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 Medieval Studies: General Resources
Indexes & Databases
International Medieval Bibliography UIUC
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance UIUC
MLA Bibliography UIUC
Arts and Humanities Citation Index UIUC
FRANCIS UIUC
For more specialized databases see the Article Indexes and Databases page.
Bibliographies
016.8F24B
Ferguson, Mary Anne. Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources, 1943-1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.
016.9091IN8
International Medieval Bibliography. Leeds: University of Leeds, 1977.
Q 016.9401B17M
Bak, János M. Medieval Narrative Sources: A Chronological Guide. New York: Garland, 1987.
016.9401C883M
Crosby, Everett Uberto, C. Julian Bishko, and Robert L. Kellogg. Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide. New York: Garland, 1983.
016.9401IS7R
Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi. 8 vols. Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-.
016.9401R76S
Rouse, Richard H. Serial Bibliographies for Medieval Studies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
909.07EN191
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Edited by Andre Vauchez, Barrie Dobson, and Michael Lapidge. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
909.07EN19
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Edited by Norman Cantor. New York: Viking, 1999.
909.07D561
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. Edited by Joseph R. Strayer. New York: Scribner, 1982.
940.103 D561
Gauvard, Claude, Libera, Lain de, and Zink, Michel, eds. Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge. Paris: Quadrige; Presses Universitaires de France, 2002.
909.07ST74C
Storey, R. L. Chronology of the Medieval World, 800 to 1491. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
305.4090203 W842
Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
305.40902 L423e
Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jennifer Lawler. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2001.
920.7203EX87
Levin, Carole, et al. Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.
189.2AU4ZA
Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Allan D. Fitzgerald. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1999.
Q.270.103D648:E
Encyclopedia of the Early Church. 2 vols. Edited by Angelo Di Berardino. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
281.503B568
The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Edited by Ken Parry, et al. Oxford & Molden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
Q.291.65703EN19
Encyclopedia of Monasticism. 2 vols. Edited by William M. Johnston. Chicago, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
398.03M46
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. 2 vols. Edited by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Q. 509.02 M468
Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Thomas F. Glick, Steven J. Livesey, Faith Wallis. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Q. 909.04924 M468
Medieval Jewish Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Norman Roth. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Q. 909.09767003 M468
Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Edited by Josef W. Meri. New York: Routledge, 2006.
923.1R73R
Ross, Martha. Rulers and Governments of the World. London & New York: Bowker, 1977-78.
929.703B797D
Broughton, Bradford B. Dictionary of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: People, Places, and Events. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
940.10922L343
Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Clayton J. Drees. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Biographical Resources
920.04K96E
European Authors, 1000-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of European Literature. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Vineta Colby. New York: Wilson, 1967.
940.10922L343
Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Clayton J. Drees. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
920.7203EX87
Levin, Carole, et al. Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000.
Q. 940.103 K52
Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Richard K. Emmerson. New York: Routledge, 2006.
World Biographical Information System Online Based on the digitization of K. G. Saur's Biographical Archives, WBIS Online compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21th century. It features biographical profiles of people, often obscure, from all countries and regions worldwide. In addition to 4.56 million digitized biographical articles from 24 Biographical Archives, the WBIS Online database currently provides an index to 36 Biographical Archives totaling short biographies on more than 4.2 million persons. This resource contains citations only and not full-text articles.
Writers Directory Contains up-to-date bibliographical, biographical, and contact information for nearly 20,000 living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication. Entries typically include name, pseudonyms, addresses, citizenship, birth date, specialization, career information, and a bibliography. Contact information includes e-mail addresses where available.
Literature Resource Center (via GaleNet) A bio-bibliographical guide to writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. The LRC includes Contemporary Authors, with biographical coverage of more than 124,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, with profiles of some of the most studied authors; and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, with more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works. Searchable by name, title of work, subject/genre, nationality, date and place of birth, honors, awards and more.
Biography Resource Center (via GaleNet) The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 427,000 biographies from over 960 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources with full-text articles from more than 270 magazines. Entries are arranged by narrative biographies, thumbnail biographies, magazine articles, and websites when available. Searchable by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, birth and death years and locations, and availability of images.
