From Wess
- WESS Medieval and Renaissance Web provides access to scholarly resources for Western Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- It includes vendor information for commercial products, as well as access to free sites.
- The resources listed here have undergone a selection and evaluation process.
Guides and Subject Indices
- Bibliography of British and Irish History (Brepols)
- Byzantium
- Camelot Project
- CERES: Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
- Dante Studies (by Otfried Lieberknecht)
- Decameron Web
- Digital Dante
- Early Modern Women Database
- The Ecole Initiative: A hypertext encyclopedia of early church history
- The English Renaissance in Context
- Erasmus Online
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
- Historische Hilfswissenschaften
- International Medieval Bibliography & Other Reference Tools (Brepols)
- Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance (including Iter Italicum - Subscription Databases)
- The Labyrinth Project
- The Medici Archive Project
- The Medieval Jewish History Resource Directory
- Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy
- Medioevo Italiano
- Middle English Compendium
- Monastic Matrix
- NetSERF
- Nuovo Rinascimento
- ORB Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- Ottoman Web Site
- PhiloBiblon
- Reti medievali: Online Initiatives for Medieval Studies
- Rinascimento (Harvard University)
- Select Bibliography for Medieval Studies
- The World of Dante
- The WWW Virtual Library History Index: Medieval Europe
Reference Tools
- RenDico Dictionnaires de la Renaissance
- Termini vernetzter Wortschatz lateinischer Wissensliteratur der Frühen Neuzeit
- Abbreviationes Online, Medieval Abbreviations on the Web
Manuscript Books
- Bodleian Library, Manuscript Images
- Carolingian Culture at Reichenau and St. Gall
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library
- Corsair (Pierpont Morgan Library)
- D-Scriptorium
- Digital Scriptorium
- Enluminures Illuminated Manuscripts in France]
- Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes
- Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts - Books of Hours 1400-1530
- Manuscripta Mediaevalia (Germany)
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Netherlands)
- Roman de la Rose
Institutes, Organizations, and Collections (selected)
- American Cusanus Society
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Augustinian Historical Institute, Villanova University
- Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
- Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
- Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
- British Library
- Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS, Binghamton University)
- Center for Medieval Studies: Fordham University
- Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
- Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
- Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
- Delaware Valley Medieval Association
- Dumbarton Oaks, Byzantine Studies
- Folger Shakespeare Library and Folger Institute
- Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Hispanic Society of America
- The I Tatti Renaissance Library
- Institute for Medieval Studies, Leeds University
- Italica Press
- Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
- Medieval Academy of America
- Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
- Medievalismo
- Middle East Documentation Center, University of Chicago (Includes Ottoman documentation)
- Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto)
- Renaissance Society of America
- Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
- Society for Reformation Studies
- UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University
Electronic Journals and Reviews (selected)
- Medieval & Renaissance Studies Periodicals
- Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar
- Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature
- JSTOR
- A collection of electronic versions of older journals, including Speculum, Studies in the Renaissance, and Renaissance Notes / Renaissance Quarterly. (Subscription database)
- The Medieval Review (formerly Bryn Mawr Medieval Review)
- Others
Electronic Texts and Images--Commercial and Subscription
- Admyte
- An ongoing, CD-ROM based project to digitize in a single database all texts written in Castilian before 1615.
- Available from Micronet.
- Index of Christian Art
- CLCLT (formerly CETEDOC) and other editions of Latin patristic and medieval texts (Brepols)
- Early Encounters in North America, The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts and The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (Alexander Street)
- Early European Books (ProQuest)
- Early English Books Online (ProQuest)
- Empire Online (Adam Matthew Publications)
- Medieval & Early Modern Data Bank
- Past Masters - Full-text Philosophy resources, including Aquinas & Ockham (InteLex)
- Patrologia Latina: Migne's corpus of Christian Latin texts, and Acta Sanctorum
- The Bollandists' Hagiographic Collection (Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest)
- Women Writers Project
Electronic Texts and Images--Free Sites (selected)
- Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts
- Camena Corpus automatum multiplex electrorum Neolatinitatis auctorum
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Catasto of 1427 online
- Charrette Project
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Dartmouth Dante Project
- The Digital Michelangelo Project
- Digitalmedievalist.org
- Early Modern Text Forum
- Eurodocs: History of Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Primary documents online)
- Electronic European literature collections
- Europeana
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- LIBRO-The Library of Iberian Resources Online
- Luminarium
- Medieval and Modern Thought Digitization Project
- Medieval Sources online
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica (includes link to dMGH - digitized texts)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
- Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
- Renaissance Electronic Texts
- TEAMS Middle English Texts
- Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval
Other Resources
- Collection Development for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Acknowledgements
The page coordinator for the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Web is Tom Izbicki, Rutgers University (tizbicki@rci.rutgers.edu).
All interested persons are welcome as contributors: you may sign up for a password to make your own wiki additions and corrections.
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Web is one part of the Western European Studies Section Web of resources for Western European studies.
We would like to thank the libraries of Brigham Young University and Rutgers University for providing assistance and computing resources that make this national endeavor possible.
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