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Brepolis<br />
Offering a future for the past<br />
Brepols Publishers<br />
International Academic Publisher
Brepols Publishers<br />
established 1796<br />
international academic publisher for more than 50 years<br />
Traditional academic areas<br />
Art History – Painting – History <strong>of</strong> Music<br />
Late Antique and Patristic Studies<br />
Medieval and Renaissance History<br />
<strong>Latin</strong>, Greek and Oriental Literature<br />
Philosophy – Religion<br />
History <strong>of</strong> Science<br />
Oriental Studies
A few well-know series …<br />
Bibliologia<br />
on the history <strong>of</strong> mss, books and writing, 19 vols available<br />
Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental<br />
on medieval sources, 72 vols available<br />
Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi<br />
on palaeography, 11 vols available<br />
Corpus Christianorum<br />
editions <strong>of</strong> patristic and medieval texts in <strong>Latin</strong> and Greek, over<br />
550 vols<br />
Patrologia Orientalis<br />
editions <strong>of</strong> patristic texts in oriental languages, over 200 vols<br />
Corpus Rubenianum<br />
catalogue <strong>of</strong> all the works <strong>of</strong> P.P.Rubens, 30 vols available
CD-ROMs produced since 1991<br />
Full Text Databases <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> (CLCLT)<br />
Biblioteca Teubneriana <strong>Latin</strong>a (BTL)<br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH)<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic-<strong>Latin</strong> Literature (ACLL)<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us (ALD)<br />
Lexicographical Databases Thesaurus Formarum<br />
Manuscript Databases In Principio: Incipit Index <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong><br />
La Librairie des Ducs de Bourgogne<br />
Historical Databases Thesaurus Diplomaticus<br />
Ut per Litteras Apostolicas … Papal Letters<br />
Bibliographical Databases International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)<br />
Biblical Databases Vetus <strong>Latin</strong>a Database (VLD)
www.brepolis.net
Stand‐alone<br />
Databases<br />
In Principio: incipit index <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> texts<br />
Vetus <strong>Latin</strong>a Database<br />
Ut per litteras apostolicas<br />
Brepolis <strong>Latin</strong><br />
Brepolis<br />
Databases available in 2009<br />
Full‐text Databases <strong>Latin</strong> Dictionaries<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong><br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic‐<strong>Latin</strong> Literature<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us Database<br />
‘Patristic and Medieval Blaise’<br />
Le Ver, Dictionnaire <strong>Latin</strong>‐Français<br />
Du Cange, Glossarium mediae infimae<br />
Forcellini, Lexicon totius latinitatis ...’<br />
Medieval<br />
Bibliographies<br />
International Medieval Bibliography<br />
Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale<br />
International Directory <strong>of</strong> Medievalists<br />
Brepolis Medieval<br />
Brepolis Religion<br />
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique:<br />
Bibliographie<br />
Medieval<br />
Encyclopaedias<br />
Lexikon des Mittelalters<br />
Int Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages<br />
Europa Sacra<br />
Dictionnaire d’histoire et de<br />
géographie<br />
ecclésiastiques
Stand‐alone<br />
Databases<br />
In Principio: incipit index <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> texts<br />
Vetus <strong>Latin</strong>a Database<br />
Ut per litteras apostolicas<br />
Brepolis <strong>Latin</strong><br />
Brepolis<br />
Databases available in 2009<br />
Full‐text Databases <strong>Latin</strong> Dictionaries<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong><br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic‐<strong>Latin</strong> Literature<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us Database<br />
‘Patristic and Medieval Blaise’<br />
Le Ver, Dictionnaire <strong>Latin</strong>‐Français<br />
Du Cange, Glossarium mediae infimae<br />
Forcellini, Lexicon totius latinitatis ...’<br />
Medieval<br />
Bibliographies<br />
International Medieval Bibliography<br />
Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale<br />
International Directory <strong>of</strong> Medievalists<br />
Brepolis Medieval<br />
Brepolis Religion<br />
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique:<br />
Bibliographie<br />
Medieval<br />
Encyclopaedias<br />
Lexikon des Mittelalters<br />
Int Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages<br />
Europa Sacra<br />
Dictionnaire d’histoire et de<br />
géographie<br />
ecclésiastiques
International Medieval<br />
Bibliography<br />
• Current bibliography <strong>of</strong> articles,<br />
• Scholarly responsability: University <strong>of</strong> Leeds,<br />
• 50 teams (incl. la institución Milá y Fontanals),<br />
• Chronological range: 300-1500,<br />
• 360,000 bibliographic records,<br />
• Updated quarterly,<br />
• 120,000 index terms,<br />
• Multidisciplinary.