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 Italian Studies
Internet Resources
Medioevo
Italiano: l'Italia nel Medioevo WWW
Medioevo Italiano Project (MIP) WWW is an Italian non-profit organization that provides research consultation and discussion forums, among other research aids.
WESS Italian Studies Web WWW
Intute: Italian Studies WWW is a service dedicated to discovering, evaluating and cataloging online resources in the humanities and provides online access to this growing collection of records.
Bibliographies
Q.015.45 B47
Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana. A cura della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Roma: ICCU, 1993.
See also the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze's online catalog.
Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale is a union catalog of Italian libraries and a good source for bibliographic citations.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Q. 945.0303 M468
Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. 2 vols. Edited by Christopher Kleinhenz.
New York: Routledge, 2004.
940.103D648
Dizionario enciclopedico del medioevo. 3 Vols. Paris; Rome;
Cambridge: Città Nuova Editrice, 1998.
270.0922 G. 644v.1
Goosen, Aloysius Bernardus Josef Maria. Dizionario dei santi: storia, letteratura, arte e musica. [Milano]: Bruno Mondadori, 2000.
809.02 V26:I
Gerritsen, W. P. Miti e personaggi del medioevo: dizionario di storia, letteratura, arte, musica e cinema. Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 1999.
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 Italian Language
457.01 P939r
Privitera, Joseph Frederic. A reference grammar of medieval Italian
according to Dante, with a dual edition of the Vita Nova.
Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, c2000.
457.01G516
Glossario degli antichi volgari italiani. Ed.
Giorgio Colussi. Helsinki: G. Colussi, 1983-.
450 T283
Tesi, Riccardo. Storia dell'italiano: la formazione della lingua comune dalle
origini al rinascimento. Roma: Editori Laterza, 2001.
455 Se67a1998
Serianni, Luca. Lezioni di grammatica storica italiana.
Roma: Bulzoni, 1998.
016.45701 P935G
Princi Braccini, Giovanna and Emanuelita Vecchio Kevorkian. Glossario dei glossari a testi italiani anteriori al Quattrocento: bibliografia.
Firenze: Presso l'Accademia della Crusca, 1986.
Opera del Vocabolario Italiano WWW( historical dictionary of Italian)
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Internet Resources
I Classici
della Letteratura Italiana WWW
Duecento:
la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante WWW
Research Guides and Bibliographies
850.9 P965m2002
Baroni, Giorgo and Mario Puppo. Manuale Critico-Bibliografico: per lo
studio della letteratura italiana. Torino: Società Editrice
Internazionale (SEI), 2002.
015.45 B47
Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana. Roma: Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche, 1994-.
Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale - union catalog of Italian libraries.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Q. 850.9 En192
Encyclopedia of Italian literary studies. Gaetana Marrone, ed. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Q. 809 M8553w V.7
Moss, Janet. World Literature and its times: Italian Literature and Its Times: profiles of notable literary works and the historical events that influenced them. Detroit: Gale Group, 2005.
850.3 D561996
Bondanella, Peter and Julia Conaway, eds. Dictionary of Italian Literature.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
850.3D649
Branca, Vittore et al. Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana. 3
Vols. Torino: Unione tipografico editrice torinese, 1973.
8540.9 C144
Brand, Peter and Pertile, Lino, eds. The Cambridge History of Italian
Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
803En16
Drago, Marco and Boroli, Andrea. L'enciclopedia della letteratura. Direzione,
Novara: De Agostini, 1997.
850.3 L569
Rosa, Alberto Asor. Letteratura italiana: dizionario delle opere. 2
vols. Torino: G. Einaudi, 1999.
Biographical Resources
Q. 850.9 En192
Encyclopedia of Italian literary studies. Gaetana Marrone, ed. New York: Routledge, 2007.
850.9 L569232
Letteratura italiana: gli autori dizionario bio-bibliografico e indici. Torino: Einaudi, 1990.
Q. 914.5092003 En 16
Enciclopedia degli autori Italiani. A.L.I Penna d' Autore, ed. 2nd ed. Torino: A.L.I Penna d'Autore, 2004.
