A corpus of historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political texts, and literature from the European Middle Ages

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica was founded in 1819 by the Gesellschaft für Deutschlands ältere Geschichtskunde. It is without doubt one of the most prestigious editorial undertakings for the critical publication of medieval historical texts. The MGH has established for all Western scholarship a standard for critical editions.
The texts from the electronic version are prepared by the center “Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium” under the direction of Prof. Paul Tombeur.

Key features

• At the moment, the MGH contains approx. 800 texts
• The database is updated yearly with new material
• Interface in English, French, German and Italian
• Possibility to find a text based on a reference
• The interface is the same as the Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)
• The powerful search-software enables the users to undertake enhanced search possibilities:
  • By using wildcards and operators, the user can construct complex search-queries
  • Filters are used when, instead of searching through the entire data set, one wishes to restrict the search to a particular Author or group of Authors, a particular Work, a particular Series, Collection or Century.
• 'live links' to reference dictionaries (Database of Latin Dictionaries): a user can select a word found in a text of MGH and automatically find entries on the word in the constituent dictionaries of the Database of Latin Dictionaries.

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica is also available on CD-ROM.

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