Welcome to AARHMS

The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain welcomes you to its website. Organized in 1974, AARHMS offers a forum for scholars of medieval Iberia to share their ideas, interests, and research.

AARHMS sponsors The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO), a collection of full-text digital editions of scholarly works on medieval Iberia, as well as other resources listed on the menu at left.

Update on LIBRO

James Brodman offers all interested the following update regarding the LIBRO project, which is now almost six years old: "The last time I looked (and this was some time ago), LIBRO has had over a quarter of a million users and these have come from around the globe. Currently there are just over fifty titles available through LIBRO. This summer, thanks to the generosity of the University of Central Arkansas and the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (both of which co-sponsor the project, I was able to replace LIBRO's aging server with a new model that is both faster and larger (it has a capacity of something like 40,000 to 50,000 volumes!). I still have a little (very little) money to add additional titles. The purpose of this update is to ask whether you (1) have a university press title in Spanish history that is now out-of-print that you would be willing to share with LIBRO or (2) have any titles to recommend. Titles that already exist in some digital form (in Word or Wordperfect, for example) can be mounted quickly and inexpensively. Most time-consuming and expensive are titles that must be scanned."

Membership in AARHMS is open to all scholars of medieval Iberia (choose "Join" under "AARHMS" in the menu at left).