Primary Text Sources
General Reference Works
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- also available in print in the 2LB reference collection - BR .R68 1998
- 10 vols
- History of Aesthetics
H81 .T351 1999 (4LT)
- The Encyclopedia of religion (16 vols.)
- Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
BR95 .O8 2005 (2LB - Reference Collection)
- Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
BR 302.8 .H55 2000 (2LB -Reference Collection)
- Dictionary of the Reformation
BR 302.8 .L4913 2004 (2LB - Reference Collection)
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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
BR302.8 .O93 1996 (2LB -Reference Collection)
- Dictionary of Women in Church History
BR1713 .H36 1984 (2LB - Reference Collection)
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New Catholic Encylopedia (15 vols)
BX841 .N48 2003 (2LB - Reference Collection)
- Mennonite Encyclopedia (5 vols.)
BX8106 .M38 1955 (2LB- Reference Collection)
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages (covers 500 CE to 1500)
D 114 .D53 1982 (2LB - Reference Collection)
- The Atlas of the Crusades
G 1034 .A84 1990 (2MLT)
- Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation
PA8500 1985 (2LB -Reference Collection)
Bibliographies
- Matrology: a bibliography of writings by Christian women from the first to the fifteenth century
BR117 .K33 1995 (2LB -Reference Collection)
- Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research
BR 305.2 R39 1982 (2LB -Reference Collection)
- Includes sections on The Anabaptists, Reformation in Germany, Calvanist Church in the Dutch Republic, women and the reformation etc.
- 2 vols.
- Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell: a sourcebook
BT833 .G47 1993 (2LB -Reference Collection)
- The 14th Century English Mystics
BV5077 .G7 L33 1981 (2LB - Reference Collection
- Hussite Movement: a bibliographical study guide
BX4915.2 .Z44 1977 (2LB - Reference Collection)
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Renaissance humanism, 1300-1550; a bibliography of materials in English
CB361 .K63 1985 (4LT)
- includes a section for Erasmus
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An annotated index of Medieval women
CT3220 .A66 1992 (2LB - Reference Collection)
- brief biographical information and a guide to further sources of information
- Women in Western European history: a select chronological, geographical and topical bibliography
Q1587 .F72 1982 (2LB - Reference Collection)
- 2 vols.
- selective bibliography of 17,381 references to tools/periodicals articles
- Friedman, John Block. Medieval iconography: a research guide
NX449 .F75 1998 (2LB - Reference Collection)
- Medieval Philosophers
PS129 .D52 1978 v. 115 (2LB -Reference Collection)
- biographial information(personal and cultural background) as well as a list of primary works and references to secondary literature. Authors listed include: Anselm, Acquinas and Bonaventure.
Periodical Indexes
Primary Text Sources
- 18th Century Collections Online
- British and Irish Women's Diaries Online - cover 300 years
- Early English Books Online
- Making of the Modern World - The Making of the Modern World (formerly Making of the Modern Economy): the
Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, 1450-1850 Digital facsimiles
of literature on economics and business published from the last half of the 15th
century to the mid-19th century from the collections of the Goldsmiths' Library
of Economic Literature at the University of London, England, and the Kress
Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School; with
supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at
Columbia University, and from Sterling Library at Yale University.
See also Selected Reference Resources in Medieval History.
These are only a few of the dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies and indexes which you will find useful. Check the reference area for others.

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Saundra Lipton
Liaison Librarian for Religious Studies
Voicemail: (403) 220-3793