| Producer | University of Leeds |
|---|---|
| History | 1967-present |
| Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Access | |
| Providers | Brepols |
| Cost | Subscription |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Archaeology, architecture, art history, canon law, crusades, daily life, ecclesiastical history, economics, education, epigraphy, geography, hagiography, Hebrew and Jewish studies, heraldry, humanism, Islam, language, law, literature, liturgy, manuscripts and palaeography, maritime studies, medicine, military history, monasticism, music, numismatics, onomastics, philosophy, politics and diplomacy, printing history, science, social history, technology, theology, and more |
| Record depth | Index and abstract |
| Format coverage | Individual articles in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, collected essays, exhibition catalogues |
| Temporal coverage | AD 300-1500 |
| Geospatial coverage | Europe, Middle East, North Africa |
| No. of records | 560,000+ article records, 3,200+ journals |
| Print edition | |
| Print title | International Medieval Bibliography: Multidisciplinary Bibliography of the Middle Ages |
| ISSN | 0020-7950 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for the entire period from AD 300 to 1500.[1] It aims to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) published worldwide in over 35 different languages. The organisation and publication of the IMB is a collaboration between the University of Leeds and the Belgian publisher Brepols.
As of 2024, the database comprised over 560,000 article records on every aspect of the Middle Ages, with over 16,000 new records being added annually in quarterly updates.[2] A printed update of new records is published annually. The IMB's editorial staff are based at the Institute for Medieval Studies, supported by a worldwide network of academic contributors.
Around 2012, the IMB and Brepols joined forces with the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM), based at the University of Poitiers,[3] and it is possible to use a joint interface to search for articles in the IMB and monographs in the BCM.[4]