Research Guides: HIST 138: Crusades, Mission, and the Expansion of Europe: Key Sources

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Oxford Islamic Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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A rich collection of reference works on the Islamic world. Includes The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, The Oxford History of Islam, What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, two translations of the Qur'an, and the Concordance of the Qur'an as well as other primary source and reference materials and tools.

Encyclopedia of Islam (2nd & 3rd eds.)
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Search the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Brill Encyclopedia of Islam, plus the Brill Historical Atlas of Islam.

Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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This is a key starting place for research in several different fields, providing bibliographies on current scholarship on topics from the social sciences and humanities.

Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
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Index of scholarship on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world, 1906 - current.
Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journal articles, essays, and books on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Covers 1842 - present (coverage varies by publication type).
International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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An extensive bibliography of literature about the European Middle Ages. Covers publications from 1967 - current.
Database now includes three databases: International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), Bibliography of Medieval Civilisation (BCM), and International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR)
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present.

Wikimedia Commons
Over 16 million freely usable media files. Like Wikipedia, anyone can contribute to the collection. Copyright and licensing information is provided for every image.
Flickr: The Commons
Collection of photographs that are free of copyright restrictions from dozens of cultural institutions around the world, including the Smithsonian, several U.S. museums, several state archive, NARA, and New York Public Library. Be aware that this is a separate Flickr stream from the main institutional Flickr sites, which often contain copyrighted images.
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Europeana This link opens in a new window
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A large collections with artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. Has filters for Open Licenses.

Google Images > Tools > Usage Rights
To find Creative Commons images, click "Tools" then "Usage Rights" in the results page.

Ashgate "Crusade texts in translation" primary source series
A series of 27 books (hard cover published by Ashgate, ebook republished by Taylor and Francis or Routledge). Contains primary sources about the Crusades. These images are copyrighted.