Scholars looking for medieval illuminations to illustrate their arguments need look no further than the Morgan Library. The Morgan has digitized and cataloged every image in its vast holdings of medieval manuscripts. While an image search can be made in CORSAIR, the general catalog of manuscripts and printed books, there is a specific area of […]
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New Books in Butler Provide a Different View of the Middle Ages
Challenge your pre-conceptions about the Middle Ages (don’t you call them Dark!) with books recently added to the Butler Library collections. Motherhood, religion, and society in medieval Europe, 400-1400 is a collection of essays, edited by Oxford University’s Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith, that honors the work of scholar Henrietta Leyser (appropriately enough, Conrad’s […]
Medieval Studies: Finding Secondary Sources Online
There are several resources online for identifying secondary literature: articles, books, dissertations, etc. It is prudent to take advantage of all of these resources for a given topic, rather than relying on a single resource to provide all possible results. International Medieval Bibliography Online Bibliography de Civilisation Médiévale https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio4134323 The International Medieval Bibliography […]
Digitale Sammlungen: Riches from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
E-books in CLIO have gotten a lot snazzier. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) has been digitizing thousands upon thousands of their rare book holdings, and these free e-books are all findable in the Columbia Libraries catalog. These BSB records have been gathered into a collection called "Digitale Sammlungen." Thus far there are over 28,000 of the […]
Medieval Studies: Finding Primary Sources Online
The Libraries subscribe to a wide number of resources that provide access to Latin texts of the Middle Ages. Here are some you might find useful (this is a selection, not a comprehensive list). You can bookmark the URLs below for use from any location: Patrologia Latina: the full-text database https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/ANC0798 An electronic edition of […]
New database: Medieval Family Life
Just added to the Columbia Libraries roster of medieval resources, Medieval Family Life contains scanned images of 15th- and 16th-century correspondence along with full transcriptions. The papers of the Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armbrugh families are accompanied by additional resources such as concurrent historical and family chronologies, an interactive map, family trees, and many […]