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MEDVL 1101: Details in Dress: Reading Clothing in Medieval Literature (Spring 2024)

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Encyclopedias are great for:

  • choosing a topic
  • quick self-education
  • perspective on a topic
  • variant spellings, vocabulary, terminology
  • bibliography

Recommended Medieval Encyclopedias

Medieval Clothing

Medieval Encyclopedias

Literature

Cambridge Histories Online

Cambridge Histories Online

Excellent resource. Full text. Chapters as pdfs. Extremely high quality essays with rich footnotes and bibliography.

OED

English Language and its history

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)  The dictionary that is scholar's preferred source; it goes far beyond definitions.

Superior to Wikipedia on most topics & disciplines: