Histories

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General Histories

The Age of the Renaissance, texts by Nicolai Rubinstein and others, edited by Denys Hay (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986) JFF 86-1270.
Scholarly essays on the rise of humanism, the spread of the Renaissance outside Florence, art, scholarship, and cognate subjects.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert Fossier (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986-1997) *R-RMRR CB351 .M7813. Essays by scholars on the significant developments in the medieval world.

Cantor, Norman F. The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization (New York: HarperCollins, 1993)
*R-RMRR CB351 .C24.
An examination of the intellectual, political, and social life of the Middle Ages.

Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Europe 300-1000, 2^nd ed. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999) *R-RMRR D121 .C65.

Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Richard Britnell (Stroud: Sutton, 1998) *R-RMRR DA185 .D15.
Includes sections on religion, artisans and guilds, dress and fashions, etc.

Davis, R.H.C. (Ralph Henry Carless) A History of Medieval Europe, third ed. (Harlow, England; New York: Pearson Longman, 2006) *R-RMRR D118 .D29. b8585884

Hale, John R. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (London: HarperCollins, 1993) *R-RMRR CB367 .H35 1993b. An examination of the motifs and themes of this period for the advanced student.

Kerrigan, William. The Idea of the Renaissance (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)
JFE 89-1720.
Commencing with a study of Burckhardt’s analysis of the Renaissance, this work also examines the literature and philosophy of the period.

Mee, Charles L. The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1975) JFF 76-626.
Discusses such topics as scholarship, art, religion, domestic life, and the role of women.

The New Cambridge Medieval History, edited by Rosamond McKitterick, David Abulafia et al. (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995-2005), 7 vols. *R-RMRR D117 .N48. The standard reference work in this discipline, covering the political, economic, social, intellectual, cultural, and religious life of the medieval period.

Nicholas, David. The Evolution of the Medieval World: Society, Government, and Thought in Europe, 312-1500 (London; New York: Longman, 1992) *R-RMRR D117 .N5. A study of the social and economic aspects of medieval civilization and the links of same with the ideological, religious, political, and cultural emphases of the period.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe edited by George Holmes (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) JFD 02- 23163. b7169741 Earlier edition (1988) under
*R-RMRR D102 .O94.

Painter, Sidney. A History of the Middle Ages: 284-1500 (New York: Knopf, 1953) E-11 1407.

The Panorama of the Renaissance, edited by Margaret Aston (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996)
JFF 96-6731.
A profusely illustrated work analyzing the main themes of the Renaissance; biographical dictionary, timelines, glossary, and bibliography are included.

Singman, Jeffrey L. Daily Life in Medieval Europe (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999)
JFE 99-13782. Discusses material culture, the life cycle, village and town life, and other subjects.

Southern, Richard W. The Making of the Middle Ages (London; New York: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1953) JFE 97-10482.

Wallace-Hadrill, J. M. (John Michael) The Barbarian West, 400-1000, rev. ed. (Oxford; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1966) JFE 97-10960.

Regional and Specialized

Armstrong, Arthur H. The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (London: Cambridge University Press, 1967) *R-RMRR B171 .A79.

Bitel, Lisa M., Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)   JFD 03-436.

Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, edited by Arthur S. McGrade (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003) *R-RMRR B720 .C36.

Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing , edited by Carolyn and Dinshaw and David Wallace (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)   *R-RMRR   PN682 .W6 C36.

Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, edited by James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)   JFE 08-865.

The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100-1600, edited by Norman Kretzmann and others (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982) *R-RMRR B721 .C35.

The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, edited by David Wallace (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) *R-RMRR PR255 .C35.

The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, c. 350 – c. 1450, edited by J.H. Burns (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988) *R-RMRR JA82 .C27.

Cambridge History of the Bible (Cambridge: University Press, 1963-1970), 3 vols.
*R-RMRR BS445 .C26. Volume 2 discusses the Bible in the medieval period.

Chamberlin, Eric Russell. Everyday Life in Renaissance Times (New York: Putnam, 1969) JFD 73-2342.

Cohen, Elizabeth Storr. Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001)
JFE 01-15832.

Coleman, Janet. A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000) *R-RMRR JA81 .C615.

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c1350– c.1500, edited by Peter Brown (Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2007) *R-RMRR PR255 .C653.

Copleston, Frederick Charles. A History of Medieval Philosophy (London: Methuen, 1972)
*R-RMRR B721 .C57 b1070759 and JFD 72-8838.

Copenhaven, Brian P. Renaissance Philosophy (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
JFD 01-14648.Arranged according to the master schools of Renaissance philosophy, this study examines all the major philosophers of the period.

The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, edited by Alan V. Murray (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006), 4 vols. *R-RMRR D155 .C78.

Daly, Lowrie. The Medieval University, 1200-1400 (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1961) D-13 7705.
A discussion of the medieval universities, their students, faculty, organization, and curricula.

Dronke, Peter. Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984) JFE 85-3697. A critical and historical study offemale writers from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete.

