Check out the Course Reserves

History of Cartography
(The History of Cartography Project)

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Atlas of the Medieval World / Rosamond McKitterick.

Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: an Encyclopedia / edited by Thomas F. Glick, Steven J. Livesey, Faith Wallis.

The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources / edited by Jason Glenn.

A Source Book in Medieval Science / edited by Edward Grant.

The Later Middle Ages: a Sourcebook /Carolyn p. Collette and Harold Garrett-Goodyear.

On the Nature of Things and, on Times / Bede; translated with introduction, notes and commentary by Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis.

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

 

B. Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

C. Sample Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

Subject Browses:

Geography, Medieval

Geography, Medieval -- Maps

World maps, manuscript

Early maps

Geography, Ancient Maps

 

Cartography -- History

Cartography -- History -- Maps

Cartographers

 

Astronomy, Medieval

Cosmology, Medieval

Cosmography (early works to 1800)

Astrology in Art

Cosmology in Art

 

"medicine in art" and (medieval or "middle ages")

 

zodiac in art

 

 

Maps in Art

Maps in Literature

Geography in Art

Geography in Literature

Cartography in literature

 

 

Travel, Medieval

Travelers' writings, European

Travelers' Writings, English.

Travelers' Writings, English -- Middle East.  

Travelers' Writings, English -- Orient

Travelers' Writings, English -- Turkey

 

British -- Travel -- Middle East

Travelers' Writings

Travel writing

Travelers -- Middle East.

Travelers Europe

East and West

Travelers -- Great Britain.

 

 

Science, Medieval

Technology -- History -- to 1500

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts (objects)

The 'Book' of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1700. / edited by Palmira Brummett. DS6 .B66 2009

 

Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia. / editors, John Block Friedman, Kristen Mossler Figg; associate editor, Scott D. Westrem; collaborating editor, Gregory G. Guzman.HF 1001 .T7 2000

 

A Library of Historical British Travel Writing

The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)
Offers a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogs, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt, historical maps, and interactive GIS (Geographic Information Systems) maps of Egypt and Cyprus.

 

A. Use Subject Databases for Journal Articles:

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

3. Period Studies

International Medieval Bibliography (400-1500).

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 -1700)

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

 

4. International Bibliography of Art & Architecture (the Avery Index)

 

5. History, Religion, and Women's Studies

 

6. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Review Articles

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

An Example of reviews of a Book:

Eastwood, Bruce S. "Visual appropriation of the world: Astronomical and Cosmological Diagrams in Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (review)." Journal for the History of Astronomy 41: part 4 (2010), 510-512.

 

 

A Few Core Journals:

Dumbarton Oaks Papers

Early Medieval Europe

Essays in Medieval Studies

Gesta

Medieval Encounters

Speculum

Studies in Iconography. (Tisch oversize: NX1 .S84)

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

C. More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

For example:

Obrist, Barbara. "Wind diagrams and medieval cosmology + Conceptions of the corporeal world of the Middle-Ages in 12th and 13th century textual and pictorial documents." Speculum-a Journal of Medieval Studies  72: 1 (1997), 33-84.
References: 204 Times Cited: 14

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 204 references that Sponsler cited for her article and, in turn, 14 articles that cited hers. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

 

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Chicago Style Manual (for citing sources)

RefWorks

ARTstor

More than one million images with contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.

 

Index of Christian Art (Princeton University)

Illuminated Manuscripts

Andrew McCormick Maps and Prints (University of British Columbia)

The David Rumsey Map Collection Database