Libraries
Book of Hours
Pittsburgh Libraries
The Hillman Library and the Frick Fine Arts Library hold a strong collection of texts, periodicals, reference works in, e.g., art history, political history, and the European literatures of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Other libraries in the area with particular strengths are the Carnegie Public Library (music) and the libraries of Carnegie Mellon University (history of printing), Duquesne University (theology), and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Reformation history).
Newberry Library (Chicago)
Funds are available through the University of Pittsburgh’s membership in the Newberry Library Consortium for faculty and students to attend events at the Newberry and/or do research there. The Newberry has excellent resources in the early history of the book, including manuscripts and incunabula as well as a first-rate collection of secondary materials in areas of interest to medieval and Renaissance scholars. Pitt participates regularly in Newberry programs and has co-sponsored the History of the Book series. We encourage faculty and graduate students to make the most of our Consortium membership. If you are interested in going to the Newberry, please contact Jen Waldron, English Department (jwaldron@pitt.edu) for information and see the Newberry website for information on setting up a visit.
Graduate students are eligible for several research grants from the Newberry including the Annette Kade Fellowship in French or German Studies in the Middle Ages or Renaissance, and the Newberry Library-Ecole des Chartes Exchange Fellowship. For more information, see the Newberry fellowship home page.
Folger Institute (Washington, D.C.)
The Newberry Library Consortium has reciprocal privileges with the Folger Institute Consortium. Please see the Newberry Web site for further details.
Websites
General:
- The Labyrinth is an exhaustive list of links to medieval sites maintained by Georgetown University.
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, maintained by Dr. Paul Halsall of Fordham University, contains many excerpted and full texts, including many older translations whose copyright has expired.
- For English Renaissance texts, see the Renaissance section of the Luminarium site, which also contains medieval and 17th century works. It is a labor of love of Anniina Jokinen.
- The University of Pittsburgh's Frick Fine Arts Library owns a 15th-century Book of Hours.
- The Medieval Academy of America is the largest organization in the world devoted to medieval studies. Among other things, the Academy holds an annual meeting, publishes the journal Speculum, and provides grants and fellowships to graduate students. Membership in the academy is open to anyone interested in medieval studies.
Specialized Links:
- A collection of links to sites on Dante.
- An important link which puts researchers in touch with the German Center of Early Modern Studies.
- The British library has a digital library including Beowulf, the Magna Carta, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Sforza Hours, the Leonardo de Vinci Notebook and the Tyndale New Testament.
- Images of Medieval Art and Architecture contains material on medieval architecture. It is maintained by Dr. Alison Stones of the University of Pittsburgh.
- Manuscripts of the Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland: free online access to high resolution digital images of 57,000 facsimile pages and 144 complete manuscripts (including the musical manuscripts). The database is accessible in English, German, French, and Italian.
- Information on Medieval and Renaissance music.
Dissertations
View the latest group of recent doctoral dissertations pertaining to Medieval and Renaissance European society. These titles were harvested from the January 2010 issue of Dissertation Abstracts. View the disserations (PDF).