Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern bibliographies contain over 50,000 records in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian languages, including (but not limited to) Baltic languages, Bulgarian and Macedonian, Czech and Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Slovene, and Turkish.  

For texts older than 1975, Brepolis uses the British Standard transliteration system for Cyrillic scripts. For anything after 1975, Brepolis uses the American Library of Congress system. 

The Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies database indexes articles from journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogs published since 1967, in over 30 languages.  

Brepolis is a collaboration between International Medieval Bibliography – which contains articles from periodicals and miscellanies – and the Bibliography of Medieval Civilization – which contains book reviews as well as records of monographs and miscellanies. Both bibliographies cover Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 300-1500. The bibliographies comprise 365,000 articles, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records. The interface is available in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Usefully, the “coverage” option under the “Search” dropdown menu allows patrons to explore the journals and series indexed by the database.

Brepolis provides detailed instructions and a video tutorial for searching in their database.  

Here is what a search for “Architecture - secular” (a subject term provided by the database) and “Russia” looks like:

Filters are available on the left-hand side to refine your search.