Encyclopedias and Reference Materials
- Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art2009 ed. Offers the most current and comprehensive scholarly information on the visual arts of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. Unparalleled in scope and depth, covers a wide range of subject areas, addressing people and subjects specific to all areas of Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, including the diverse geographical regions that now encompass the modern nations of Germany, Austria, France, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia, Poland, and Russia. Featuring rich and engaging articles on artists, artisans, patrons, painting, architecture, sculpture, cities, centres of production, theory, criticism, and more.
- Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages2010 ed. Covering all key aspects of European history, society, and culture from 500 to 1500 A.D., as well as the Byzantine Empire, Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples of the era. It is designed both for medievalists, who need a detailed and reliable reference tool, and for students and general readers seeking an accessible guide to the period.
- Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium1991 ed. With more than 5,000 entries , this is the standard research tool on 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Exhaustive in its coverage, entries on patriarchy and emperors coexist with entries on surgery, musical instruments, and the baking of bread, bringing to life this important culture and empire, from the 4th century to the 15th.
- Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance2003 ed. Provides detail on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe, exploring the influence that this intellectual and cultural revival continues to have on modern thought and society. Many entries are biographical, covering artists, thinkers, statesman, and reformers.
- Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages2001 ed. A collaborative work of over 600 scholars from more than forty countries, the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages provides 3,000 concise and detailed articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century. It explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history. With a focus on focus on Europe and Christendom, the Encyclopedia also covers the rise of Islam and people of other cultures with whom Europeans came into contact.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation1996 ed. A source for information about the range of religious and social changes that altered Europe in the sixteenth century, addressing issues of church polity and theology as well as developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.
- Encyclopedism from antiquity to the Renaissance byCall Number: Case Ref E-BookPublication Date: 2013There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge-ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the encyclopaedia, and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods. The focus is primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies.