Medieval Latin Bibliography
Medieval Latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide by
Publication Date: 1996Online. Provides introductions to, and bibliographic orientations in, all the main areas of Medieval Latin language, literature, and scholarship.
Medieval Studies Databases
Besides ArticlesPlus (on the first page of this Guide), here are two databases which anyone interested Medieval Latin should look at.
- International Medieval BibliographyThe IMB database comprises records deriving from articles published in periodicals (journals) and in miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues) published world-wide. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and RenaissanceConsists of two databases -- journal articles and books. The journals database contains records from scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). The books database is a bibliography of monographs, material published in monographs, and collected essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Texts and Language Tools
Text Collections
- Archivio della Latinità Italiana del MedioevoOngoing project which aims to provide free online access to all the texts composed in Italy during the Middle Ages and written in Latin
- Corpus Scriptorum LatinorumHuge collection of links to classical and post-classical authors.
- Die digitalen Monumenta Germaniae Historica (dMGH)Collection of primary source texts, both chronicle and archival, for the study of German history (broadly conceived) from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. Many of the texts are in Latin.
Dictionaries and Grammars
- Glossarium Mediae and Infimae LatinitatisOnline. Digitized version of the 10-volume edition printed edition, published in the 1880s, of Du Cange's 17th century compilation.
- Thesaurus Linguae LatinaeOnline. The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, (still not complete) will be the definitive and largest Latin dictionary in the world. Words are drawn from all Latin texts from the classical period of Rome to about 700. It is a Latin-to-Latin dictionary, not Latin-to-English.