About the Global Medieval and Early Modern Digital Library
The Global Medieval and Early Modern Digital Library provides a platform for publishing original translations of primary sources that have not been previously translated into English, covering a broad range of regions, languages, traditions, and genres from the period between 500 and 1700. A core part of our mission is a deep commitment to interdisciplinarity and intellectual exchange among scholars working across different languages and cultures of the medieval and early modern periods, as well as the promotion of our field and making it more accessible to non-specialists. We hope that this open access resource will help the users to discover the hitherto unnoticed connections between diverse civilizations and religions and to appreciate the global aspects of these formative periods in world history.
GMEM Digital Library Managing Team
- Eleanor Webb is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on intellectual communities in early modern Italy. Her dissertation project studies relationships between 16th century Italian universities and learned academies. She has been Graduate Fellow in GMRS since 2021.
- Brooke Giddon is a Senior in the College studying Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology with minors in GMRS, French & Francophone Studies, and English. She joined the GMRS team as Undergraduate Fellow in 2023.
- Professor Julia Verkholantsev is Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder and director of the program in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She is a co-founder of the GMEMS Digital Library, together with Eleanor Webb and Vito Acosta.
Past Contributors
- Vito Acosta was inaugural undergraduate fellow in Global Medieval & Renaissance Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and was co-founder of the GMEM Digital Library. He earned graduate and undergraduate degrees in East Asian Languages & Civilizations in 2022.
Technical Specs & Credits
The GMEM Digital Library site was built by Cynthia Heider (Public Digital Scholarship Librarian) and Cassandra Hradil (Digital Humanities Specialist), staff associated with Penn Libraries' Research Data and Digital Scholarship team.
All of the site's documentation, files, and codebase can be found in its GitHub repository.
This site is generated using CollectionBuilder-Sheets template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.