Bibliographie de<br />
Civilisation Médiévale<br />
• Current bibliography <strong>of</strong> monographs,<br />
• Scholarly responsability: University <strong>of</strong> Poitiers,<br />
• Bibliography <strong>of</strong> the ‘Cahiers de civilisation médiévale’,<br />
• Chronological range: 300-1500,<br />
• 50,000 bibliographical records,<br />
• Updated twice a year,<br />
• Fully integrated with the International Medieval Bibliography.
Choose your language
Select one or both bibliographies
You can conduct a simple search (with a limited number<br />
<strong>of</strong> search fields)…
… or an advanced search
Autocomplete<br />
function
For instance, you can<br />
use a filter to select only<br />
publications in Spanish
You can select records and<br />
export/save them
Different possibilities<br />
for<br />
exporting<br />
(Endnote, Refworks,<br />
Micros<strong>of</strong>t Office Word)
Open a bibliographic<br />
record
Bibliographic record<br />
Bibliographic<br />
information<br />
Thematic<br />
information
OpenURL compliant<br />
By clicking on this link, you can find<br />
encyclopaedic information<br />
Live links to the<br />
Lexikon des Mittelalters<br />
and to Int. Encyclopaedia for the Middle<br />
Ages
Article <strong>of</strong> Lexikon des Mittelalters on Toledo
Article <strong>of</strong> IEMA on Toledo archbishopric
A bibliographic search through<br />
the IMB and/or the BCM<br />
The screen with the<br />
bibliographical record <strong>of</strong>fers 2<br />
kinds <strong>of</strong> link<br />
OpenURL/SFX<br />
Links to Brepolis<br />
Encyclopaedic<br />
information<br />
(LexMA/IEMA)<br />
Availabilty <strong>of</strong> the book in<br />
a library, E-journals
13 different<br />
search<br />
fields
Other examples <strong>of</strong> research
International Medieval<br />
Bibliography<br />
• Current bibliography <strong>of</strong> articles,<br />
• Fully integrated with the Bibliographie de civilisation<br />
médiévale,<br />
• Live links to encyclopaedias,<br />
• OpenURL compliant,<br />
• Updated quarterly,<br />
• 120,000 index terms,<br />
• Multidisciplinary.
Stand‐alone<br />
Databases<br />
In Principio: incipit index <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> texts<br />
Vetus <strong>Latin</strong>a Database<br />
Ut per litteras apostolicas<br />
Brepolis <strong>Latin</strong><br />
Brepolis<br />
Databases available in 2009<br />
Full‐text Databases <strong>Latin</strong> Dictionaries<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong><br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic‐<strong>Latin</strong> Literature<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us Database<br />
‘Patristic and Medieval Blaise’<br />
Le Ver, Dictionnaire <strong>Latin</strong>‐Français<br />
Du Cange, Glossarium mediae infimae<br />
Forcellini, Lexicon totius latinitatis ...’<br />
Medieval<br />
Bibliographies<br />
International Medieval Bibliography<br />
Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale<br />
International Directory <strong>of</strong> Medievalists<br />
Brepolis Medieval<br />
Brepolis Religion<br />
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique:<br />
Bibliographie<br />
Medieval<br />
Encyclopaedias<br />
Lexikon des Mittelalters<br />
Int Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages<br />
Europa Sacra<br />
Dictionnaire d’histoire et de<br />
géographie<br />
ecclésiastiques
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique:<br />
Bibliographie (RHE)<br />
• Initial information drawn from a famous printed series,<br />
• Start: More than 120,000 records (1993-2008),<br />
• deals with the different aspects <strong>of</strong> the Church's history,<br />
• allows detailed searching,<br />
• Multi-lingual interface,<br />
• Compatible with OpenURL,<br />
• Live links to the DHGE,<br />
• 3 updates per year.
