About
Premodern Concordance is a cross-linguistic guide to scientific and medical terminology in historical sources. It connects modern research terms to older names, spellings, translations, and neighboring ideas while keeping every result attached to its original passage.
Search the concordance, read the indexed sources, or begin with a term.
Personnel
Benjamin Breen
Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
Mackenzie Cooley
Department of History, Hamilton College
Colophon
Typography
- System UI — interface and body text
- UnifrakturMaguntia — blackletter display
- EB Garamond — source reading
- Space Grotesk — alternate title display
Framework
- Next.js 16 — application framework
- libSQL / Turso — public entity registry
- Vercel — deployment target
Research method
Curated entries combine multilingual retrieval, model-assisted preprocessing, and passage-level editorial review.
Site code
The project source is available on GitHub.