Medieval Studies

at the University of Connecticut

A Page of Resources for UConn Medieval Studies Faculty and Graduate Students 

Originally prepared for a Fall 1998 Presentation by David A. Salomon
Now maintained by Christine Cooper 

B asic Starting Points

• UConn's Main Site
• The Homer Babbidge Library Main Site
• The UConn Medieval Studies Program HomePage
• The UConn English Department HomePage
• Engelonde: Resources for 14th Century English Studies   

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  Search Engines

  How to Use Search Engines

• Understanding and Comparing Web Search Tools  
  Selected Engines
• Google.com
• Search.com
• Metacrawler.com
• Yahoo
• AltaVista
• Lycos
• Webcrawler
• Hotbot
• Excite
• Infoseek
• A fee-based search service --if you are completely lost and are prone to saying "I can't find anything on the net."  

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  How to Find People
   
• InfoSpace
• Four11   

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  Finding and Using Online Library Catalogues

   
  Almost every university library now has its library catalogue available online. This can be one of your most useful online tools.
  1) If you are planning to visit a library, you can do your catalogue searches ahead of time.
  2) You can search other library catalogues for new titles in your research interest. Then the item can either be requested on Interlibrary Loan, or you can ask Homer Babbidge to purchase it  ( Richard Bleiler is the liason for English). 

  Finding these catalogues is one issue, and using them is another. If you can find the university's home page, you can probably find a link to its library from there. There are several online lists of university home pages:

• American Universities
• International Universities
• Colleges and Universities by Country
   Once you've found the link to the library's home page, you have to figure out how to connect to it. Some libraries (most do so at this point) allow searching directly from the web, so no other software will be necessary. Some, however, still require that you "telnet" to the library's catalogue. This is accomplished by using Telnet software (described in "Some Basic Terminology" above). In order to configure your web browser so that you can link to the library catalogue directly from the web page, go to "Options" in your web browser. In Netscape, click on the tab for "Apps," and in the "Telnet Applicaton" and "TN3270 Application" boxes, you will put the commands for your Telnet software. Most often that command will be c:\tcp3270\programs telnet.exe for the Telnet application, and c:\tcp3270\programs\ tn3270.exe for the TN3270 application. If you are using the Telnet software package to connect to the UConn mainframe system, you must use the TN3270 executable part of the program, not the Telnet part. The Telnet software can be downloaded directly from the UConn FTP Site. 

  One place that might be of particular interest is the new COPAC system in Britain. COPAC is an internationally accessible catalogue giving unified free access to some of the largest university research library collections in the UK and Ireland. In the recent past there has been a time restriction on this system, i.e., it was only available at certain hours; that restriction appears to have been lifted. Access is available two ways: 

• World Wide Web COPAC
• Telnet Access via copac.ac.uk   

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  Limited Searching through the UConn Mainframe

  Not that you would really want to do this, but it is possible to do some searches from your mainframe account. The following databases are accessible via your mainframe account. Remember, this is done through your mainframe account, not the World Wide Web. Use the instructions below, and follow them exactly:

   9002 WorldCat/OCLC Database
  9003 A&H Search/Arts & Humanities Search. A citation index.
  9004 BookRevDigst/Reviews of fiction and nonfiction books.
  9005 BooksInPrint/R. R. Bowker's Books In Print.
  9006 Diss/Dissertation Abstracts Online.
  9009 RILM/RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.

   From your mainframe prompt, type:

   tnvt100 kugebunko.lib.uconn.edu 900X where the X is the last number of the database you wish to search. Hit enter and wait for instructions.
  

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  Finding and Participating in Online Discussions

  Online discussions lists are one of the most useful resources on the Internet. These lists operate almost as mini-conferences on a particular subject. It is true--much of the time the discussions can be banal, and finding the right list for your interest is often difficult. These discussions are sometimes misnamed "listservs." Actually, "listserv" refers to one of the software programs which run an online discussion; others include "majordomo" and "listproc." Sometimes finding the discussion is the most laborious part. Here are a few places at which you might search for discussion lists on a particular subject of interest.

• Medieval Discussion Lists-- incomplete
• The MEDTEXTL Database
• REED-L: A Discussion List For Early Drama, Music, and Popular Custom
• Another List of Discussion Lists -- with commentaries
  

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  Reference Links

• WWWebster Dictionary
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Foreign Languages for Travelers
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Old Farmer's Almanac
• Britannica Online
• The Oxford English Dictionary Online available under Databases on Homer Babbidge library  homepage

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  Medieval Culture Resources-- Interdisciplinary

• The Labyrinth
• NetSerf: Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies
• Early British Kingdoms and the Matter of Britain
• HUMBUL Gateway Medieval Studies Resources--at Oxford
  

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  Museums and Library Exhibitions

• The British Library
• La Bibliothèque nationale
• DScriptorium-- digital images of Medieval MSS
• Bodleian Library Illuminated MSS
• The Louvre
• The Koninklijke Bibliotheek

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  Medieval Literature and Language Resources

• The Voice of the Shuttle Old English and Medieval
• Old English Corpus
• Glossarial Database of Middle English
• The York Corpus Christi Play Simulator
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook-- invaluable source for online texts
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Medieval Drama HomePage
• REED
• The Electronic Beowulf-- Kentucky Mirror Site
• Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Images
• Old English Audio
• Old English Aerobics-- feel the burn
• History of the English Language HomePage
• The Complete Corpus of Old English
• The York Doomsday Project  (where is this site now?)

