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For more assistance in researching your
topic, contact Margaret
Schaus.
Contents:
Gathering Background Information
Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages
Dictionary of the Middle Ages (print
location via Tripod)
A very distinguished encyclopedia done in the 1980s. Check the Supplement
volume published in 2004 first for new and updated articles
Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages Series.
A series of volumes devoted to individual countries and their cultures.
There is greater emphasis on social history topics than in the Dictionary
of the Middle Ages.
Religion Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Monasticism (print
location via Tripod)
Includes articles on individuals, orders, and topics. Note the bibliographies
New Catholic Encyclopedia (print
location via Tripod)
Newly updated and very broad in its coverage of the medieval world.
Selected Websites
Bibliografia
celestinesca (A. Robert Lauer)
Bibliography of books and articles about the Celestina written by
Fernando de Rojas.
Libro
(American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain)
Full text searchable database of over 50 scholarly books on medieval
Spain.
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Finding In-depth Information and Analysis
Finding Books
Tri-College Collections
Use the Tripod Library Catalog
to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn
Mawr.
The following suggested subject searches are only a sampling
of possibilities. To find materials on a topic not listed below, try
doing a keyword search in the Tripod Library
Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings
assigned to those materials to find more.
Examples of Subject Searches
WorldCat (access via Tripod)
An important place to look for many materials not owned
by the Tri-College Libraries. This combined library catalog contains
more than 49 million records describing items owned by libraries around
the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary
loan.
E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
Use the E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary
Loan Request forms on Tripod to request items that are not available
in Tripod.
E-Z Borrow provides only books. It draws from large
collections in the Pennsylvania region including the University of
Pennsylvania and Penn State and can deliver your requested books in
as few as three days.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) makes journal articles as well
as books, reports, and documents available, and it takes 10 days to
2 weeks to arrive.
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Finding Articles
Journal articles and similar periodical publications provide
current information on anthropological research. The following indexes
are the best ways to find journal articles.
Good Starting Points
Proquest Research Library (access via Tripod)
ProQuest indexes over 2600 journals, many in the social
sciences and humanities, starting with 1971. About two-thirds of the
journals include the full-text of the article.
Discipline-specific Indexes
These indexes are particularly good for accessing the
scholarly literature of specific disciplines, i.e., articles written
by historians and scholars in related fields.
For medieval studies, use International Medieval
Bibliography (access
via Tripod), Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
(access via Tripod),
and Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(access via Tripod).
For history, use Historical Abstracts (access via Tripod), noting
the century in your search.
For literature, use MLA Bibliography (access via Tripod).
For religion, use ATLA Religion Database (access via Tripod).
Once you have found citations to journal articles, do
a journal title search in Tripod to see if the Tri-College libraries
own the title. If the journal is not held by the Tri-Colleges, use the
Interlibrary Loan Request
Form on Tripod to request a copy of the article from another library.
Journals of Interest
The indexes above will frequently give you a long list of
citations. Watch for the publications below which represent important
journals in the tri-colleges devoted in whole or part to the Middle Ages.
Church History (print
location via Tripod).
Available online, 1990-2002 through the ATLA index and recent issues
in Proquest.
Exemplaria (print
location via Tripod).
Available in paper, 1989- .
Gesta (print
location via Tripod).
Older issues are available online through JSTOR (access
via Tripod).
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Recent issues are available online (access
via Tripod).
Older issues are available in paper issues (print
location via Tripod)
Journal of Medieval History.
Recent issues are available online (access
via Tripod).
Older issues are available in paper issues (print
location via Tripod)
Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Available online, 2001- (access
via Tripod).
Older issues are available in paper copies (print
location via Tripod)
Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
Culture in Confluence and Dialogue.
Available online, 2002- (access
via Tripod).
Older issues are available in paper copies (print
location via Tripod).
Speculum.
Recent issues are available in paper issues (print
location via Tripod).
Older issues are available online through JSTOR (access
via Tripod).
Viator (print
location via Tripod).
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