Research Guides: History: Medieval: Finding Articles

Medieval Historical Literature

International medieval bibliography
This is the disciplinary index to medieval historical literature. The Library doesn't currently subscribe to it so one can start their research but will want to visit the UC Davis Shield's Library to search the online version to conduct a comprehensive search.

Our Library has volumes for 1967-1992 in 2 South under the Call Number DZ 6203 .I53.
Humanities index
Available in paper from 1974/75-1999 in the Library at 2 North Index Area under the call number AI 3 .R492 and the Lower Level.

JSTOR (All Subjects)
JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization which provides an electronic archive to specific scholarly journals. There is typically a gap from 1 to 5 years between the issues being published and the content becoming available in JSTOR. Artstor images also included.
Project Muse
Project Muse offers some 600 journal titles from 260 scholarly publishers including from the Johns Hopkins University Presss which began this project in 1995. The journals included in this database are in the areas of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.

International medieval bibliography-online
Only available to use at the UC Davis Shields Library.

Indexes articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Citations classified by date, subject and location.

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