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Brepols Publishers

International Academic Publisher

Brepols Publishersestablished 1796

international academic publisher for more than 50 years

Traditional academic areasArt History – Painting – History of Music

Late Antique and Patristic StudiesMedieval and Renaissance HistoryLatin, Greek and Oriental Literature

Philosophy – ReligionHistory of ScienceOriental Studies

A few well-know series …

Bibliologiaon the history of mss, books and writing, 19 vols available

Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidentalon medieval sources, 72 vols available

Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevion palaeography, 11 vols available

Corpus Christianorumeditions of patristic and medieval texts in Latin and Greek, over 550 vols

Patrologia Orientaliseditions of patristic texts in oriental languages, over 200 vols

Corpus Rubenianumcatalogue of all the works of P.P.Rubens, 30 vols available

CD-ROMs produced since 1991

Full Text Databases Latin Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)Biblioteca Teubneriana Latina (BTL)Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH)Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL)Aristoteles Latinus (ALD)

Lexicographical Databases Thesaurus Formarum

Manuscript Databases In Principio: Incipit Index of Latin TextsLa Librairie des Ducs de Bourgogne

Historical Databases Thesaurus DiplomaticusUt per Litteras Apostolicas … Papal Letters

Bibliographical Databases International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)

Biblical Databases Vetus Latina Database (VLD)

www.brepolis.net

Stand‐aloneDatabases

BrepolisDatabases available in 2009

Brepolis Medieval

MedievalBibliographies

MedievalEncyclopaedias

Brepolis Religion

Brepolis Latin

Full‐text Databases Latin Dictionaries

Ut per litteras apostolicas

‘Patristic and Medieval Blaise’Library of Latin Texts

Monumenta Germaniae Historica

Lexikon des Mittelalters

Int Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages

Europa SacraInternational Directory of Medievalists

Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale

International Medieval Bibliography

Vetus Latina Database

In Principio: incipit index of Latin texts

Le Ver, Dictionnaire Latin‐Français

Du Cange, Glossarium mediae infimae

Forcellini, Lexicon totius latinitatis ...’

Archive of Celtic‐Latin Literature

Aristoteles Latinus Database

Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie

ecclésiastiques

Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique:Bibliographie



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International MedievalBibliography

• Current bibliography of articles,

• Scholarly responsability: University of Leeds,

• 50 teams (incl. la institución Milá y Fontanals),

• Chronological range: 300-1500,

• 360,000 bibliographic records,

• Updated quarterly,

• 120,000 index terms,

• Multidisciplinary.

Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale

• Current bibliography of monographs,

• Scholarly responsability: University of Poitiers,

• Bibliography of the ‘Cahiers de civilisation médiévale’,

• Chronological range: 300-1500,

• 50,000 bibliographical records,

• Updated twice a year,

• Fully integrated with the International Medieval Bibliography.

Choose your language

Select one or both bibliographies

You can conduct a simple search (with a limited numberof search fields)…

… or an advanced search

Autocomplete function

For instance, you can use a filter to select only publications in Spanish

You can select records andexport/save them

Different possibilities for exporting (Endnote, Refworks, Microsoft Office Word)

Open a bibliographic record

Bibliographic record

Bibliographic information

Thematic information

Live links to the Lexikon des Mittelaltersand to Int. Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages

OpenURL compliant

By clicking on this link, you can find encyclopaedic information

Article of Lexikon des Mittelalters on Toledo

Article of IEMA on Toledo archbishopric

A bibliographic search through the IMB and/or the BCM

The screen with the bibliographical record offers 2 kinds of link

Encyclopaedic information (LexMA/IEMA)

Availabilty of the book in a library, E-journals

OpenURL/SFX

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13 different searchfields

Other examples of research

International MedievalBibliography

• Current bibliography of articles,

• Fully integrated with the Bibliographie de civilisation

médiévale,

• Live links to encyclopaedias,

• OpenURL compliant,

• Updated quarterly,

• 120,000 index terms,

• Multidisciplinary.



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ecclésiastiques


Brepolis Religion

Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique: Bibliographie (RHE)

• Initial information drawn from a famous printed series,

• Start: More than 120,000 records (1993-2008),

• deals with the different aspects of the Church's history,

• allows detailed searching,

• Multi-lingual interface,

• Compatible with OpenURL,

• Live links to the DHGE,

• 3 updates per year.


ecclésiastiques (DHGE)• Information drawn from a famous printed collection,

• Over 70,000 articles on Church History,

• DHGE deals mainly with people, places or institutions,

• Each article is written by a specialist and contains

bibliography,

• It is updated yearly with about 1,000 new articles,

• It contains « live links » to the bibliography of the Revue

d’histoire ecclésiastique.



