The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500)

The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.

The "International Medieval Institute", based at the University of Leeds, is responsible for producing the bibliography. A uniqe network of over 50 specialist contributors and teams throughout the world ensures regular coverage of periodicals and miscellanies published worldwide. They are supported by a distinguished international Editorial Board.

First reference-point for medievalists to current scholarship

The IMB now compromises 330,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliogrphical records

The IMB Online offers an unparalleled tool for medievalists to identify the contents of current work published throughout Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region.

The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communications Studies.

Key Features

• 330,000 unrivalled records of articles, review articles. scholarly notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies.
• 10,000 new entries each year.
• Quarterly updates.
• a comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system, using familiar, multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists.
• 120,000 index terms, classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.)
• worldwide network of fifty teams to ensure regular coverage of 4,500 periodicals and a total of 5,000 miscellany volumes
• the only truly "international" bibliography for the Middle Ages, covering publications in over 30 languages

Enhanced search possiblities

• The IMB is OpenURL-compatible: via this functionality users have access to a wide range of services: consult holdings in a local or external catalogue, request documents via their preferred document delivery service, and so forth.
• The IMB is fully integrated with the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale: Subscribers to both the IMB and BCM (cluster Brepols Medieval Bibliographies) benefit from the 'Live Links' between the two applications.
• The International Medieval Bibliography and the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale contain 'Live Links' to the Lexikon des Mittelalters and to the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
• Search possibilities:
  • free search across all fields
  • hierarchical index searching by periods or centuries
  • hierarchical index searching of a controlled vocabulary of subjects
  • separate index of places and regions
  • separate index of persons and texts
  • separate index of manuscript shelfmarks
• The browselists of places and persons contain a large number of cross-references
• multilingual thesauruses to support searches (for places and persons who are known under different forms)
• restricting searches according to languages of articles (for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish-Catalan, Welsh, Danish-Norwegian-Swedish, Latin, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese-Galician and Russian)

The International Medieval Bibliography is also available on CD-ROM.

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