Women & Gender in Europe 400-1650

Books

• Library catalog
  Keyword and subject searches in the Library's catalog are good starting points when first exploring a topic. Search results can be narrowed with facets such as topic, era, language or region. Facets are located on the right hand side of the results screen.

  Examples of Library of Congress subjects:
  "Middle Ages" and "sex role"
  "Sex role" and history and "to 1500"
  Renaissance and gender
  "Middle Ages" and women and saints
  Renaissance and women and sources
  "Middle Ages" and women and history and England and sources
  Examples of keyword searches:
  "Middle Ages" and gender
  Renaissance and gender
  anchorites
  medieval prostitution
  

• WorldCat
  A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holding s and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
• Dissertations & Theses Full Text
  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.
  The often extensive bibliographies in dissertations can be invaluable. Hard to find primary sources may be transcribed and translated in the appendix.

  Example:
  Laufenberg, Lynn Marie.  Women, crime and criminal law in fourteenth-century Florence. Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 2000.

• E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is usually faster than interlibrary loan, since the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently checked out by somebody else.

Journal Articles

• International Medieval Bibliography
  Available online. A comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. Includes references of book reviews.
• Iter. Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 1400-1700
  Available online. A bibliography of more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
• Historical Abstracts
  An annotated reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes journal articles, book reviews and dissertations.
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
  Available online. Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
• GenderWatch
  Searchable collection of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum such as the arts, the humanities and the social sciences. There is in-depth coverage of subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives including family, the workplace and societal roles. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, books, conference proceedings and more.
• Rambi
  A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Coverage includes important articles published througout the world in the field of Judaica, mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, and offprints of articles from journals or collections in the library. Rambi also lists articles from secondary sources.
• Arts & Humanities Search
  Available online. Citation index to articles in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
• Medieval Archaeology
  Volume 1-50 of Medieval Archaeology published by the Society for Medieval Archaeology. Full-text available online.

For further indexes please consult E-Resources by Subject – History on the Library’s homepage.

Encyclopedias and Companions

• Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages
  [REF HQ1143 .L38 2001]
• Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
  [REF HQ1147.E85 W66 2006]
• Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France and England.
  [REF HQ1148 .W67 2007]
• An Annotated Index of Medieval Women
  [REF CT3220.A56 1992]
• Women in World History (17 vols.)
  [REF HQ1115 .W6 1999]
• Dictionary of the Middle Ages 
  [REF D114.D5 1982]
  This 13 volume set comprises about 5,000 signed articles dealing with various aspects of the many disciplines and interests of medieval scholarship. The index (v. 13) offers entries for people, places, and concepts.
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
  Available online.
• Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (6 vols.)
  [REF CB361 .E52 1999]
• Encyclopedia Judaica
  2nd ed. 22 volumes. Available online.
• Cambridge Companions Online
  Includes titles such as the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing and the Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing.
• Cambridge Histories Online
  Includes New Cambridge Medieval History (8 vols.)
• Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (2 vols.)
  [REF PN441.E5 2010]
• Companion to the Medieval World
• Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain & Ireland
• Companion to Tudor Britain
• Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages
• Key Figures in the Medieval Europe
  [REF D115 .E56 2006]
• Atlas of the Medieval World
  [REF D117 .M35 2004]
• Medieval England
  [REF DA129 .M43 1998]
• Medieval France
  [REF DC33.2 .M44 1995]
• Medieval Germany
  [REF DD157 .M43 2001]
• Medieval Iberia
  [REF DP99 .M33 2003]
• Medieval Ireland
  [REF DA933 .M43 2005]
• Medieval Italy
  [REF DG443 .M43 2003]
• Medieval Jewish Civilization
  [REF DS124 .M386 2003]
• Medieval Islamic Civilization
  [REF DS36.85 .M434 2006]
• Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine
  [REF Q124.97 .M43 2005]
  This resource details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. It discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. Written by a select group of international scholars.
  

Book Reviews

Please note that the indexes listed under Journal Articles all include book reviews and that you can limit your searches to book reviews only.

• Book Review Digest Plus (1983-)
• Book Review Digest Retrospective, 1905-1982
• Book Review Index Online (1965-)

Selected Primary Resources

• Early English Books Online (EEBO), 1473-1700
  Full-text page images of over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue, Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, and Thomason Tracts which cover titles printed in English between 1473-1700. For searchable text of selected titles see Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership below.
• Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership
  Searchable full-text of selected texts from EEBO. When complete 25,000 titles will be available. The text links to the page images in EEBO (above).
• Medieval Sources Online
  This database contains full-text translations of primary sources from AD 640-1600. There are over three thousand pages of medieval sources annotated.
• Online Medieval Sources Bibliography
  An annotated bibliography of printed and online primary sources for the Middle Ages.
• Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters
  Epistolae is a collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to the 13th century. The letters, written in Latin, appear under the names of the women involved, with English translations and, where possible, biographical sketches of the women and some description of the subject matter or the historic context of the letter.
• Bibliography of Works by and about Women Writers of the Middle Ages
• Luminarium: Anthology of Middle English Literature, 1350-1485

Citing Your Sources

• Documenting Sources, Chicago Style
  DianaHacker.com: Research and Documentation Online.
  Sample bibliography.
• The Chicago Manual of Style
  15th ed. Available online and in print.
  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  Information desk Z253.U69 2003
• RefWorks
  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.

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