Dictionnaire d’histoire et<br />
de géographie<br />
ecclésiastiques (DHGE)<br />
• Information drawn from a famous printed collection,<br />
• Over 70,000 articles on Church History,<br />
• DHGE deals mainly with people, places or institutions,<br />
• Each article is written by a specialist and contains<br />
bibliography,<br />
• It is updated yearly with about 1,000 new articles,<br />
• It contains « live links » to the bibliography <strong>of</strong> the Revue<br />
d’histoire ecclésiastique.
Stand‐alone<br />
Databases<br />
In Principio: incipit index <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> texts<br />
Vetus <strong>Latin</strong>a Database<br />
Ut per litteras apostolicas<br />
Brepolis <strong>Latin</strong><br />
Brepolis<br />
Databases available in 2009<br />
Full‐text Databases <strong>Latin</strong> Dictionaries<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong><br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic‐<strong>Latin</strong> Literature<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us Database<br />
‘Patristic and Medieval Blaise’<br />
Le Ver, Dictionnaire <strong>Latin</strong>‐Français<br />
Du Cange, Glossarium mediae infimae<br />
Forcellini, Lexicon totius latinitatis ...’<br />
Medieval<br />
Bibliographies<br />
International Medieval Bibliography<br />
Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale<br />
International Directory <strong>of</strong> Medievalists<br />
Brepolis Medieval<br />
Brepolis Religion<br />
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique:<br />
Bibliographie<br />
Medieval<br />
Encyclopaedias<br />
Lexikon des Mittelalters<br />
Int Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages<br />
Europa Sacra<br />
Dictionnaire d’histoire et de<br />
géographie<br />
ecclésiastiques
Full‐text Databases<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> –Series A<br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic‐<strong>Latin</strong> Literature<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us Database<br />
3100 texts<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> –Series B 450 texts New in 2009<br />
Total<br />
1300 texts<br />
450 texts<br />
67 texts<br />
5300 texts
Full‐text Databases <strong>Latin</strong> Dictionaries<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> –Series A<br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic‐<strong>Latin</strong> Literature<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us Database<br />
3100 texts<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> –Series B 450 texts<br />
Total<br />
1300 texts<br />
450 texts<br />
67 texts<br />
5300 texts<br />
Le Ver, Dictionnaire <strong>Latin</strong>‐Français<br />
Du Cange, Glossarium mediae infimae<br />
Forcellini, Lexicon totius latinitatis ...’<br />
‘Patristic’ and ‘Medieval Blaise’
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> – Series A<br />
Scholarly responsability:<br />
Center ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’<br />
Over 60 million words<br />
Over 3100 texts, 950 authors from Antiquity, the<br />
patristic period, the Middle Ages and the modern<br />
era<br />
‘Memento’ (background information) for each<br />
work<br />
Various search possibilities<br />
Bi-annual update online<br />
New Interface since 2009
CONTENTS : overview<br />
• Literature from Antiquity<br />
Among the highlights being the opera omnia <strong>of</strong> Plautus and Terence, <strong>of</strong> Caesar and Cicero, Virgil,<br />
Horace and Ovid, Titius-Livius and the Senecas, the two Plinys, Tacitus and Quintilian<br />
• Literature from Patristic Authors<br />
Among the highlights being the complete works <strong>of</strong> important patristic writers such as Ambrose,<br />
Augustine, Ausonius, Cassian, Cyprian, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Marius Victorinus, Novatian,<br />
Paulinus <strong>of</strong> Nola, Prudentius, Tertullian and many rich corpora <strong>of</strong> authors such as Cassiodorus,<br />
Isidore and Bede. It also contains non-Christian literature <strong>of</strong> that period such as Ammianus<br />
Marcellinus, the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Claudian, Macrobius and Martianus Capella.<br />
• Literature from the Middle Ages (736-1500)<br />
Among the highlights being the complete works <strong>of</strong> many medieval authors such as Anselm <strong>of</strong><br />
