Medieval Studies

Edited by Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey, and Faith Wallis. New York: Routledge, 2005.
[St. Michael’s 1st Floor Reference Area – Q1124.97 .M43 2005]
Ranging in length from 500 to 3,000 words, the entries in this encyclopedia relate to one of six categories: (1) Apparatus, equipment, implements, techniques; (2) Biography; (3) Disciplines; (4) Geographical places; (5) Institutions; or (6) Scientific genres, theories, texts, traditions. Alphabetical and thematic tables of contents, along with an index, make the book easy to use.
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Edited by Faith Wallis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
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This reader provides excellent primary sources in an accessible translation for students interested in medieval medicine and science. Chapter headings include commentaries on themes and individual sources come with brief introductory statements.

Edited by Bruce S. Eastwood. Brill, 2007.
Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, the book shows how Roman sources were used in the age of Charlemagne to reintroduce and expand a qualitative picture of articulated geometrical order in the heavens.