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Andersen, Kasper H, Jeppe Büchert Netterstrøm, and Lisbeth M Imer. Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021.
Barron, Caroline M. London in the Later Middle Ages: Government and People, 1200-1500. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Boran, Elizabethanne, and Pieter Dhondt, eds. Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe: From the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Boyd, Rebecca. Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns: Houses and Homes. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis, 2023.
Brogiolo, Gian Pietro, and Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
Brogiolo, N. Christie, and N. Gauthier, eds. Towns and Their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
Brown, Andrew, and Jan Dumolyn, eds. Medieval Bruges : C. 850-1550. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Brown, Andrew, and Jan Dumolyn, eds. Medieval Urban Culture. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017.
Clarke, M. V. (Maude Violet). The Medieval City State: An Essay on Tyranny and Federation in the Later Middle Ages. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. First published 1926.
Dumoly, Jan, Katrien Lichtert, and Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, eds. Portraits of the City: Representing Urban Space in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
Dyer, Christopher. Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Fafinski, Mateusz, and Jakob Riemenschneider. Monasticism and the City in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
French, Katherine L. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity after the Plague. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Friedman, David. Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages. New York, N.Y: Architectural History Foundation, 1988.
Hilton, R. H. (Rodney Howard). English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Holt, Richard, and Gervase Rosser. The English Medieval Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1200-1540. London: Routledge, 2014.
Kaner, Simon, ed. The Archaeology of Medieval Towns: Case Studies from Japan and Europe. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020.
Lapidus, Ira M. (Ira Marvin). Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Nicholas, David. The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century. London: Routledge, 2014.
Nicholas, David. The Later Medieval City 1300-1500. London: Routledge, 2014.
Oldfield, Paul. Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Pirenne, Henri, and Michael McCormick. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. First published 1925.
Pounds, Norman John Greville. The Medieval City. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Radvan, Laurentiu, and Valentin Cirdei. At Europe’s Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Scheiner, Jens, and Isabel Toral, eds. Baghdād: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Shaw, David Gary. The Creation of a Community: The City of Wells in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
Staples, Kate Kelsey. Daughters of London Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Wilkin, Alexis, ed. Town and Country in Medieval North Western Europe: Dynamic Interactions. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015.
"The Role of the City in Merovingian Francia." In The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World
Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City
"Ostrogothic Cities" and "Urban Life and Culture." In Companion to Ostrogoth Italy
Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City: From Justinian to Mehmet II (ca. 500 - ca.1500)
"Cities." In Handbook of Medieval Culture
Companion to Medieval Palermo: The History of a Mediterranean City from 600 to 1500
Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
Historic Cities of the Islamic World
"Urban Communities: The Rulers and the Ruled." In Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation
Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present
A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100
Viking invasions, language, mythology, saints, clothing, craftsmanship, architecture—these are some of the many topics covered in this encyclopedia. The entries, centred on such themes as lineage, manuscripts, persons and scholarship, focus on the period 500 to 1600 A.D., and come with cross-references and bibliographies. There are alphabetical and thematic tables of contents.
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
Travel and Travelers - Medieval Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Medieval Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Up to date, and intended for both novices and specialists, this 4-volume set covers European history, society, religion, and culture between A.D. 500 to 1500. Articles number about 5,000. They range from brief to lengthy, include bibliographies, and often unearth material you can only find elsewhere with difficulty. Women and children, for example, get substantial attention. The set contains a thematic listing of entries, a general index, a list of medieval popes and antipopes, and an index of alternative place names.
The major English-language comprehensive history of the Middle Ages, this work is a completely new edition of the former standard work, The Cambridge Medieval History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1911; St. Michael’s 2nd Floor – D117 .C3).
Volume 1: c. 500 - c. 700
Volume 2: c. 700 - c. 900
Volume 3: c. 900 - c. 1024
Volume 4 - Part I: c. 1024 - c. 1198
Volume 4 - Part II: c. 1024 - c. 1198
Volume 5: c. 1198 - c. 1300
Volume 6: c. 1300 - c. 1415
Volume 7: c. 1415 - c. 1500
Including more than 5,000 signed articles ranging in length from 100 to 10,000 words, this 13-volume set is the major scholarly encyclopedia for medieval studies and is intended for all levels, from the high school student to the scholar. All volumes are available online on the Internet Archive, a trusted source, but one for which it is necessary to create a free account and login.
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Supplement 1.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
In entries varying from 500-word descriptions to 3,000-word overviews, this encyclopedia aims at helping undergraduates and the general public in coming to grips with the political, social, religious, economic, intellectual, literary and artistic history of France between roughly 500 and 1500 A.D.. Various useful lists complement these entries: The Kings, Counts, Dukes; Popes; Architectural Terms; and Musical Terms.
This introduction to German and Dutch-speaking Europe focuses on the region’s major people, events, places, daily life, and accomplishments between roughly 500 and 1500 A.D. Alphabetical entries on such topics as patronage, diet and nutrition, and Segher Diengotgaf are made accessible through a list of entries by category (e.g. Music; Persons; Religion and Theology; Women, Gender and Families), as well as by the usual index at the back.
Pick up this 2-volume set for an introduction to mediaeval Italian life and culture. With nearly 1,000 entries ranging from 500 to 10,000 words, and covering specific topics in the brief articles (e.g. Camerino, Duchy of) and general topics in the lengthy ones (e.g. Florence), this set includes 3 pages of maps, along with a reference list of Popes and Rulers in the appendix.
A Companion to Medieval Art Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe
The major English-language encyclopedia on Catholic topics, it contains some 17,000 articles, each with a bibliography emphasizing the primary sources. Unfortunately many of the articles in the 2003/online edition are reprints from the 1967 edition without any updating. Use this work to get an overview of a subject and to see how it can be divided into narrower topics for a paper.
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Known as LibrarySearch, this interdisciplinary database is UofT's largest--and your best bet when more focused databases let you down. It combs through more than 1,200 databases, journal packages, e-book collections, and other resources ranging from the sciences to the social sciences and humanities. At its best, LibrarySearch finds relevant results you won't find elsewhere; at its worst, however, LibrarySearch can overwhelm you will a mish-mash of results from different subject areas.
International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Over one million bibliographic citations to journal articles, essays in books, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers all aspects of the major world religions and now includes all the content of the online Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.
The MLA is the major English literature database. It covers criticism related to literature, linguistics and folklore from 1921 to the present, and contains more than 1-million citations to journal articles, series, books, working papers and conference proceedings. Most of the materials indexed before 1963 are American.