MEMSLib

Projects and Databases

 

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland - This database will provide a Virtual Record Treasury for Irish history, reconstructing the records of the Record Treasury at the Public Record Office of Ireland, which was destroyed in 1922.

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Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists -This is a database on Medieval and Early modern jurists, legal works, printed books and manuscripts. It provides biographical and bibliographical information. It's a transposition and expansion of Kenneth Pennington's 'Medieval and Early Modern Jurists: A Bio-Bibliographical Listing'.

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Black Central Europe (1000-1500) - A project which collects both literary and historical primary sources which focus on the figure of the “Moor” as perceived by medieval Europe, and the intersection between Islam and Christianity. The project also offers resources for teaching and research and facilitates conversation on the Black Diaspora in German-speaking Central Europe in order to challenge racialized presumptions about history, national belonging, and citizenship in the region.

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Deutsche Inschriften Online - An online database compiling over 1,000 inscriptions from the city of Lüneburg in northern Germany, from the 10th century to 1650. Drawn from benefactions, buildings and gravestones, these inscriptions reflect the life of the Lüneburg patrician families during this period. 

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England’s Immigrants 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Middle Ages - This database holds the names of 64,000 people who moved to England between the Hundred Years War and the Reformation Document references and document types are also included.

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English Eel-Rents: 10th-17th Centuries - This project maps recorded English eel-rents from between the 10th and 17th centuries.

 

The Gascon Rolls Project 1317-1468 - Contains calendars of the Gascon Rolls from 1317-1467, as well as digitised copies of the rolls provided by The National Archives. Introductions to the rolls have also been included. 

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The Imprint Project - This is an interdisciplinary project that examines hand marks found on the wax on the reverse of medieval seals to show what sealing practices reveal about the development of administrative and legal practices.

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The Gough Map of Great Britain - An interactive, searchable edition of the Gough Map, renowned as one of the earliest maps to depict Britain in a “geographically recognisable form”, accompanied by contextual materials.

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Legal History: The Year Books - This database provides a comprehensive index of all year book reports printed in the chronological series for all years between 1268 to 1535.

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Late Medieval English Magic - Compiled as part of doctoral research by Laura Mitchell (University of Toronto), this project offers a catalogue of late-medieval manuscripts which feature magical charms, conjurations, treatises, recipes and rituals. The catalogue is searchable by library holding and location, and manuscripts are also grouped according to charm type or ingredient.

 

The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project - A database for researching medieval textiles and clothing, and the vocabulary associated with these materials.

 

Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Royal Wardrobe Accounts - Building on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project’ this project examines the clothing worn by the royal family during the reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III.

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Mapping Medieval Chester - This AHRC-funded research project brings together a team including literary specialists, historical geographers and historians to explore space, place and identity in medieval Chester, c.1200-1500.

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Medieval Disabilities Glossary - An in-progress project which provides short descriptions of medieval European perceptions of disabilities with some further reading.

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Medieval Graffiti - Developed by the Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey, which is still ongoing, this website catalogues the medieval graffiti found in medieval churches in Norfolk. NMGS  offers a detailed bibliography on medieval graffiti on their website which is accessible here.

 

Mapping the Medieval Countryside Project - A research project creating a digital edition of medieval English Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, of which those from 1399 to 1447 are digitised. This resource details lands held by tenants at their death, and is browsable by geographic location, person, or date of Inquisition.

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The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (Rutgers University) - MEMDB contains five large data sets, of which three record currency exchange, and two record price changes, particularly of grain.

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Medieval Londoners - This website provides resources for researching medieval London and its inhabitants. An important part of this website is its Medieval Londoners Database (MLD), which details the lives of London's residents from c.1100-1520.

 

The Northern Way - This is an AHRC funded project and is a searchable index of primary sources that demonstrate the political activity of the Archbishop of York between 1306 and 1406. Images of the Archbishops’ registers have been digitised and are available to view here.

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RI-Opac -This is a bibliographic database covering medieval studies in all major European languages.

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People of 1381 - This project provides a detailed interpretation of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, focusing on the economic, social and political dynamics of the rebellion.

 

Records of London’s Livery Companies (ROLLCO) - A database of the records of the London Livery Companies (trade guilds) from 1400.. The records include apprentice bonds, and records of people becoming freemen of the companies. Details of apprentices’ backgrounds can be used to study social makeup or migration from the regions.

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Sanctuary Seekers in England, 1394-1557 - This website provides the stories of those seeking sanctuary between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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Taxatio - This database, run by the University of Sheffield, contains the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the Spiritualities part, as distinct from the Temporalities part, of the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291-2.

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The Soldier in Late-Medieval England - A database of all soldiers for whom we have records serving the English crown between 1369 and 1453, in France, in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Spain. It includes as much information as the records can give us regarding each man's name, origin, occupation, and service record. The database also includes useful links to other databases that specifically deal with the Agincourt campaign of 1415. 

 

TNA, E 179 database - This database allows researchers to search taxation records that form part of a class of records known as the ‘King’s Remembrancer’. Here you will find taxation records relating to the laity of England and Wales.

 

Tudor Chamber Books Project - Offers digitised versions of the King’s Chamber Books from 1485 to 1521, searchable both in the original Middle English/Latin and in modernised English.

 

Virtual St Stephen’s - A 3D visualisation created to maps the story of St Stephen's Chapel from its creation as a royal chapel to its destruction by fire in 1834.

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Whittington's Gift: Reconstructing the Lost Common Library of London's Guildhall - A Leverhulme-funded project at both the University of Kent and Queen's University Belfast, that demonstrates that London citizens created new programmes of religious education for the City's clergy and for literate lay communities.