LibGuides: Middle Ages Travel Diary Project: Recommended Databases

Search strategies

For better results try using these search strategies when necessary:

Wildcard: The query behavi?r finds the behavior or behaviour.
Truncation: The query organiz*= organization, organize, organizational
Put a phrase in “quotes”. For example, “Medieval pilgrimage”.

Use Boolean Operators to narrow or expand a search, and exclude irrelevant results.
For example: media AND violence, teens OR adolescents, psychology NOT clinical

"Medieval Pilgrimage" AND Christianity
relics AND pilgrimage

Examples of keywords:

"Middle Ages" and pilgrimage
"Medieval Europe"
"Medieval Christianity"
"Holy Land"
"Hajj pilgrimage"
"Catholic pilgrimage'"
Crusades
"First Crusade"

Databases at Bronx Science and NYPL ( A New York Public Library card is required for NYPL databases.)

Oxford Reference
Use this as a starting point to gain background knowledge and gain more keywords for your research.

Examples of scholarly journal articles:

Dawson, Ian. “Standards of Living in the Middle Ages.” Teaching History, no. 82 (1996): 27–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43260102.

Walker, Bethany J. “Militarization to Nomadization: The Middle and Late Islamic Periods.” Near Eastern Archaeology 62, no. 4 (1999): 202–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/3210733.

Examples of scholarly journals articles:

Roszak, Piotr and Tanco Lerga Jesus. "Marian Devotion on the Camino De Santiago during the Middle Ages." Religions 13, no. 12 (2022): 1213. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13121213. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/marian-devotion-on-camino-de-santiago-during/docview/2756779344/se-2.

Salonia, Matteo. "The Body in Medieval Spirituality: A Rationale for Pilgrimage and the Veneration of Relics." Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 14, (2018). https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/body-medieval-spirituality-rationale-pilgrimage/docview/2316805195/se-2.

ProQuest is also a very good source for magazine articles.

Examples of scholarly journal articles:

Dyer, Christopher. "How urban was medieval England?" History Today, January 1997, 37+. Gale OneFile: World History (accessed January 25, 2024). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A19032747/PPWH?u=nysl_me_nyc72_bh&sid=bookmark-PPWH&xid=f38fb0d9.

Bull, Marcus. "The pilgrimage origins of the First Crusade." History Today, March 1997, 10+. Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy (accessed January 25, 2024). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A19261664/PPRP?u=nysl_me_nyc72_bh&sid=bookmark-PPRP&xid=69e2cdc1.

Found with Topic Finder.

Example of reference source:

Schein, Sylvia. "Christian Pilgrimage during the Middle Ages." In World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras, ABC-CLIO, 2024. Accessed January 25, 2024. https://ancienthistory-abc-clio-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/Search/Display/1389790.

Example of reference source:

Salisbury, Joyce E. "European Aristocrats: Medieval World." In Daily Life through History, ABC-CLIO, 2024. Accessed January 26, 2024. https://dailylife-abc-clio-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/Search/Display/1426019.

Gale in Context: Middle Ages

Portal to sources about the Middle Ages

Examples of scholarly books:

Dietz, Maribel. Wandering Monks, Virgins, and Pilgrims: Ascetic Travel in the Mediterranean World, A.D. 300–800. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2005. muse.jhu.edu/book/7431.

Noble, Thomas F. X., John Van Engen, Anna Sapir Abulafia, and Sverre Bagge. European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. muse.jhu.edu/book/13383.

For example, using Canterbury as a keyword and limiting sources to books: