Finding print primary sources with OBIS & Summon
Many useful primary sources will be collected in print or ebook compilations, with several texts or images on a related topic collected in a single volume. The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages is an example of such a source.
The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages by ISBN: 0719052041Publication Date: 2000-05-25The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully structured around the crisis of the fourteenth century and arranged in contrasting groups of texts. By connecting documents in translation to recent scholarship and debates, it addresses five key areas of medieval urban history: the physical environment, civic religion, economy, society and politics.
Subjects that are useful for finding primary sources in OBIS and Summon:
- Sources
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Interviews
- Pictoral Works
- Maps
- Early Works to 1800
- Medieval
- Centuries (e.g. 11th century)
Summon indexes the full text of some (but not all) of our print sources. Therefore it can be useful to combine a subject search for subject headings associated with primary sources with a keyword search for more specific concepts. The proximity search can help ensure that multiple concepts are addressed in the same text inside a collection.
To find books where the word city and the word food appear within 100 words of each other, you would use the following search in Summon:
- "city food"~100
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