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Medieval Latin 205: Waltharius: Secondary Sources

Articles and Essays

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
A comprehensive, current bibliography of journal articles, essay collections and conference proceedings for all areas of medieval studies.

Mirabile (esp. Medioevo Latino or MEL), -- Searches across several databases of medieval studies, including indexes of articles and books, with about 1,400 full-text articles.

Historical Abstracts
Scholarly journal articles, books, and dissertations on world history; a good supplement to the IMB, especially for research on the historical context of the Waltharius.

MLA International Bibliography
The standard North American bibliography for scholarly literature -- articles, essays, dissertations, and conference papers -- on literature, language, and folklore.

Reference Works

"Attila and the Huns" -- annotated bibliography in Oxford Bibliographies Online

"Waltharius." Seven-page entry by Dennis M. Kratz in German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages: 800-1170 (print only; Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 148)

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Brepolis Medieval Encyclopedias

Brill's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (print)

All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World

Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation (print)

For many more sources like these, search in the HOLLIS Advanced Search for the Subject Middle Ages encyclopedias.