Dyer, Christopher. Everyday Life in Medieval England (London; Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1994) JFE 96-8410.

Fossier, Robert. L’histoire économique et sociale du Moyen Age occidental: questions, sources, documents commentés (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999) JFE 01-15205.

Gilson, Etienne. History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages (New York: Random House, 1955) *R-RMRR B72 .G48.

Gilson, Etienne. The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy (New York: Scribner’s, 1940) *R-RMRR B721 .G433 1936a b5183182 and JFD 70-646.

Haverkamp, Alfred. Medieval Germany, 1056-1273, 2^nd ed. (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) JFD 92-2206. b2359763 Earlier edition (1988) under *R-RMRR DD126 .H3813.

Hunter Blair, Peter. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England , 3^rd ed. (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003) *R-RMRR DA152.2 .H86.

Lawrence, Clifford H. Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 3^rd ed. (New York: Longman, 2001) JFE 01-4782. An examination of the monastic life, including analyses of the desert fathers, the Benedictine life, the Cluniac and Cistercian movements, female religious, and the rise of the friars.

Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge: University Press, 1964) D-15 3037.

Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages: Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries , edited by Deborah Sinnreich-Levi and Ian S. Laurie (Detroit: Gale Group, 1999) *R-RMRR PN451 .D53 1978 vol. 208. This is a volume within The Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Lucas-Dubreton, Jean. Daily Life in Florence in the Time of the Medici (New York: Macmillan, 1961)
D-13 4288.

Manchester, William R. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance (London: Macmillan, 1993) JFD 94-25425.
A popular examination of the metamorphosis of medieval Europe into Renaissance Europe.

Marenbon, John. Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction (London; New York: Routledge, 2007) JFE 07-1968.

Marques, Antonio Henrique R. de Oliveira. Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971) JFE 72-73.

Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, edited by Paul E. Szarmach et al. (New York; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998) JFF 99-1350.

Medieval English Literature, 2^nd ed., edited by J.B. Trapp et al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) JFE 03-3723.

Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, edited by William Kibler et al. (New York: Garland Pub., 1995)
*R-RMRR DC33.2 .M44 and JFF 07-922 and JMF 97-293.

Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia, edited by John M. Jeep (New York: Garland Pub., 2001)
*R-RMRR DD157 .M43.

Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, edited by E. Michael Gerli et al. (New York: Routledge, 2003)
*R-RMRR DP99 .M33.

Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sean Duffy et al. (New York: Routledge, 2005)
*R-RMRR DA933 .M43.

Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, edited by Christopher Kleinhenz (New York: Routledge, 2004), 2 vols., *R-RMRR DG443 .M43.

Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, edited by Phillip Pulsiano (New York: Garland, 1992)
*R-RMRR DL30 .M43.

Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, edited by Thomas F. Glick et al. (New York: Routledge, 2005) *R-RMRR Q124.97 .M43.

Nauert, Charles G. Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995) JFE 95-18168. A comprehensiveaccount of the development and significance of the Renaissance in both northern and southern Europe.

The Oxford History of England, 2^nd ed., edited by George Clark. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1965), 15 vols., *R-RMRR DA145 .C583. Volumes 2 through 6 cover the medieval period.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, edited by Jonathan Riley-Smith (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) JFF 95-6286.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England, edited by Nigel Saul (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) JFE 97-7870.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition; A History of the Development of Doctrine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971-1989), 5 vols. *R-RMRR BT21.2 .P42. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 are relevant to the medieval period.

Rebhorn, Wayne A. The Emperor of Men’s Minds: Literature and the Renaissance Discourse of Rhetoric (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995) JFE 95-5910. An analysis of the distinctive nature of rhetoric in the Renaissance and its relation to the political and social concerns of the period

Riche, Pierre. Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978) JFE 79-642.

Rogers, Shannon L. All Things Chaucer: An Encyclopedia of Chaucer’s World (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007), 2 vols., *R-RMRR PR1903 .R55.

Rowling, Marjorie. Everyday Life of Medieval Travellers (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971)
D-20 7250

Runciman, Steven. A History of the Crusades (Cambridge: University Press, 1952-1954), 3 vols.
*R-RMRR D161.2 .R862. Another edition is located under D-12 527.

Russell, Jeffrey Burton. Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972)
JFD 94-3869.

Singman, Jeffrey L. Daily Life in Chaucer’s England (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995)
JFE 96-400.

Ullmann, Walter. A History of Political Thought: the Middle Ages (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965)
JLC 88-145.

Ullmann, Walter. The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1966)
D-17 2781. Discussion of the role of the individual in feudalsociety.

Ward, Jennifer C. Women in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500 (London; New York: Longman, 2002)
JFE 03-2908

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, edited by Margaret Schaus ( New York: Routledge, 2006) JFF 06-3534.

Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, edited by Christine Meek (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000) JFE 01-1691.

Zink, Michel. Littérature française du Moyen Age, 2^nd ed., (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001) JFD 02-1740.