History 499:  A Social History of the Renaissance
Dr. Mary Hewlett, Spring Quarter 2001
Margaret Fast, Librarian for History, Western Washington University


Selected Reference Materials:

Chronology of Women's History (Olsen)   
Reference HQ1121.O47 1994

A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance (Hale, ed.)      
Reference DG445 .C66

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Grendler, ed., 6 vols. )
Reference CB361 .E52 1999

The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance    (Bergin & Speake)   
Reference CB361.B43 1987

Gay Histories and Cultures:  An Encyclopedia    (Haggerty)   
Reference HG75.13.G37 2000

Great Lives From History:  Renaissance to 1990  (Magill, 5 vols.)   
Reference CT104.G74 1989

History of the Family and Kinship:  A Select International Bibliography  (Soliday)   
Reference HQ503.H55

The New Century Italian Renaissance Encyclopedia (Avery)   
Reference DG537.8.A1 N48

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Sadie, 20 vols.)   
Reference ML100.N48

The Oxford History of Italy (Holmes, 2 vols.)   
Reference DG467.09 1997

Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary (Jo Eldridge Carney)
Reference CT759 .R46 2001

Views of Women's Lives in Western Tradition:  Frontiers of the Past and the Future (Keller)
Reference HQ1121.V54 1990

Women in Western European History (Frey, Frey & Schneider, 2 vols. & suppl.)   
Reference HQ1587.F7

Women in World History:  A Biographical Encyclopedia (Commire & Klezmer, thru vol. 10/Mei)
Reference HQ1115.W6 1999




Selected Databases:

Art Index  (1929-1994) Wilson 1E periodicals N1.A59
Art Index cites articles from more than 400 key international English language arts publications.  It includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. Articles are indexed by author, and subject.  You may also search for exhibitions, illustrations and reproductions, reviews of film, theater, video or television programs.

Art 20c:  The Thames & Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art
Features over 3,500 images, audios of artists' voices, and videos of kinetic and video art, plus more than 2,500 entries including artist biographies, movements, galleries, collectors, and critics. Reference N6490 .A7163 1998  CD-ROM

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
Available via the Web of Science. Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a  multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Also in print from 1976 -, Ref. AI3.A77.

Bibliography of the History of Art  (1973 - )
The Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present, indexing and abstracting art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art). Updated quarterly.

Historical Abstracts
Includes abstracts and citations of books, journal articles, and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. All branches of world history are included:  political, diplomatic, economic, religious, social, cultural, and intellectual history, as well as the history of science, technology, and medicine.

MLA Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association, MLA Bibliography contains analytical bibliographic citations to sources on literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, journalism, communications, film, media,  and theater. MLA indexes journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and bibliographies.

Music Index (via Ebsco)
More than 640 international music periodicals are indexed covering every aspect of the classical and popular world of music.

Oxford Art Online
Full-text of the Dictionary of Art (41,000 articles) with linked images (over100,000), including the Bridgeman Art Archive, and links to other sites (museums, galleries, etc.).

Oxford Music Online (Grove)
Covers all aspects of music, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions.

 

RILM Music Abstracts (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale)
"An index to journals, conference proceedings, books, dissertations and other types of resources in the field of music covering historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, music therapy, librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics. Available online and in print."




Full-Text Databases:

EBSCO (All Databases)

JSTOR
Digitized complete full-text backfiles of core scholarly journals across the disciplines.




Microforms:

Early English Books, 1641-1700 [microform]: selected from Donald Wing's Short title catalogue. Wilson 2W Microfilm PR1127.E2

Early English Books, 1475-1640 [microform]: selected from Pollard and Redgrave's Short-title catalogue. Wilson 2W Microfilm PR1120.E2




Web Sites

Renaissance Bibliography
This bibliography was created to honor the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society conference at Western Washington University on April 24-25, 1998.  The focus begins with the late Middle Ages and continues into the Renaissance with an emphasis on books. It includes volumes held by Special Collections and books on libraries, writing, art, architecture, literature, Petrarch and others, Humanism, science, philosophy, culture and music in the Renaissance.

Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Web Resources.  University of Toronto.
This comprehensive list of links is organized by the following categories:  Resources, (including online texts and
databases), Libraries, Institutions, Journals, and Miscellaneous (Exhibitions, Images, Tips on Web Searching).  It is also arranged by Renaissance author, including links to texts by John Donne, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, John Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser Tasso, and many more.

Kenyon College Dept. of History

Medieval & Renaissance Europe -- Primary Historical Documents
Provides links to selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of Western European historical documents. These shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries as relates to political, economic, and cultural Maintained by Richard Hacken, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.

The Newberry Library Center for Studies
Links to Medieval and Web Sites. The broad headings for this site are Exhibits (illuminations, manuscript images, and other illustrations); Paleography; Research Links; On-Line Texts;  Institutions; and Journals.

Sixteenth Century English Literature: Background Information


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