Medieval Studies Subject Guide

Bibliographies

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Almost all scholarly books, articles, and even most texts, dictionary listings, and encyclopedia entries provide bibliography. Although the most current bibliographical information can be found in serial bibliographies or the best recent article on a subject, retrospective bibliographies are a good place to begin searching. Some of these bibliographies were listed in "Introductions to Medieval Studies" and some will be listed in the listings of primary sources. The following monographs or multi--volume works seek to gather, organize, and present what has been written on a particular subject.

A World Bibliography of Bibliographies

1964-1974 : a List of Works Represented by Library of Congress Printed Catalog Cards : a Decennial Supplement to Theodore Besterman, a World Bibliography of Bibliographies. 2 v. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977. Reference Z1002 .T67

A World Bibliography of Bibliographies and of Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the Like

4th edition., rev. and greatly enl. throughout. 5 vols. Lausanne: Societas Bibliographica, 1965-1966. Reference Z1002 .B568 1965

Guide to Reference Books

11th ed., 1996. The sources selected are related to the major languages taught at WMU: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. Our libraries own books in many other languages besides these. Use Westcat, our online catalog, to locate books and journals in these and other languages by choosing the Language option as a mode of limiting a keyword or title search.

Les sources du travail bibliographique

Pref. de Julien Cain. 3 vols. In 4 parts; Geneve: E. Droz, 1950-58 Reference Z1002 .M4

Walford's Guide to Reference Material

6th ed. 3 vols,; London: Library Association Publishing, 1993- Reference Z1035.1 .W34x 1993

Guide to Historical Literature

ed. George Frederick Howe and others. New York: Macmillan, 1961. See now Mary Beth Norton, ed., The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature. 3rd ed. 2 vols.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Reference Z 6201 .A55 1995

History and Geography: a Bibliography of Bibliographies

4 v. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972 [c1971] Z6201.A1 B48

Literature of Medieval History, 1930-1975: A supplement to Louis John Paetow's A Guide to the Study of Medieval History

5 v.; Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus, 1981.

Louis John Paetow, A Guide to the Study of Medieval History.

rev. ed., New York: F. S. Crofts, 1931. Reprint and corrected, Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus, 1980. The classic American introduction to medieval history originally written in 1917. Main stacks Z 6203 .P19 1931 and Reference (Non-circulating) Z 6203 .P25 1980

Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide

Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 427. New York: Garland, 1983.

The Cambridge Medieval History

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911-36. Reference D117 .C3

An Index to Jewish Festschriften

New York: Kraus Reprint, 1970.

Articles on Antiquity in Festschriften, an Index:

The Ancient Near East, the Old Testament, Greece, Rome, Roman Law, Byzantium
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Festschriften in Art History, 1960-1975: Bibliography and Index

New York: Garland, 1988.

Index to Festschriften in Jewish Studies

Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1971.

Internationale bibliographic der Festschriften, mit sachregister

Osnabruck: Biblio Verlag, 1976.

Late-Medieval England

1377-1485.(Conference on British Studies Bibliographical Handbooks). New York: Cambridge University Press for the Conference on British Studies, 1976. Ref Z 2017.G87

An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography

450-1087. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Press, 1970. Reference Z2017 .B6 1970

Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1154

(Conference on British Studies. Bibliographical Handbooks) London: Cambridge U.P. for the Conference on British Studies, 1969. Z2017.A43

Anglo-Saxon History: a Select Bibliography. 2nd rev. ed. Old English newsletter

Subsidia, v. 13. Binghamton, NY: CEMERS, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993. PE 101 .O441x v.13 1993 (An updated version is available at the Medieval Institute web site).

A Romano-British Bibliography: 55 B. C. - A. D. 449

Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1964 [i. e. 1965]. Reference Z2017 .B62

Bibliographie de l'histoire de Belgique :

catalogue m�thodique et chronologique des sources et des ouvrages principaux relatifs � l'histoire de tous les Pays-Bas jusqu'en 1598 et � l'histoire de Belgique jusqu'en 1914. 3. ed. rev. et compl�t�e avec la collaboration de Henri Now� et Henri Obreen. Bruxelles: M. Lamertin, 1931. Z2416 .P67 1931

Medieval Wales

The Sources of history: studies in the uses of historical evidence. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, [1972] Z2081 .J3

The Crusade: Historiography and Bibliography

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. Reference Z6207.C97 A8

The High Middle Ages in England, 1154-1377

Conference on British Studies Bibliographical Handbooks). New York: Cambridge University Press for the Conference on British Studies, 1978. Ref Z 2017.W42

A Bibliography of English History to 1485:

Based on The Sources and Literature of English history from the Earliest Times to About 1485 by Charles Gross Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Reference Z2017 .B5

Supersedes the previous entry, Charles Gross's Sources and Literature of English History (1915), and is "a systematic survey of the printed materials relating to the political, constitutional, legal, social, and economic history of England, Wales and Ireland down to 1485."--Pref. It retains references to older standard works while recent materials through about 1970 have been added.

A Bibliography of the History of Wales

2nd ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1962. First ed., 1931, compiled by the Welsh History Section, Guild of Graduates of the University of Wales. Reference Z2081 .W229

An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography, 450-1087

Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Press, 1970. Reference Z2017 .B6 1970

Anglo-Saxon History: an Annotated Bibliography

450-1066. AMS studies in the Middle Ages, no. 7. New York: AMS Press, 1985. Z2017 .R67 1985

Anglo-Saxon History: an Annotated Bibliography, 450-1066

AMS studies in the Middle Ages, no. 7. New York: AMS Press, 1985. Z2017 .R67 1985

Late-Medieval England, 1377-1485

(Conference on British Studies Bibliographical Handbooks). New York: Cambridge University Press for the Conference on British Studies, 1976. Ref Z 2017.G87

The Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to About 1485

London: New York [etc.] Longmans, Green & Co., 1900. Reference Z2016 .G87

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