Thesaurus exemplorum medii aevi (ThEMA)

ThEMA is a database of over 12000 (and growing) exemplary anecdotes (exempla) from the Middle Ages giving special insight into the imagination of men and women in the Medieval West and beyond, from Russia and the Middle East to China and Japan. The exempla are recorded in original and summary form, and indexed according to a massive dictionary of keywords, major catalogues like Tubach, and bibliographic references, permitting researchers to investigate these stories from historical, anthropological, literary, and historiographic perspectives.

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Partners

Centre de Recherches Historiques/EHESS
CIHAM
CNRS
Huma-Num

Project Team

Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (CNRS/EHESS)
Jacques Berlioz (CNRS/EHESS)
Pascal Collomb (EHESS/CIHAM)
Marjorie Burghart (CNRS/CIHAM)
Jean-Paul Rehr (Université Lyon 2/CIHAM)

Funders

Cosme2
Labex HASTEC
Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR)
Centre de Recherches Historiques/EHESS