Links
Links
Essential links for students of medieval studies
- Online dictionary of Middle High German: The 'Lexer'
If you don't understand a word in a Middle High German text, you can look it up here. - Online bibliography: BDSL
Here you can find literature on your topic. Always search here first, then in ORBISplus! - mediaevum.de
Here you will find a lot of information on all aspects of Germanic medieval studies - including ready-made bibliographies on some topics.
Further important and interesting links on medieval studies
- Manuscript census: In how many manuscripts has the Song of the Nibelungs survived? And above all: What does such a manuscript look like? You can even leaf through some of them here!
- Bibliotheca Augustana: You don't want to lug 40,000 verses from Conrad of Würzburg's Trojan War home with you? Here you can find a large number of German-language texts from the Middle Ages online!
- woerterbuchnetz.de: What does mhd. âventiure actually mean? Here you can search in various mhd. dictionaries - simultaneously or individually - to find answers to your questions!
- Middle High German term database: How often does the keyword gewalt occur in Erec? And how often in other medieval works? Here you will find the answer(s)!
- BDSL: Are you looking for current German literature titles for your seminar paper or presentation? Here - unlike in ORBIS - you will also find all relevant articles since 1985! (Full access only from the university network or with VPN client)
- RIOpac: Would you like a little more? The Regesta Imperii OPAC also finds older articles, albeit of an overall medievalist nature - i.e. also historical, but not neo-Germanist! With BDSL and RI together, you are perfectly equipped for almost any medieval secondary literature research!
- mediaevum.de: Are you looking for more links on German medieval studies? Here you will find everything that is still missing in this list, and much more...
Medieval studies in Oldenburg and the surrounding area
- Department of Medieval History at the Institute of History. The colleagues from the Historians' Guild.
- Oldenburg Sachsenspiegel: The Oldenburg State Library at Pferdemarkt houses a particularly elaborate copy of the Sachsenspiegel by Eike von Repgow, one of the most important medieval law books. It has been fully digitised and can be browsed online.
- Medieval manuscripts in the Northwest: The manuscript catalogue of the libraries in Aurich, Emden and Oldenburg.
- Medieval manuscripts with German-language texts in Oldenburg (overview)
- Research libraries with historical holdings:
