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Encyclopedias are great for:
- choosing a topic
- quick self-education
- perspective on a topic
- variant spellings, vocabulary, terminology
- bibliography
Cambridge Histories Online
Excellent resource. Full text. Chapters as pdfs. Extremely high quality essays with rich footnotes and bibliography.
Recommended Encyclopedias
- Routledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyOnline version of the Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. Articles can be browsed alphabetically or by philosophical themes, philosophies, historical periods, and religions. Full text entries can be searched by keyword, contributor, or bibliography. Bibliographies. Frequently updated.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyOnline only, peer-reviewed, open-access encyclopedia.
- Oxford Classical Dictionary. 5th edition.Much more than a dictionary. An excellent source for sources on all aspects of the Classical World.
- Oxford ReferenceContains the texts of more than 100 reference titles published by Oxford University Press.
- Oxford Bibliographies OnlineOffers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the Middle Ages.
- Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research ReviewsThe complete texts of the Oxford handbooks in Archaeology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion online.
Medieval Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Confessions
Publication Date: 2020This Cambridge Companion serves as an authoritative guide to Augustine's Confessions - a literary classic and one of the most important theological/philosophical works of Late Antiquity. Bringing together new essays by leading scholars, the volume first examines the composition of the text, including its structure, genre, and intended audience. Subsequent essays explore a range of themes and concepts, such as God, creation, sin, grace, happiness, and interiority, among others. The final section of the Companion deals with its historical relevance. It provides sample essays on the reception history of the Confessions. These essays demonstrate how each generation reads the Confessions in light of current questions and circumstances, and how the text continues to remain relevant and raise new questions.Augustine: a Very Short Introduction
Publication Date: 2001Traces the development of Augustine's thought, discussing his reaction to the thinkers before him, and themes such as freedom, creation, and the trinity.The Cambridge Companion to Augustine
Publication Date: 2014This new edition of the Companion, which replaces the earlier volume, has eleven new chapters, revised versions of others, and a comprehensive updated bibliography. It will furnish students and scholars of Augustine with a rich resource on a philosopher whose work continues to inspire discussion and debate.A Companion to Augustine
Publication Date: 2012Presents Augustine's life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this fieldA Companion to Bonaventure
Publication Date: 2013The Companion to Bonaventure provides an invaluable guide to understanding this great 13th century A critical overview of the current research, the major themes in Bonaventure's life and writings, and how they are being reinterpreted at the start of the twenty-first century.The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas
Publication Date: 2012Contains a series of essays that set Aquinas in his intellectual context. They focus on the philosophical sources that are likely to have influenced his thinking, the most prominent of which were certain Greek philosophers (chiefly Aristotle), Latin Christian writers (such as Augustine), and Jewish and Islamic authors (such as Maimonides and Avicenna) and addresses topics that Aquinas himself discussed.The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas
Publication Date: 2021Provides a comprehensive survey of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant philosophical and theological reception of Thomas Aquinas over the past 750 years.New Catholic Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2004Standard reference work on Catholic theology and other topics.Encyclopedia of Early Christianity
Publication Date: 1999
Medieval Encyclopedias
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints. Excellent bibliography.Encyclopedia of Early Christianity
Publication Date: 2013The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Publication Date: 2010Four volumes. Key aspects of European history, society, religion, and culture from 500 to 1500. Since neighbouring areas of Asia and North Africa impinged on and helped shape the civilization of the West, relevant aspects ofthe Byzantine Empire, the Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples such as the Avars and the Mongols are included.Medieval England: An Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 1998All aspects of life and culture in medieval England-art, architecture, law, literature, kings, commoners, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare, religion, and many others.Medieval France: an Encyclopedia
ISBN: 0824044444Publication Date: 1995Covers the political, intellectual, literary, and musical history of the country from the early fifth century to the late 15th.The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Publication Date: 2013Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: an Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2006New Catholic Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2002Medieval Islamic Civilization: an Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2005Online:
Volume I : A-K, Volume II : L-Z Two volumes, illustrated. Covers fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, art history, history, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more.The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Publication Date: 1991Three-volume, comprehensive dictionary of Byzantine civilization.Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2000Covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.Medieval Iberia: an Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2002Focuses on the Iberian kingdoms from the fall of the Roman Empire to the aftermath of the Reconquista.Medieval Jewish Civilization: an Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 2002Medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492.Medieval Scandinavia: an Encyclopedia
Publication Date: 1993Religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. A valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and more.- Medieval Archaeology: an EncyclopediaCall Number: Olin Reference D125.M42x 2001+
- Dictionary of the Middle AgesCall Number: Olin Library Reference, D114 .D55 +Publication Date: 1982