Research Guides: HIST 3140: Society & Culture in the Middle Ages: Writing and Citing Guides

Chicago Style Guides

Purdue Owl's Chicago Style Guide
An online guide to citing sources and formatting papers in Chicago style.
The Chicago Manual of Style
Call Number: REF Z253 .U69 2010

Guide to formatting text and citations in the "Chicago style." Most of the information you'll need for correctly citing sources can be found in chapter 14.
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
Call Number: LB2369 .T8 2007

Rules for writers by Diana Hacker
Call Number: PE1408 .H277 2010
Student's Guide to Writing College Papers by Kate L. Turabian
Call Number: LB2369 .T82 2010
A Short Guide to College Writing by Sylvan Barnet
Call Number: PE1408 .B4315 2013

Citing primary sources can be tricky. To get started:

Start with the appropriate style for the format you're looking at (book, section of a book, website, etc.)
Give the name of the medieval author first, if there is one, followed by the title and original date as it appears in your source, or a description.
Give the publication date if available; accessed dates are only necessary if no other dates are available.
Give the URL or publication information of the modern edition.
Follow the usual Chicago or Turabian style differences between footnotes and bibliographies.

For example:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. Theodore Silverstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), 57.
Gerbert of Auriallac, archbishop of Reims to Adelaide of Aquitaine, queen of the Franks (spring 997), Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters, accessed September 20, 2019, https://epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu/letter/1.html.
Fulbert of Chartres, “On Feudal Obligations, 1020,” Internet Medieval Sourcebook, January 1996, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/fulbert1.asp.

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