Subject and Course Guides: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Resources: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Companions, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias -- Broad in scope

Encyclopedias -- Subject Specific

Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages
LOVE Ref CB351 .R68 volumes 1-8 and 10-14
v. 1Medieval Scandinavia : an encyclopedia
v. 2 Medieval France : an encyclopedia
v. 3 Medieval England : an encyclopedia
v. 4 Medieval archaeology : an encyclopedia
v. 5 Trade, travel, and exploration in the Middle Ages : an encyclopedia
v. 6 Medieval Germany : an encyclopedia
v. 7 Medieval Jewish civilization : an encyclopedia
v. 8 Medieval Iberia : an encyclopedia
v. 9 Medieval Italy : an encyclopedia LOVE DG443 .M43 2004
v. 10 Medieval Ireland : an encyclopedia
v. 11 Medieval science, technology, and medicine : an encyclopedia
v. 12 Medieval Islamic civilization : an encyclopedia Pt. 1 A-K; Pt. 2 L-Z
v. 13 Key figures in medieval Europe : an encyclopedia
v. 14 Women and gender in medieval Europe : an encyclopedia
The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
LOVE Ref DE5 .N48131 sup.8
"For the thinkers, artists and scholars of the Renaissance, antiquity was a major source of inspiration; it provided renewed modes of scholarship, led to corrections of received doctrine and proved a wellspring of new achievements in almost every area of human life. The 130 articles in this volume cover not only well known figures of the Renaissance such as Copernicus, Dürer, and Erasmus but also overall themes such as architecture, agriculture, economics, philosophy and philology as well as many others."--Provided by publisher

Encyclopedias -- Subject Specific and Covering Medieval and Renaissance as well as other time periods

Dictionary of Art [Grove]
LOVE Visual Arts Reference N31 .D5 1996 volumes 1-34
Encyclopaedia Judaica
LOVE DS102.8 .E496 2007
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Online through Gale Ebooks
Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature
LOVE Ref PR411 .E53 2012
3 volumes (Wiley-Blackwell)
Encyclopedia of Islam
LOVE Ref DS37 .E523, volumes 1-11, Supplements 1-12, Index.
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
Online through Gale Ebooks

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A scholarly art encyclopedia, covering global art and architecture from prehistory to the present. (Full-Text)
Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
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An encyclopedia of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Part of Oxford Music Online. (Full-Text)

New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
MUSIC Ref ML100 .N48 2001, volumes 1-29
New Catholic Encyclopedia
LOVE BX841 .N44 2003, 15 volumes
New Catholic Encyclopedia
Online through Gale Ebooks

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
LOVE Folio PA2891 .L28, fascs.1-13
Middle English Dictionary
LOVE PE679 .M54, 13 volumes, guide, guide sup. 1
Middle English Dictionary
"The print MED, completed in 2001, has been described as "the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary."
Oxford English Dictionary
LOVE Ref PE1625 .O87 1989, 20 volumes

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Definitions and pronunciations of current and historical meanings of English words and phrases.

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