Selected Reference Materials

• The Routledge companion to medieval warfare /Sciences Engineering Library, Reference Area U37 .B63 2004
• Encyclopedia of women in the Middle Ages: Ethnic Gender Studies Library Reference /HQ1143 .L38 2001
• A dictionary of medieval terms and phrases /Reference DA129 .C67 2004
• An annotated index of medieval women /Ethnic Gender Studies Library Reference CT3220 .A56 1992
• Medieval England: an encyclopedia /Reference DA129 .M43 1998
• Extraordinary women of the Medieval and Renaissance world: a biographical dictionary /Ethnic Gender Studies Library Reference HQ1143 .E93 2000
• International medieval bibliography /Main Library CB351 .I5
• New Catholic Encyclopedia /Reference BX841 N44 2003
• The New Cambridge medieval history /Reference D117 .N48 1995
• Encyclopedia of medieval literature /Reference PN669 .R88 2006
• Historical dictionary of late medieval England, 1272-1485 /Reference DA175 .H56 2002
• Who's who in the Middle Ages /Reference CT114 .S56 2001
• The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged /Reference D21 .E578 2001
• Women and gender in medieval Europe: an encyclopedia /Main Library HQ1147.E85 W66 2006
• Medieval France: an encyclopedia /Main Library DC33.2 .M44 1995

Selected open source websites

• British Library Images Online
  The British Library Images Online has thousands of images from the British Library that are available to download.
• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  A cooperative effort on the part of scholars includes primary sources, an internet reference shelf, and collections of links to other pages and sites of interest to medievalists.
• The Labyrinth: Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
  
• The Voice of the Shuttle
  covers all periods of history. Digitized video collections were recently added.

From the Library's home page, select RESEARCH then ARTICLE INDEXES & DATABASES to access the following select databases.
To access these databases from off campus, you must go through the proxy server.

Selected sources related to Medieval History

• Academic Search Complete
• L'Année Philologique
• Art Full Text
• Bibliography of the History of Art.
• Historical Abstracts
• International Medieval Bibliography
• Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance 1843-present
• JSTOR
• Literature Online (LION) Master Index
• MLA International Bibliography (via CSA)
• The Philosopher's Index
• Project Muse
• Web of Science

Selected UCSB databases for locating images

• ARTstor
• Index to Christian Art

• EuroDocs
• Avalon Project
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance UCSB database
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• Medieval Feminist Index

Use Pegasus to find books on your topic. You can search by title, author, subject or keywords. The UCSB catalog will also tell you if the library has a book on your topic. The catalog record contains the call number, location,and availability of the library materials. You will need this to get the items you want in the library.

• Use the " " to search a specific phrase as it appears on the document, (e.g. "medieval europe", " Unitarian church","chaste marriage".)
• Use OR to combine terms when either one will do: secular or religious
• Use AND to force the results to have both terms: church history AND middle ages
• Most databases let you truncate by using a symbol to get other letters: charivar* gets you charivaris , charivary, charivaried, and charivari.
• The truncation symbol can be a *, ?, ! or other symbols depending on the database

The UC-elinks record will indicate if the journal article is available online or in print. If the article is not available online, you will need to get the Call Number and location in order to find the copy of the journal in the library.

• Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with ..." Modern Language Review      Main Lib P1 .M65
• Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with..." History of Political Thought      Main Lib JA8 .H57