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Full‐text Databases

Library of Latin Texts – Series A




3100 texts

1300 texts

450 texts

67 texts

5300 textsTotal

Library of Latin Texts – Series B 450 texts New in 2009









‘Patristic’ and ‘Medieval Blaise’

3100 texts

1300 texts

450 texts

67 texts

5300 textsTotal

Library of Latin Texts – Series B 450 texts


Scholarly responsability:Center ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’

Over 60 million wordsOver 3100 texts, 950 authors from Antiquity, the patristic period, the Middle Ages and the modern era‘Memento’ (background information) for eachworkVarious search possibilitiesBi-annual update onlineNew Interface since 2009

• Literature from AntiquityAmong the highlights being the opera omnia of Plautus and Terence, of Caesar and Cicero, Virgil, Horace and Ovid, Titius-Livius and the Senecas, the two Plinys, Tacitus and Quintilian

• Literature from Patristic AuthorsAmong the highlights being the complete works of important patristic writers such as Ambrose, Augustine, Ausonius, Cassian, Cyprian, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Marius Victorinus, Novatian, Paulinus of Nola, Prudentius, Tertullian and many rich corpora of authors such as Cassiodorus, Isidore and Bede. It also contains non-Christian literature of that period such as AmmianusMarcellinus, the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Claudian, Macrobius and Martianus Capella.

• Literature from the Middle Ages (736-1500)Among the highlights being the complete works of many medieval authors such as Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St. Thierry, Sedulius Scottus, Thomas à Kempis, Thomas of Celano, the Sentences of Peter Lombard, the Rationale of Guilelmus Durandus and important works by Abelard, Bonaventure, Ramon Llull, William of Ockham, Thomas of Aquinas, William of Ockham and so forth.

• Neo-Latin Literature (1501-1965)Including the decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II and sixteenth-century translations into Latin of important medieval works. The works of John Calvin, Lawrence of Brindisi and Erasmus will be gradually completed in the coming years

CONTENTS : overview

List of authors beginningWith ‘A-’

List of works of Augustinus

Memento

Access to the full-text

Search the occurences of a word in the Latin literature

Display of results per period









‘Patristic’ and ‘Medieval Blaise’

3100 texts

1300 texts

450 texts

67 texts

5300 textsTotal

Library of Latin Texts – Series B 450 texts

Database of Latin Dictionaries

Scholarly responsibility: Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’,Offers 3 kinds of dictionaries:

Translating dictionariesEtymological dictionariesHistorical dictionaries

‘Live Link’ with Library of Latin Texts,Regular updates with new dictionaries,9 Dictionaries available in 2009:

Albert Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiensAlbert Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âgeDu Cange, Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatisForcellini, Lexicon Totius LatinitatisForcellini, OnomasticonThe Lewis & Short Latin DictionaryEtc.

Entries in the different dictionaries

‘Live links’ to the full-text databases

Occurences of the word‘aqua’ in the Latin Literature

Research from a modern language

List of dictionary’s entries (Blaise patristic) in which the word ‘vin’ appears

Example : latin words to designate the wine(BLAISE A.)

• Aminea,• Chrysatticum,• Carenum,• Cinnus,• Colatum,• Conditum,• Cyceon,• Defritum,• Dulcisapa,• Falernum,• Gazetum,

• Infertum,• Medus,• Mellitus,• Merus,• Mixtum,• Mulsum,• Oenomelum• Palmatianum,• Pinguis,• Vinum,• etc.

It is also possible to search for Spanish words (in Forcellini)

For more information, please contact:

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Dictionaries (DLD)

Latin Texts

(LLT, MGH, ALD, etc.)

Live links

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Brepolis Medieval EncyclopaediasLexikon des Mittelalters Online

The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studiesWith headwords translated into EnglishWith ‘live link’ to the bibliographies of articles and monographs

International Encyclopaedia for the Middle AgesStart: a supplement to LexMa-OnlineArticles from selected, encyclopaedic resourcesCommissioned articles, fully peer-reviewedGradual expansion to stand-alone publication

Europa SacraBiographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs

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