It covers the period 450 to 1500. The geographical area includes Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. It is organized by thematic topics found in the table of contents. It also includes an author index and a general index. Article descriptions appear in the original language of the article.
Abstracts appear in French, German, Italian, or Spanish.
It is issued twice yearly and is the standard bibliography for medieval topics. Historical Abstracts Online Historical Abstracts covers the period of 1450 to the present. It is a major historical source of bibliographical information indexing over 2,100 journals. Published since 1955, the UO library also owns the print version up to 1997. The online version may be searched by subject, title, keyword, and author, as well as time period and date published.