Registers, Hagiography, Letters, Petitions, Literature, Religious Texts, Textual Evidence, Treatises
Records of Civilization series includes a number of primary source texts.
Geopolitical Region: Africa, Asia, East and South, Europe, Middle East
Original Language: Arabic (Middle), French, Italian, Latin
Medieval Creators: William of Tyre, Sylvester II, Usamah ibn-Munqidh, Robert de Clari, Philippe De Novare, Otto of Freising, Orosius, Marsilius of Padua, Hugh of Saint Victor, Jean de Venette, Helmold of Bosau, Gregory of Tours, Gregory VII, Erasmus, Desiderius, Chrétien de Troyes, Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, Boniface, Bodin, Jean, Ambroise, Adam of Bremen