26 September 2019
Bloomsbury Digital Resources has launched a new digital platform, Bloomsbury Medieval Studies. Global, visual and interdisciplinary, it brings together secondary material, visual primary sources, a brand new reference work and material culture object images into one cross-searchable platform, to support students and scholars across this field of study.
It offers digital access to content from Bloomsbury, I.B. Tauris, Arc Humanities Press, Amsterdam Humanities Press, the British Library, and Senate House Library:
- the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, a new reference work commissioned by Arc Humanities Press, and written by an international group of scholars, combining thematic overviews, primary source analyses, and core case studies
- a broad range of over 150 scholarly books including primary texts, research monographs, companions and more
- visual primary sources, including newly-digitised and rare incunabula from Senate House Library, and high-resolution medieval maps from the British Library
- 1000 material culture object images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring a range of forms including coins, textiles, stained glass, and weapons
- an interactive timeline with a global focus which places image and text content from across the resource within their time and geographical region
The first featured theme with free taster content focuses on Global Queenship and Powerful Women of the Middle Ages.
Bloomsbury Medieval Studies is available now for library purchase via subscription and perpetual access, and more information and 30-day institutional trials are available on the website.