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Use your browser's print controls to print a copy of this resource guide. Medieval and Renaissance StudiesUsing the Library’s CatalogsCATNYP is the online catalog of The New York Public Library’s four Research Libraries. It is easily accessible via the World Wide Web at http://catnyp.nypl.org. For general instructions on using CATNYP, please consult Using the Library's Online Catalog. The following information is specific to the subject of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. CATNYP allows searching by author, title, keyword, and subject. A subject search will generally yield more precise results, but only if you know the appropriate Library of Congress subject headings for your topic. Because of the immense cross-disciplinary nature of this field, there are many subject headings that can be used. Some of the relevant subject headings include: Middle Ages To research the history of a country or region, the following subject structures can be helpful to know: France History Medieval Period If you do not know the Library of Congress subject headings for your topic, it will be easier to perform a word search. A word search will generally retrieve more items, though many of them may not be relevant. When performing a word search, be sure to use the word "and" between each term: Anglo-Saxon and church After you retrieve your results in a word search, scan the record of one of the items. You will see the item's subject headings listed, and can then perform a subject search, if desired. If visiting the Library, you may wish to search the Dictionary Catalog, most of whose entries now appear in CATNYP. If you need assistance locating materials, please see a reference librarian, at the reference desk in Room 315. If you are not in the library, you may also e-mail us for assistance at grdref@nypl.org. Background ResearchThe items listed below are intended as a starting point for your research, and are by no means comprehensive. General reference works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and directories offer background information, and quick answers to specific questions. Included are also several works that will provide a general introduction to research in philosophy. Encyclopedias | Dictionaries | Atlases | Handbooks and Guides EncyclopediasBroughton, Bradford B. Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: People, Places, and Events (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988). *R-BTN 88-5088 Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Joseph R. Strayer, 13 vols.
(New York: Scribner, 1982-1989). *R-BTH 83-219 Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature, edited by Robert Lambdin and Laura Lambdin (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000). *R-NABR 00-10462 Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, edited by Andre Vauchez et al.,
2 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: J. Clarke, 2000; Paris: Cerf, 2000) *R-BTH
01-10619 Favier, Jean. Dictionnaire de la France médiévale (Paris: Fayard, 1993) *R-DDD 94-111 Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, edited by Paul E. Szarmach et al. (New York; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998) JFF 99-1350 Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000) *R-ZBC 02-1953 Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, edited by William Kibler et al. (New York: Garland Pub., 1995) *R-DDD 02-1712 Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, edited by Phillip Pulsiano (New York: Garland, 1992) *R-GEC 93-11034 Dictionnaire de la Renaissance (Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis; Albin Michel, 1998). JFD 00-6623 Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Paul F. Grendler, editor-in-chief,
6 vols. (New York: Scribner’s, published in association with the Renaissance
Society of America, 1999). *R-BTT 00-4873 Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Thomas G. Bergin, consulting editor,
and Jennifer Speake, general editor (New York: Facts on File Publications,
1987) *R-BTT 88-3123 and JFF 99-2533 The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance David Rundle, general
editor (Oxford: Helicon, 1999) *R-BTT 00-1266 Munkler, Herfried. Lexikon der Renaissance (Munchen: Beck, 2000) JFD 02-585 DictionariesBroughton, Bradford B. Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: Concepts and Terms (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986) *R-BTN 86-4677 Adams, Ian H. Agrarian Landscape Terms: A Glossary for Historical Geography (London: Institute of British Geographers, 1976. L-11 3172 no. 9 Bonnassie, Pierre. Les cinquante mots clefs de l’histoire médiévale (Toulouse: Privat, 1981) JFD 83-192 Bosworth, Joseph. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (London: Oxford University Press, 1972). Reprint of the 1898 edition. *R-RNT 73-113 Brumble, H. David. Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998). JFE 98-4789 Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Dictionary of Medieval Civilization (New York: Macmillan, 1984). *R- BTH 84-3867 LeGoff, Jacques. Dictionnaire raisonné de l’Occident médiéval (Paris: Fayard, 1999). *R-BTH 00-1172 Lexikon de Mittelalters Bd. 1-9 in progress (Munchen; Zurich: Artemis-Verlag, 1977- ) JFM 80-36 Vocabulaire historique du Moyen Âge: Occident, Byzance, Islam 3rd ed. (Paris: La Boutique de l’histoire, 2000). JFE 7953 Weijers, Olga. Dictionnaires et répertoires au Moyen Âge: une étude de vocabulaire (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1991). JFF 92-1711 AtlasesAtlas of Medieval Europe, edited by Angus Mackay and David Ditchburn. (London; New York: Routledge, 1997). Map Div. 97-1463 The Atlas of the Crusades, edited by Jonathan Riley-Smith (New York: Facts on File, 1991). Map Div. 91-4709 Atlas of the Renaissance (London: Cassell, 1993). JFG 93-890 Atlas of the World in the Middle Ages (London: Longman, 1980). JFG 83-85 Haywood, John. The Cassell Atlas of the Medieval World, A.D. 600-1492 (London: Cassell, 1998). Map Div. + 99-4403 Hill, David. An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981). Map Div. 83-384 Handbooks and GuidesCaenegem, R.C.van. Guide to the Sources of Medieval History (Amsterdam;
New York: North-Holland Pub. Co., 1978). *RS-BTH 80-3304 Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism, edited by Jill Kraye
(Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996). JFE 96-8230 Cheney, C. R. Handbook of Dates for Students of English History (London:
Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1945) JFD 94-6244 Davis, R.H.C. Medieval European History 395-1500, 2nd
ed. (London: The Historical Association, 1968) D-19 3858 Fletcher, Stella.The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe, 1390-1530 (Harlow,
England; New York: Longman, 2000). *R-BTT 00-2136 Hampson, Robert T. Medii aevi kalendarium; or Dates, charters, and customs
of the middle ages; with kalendars from the tenth to the fifteenth century;
and an alphabetical digest of obsolete names of days; forming a glossary of
the dates of the middle ages; with tables and other aids for ascertaining
dates, 2 vols. (London: H.K. Causton, 1841). BTH Labarte, Jules. Handbook of the arts of the middle ages and renaissance as applied to the decoration of furniture, arms, jewels, &c. &c. (London: J Murray, 1855). MNC (Labarte J Handbook of the arts) Meyer, Otto. Clavis mediaevalis (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1962).
C-12 4079 Medieval Studies: An Introduction, edited by James M. Powell,
2nd ed. (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1992) JFE 96-13262 Storey, R.L. Chronology of the Medieval World: 800 to 1491
(Oxford: Helicon, 1994) *R-BAH 94-10180 Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Expanding World, 1492 to 1762
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994) JFF 01-271 HistoriesGeneral Histories | Regional and Specialized Histories General HistoriesThe Age of the Renaissance, texts by Nicolai Rubinstein and others,
edited by Denys Hay (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986). JFF 86-1270 The New Cambridge Medieval History, edited by Rosamond McKitterick , multi-volume set in progress (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995- ). *R-BTH 96-923 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-BTH 93-10987 Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Richard Britnell (Stroud:
Sutton, 1998) *R-BTH 98-7378 Hale, John R. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (London: HarperCollins, 1993). *R-BTT 94-86 Kerrigan, William. The Idea of the Renaissance (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1989). JFE 89-1720 Mee, Charles L. The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy
(New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1975). JFF 76-626 The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe edited by George Holmes (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). *R-BTH 88-3135 Painter, Sidney. A History of the Middle Ages: 284-1500 (New York: Knopf, 1953). *R-BTH The Panorama of the Renaissance, edited by Margaret Aston (London:
Thames and Hudson, 1996). JFF 96-6731 Regional and SpecializedThe 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-YAG 82-2009 The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, edited by David Wallace (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) *R-NCB 99-7957 The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, c. 350 – c. 1450, edited by J.H. Burns (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988) *R-SE 88-3049 Chamberlin, Eric Russell. Everyday Life in Renaissance Times (New York: Putnam, 1969) JFD 73-2342 and *R-B I I 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-SE 00-11680 Copleston, Frederick Charles. A History of Medieval Philosophy (London: Methuen, 1972) *R-YAG 72-1575 and JFD 72-8838 Daly, Lowrie. The Medieval University, 1200-1400 (New York: Sheed
