Online Databases

Over the past twenty years, colleagues working in late Antique and Medieval studies have been at the forefront of advances in digital research in the humanities. Often funded by major grants (from the AHRC and Leverhulme Trust), they are the fruit of close collaboration between specialists from our Department of Digital Humanities and staff from departments across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, as well as other UK and international institutions.

These projects offer a wealth of resources for scholars working in the visual arts, literary and cultural study, music, and history. Explore just some of the projects below.

Late Antiquity

Inscriptions of Aphrodisias

This is the first edition of the online corpus of the inscriptions of Aphrodisias recorded up to 1994.

Prosopography of the Byzantine World

The Prosopography of the Byzantine World aims to record all surviving information about every individual in Byzantine textual sources in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism

A database of manuscript images, each supported by scholarly commentary, bibliography, and questions to be addressed to such material. Includes notes on historical importance, reception history, and content, aided by audio-visual podcasts from scholars discussing the manuscripts.

Anglo-Saxon and Old English studies

AsChart: Anglo-Saxon Charters

Digitised Anglo-Saxon Charters up to AD900.

Thesaurus of Old English

A conceptually arranged Thesaurus of Old English vocabulary.

Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database which aims to provide structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the late eleventh century.

Language of Landscape

The Language of Landscape (LangScape) is an on-line searchable database of Anglo-Saxon estate boundaries, descriptions of the countryside made by the Anglo-Saxons themselves.

Post-Conquest Britain and Europe

Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700

The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700 provides a complete catalogue of literary manuscripts by 237 British authors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Electronic Sawyer

The ‘Electronic Sawyer’ presents in searchable and browsable form a revised, updated, and expanded version of Peter Sawyer's Anglo-Saxon Charters: an Annotated List and Bibliography, published by the Royal Historical Society in 1968.

Fine Rolls of Henry III

A fine in the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272) was an agreement to pay the king a sum of money for a specified concession. The rolls on which the fines were recorded provide the earliest systematic evidence of what people and institutions across society wanted from the king and he was prepared to give. This Project makes the rolls freely available to a wide audience.

People of Medieval Scotland
POMS is a database of all known people of Scotland between 1093 and 1314 mentioned in over 8600 contemporary documents.

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi – Medieval Stained Glass

The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) is the international research project dedicated to recording medieval stained glass.

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts, presenting images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website.

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture is a complete online record of all the surviving Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland, at more than 5000 sites.

Medieval Film Club