Premodern Concordance

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.