Important Update

eMGH has been relaunched with a major update, offering a wide range of enhancements that deliver the same innovations in data structure, interface, and accessibility already enjoyed by users of the Library of Latin Texts.

Our goal is simple: make reseach on Latin literature in all its aspects faster, easier, and more intuitive. By restructuring the database, we have:

• Simplified navigation across these large corpora of texts;
• Enhanced search functionality with new filters and perspectives;
• Added direct links to authoritative (online) resources for deeper exploration
• Simultaneous searching across the entire corpus of Latin texts via the Brepolis Cross-Database Searchtool

New Data Model & Search Possibilities

A New Datamodel:

eMGH, and by extension each Brepolis Latin database, benefits from the new data model that assigns each work to a collection, to one or more persons, and to a style, genre, topic, and area of origin. We also added some database-specific features for the eMGH: since texts in the database are often cited by their sub-series and volume (e.g. LL nat. Germ. 4,1), we have integrated the collection’s structure under “Referene Works”. Links to the digital repertory Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters complement resources like those available on Clavis Clavium.

A new interface & a new way of searching:

Then new interface is easier to navigate and aligns with current accessibility standards. Together with the new data model (see above), it offers more options than ever before to construct your own corpus while performing your search. You can now also apply filters to the result list: by person, work, century and taxonomy (genre, topic, area of origin).

Intrumenta pop-up:

Clicking on a Latin word now shows the Instrumenta pop-up with suggestions for translations and morphological analyses. This tool is directly linked to the Database of Latin Dictionaries.

Latin lemmas & Vocabulary list:

Latin lemmas are not only available in the Database of Latin Dictionaries but can also be used in full-text queries, by typing an ampersand (&) in front of any Latin form in the main search field. A Vocabulary list–i.e. a list of all unique word-forms–is available for each Person, Text and Collection of the Brepolis Latin Databases.

More info:

More information on these updates can be found on our blog post: New Interfaces and Data Structures for ACLL, ALD, and eMGH.

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Exhaustive Content

The eMGH are part of the Brepolis Latin platform which is augmented every year and which currently includes four corpora of texts totaling around 24,600 texts. By means of the Cross Database Searchtool, the eMGH can be searched simultaneously with the Library of Latin Texts, the Aristoteles Latinus Database, and the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature

Multilingual Interface

The interface has been developed in four different languages: English, French, German and Italian