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Western Civilization--European History, Empire

Customized guides to research for specific courses in Western civilization and European history

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Suggested Sources

Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages online version 

Deliyannis, Deborah M. Historiography in the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2003.

Strayer, Joseph R. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 14 vols.
New York: Scribner, 1982. D114 .D5 Reference Fl.1

McKitterick, Rosamond. The New Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995.  D117 .N48 Reference Fl.1

Oxford Reference Online (Premium Collection)

Specialized reference collection including Oxford Histories, Oxford Companions, Encyclopedia, timelines and maps

Lapidge, Michael. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Maps and Geography

MacKay, Angus, and David Ditchburn. Atlas of Medieval Europe. London: Routledge, 1997.

Subject: Medieval geography

Subject: Medieval maps

Europe

Subject:  Europe History 392-814

Spain

Subject:  Spain History 711-1516

France

Subject:  France AND History AND To 987

Subject: Merovingians 

Subject: Carolingians 

Subject: Capetians 

Subject: Valois  

England

Subject:  Great Britain Anglo-Saxon period 449-1066

Subject:  England History to 1066

Subject:  England Norman period 1066-1154

Subject:  England Civilization 1066-1485

    Germany

    Subject:  Germany History to 1517

    Scandanavia

    Subject:  Vikings

    Islamic Empire

    The Andalusian Epic: Islamic Spain

Subject: Islamic empire History 750-1258

Subject: Abbasid caliphate

Medieval History and Civilization, etc.

Schulman, Jana K, ed. The Rise of the Medieval World, 500-1300 : A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Cook, William R., and Ronald B. Herzman. The Medieval World View: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. CB351 .C58 2004 Fl. 2

Subject: Middle Ages History

Subject: Civilization, Medieval

Feudalism

Backman, Clifford R. The Worlds of Medieval Europe.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Subject: Feudalism and Europe

Medieval Social Conditions

Thompson, James Westfall. Economic and Social History of Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1300-1530).
New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1960. D117 .T53 1960 Fl. 2

Subject: Social history and Medieval, 500-1500

Subject: Europe and Social conditions to 1492

Medieval Commerce

Subject: Medieval commerce 500-1500

Black Death

Cohn, Samuel Kline. Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. HN475 .C59 1992   Fl. 2

Spread of the Black Death (map)

Subject: Black death

Art   [filter by source type as needed]

Turner, Jane. The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York: Grove, 1996. N31 .D5 Reference Fl.1

Subject:  Art, Medieval

Subject:  Christian art and symbolism

Subject:  Gothic art

Subject: Gothic architecture

See also headings for cathedrals, stained glass, Giotto, etc in the adjacent boxes

Music

Sadie, Stanley, and John Tyrrell. The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians
. 2nd ed.
29 vols. New York: Grove, 2001.  ML100 .N48 29 Reference Fl.1

The New Oxford History of Music. vol 2, Early Middle Ages to 1300. Ed. by A. Hughes.
ML160 .N44 Reference Fl.1

Literature

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Co, 1988.108 vols.
PN610 .C53  Reference Fl.1

Gray, Douglas. The Oxford Companion to Chaucer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
PR1924 .O94 Reference Fl.1

Lambdin, Laura C., and Robert T. Lambdin. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the
Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales
. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
PR1875 .O26 C48 Reference Fl.1

Lacy, Norris J., and Geoffrey Ashe. The Arthurian Handbook. New York: Garland, 1988.
PN685 .L3 Reference Fl.1

Subject:  Literature, Medieval

Religion, Philosophy, etc.

Levillain, Philippe. The Papacy: An Encyclopedia. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2002.
BX955.2 .D53 Reference Fl.1

Craig, Edward. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1998. 
B51 .R68 10 vols. Reference Fl.1

Adamson, Peter, and Richard C. Taylor. The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 
B741 ,C36 Reference Fl.1

Subject:  Philosophy, Medieval

Women

Subject:  Women AND Middle ages, 500-1500

Medicine

Subject:  Medicine, Medieval

Military History

Holmes, Richard, Hew Strachan, and Hugh Bicheno. The Oxford Companion to Military History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. (Online)

    Cluny (Benedictine Abbey)

    Hastings, Battle of

    Hundred Years War

    Magna Carta

    The Magna Carta clause by clause with
    commentary

    Stained glass

    Giotto

    Chivalry

     Code of Chivalry: Caste Solidarity         
       (video segment. BBC 2008)

    Relics

 

 

For Gothic cathedrals, Gothic architecture use  Architecture, Gothic

For names of specific cathedrals use the name of the cathedral

Example:  Chartres or Riems

For books about cathedrals in a specific country use Cathedrals AND (Name of country)

Example:  Cathedrals AND France

Cathedrals AND England

Crusades (comprehensive)

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Hillenbrand, Carole. The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. DS38.6 .H55 1999 Fl. 2

Mallett, Alexander. Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant. Leiden: BRILL, 2014.

Tyerman, Christopher. The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010. Oxford: Manchester University Press, 2011.

Subject: Crusades

First Crusade

Tasso, Torquato, and Anthony M. Esolen. Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Frankopan, Peter. The First Crusade: The Call from the East. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Symes, Carol. "Popular Literacies and the First Historians of the First Crusade." Past & Present. 235 (2017):37-67.

Subject: Crusades, First 1096-1099

Internet Medieval Sourcebook Fordham University

Manuscripts from the Labyrinth Project Georgetown University

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University complete manuscripts from the various Colleges of Oxford University scanned directly from the originals

Luttrell Psalter  lavish illustrations of everyday medieval life

Lindesfarne Gospels the pinnacle of Anglo-Saxon art