Online Resources

Iter

"A Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" that includes a massive, retrospective, on-line medieval and Renaissance bibliography covering articles, book reviews, and essay collections all languages and disciplines related to 400-1700. The project is partnered with the Renaissance Society of America, the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, and the University of Toronto. Currently, more than 1.3 million records are compiled. More information is available on the Iter website.

CARA Data Project (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations)

The CARA Data Project, which is maintained by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University, is a compilation of information on North American centers, programs, committees, libraries, and regional associations. The information contained in it is based on that derived from questionnaires circulated to all CARA members and is updated continually. For complete details on a particular member of CARA, users of this data base will need to get in touch with the person whose name appears at the head of the entry. Where e-mail addresses and web sites are available, the database contains hypertext links to facilitate communications. Appended to the Data Project are links to centers and associations outside North America. Click here to browse the online directory.

Annotated list of translations of Beowulf by Marijane Osborn

Opening the Geese Book Project

ACMRS serves as the institutional home of this major project to make a sixteenth-century manuscript available to the public. The Geese Book is a large, lavishly illuminated, two-volume liturgical gradual made for the church of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg between 1504 and 1510 and owned by the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

FEMINAE: Medieval Women and Gender Index

An index of recent journal articles, book reviews and translations. FEMINAE: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, essays in books, and translations about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Because of the explosion of research in Women's Studies during the past two decades, scholars and students interested in women during the Middle Ages find an ever-growing flood of publications. More information
CLICK HERE to access the FEMINAE Index online.

The Personal Library of Robert S. Lopez

Robert S. Lopez was the Sterling Professor of History and founder of the Medieval Studies Program at Yale University. During his more than forty-year career in Renaissance studies he established a global reputation as one of the foremost leaders in the field. He was best known for his ground-breaking economic interpretation of the Renaissance.

Following his death in 1986, ACMRS was able to purchase Prof. Lopez's private collection of books and papers to use as the foundation of itsresearch collection. The Lopez Collection preserves those books, individual articles, and basic sources that were considered by Lopez and his colleagues to be the best representation of work in the field during the period of his primary activity from roughly 1930 to 1980.

ACMRS Adjunct Scholar Receives Permission to Research Who Built the Newport Tower

Jan Barstad, President of the Chronognostic Research Foundation (www.chronognostic.org) and ACMRS Adjunct Scholar, has obtained permission from the City of Newport, Rhode Island, to do an archaeological dig at the Newport Tower. The dig, to take place between October 15 and November 15, 2006, will possibly shed light on origins of the Tower, which stands near the west end of Touro Park in Newport.

A 1949 archaeological dig William S. Godfrey, Jr. did not uncover much evidence to explain why the tower was built. Although the Newport Historical Society is 99.9 percent sure it was built as a windmill by Governor Benedict Arnold in the 17th century, there are other theories about the tower's origins. It could be 12-century Norse, 14th-century Scottish, 15th-century Chinese, or 16th-century Basque. Click here for a complete description of the project.

MEDFEM-L

MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies sponsored jointly by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). The List Manager is Monica Green, Professor of History, Arizona State University. To subscribe, unsubscribe, manage your subscriber account, or access the archives, click here.

MEDMED-L

MEDMED-L is an unmoderated forum for communication among scholars studying medicine in the medieval period. It is sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). The list manager is Monica Green, Professor of History, Arizona State University. To subscribe, unsubscribe, manage your subscriber account, or access the archives, click here.

Margery Kempe: In Search of the Scribe Website

Questions about authority, authorship, and scribal practice have surrounded the Book of Margery Kempe
since the discovery of its manuscript. Although many scholars have posited various identities for Margery’s scribe, his identity remains unknown. The goal of this website is to help provide an answer to this question. Although it may never be proven, this project was designed to give readers a better picture of the identity and person that Margery’s second scribe must have been.

Margery Kempe: In Search of the Scribe is the culminating project of a graduate seminar facilitated by Professor Rosalynn Voaden at Arizona State University in the Fall of 2006. The students also presented their results at the 13th Annual ACMRS Conference, held February 15-17 2007 in Tempe, Arizona.

The World of Dante Website

The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text that allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site. Visit the World of Dante website here.

Mediaevistik Website

An international journal of interdisciplinary medieval research, Ed. Peter Dinzelbacher and Albrecht Classen. Publishes articles and book reviews in the major European languages. Click here to learn more about Mediaevistik.