The Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages Bibliography

For the past few years, I’ve maintained an online bibliography of works on the history of the Premonstratensian Order in the Middle Ages (roughly early 12th-mid-16th centuries). The bibliography’s initial focus was on the order’s development in medieval France, particularly its female members. However over time I have expanded its scope to cover scholarship on the order elsewhere in Europe and the Mediterranean world.

However, as it grew—it now encompasses almost 6,000 individual entries—the bibliography also became increasingly slow to load. The code I’d been using just wasn’t designed to work with such a large number of entries. It also wasn’t easy to search. So I’m pleased to say that an overhauled version is now live! The underlying program is still Zotero, but KerkoApp now provides a much more flexible interface for the bibliography.

Version 2.0 is much, much faster than the previous one, and has improved search functionality.

You can now search by:

• Title
• Author
• Tag/Keyword, organised into four main types:
  • Communities
  • Individual: Adam of Dryburgh, Anselm of Havelberg, Bronislava of Kamień, Burchard of Ursberg, Christina of Hane, Cyprian of Wrocław, Hermann of Cologne, Hermann Joseph of Steinfeld, Hroznata of Bohemia, Isfried of Ratzeburg, John Capgrave, Ludolf of Ratzeburg, Norbert of Xanten, Oda of Rivreulle, Philip of Harvengt, Richard Redman, Robert of Auxerre, Zachary of Besançon
  • Regional: Austria, Baltic Region, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latin East, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
  • Thematic: Chapters and Statutes, Liturgy, Musicology, Premonstratensian (General)
• Source type (e.g. book, journal article, dataset, etc)
• Date/date range of publication
• Language (from Catalan to Swedish, and more than a dozen others between)

 

 
If you find any issues or know of items I should include, drop a comment below to let me know.

My deep thanks to my Geneseo colleague, David Warden, for his help in making this work!