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John M. Kelly Library Research Guides

Medieval Studies

This guide lists the key brief sources--both online and in print--for students of the Middle Ages.

Manuscripts, Books, & Reading

Medieval Manuscript Collections.
By Harriet Sonne de Torrens.
University of Toronto Mississauga.
Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre
Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts.
Edited by Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne.
Cambridge UP, 2020.
Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office: A Guide to Their Organization and Terminology.
By Andrew Hughes.
University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Cambridge History of the Book in Britain.
Edited by Richard Gameson.
Cambridge UP, 2012.

Browse by volume:

Volume 1: 400-1100
Volume 2: 1100-1400
Volume 3: 1400-1557

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World.
By Christopher de Hamel.
Penguin, 2017.
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book.
By Elaine Treharne.
Oxford UP, 2021.
Touching Parchment. Volume 1, Officials and Their Books: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts.
By Kathryn M. Rudy.
Open Book Publishers, 2023.
Scraped, Stroked, and Bound: Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts.
Edited by Jonathan Wilcox.
Brepols, 2013.
Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers.
By Andrew Taylor.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms.
By Jessica Brantley.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers.
Edited by Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman.
Cornell UP, 2019.
Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England.
By Rebecca L. Krug.
Cornell UP, 2018.
Making the Bible French : The Bible Historiale and the Medieval Lay Reader.
By Jeanette Patterson.
University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice.
Edited by Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel.
University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Patronage, Production, and Transmission of Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Cultures.
Edited by Esperanza Alfonso and Jonathan Decter.
Brepols, 2014.

Literature

Prologues to Ancient and Medieval History: A Reader.
Edited by Justin Lake.
University of Toronto Press, 2020.

Manuscript Databases

Illuminated Manuscripts.
By Catherine E. Karkov.
Oxford Bibliographies - Medieval Studies
Oxford UP, 2010.

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