and Ward, 1961) D-13 7705 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. The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy (New York: Scribner’s, 1940) *R-YAG and JFD 70-646 Haverkamp, Alfred. Medieval Germany, 1056-1273 (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) *R-EB 88-8912 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 Marques, Antonio Henrique R. de Oliveira. Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971) JFE 72-73 The Oxford History of England, 2nd ed., edited by George Clark. 15 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1965) *R-CB 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 5 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971-1989) *R-ZD 75-4890 Volumes 2, 3, and 4 are relevant to the medieval period. 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 3 vols. (Cambridge: University Press, 1952-1954) *RR-BTR. 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 Bibliographies and Source MaterialsGeneralAnnual Bibliography of British and Irish History / Royal Historical Society
(Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press) Library has 1981 - , *RS-C 87-4650 Bibliographie de l’histoire medievale 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) *RS-CB 76-996 Crosby, Everett Uberto, C. Julian Bishko, and Robert L. Kellogg. Medieval
Studies: A Bibliographical Guide. (New York: Garland Pub., 1983) *RS-BTH
85-511 Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis. (Turnholti:
Typographi Brepols Editores Pontificii, 1971- ) Farrar, Clarissa Palmer. Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources (New York: Columbia University Press, 1946) *RS-NA, supplemented by Ferguson, Mary Anne. Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources, 1943-1967 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974) *RS-NA 75-5263 Henderson, Ernest F. Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (London: G. Bell, 1892) *R-BTH 76-910 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 *RS-BTH 92-572; earlier years
in M-11 4394 Potthast, August. Bibliotheca historica medii aevi 2 vols.
(Berlin: W. Weber, 1896) JFF 99-2672 and BTH Toronto Medieval Bibliographies (Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1967- ) SpecializedAtiya, Aziz Suryal. The Crusade: Historiography and Bibliography (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962) *RB-BTR and D-14 1651 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) MAK 98-7529 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 84-13 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) *RS-CF 78-3771 Biographical ResourcesIn addition to the specialized works listed below, please consult the general biographical dictionaries for the countries of western Europe; these works normally include many figures of the medieval period, and are located in the Rose Main Reading Room. The principal ones are:
The Annotated Index of Medieval Women, by Anne Echols and Marty Williams (New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1992) *R-SNE 92-17460 Bibliotheca sanctorum 12 vols. and separate index volume (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII, 1961-1969) JFF 98-1511 Butler, Alban. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. 12 vols. (Collegeville, MN: Liiturgical Press; Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 1995-2000) *R-ZDK 96-4907 (For other editions, please check CATNYP) Checksfield, Muriel May. Portraits of Renaissance Life and Thought (London: Longmans, 1964) D-15 5801 Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Carole Levin and others (Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, 2000) JFE 00-16731 Kelly, J.N.D. The Oxford Dictionary of Popes (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) *RR-ZLH 86-3488 The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Clayton J. Drees (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001) *R-BTH 01-142 Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Jo Eldridge Carney (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001) *R-BTT 01-141 Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Who’s Who in the Middle Ages (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2001) *R-BTH 01-6519 Tyerman, Christopher. Who’s Who in Early Medieval England, 1066-1272 (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1996) JFD 96-18903 Locating Journal ArticlesLocating articles within the journal literature and collections can be challenging. A wide variety of indexing and abstracting resources in different formats can be used to locate articles in periodicals, collected works, and newspapers. Electronic ResourcesElectronic Resources are often easier to use, but may be limited in scope to more recent materials. For more historical materials you may need to consult print resources, especially retrospective indexes. Please note that these electronic resources are only accessible from within the Humanities & Social Sciences Library. You can find dedicated computers, displaying the Selected Electronic Resources screen, located in the Rose Main Reading Room, as well as in many of the divisions throughout the Library. Historical Abstracts (1954 – present) ATLA Religion Index (1949 – present) Philosopher’s Index (1949 – present) ABES, Annotated Bibliography for English Studies Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920 – 1997) Periodical Abstracts II JSTOR Project Muse Selected Internet Sites
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