Medieval and Renaissance Studies

This journal, published by the IRHT, provides an up-to-date bibliography in alphabetical order according to late medieval authors and texts, including manuscripts cited by catalogues by library collections, by genres, or by author as well as editions or other studies.

A difficult but important resource for German history produced by the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte.

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly literature for the topic under study?

Increasingly out-of-date, but this bibliography still contains a valuable introduction to the older sources.

Each chapter provides an introduction to a sub-discipline of medieval studies. In addition to sections devoted to Latin paleography, diplomatics, computer-assisted research, numismatics, archaeology, problems in chronology, and prospography, this text describes state-of-the-art research methodology and critical approaches to English literature, Latin philosophies, law, science, art and music.

An essential bibliography of the primary sources of medieval history. It is more comprehensive in coverage than Van Caenegem, though the latter can often be more helpful.