Medieval and Renaissance Studies


Bibliographies and Source Materials

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General

Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History / Royal Historical Society  (Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press)  Library has 1981 – 2002,   *R-RMRR  DA30  .A55.
Each volume has a section on medieval history.  

Bibliographie de l’histoire médiévale en France (1965-1990)  (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1992)  JFE 93-5928.  

A Bibliography of English History to 1485.  Based on the Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to about 1485, by Charles Gross, edited by Edgar B. Graves  (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975) *R-RMRR  DA130   .B52.    

Chevalier, Ulysse. Répertoire des sources historique du Moyen Ăge: Bio-bibliographie (New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1959)  Reprint of 1894-1903 ed., 2 vols.  *R-RMRR   D116  .C448  P4.The bio-bibliography is arranged alphabetically by name, with references to sources and aids. 

Chevalier, Ulysse.  Répertoire des sources historique du Moyen Ăge:  Topobibliographie (New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1959)  Reprint of 1894-1903 ed., 2 vols.  *R-RMRR  D116  .C448  P4. This companion work is arranged by subject and geographical location, with references to sources and aids. 

Crosby, Everett Uberto, C. Julian  Bishko, and Robert L. Kellogg.  Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide.  (New York: Garland Pub., 1983)  *R-RMRR   CB351  .C76.
Annotated bibliography arranged primarily by topic and geographical location
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Corpus Christianorum.  Continuatio Mediaevalis.  (Turnholti: Typographi Brepols Editores Pontificii, 1971-    )
This is the medieval continuation of a series which provides definitive texts of Christian authors.  For the appropriate call number of a given work,  please check under the name of the author in CATNYP.

Farrar, Clarissa Palmer.  Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources  (New York: Columbia University Press, 1946)  *R-RMRR  PN667 .A12  F38,  b5160866     supplemented by Ferguson, Mary Anne.  Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources, 1943-1967  (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974)  *R-RMRR   PR251  .F47. 

Heit, Alfred, and Ernst Voltmer.  Bibliographie zur geschichte des Mittelalters (Munchen: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997)  JFD 98-612.

Henderson, Ernest F.  Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages  (London: G. Bell, 1892;  reprint New York: AMS Press, 1968)  *R-RMRR  D113  .H49.   Major documents such as the Salic Law, the Rule of St. Benedict, and Unam Sanctam.  

International Medieval Bibliography  (Leeds, England: University of Leeds, 1967-   )  Latest five years in *R-RMRR  D117  .I63; earlier years in M-11 4394.
Arranged primarily by topic with author and general indexes.      

Paetow, Louis John.  A Guide to the Study of Medieval History, rev. ed. (Millwood, NY: Kraus reprint, 1959 reprint of 1931 edition)  *R-RMRR   D117.X1   P34   Includes general bibliographies arranged by subject and place (e.g., economic history, medieval Scandinavia, collections of original sources).     Supplemented by Boyce, Gray Cowan.  Literature of Medieval History, 1930-1975: A Supplement to Louis John Paetow’s “A Guide to the Study of Medieval History”  (Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1981), 5 vols.  *R-RMRR  D117  .P25  1980 suppl.  

Potthast, August.   Bibliotheca historica medii aevi    (Berlin: W. Weber, 1896), 2 vols.   JFF 99-2672  and  BTH.
A late nineteenth-century attempt to provide a comprehensive bibliography on medieval history.  The various sections include a list of collections of sources, lists of texts with authors and familiar titles and the locations and various editions of same, and lists of sources (by title and by date) arranged by country .       It is updated by the following citation:

Repertorium fonium historiae Medii Aevi; primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura college historicorum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum  (Romae: Instituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-  )  *R-RMRR  D117 .R 43.  Library has vols. 1 through 11 of this active series.  

Toronto Medieval Bibliographies  (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967-   ) 
Individual volumes are catalogued separately; to obtain the appropriate call number, search CATNYP under the author or title of the work or under
Toronto Medieval Bibliographies for a complete listing of all titles in this series.

Specialized


Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur … 64 vols. in 67  (Antverpiae [Antwerp]: J. Meurisum, 1643-1932)  ZDK++  Contains biographies of the saints, including their writings and commentaries on same; arranged by feast day of the saint.

Bak, Janos M.  Medieval Narrative Sources: A Chronological Guide, with a List of Major Letter Collections  (New York: Garland Pub., 1987)   JFF 87-874.  

The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents, edited by Kate Aughterson   (London; New York: Routledge, 1998)  JFE 99-7201. 

Friedman, John Block.  Medieval Iconography: A Research Guide   (New York: Garland  Pub., 1998)
*R-Art  NX 449.  F75  

Keynes, Simon.  Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography  3rd ed.  (Kalamazoo, Mich.: The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1998)
JFE 99-14759.

Kohl, Benjamin G.  Renaissance Humanism, 1300-1550: A Bibliography of Materials in English  (New York: Garland  Pub. Co., 1985)  JFD 85-8330.

Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History, edited by Joel T. Rosenthal  (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990)   JFE 90-7339.

Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson  (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984)  JFE 84-1388.  

Sheehan, Michael M.  Domestic Society in Medieval Europe: A Select Bibliography  (Toronto:  Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990)   JFD 91-6442.  

Wilkinson, Bertie.  The High Middle Ages in England, 1154-1377  (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978)  *R-RMRR  DA205  .W54.