Canterbury, Bernard <strong>of</strong> Clairvaux, William <strong>of</strong> St. Thierry, Sedulius Scottus, Thomas à Kempis,<br />
Thomas <strong>of</strong> Celano, the Sentences <strong>of</strong> Peter Lombard, the Rationale <strong>of</strong> Guilelmus Durandus and<br />
important works by Abelard, Bonaventure, Ramon Llull, William <strong>of</strong> Ockham, Thomas <strong>of</strong> Aquinas,<br />
William <strong>of</strong> Ockham and so forth.<br />
• Neo-<strong>Latin</strong> Literature (1501-1965)<br />
Including the decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II and sixteenthcentury<br />
translations into <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>of</strong> important medieval works. The works <strong>of</strong> John Calvin, Lawrence <strong>of</strong><br />
Brindisi and Erasmus will be gradually completed in the coming years
List <strong>of</strong> authors beginning<br />
With ‘A-’
List <strong>of</strong> works <strong>of</strong> Augustinus
Memento
Access to the full-text
Search the occurences <strong>of</strong> a word in the <strong>Latin</strong> literature
Display <strong>of</strong> results per period
Full‐text Databases <strong>Latin</strong> Dictionaries<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> –Series A<br />
Monumenta Germaniae Historica<br />
Archive <strong>of</strong> Celtic‐<strong>Latin</strong> Literature<br />
Aristoteles <strong>Latin</strong>us Database<br />
3100 texts<br />
<strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong> –Series B 450 texts<br />
Total<br />
1300 texts<br />
450 texts<br />
67 texts<br />
5300 texts<br />
Le Ver, Dictionnaire <strong>Latin</strong>‐Français<br />
Du Cange, Glossarium mediae infimae<br />
Forcellini, Lexicon totius latinitatis ...’<br />
‘Patristic’ and ‘Medieval Blaise’
Database <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Latin</strong> Dictionaries<br />
Scholarly responsibility: Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’,<br />
Offers 3 kinds <strong>of</strong> dictionaries:<br />
Translating dictionaries<br />
Etymological dictionaries<br />
Historical dictionaries<br />
‘Live Link’ with <strong>Library</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong>,<br />
Regular updates with new dictionaries,<br />
9 Dictionaries available in 2009:<br />
Albert Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens<br />
Albert Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge<br />
Du Cange, Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis<br />
Forcellini, Lexicon Totius <strong>Latin</strong>itatis<br />
Forcellini, Onomasticon<br />
The Lewis & Short <strong>Latin</strong> Dictionary<br />
Etc.
Entries in the different dictionaries
‘Live links’ to the full-text databases
Occurences <strong>of</strong> the word<br />
‘aqua’ in the <strong>Latin</strong> Literature
Research from a modern language
Research from a modern language
List <strong>of</strong> dictionary’s entries (Blaise patristic)<br />
in which the word ‘vin’ appears
Example : latin words to designate the wine<br />
(BLAISE A.)<br />
• Aminea,<br />
• Chrysatticum,<br />
• Carenum,<br />
• Cinnus,<br />
• Colatum,<br />
• Conditum,<br />
• Cyceon,<br />
• Defritum,<br />
• Dulcisapa,<br />
• Falernum,<br />
• Gazetum,<br />
• Infertum,<br />
• Medus,<br />
• Mellitus,<br />
• Merus,<br />
• Mixtum,<br />
• Mulsum,<br />
• Oenomelum<br />
• Palmatianum,<br />
• Pinguis,<br />
• Vinum,<br />
• etc.
It is also possible to search for Spanish words (in Forcellini)
For more information, please contact:<br />
rudolf.puelinckx@brepols.net
Dictionaries (DLD)<br />
<strong>Latin</strong> <strong>Texts</strong><br />
(LLT, MGH, ALD,<br />
etc.)<br />
acll<br />
Live links
Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias<br />
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online<br />
The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies<br />
With headwords translated into English<br />
With ‘live link’ to the bibliographies <strong>of</strong> articles and<br />
monographs<br />
International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages<br />
Start: a supplement to LexMa-Online<br />
Articles from selected, encyclopaedic resources<br />
Commissioned articles, fully peer-reviewed<br />
Gradual expansion to stand-alone publication<br />
Europa Sacra<br />
Biographical information on 18,507 bishops,<br />
archbishops and patriarchs
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