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  M edieval History Resources

• The Canterbury Archaeological Trust
• Map of Anglo-Saxon England
• The Domesday Survey
• The Magna Carta
• Tower of London Virtual Tour
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Medieval Europe
• Notes on Fourteenth-Century History
• Converting Calendar--converts dates from Medieval calendars to modern
• Roman Scotland
• Roman Britain
• The Rune Typology Project
• The Paris Underground Catacombs
• More Parisian Catacombs
• The Christian Catacombs of Rome A Virtual Tour  

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  M edieval Art and Art History Resources

• The English Heritage Archaeology Division
• Virtual Stonehenge
• Gothic Painting (1280-1515)
• NetSERF: Medieval Art
• The Earth and Heavens: The Art of Mapmaking
• Inventory Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
• Sutton Hoo Research Project
• The Sutton Hoo Room
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• Virtual Tour of Durham Cathedral
• The Castles of Wales
• Medieval English Architecture
• Archaeology in York
• The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Vatican Museums
• Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
• The International Center of Medieval Art
• The Book of Kells
• How to Make Your Own Illuminated Manuscript   

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  M edieval Theology and Philosophy Resources

• ARTFL Project: Multilingual Bibles -- impressive, searchable
• Vulgate Daniel and Esther
• Postmodern Bible-Amos-- very interesting hypertext experiment
• St. Augustine
• Old English Biblical Texts
• Medio-Evo --religious texts (mostly Italian and German at this point - English coming soon)
  
• The Ecole Initiative--hypertext encyclopedia of the early Church
• Two Thousand Years of Church Writing
• Early Church Fathers--a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church
• Mysticism in World Religions
• Islam Links
• Project Genesis: Torah on the Information Superhighway
• The Douai-Rheims Bible
• The Latin Vulgate Bible
• Polyglot Gospel of Luke
• The Gregory of Nyssa Home Page
• Gnostic Texts
• The Vatican
• On Loving God , Bernard of Clairvaux
• Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism
• William of Ockham
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  M edieval Music and Drama Resources

• REED Presents: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music
• Medieval Drama in Translation
• Gregorian Chant HomePage
• CANTUS: Database of Divine Office Gregorian Chant
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
• Gregorian Association (UK) 

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  C eltic and Scandanavian Links

• Welsh History
• Book of Kells Links
• The Celts and Saxons HomePage
• CELT--Celtic Corpus of Electronic Texts
• The Viking HomePage
• Scandanavian Cultures
• Medieval Scandanavia
• Medieval Welsh Authors
  

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  O nline Latin Aids

• Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
• The Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
• Study Guide for Wheelock's Latin Grammar--very long file
• Medieval Latin Wordlist
  

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  M iscellaneous Links

• Medieval Calendars Page
  
• Anglo-Saxon Recipes
• Anglo-Saxon Clothing
• Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture/ SASLC
• Byzantine Studies
• Paleography and Codicology: Introductory Bibliography
• Medieval Sciences
• Anglo-Saxonists, 16th-20th Centuries
• Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Information
• The Bible in Pig Latin
• Medieval Feminist Index
• Your Name in Runes
• SASLC, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture  
• Catholic Online Saints Index
• The Adventures of Beowulf-- Illustrated translation
   

   

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  General Research Tools

• UConn Resources By Title
• The MLA Bibliography--UConn Access Only
• WorldCat/OCLC--UConn Access Only
• JSTOR: Electronic Journals--UConn Access Only
• What do you want to know today?--an all-purpose site that lets you search a wide array of research tools including: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, A Glossary of Literary Terms, Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, and much, much more; an especially excellent resource for Medievalists: A Must See
• UConn InterLibrary Loan--UConn Access Only
• Richard Bleiler's English Links Page
• Project Muse--UConn Access Only
• Carl UnCover
• The British Library
• Introduction to E-text
• Library of Congress
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Scholarly Societies, Literature
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Directory of International Universities
• Yahoo Directory of American Universities
• Calls For Papers: Medieval--the archive for the online mailing list
  

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  Authors and Texts of the Middle Ages Online--A Sampling

  (Alphabetical, kinda)

• Ancrene Wisse--Author's Preface
• Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica--entire text
• Arthurian Art
• The Decameron Web--Boccaccio
• Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae
• Beowulf Biliography-- 1979-1994
• The Canterbury Tales Project
• Chaucer HomePage
• Online Chaucer Bibliography--Telnet access, instructions here
• Everyman
• Sir Gawain and the Greek Knight
• Hildegard von Bingen
• Julian of Norwich
• Margery Kempe
• William Langland HomePage
• The Middle English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia
• Piers Plowman-- A and B texts
• John Lydgate Canon Project
• Sir Thomas Malory
• Medieval Latin Texts
• Project Gutenberg
• Richard Rolle Home Page
• The Towneley Cycle
• The York Plays
  

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  M edieval Studies Electronic Journals and Societies

• Arthuriana
• Bryn Mawr Medieval Review --searchable
• Exemplaria
• Speculum --UConn Access Only
• Traditio
• Old English Newsletter
• Anglo-Saxon England
• The Medieval Academy of America
  

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  D ownloadable Fonts for Old and Middle English

• English Fonts for MACs only
• Old Engish Pages: Fonts
• Old English Typefaces at UVA
• Assorted Fonts
  

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  Questions? Suggestions? Broken Links? Problems?
  Send e-mail to Frédéric Lardinois.
  This page last updated March 1, 2001.