Genre
Studies
840.91 D741L
Doss-Quinby, Egal. The Lyrics of the Trouvères: A Research Guide
(1970-1990). New York: Garland Pub., 1994. Garland medieval
bibliographies, 17; Garland reference library of the humanities, 1423.
848.091 H191
Akehurst,
F.R.P. and Judith M. Davis, eds. A handbook of
the Troubadours. Publications of the UCLA Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies ; 26. Berkeley : University of California
Press, c1995.
809.02 C144
Krueger, Roberta L. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
809.933543 B725c
Brackett, Virginia. Classic love & romance literature: an encyclopedia of works,
characters, authors & themes. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO,
c1999.
850.9 V836c
Vitullo, Juliann. The chivalric epic in medieval Italy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c2000.
850.9 V719l
Villoresi, Mario. La letteratura cavalleresca: dai cicli medievali all’Ariosto. Roma : Carocci, 2000.
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Bibliographies and Research Guides
851 B63AST99
Stych, F. S. Boccaccio in English: A Bibliography of Editions, Adaptations,
and Criticism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. Bibliographies and
indexes in world literature, 48.
851 B63AC765
Consoli, Joseph P. Giovanni Boccaccio: An Annotated Bibliography. New
York: Garland Pub., 1992. Garland medieval bibliographies, 9; Garland
reference library of the humanities, 971.
851 B63AEs6
Esposito, Enzo with Christopher Kleinhenz. Boccacciana: bibliografia delle
edizioni e degli scritti critici, (1939-1974). Ravenna: Longo, 1976.
Bibliografia et storia della critica, 2.
851 B63AT691973
Traversari, Guido. Bibliografia boccaccesca. I: Scritti intorno al
Boccaccio e alla fortuna delle sue opere. New York, B. Franklin, 1973.
Selected essays and texts in literature and criticism, 197; Burt Franklin
bibliography & reference series, 482.
Decameron
Internet Resources
Decameron Web WWW
The most comprehensive and scholarly Decameron site available on the web, maintained and created by Brown University. Contains the novelle in Italian and English, a bibliography, sections on medieval society and religion, and much more.
Concordances
851 B63ODZB
Concordanze del Decameron. 2 Vols. Barbina, Alfredo, ed. Firenze:
Giunti G. Barbèra, 1969.
Research Guides
851 B63OdYin
Introduzione al Decameron. Picone, Michelangelo and Margherita Mesirca ed. Firenze: F. Cesati, 2004.
Illustrations of the Decameron
Q. 741.64 B6309
Boccaccio visualizzato: narrare per parole e per
immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Ed. Vittore Branca. Torino: G.
Einaudi, c1999. 3 vol.
851 B63Od1999
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron: con le illustrazioni dell'autore e di grandi artisti fra Tre e Quattrocento.
Ed. Vittore Branca. Firenze: Le lettere; Parigi, F.: D. de Selliers, 1999.
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 Francesco Petrarca
Bibliographies and Research Guides
851 P44AM333
Marcozzi, Luca. Bibliografia Petrarchesca 1989-2003. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2005.
851 P44Ds95v.15:1982
Fucilla, Joseph G. Oltre Un Cinquantennio di
Scritti sul Petrarca (1916-1973). Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1982.
Internet Resources
The
Petrarchan Grotto: Online gateway to Petrarch WWW
Rime Sparse (Canzoniere)
Concordances
851 P44FM19
Mckenzie, Kenneth. Concordanza delle rime di Francesco Petrarca.
Oxford: Stamperia dell'Università; New Haven: Stamperia dell'Università di
Yale, 1912.
Research Guides
851 P44OrYf
Fornasiero, Serena. Petrarca, guida al Canzoniere.
Roma: Carocci, 2001.
851 P44ORYJ
Jones, Frederic J. The structure of Petrarch's Canzoniere: a chronological, psychological,
and stylistic analysis. Cambridge [England]: D.S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer,
1995.
I Trionfi
Internet Resources
I
Triumphi di Francesco Petrarca, Università di Pisa WWW
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