Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Articles, chapters and books for over 4,500 journals (as well as conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogs) used for research and teaching on the Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).

Search secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogues).

Comprehensive index to religious, theological and related scholarship covering over 1,380 journal titles internationally, as well as 13,000 multi-authored books and reviews.

Articles and books covering history dating from approximately 1450 to the present, with some earlier coverage.

Archives of 1,000s of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes selective links to full text and links to citations (cited by).

Brief overview articles serving as authoritative guide to the current scholarship, with expert recommendations and authoritative commentary on the best works available in the discipline covered.

Worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world, and events touching on, influencing and influenced by those areas.

Annotated lists of 'all' important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to William Shakespeare.

Over 1 million digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures.

HathiTrust is a large digital library bringing together materials from sources including Google Books, the Internet Archive, libraries at HathiTrust partner institutions, and other commercial digitization projects. Search more than 11 million volumes with more than a third of these available for full text access and download (primarily books and journals published before 1923 and U.S. Government publications).