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MARS Seminars and Resources

Central London offers an unrivalled concentration of resources, lectures, seminars and other events relating to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

UCL MARS staff and students host and participate in a wide range of the following seminars and events.

UCL Seminars and Lectures

  • UCL Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Seminar听(IMARS)

London Seminars and Lectures

  • 听(听- IHR)
  • 听(IHR)
  • 听(IHR)
  • 听(IHR)
  • Emphasis
  • (Courtauld Institute)
  • London Anglo-Saxon Symposium (School of Advanced Study)

For information on medieval events, contact Professor Sophie Page.

For email bulletins of Renaissance events, visit .

Libraries

MARS students can access the collections of the following research libraries, all of which are within five or six minutes' walking distance of UCL.

  • 听(including the Palaeography Room)

These libraries hold collections of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed books, digitised collections and repertoria. Together, they constitute one of the best concentrations of resources for Medieval and Renaissance studies in the world.

London offers many other resources for Medieval and Renaissance scholars;听, the听, and听听are just a few examples.

Digital Resources

Module tutors and dissertation supervisors can advise students on the use of subject-specific digital resources. The following are a few general digital resources that MARS students may find useful:

  • 听听to locate copies of books in UK research libraries.
  • 听for classical materials.
  • , a database of almost all known ancient and Byzantine Greek texts up until 1453, in scholarly editions. Available through the UCL list of databases.
  • Diogenes听For searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek. The collection includes digital versions of the Lewis and Short Latin dictionary and Lidell, Scott and Jones Greek dictionary.
  • , for medieval Latin.
  • 听for searches in Biblical texts in many languages.
  • 听Includes digital images of manuscripts.
  • 听for the best site for Italian e-texts.
  • 听(Biblioteca virtuale online) with many Italian Renaissance texts, both in Latin and Italian.
  • 听compiled by Dana F. Sutton (University of California, Irvine). A list of digital versions of many medieval and Latin texts in rare printed editions.
  • The 'Einbanddatenbank' is a searchable database of the stamps used for decorating fifteenth- and sixteenth-century leather bindings. It is useful for dating copies and identifying their origins.
  • 听for identifying Latin place names.