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Ancient & Medieval History (to 1450)


Background Information | Journal Articles | Books & Videos


Primary Sources | Websites

Background Information

 
Blackwell Reference Online - History (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books in history. [more info]
Campus/Remote
Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Guide to Reference (ALA)
A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline... [more info]
Campus/Remote
History Resource Center: World (Gale)
A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, and images, maps and charts... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection (Oxford University Press)
Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects... [more info]
Campus/Remote

Ancient History - Print Guide

Classical History - Print Guide
Byzantine Empire - Print Guide

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Journal Articles

 
Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique)
[guide]
An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity...
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (HW Wilson)
Indexes articles in the subjects of gerontology, history, international relations, journalism, law, linguistics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Index Islamicus (CSA)
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info]
Campus/Remote
JSTOR
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (Royal Historical Society)
This resource will cease as of 1/1/2010.  Please begin using Historcial Abstracts.
An index to scholarly historical writing on the British Isles, Commonwealth and Empire...
[more info]
Unrestricted
WilsonWeb OmniFile (HW Wilson)
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Books & Videos

 
Annee Philologique (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique)
[guide]
An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity...
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Index Islamicus (CSA)
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam... [more info]
Campus/Remote
LEO Library Catalog (JMU)
[more info]
Internet
WorldCat (OCLC)
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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Primary Sources

 
ABZU: A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
  Abzu guides the user to data on the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world... [more info]
ARTstor
Image database containing images of architecture, painting, sculpture... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Corsair: the online research resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library
[more info]
Labyrinth
Online guide to medieval studies, with links to primary and secondary sources. [more info]
Medieval Sourcesonline (Manchester University Press)
A collection of primary source material containing over three thousand pages of... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Past Masters: Philosophy and Theology
Searchable full-text collections, in English and/or Latin, of the writings of philosophers and theologians from antiquity into the 20th century. [more info]
Perseus Digital Library
Classical Greek, Roman, and English Renaissance texts, plays, architectural sources, photos, etc [more info]
Internet

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Websites

 
ABZU: A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
  Abzu guides the user to data on the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world... [more info]
Labyrinth
Online guide to medieval studies, with links to primary and secondary sources. [more info]

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