ENL-4210 Medieval Literature, Theater
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Selected Library Databases and Journals

• Academic Search Premier
  Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

• Arts and Humanities Search
  Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals.

• ATLA Religion Database  
  The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
  The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in over 3400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

• Biography Index 
  Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

• Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®  
  A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

• Digital Medievalist 

• Historical Abstracts
  Indexes journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in a companion database America: History and Life).

• Humanities Full Text
  Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

• Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective 
  This resource is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Subjects include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Minority Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.

• ITER: Gateway to Middle Ages and Renaissance
  A Middle Ages and Renaissance bibliography of close to 500,000 records for articles, essays, books, and reviews.

• Journal of Medieval and Early Modern sources

• JSTOR
  Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines).

• MLA International Bibliography
  The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

• Lion-Literature Online
  Provides access to more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 180 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. 

• Philosophers index
  The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.

• Project Muse
  100+ scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social science disciplines.

• Proquest Dissertations and Theses
  Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

• WorldCat
  The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with over 48 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.

 

Selected Websites

• Electronic Beowulf (Kevin Kiernan)

• A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English searchable (Larry Benson)

• History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents (EuroDocs)

• Beowulf in Hypertext (McMaster University)

• The Electronic Canterbury Tales (Daniel Kline, University of Alaska, Anchorage)

• Digital Dante (Columbia University)

• Medieval Drama Links (Sydney Higgins)

  • About 200 usefully annotated links to about two hundred sites in Medieval European drama, including texts, bibliographies, articles, illustrations, and information on performance, costumes, music, and dance. Very extensive.

• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (Laura V. Blanchard and Carolyn Schriber, Rhodes College)

  • An impressive, ambitious, and very scholarly collaborative collection of resources, mostly for students, including an in-progress encyclopedia, a collection of electronic texts, bibliographies, and annotated links. "The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web." First-rate.

 

General Print Resources

Handbook of Middle English	PE535 .M62
Middle English Dictionary. Kurath. Many volumes.	Ref -- PE679 .M54
Middle-English Dictionary (Stratmann)	PE679 .S7 1891
Oxford English Dictionary. 20 volumes. 2nd edition.	Ref -- PE1625 .O86 2002
Dictionary of Literary Terms	PN41 .C83 1982
Oxford Companion to English Literature	PR19 .D73 1998
Cambridge History of English Literature (see volumes 1-3)	PR83 .C36 1933
Companion to Old and Middle English Literature	online
Critical History of English Literature. 2nd edition.	Ref -- PR83 .D29
Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism (see essay beginning on p. 69)	online
Longman Companion to English Literature	PR85 .G45
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) (use indexes at end of most recent volume)	Ref -- PN681.5 .C57
Critical History of English Literature. 2nd edition.	PR83 .D29
Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Second revised edition. 8 volumes.	Ref -- PN3451 .C75 2000
Manual of the Writings in Middle English: 1050-1400 (Wells)	PR255 .W4
Manual of the Writings in Middle English: 1050-1500 (Hartung)	Ref -- PR1120 .S4
New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Vol. 1: 600-1660	Ref -- Z2011 .N45
Old and Middle English Literature	Ref -- Z2012 .M32
Research Guide to Biography and Criticism	Ref -- Z2011 .R47 1985

 

Theater Resources

Companion to the Medieval Theatre	PN2152 .C66 1989
Drama of the Medieval Church. 2 volumes.	Reserve -- PN1751 .Y6
A Companion to the Medieval Theatre	PN2152 .C66 1989
The Mediaeval Stage (E.K. Chambers) Volume I.	Reserve -- PN2152 .C4
Medieval Literature of Western Europe; a review of research, mainly 1930-1960	Ref -- PN681.5 .C57

 

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