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Heresy and Witchcraft
in Medieval Europe

This is a selective guide to www sites, databases, reference items and other library  resources .

For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your
Research Librarians for History and Politics,
Margaret Hosking, ph. 83033706
Peter Newnham, ph. 83131062
 

CONTENTS:
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Databases and bibliographies

Web Links

Finding books in the catalogue


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
CONTENTS:
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Databases and   bibliographies

Web Links

Finding books in the catalogue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS:
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Databases and   bibliographies

Web Links

Finding books in the catalogue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS:
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Databases and   bibliographies

Web Links

Finding books in the catalogue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update
Margaret Hosking
August 2009

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Witchcraft and Heresy

The encyclopedia of witches and witchcraft, R. E. Guiley, 2 vols, 1999
Reference collection 133.4303 G956e.2

Clifton, C.S. Encyclopedia of heresies and heretics. 1992
Reference collection  270.03  C639e

The encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology, by R.H. Robbins, 1959
Reference collection 133.4 R63

Medieval folklore : an encyclopedia of myths, legends,  tales, beliefs, and customs, Carl Lindahl. 2 vols,  2000.
Reference Collection  398.03 L742m

Cassell dictionary of witchcraft, D. Pickering, 1996
Reference Collection 133.4303 P595c

Encyclopedia of witchcraft and paprapsychology, ed. Gordon Melton, 2 vols, 1996.
Reference Collection 133.03 E56.4

Man, myth and magic: an illustrated encyclopedia of the supernatural, ed. R. Cavendish, 24 vols,1970
Reference Collection 133.4303 C381m

Historical

Encyclopedia of barbarian Europe : society in transformation Michael Frassetto, 2003
Reference collection 940.103 F843e and also online

Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000, ed P.N Stearns, 6 vols, 2001
Reference collection  940.03 S799e

Europe 1450-1789: encyclopedia of the early modern world, ed. J. Dewald, 6 vols, 2004
Reference collection  940.203 D5153e

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages,  N. Cantor, 1999
Reference collection  940.103 C232e

The illustrated encyclopedia of medieval civilization,  Aryeh Grabois. 1980
Reference collection  909.103 G728i

Middle Ages, Judson Knight,  4 vols.  2001
Reference collection  909.0703 K69m

Middle Ages : a concise encyclopaedia, H.R. Loyn, 1989
Reference collection 940.1003 L923m

Middle Ages : an encyclopedia for students, W. Chester Jordan, 1996
A 4 -volume set adapted from the authoritative Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Reference collection  940.103 J82m

Oxford illustrated history of medieval Europe,G. Holmes, 1988
Reference collection 940.1 H751o

Who's who in the Middle Ages, J. Fines, 1970
Reference collection  940.1 F495

Lexikon des Mittelalters. 9 volumes, 1980-1998
One of the most scholarly reference books on the Middle Ages. In German.
Reference collection  940.1003 L679

Religion

Christian classics ethereal library
A single reference source which indexes the contents of the Catholic Encyclopedia, Easton's Bible Dictionary, Torrey's Topical Textbook, and Elwell's Dictionary of Christian Theology

The Catholic encyclopedia :  an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church. Edited by C.G. Herbermann et al.
Web version of the the 1st ed. 1913. Great for heresies, saints, popes, martyrs.....all in 19th century detail.

New Catholic encyclopedia  15 vols. 1967
Reference collection   282.03 N532

Routledge Companion to Christian history, Chris Cook, 2008
Reference collection 270 C7712r

Encyclopedia of early Christianity, ed. Everett Ferguson, 1998
Reference collection 270.103 F352e.2

Great Britain

Companion to medieval England 1066-1485, Nigel Saul, 2000
Reference collection 942.03 S256c

Historical dictionary of late medieval England, 1272-1485,
ed. R. H. Fritze, 2002
Reference collection 942.03 F919h

Databases and Bibliographies

General and Interdisciplinary

Academic OneFile       1980-
A broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.

Academic Search Premier
Iincludes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals

JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago

Project Muse
full text  access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities etc  since the mid 1990's.

Royal Historical Society bibliography   for writings on English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh history.

Medieval History

Do not use Historical abstracts - coverage starts at 1450 - not suitable for this subject.

International Medieval Bibliography. 1976-
An on-going index to journal articles about the Medieval period 450-1500.
Reference Collection  940.105 I618......................soon to be available online.

Guide to the study of medieval history, L. Paetow, 1931
Reference  940.1016 P12 1931
continued by
Literature of medieval history, 1930-1975, G. Boyce, 5 volumes, 1981
Reference Collection   940.1016 P12 suppl

Medieval studies : a bibliographical guide, E. Crosby, 1983
Reference Collection   940.1016 C949m

Berkhout, C.T., Medieval heresies : a bibliography, 1960-1979. 1980
Reference collection  273.6 B512m

Annotated index of medieval women, A. Echols, 1992
Reference collection  305.4094 E18a

Backhouse, D. Women in medieval and Renaissance European history, c. 1100-1500: a bibliography. 1989
Reference collection  305.4094 B124w

Joan of Arc : historical overview and bibliography ,
ed. G. Patterson, 2002
Main colleciton 944.026 J62ZPA

Web Links

Marginality and community in medieval Europe.......student projects from Kenyon College...no cheating!!!

The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenge
On this site there are introductions to Summers' rather inaccurate translations published in 1928 and 1948, and links to certain notes and references cited. The eventual aim is to provide links to all the references. This site is extremely useful for those seeking information about the work, or quotations, but it must be remembered that the accuracy of Summers' translations has been the subject of doubt. Whilst it is worth using for an overall view of the work, it should be used with caution and definitely checked against a copy of the Latin original. The summation and introduction reflect many stereotypical beliefs about the witchcraft persecution, which have been disproved by recent scholarship.

Academic Info : Medieval history
Academic Info is an independent Internet subject directory maintained by Mike Madin. This is a good starting point for identifying Web Resources for the History of Medieval Europe. Scroll down each page past the advertising!

 Labyrinth
A site for Medieval studies which contains resources for the early Medieval West.

ORB : Online reference book for Medieval studies
The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the Internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World-Wide Web.

The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative
A cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the Internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history.  Includes links to primary sources & images.

Feminae: Medieval women and gender index   
Coverage is from 1996
Citations for journal articles, book reviews and essays relating to women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages.

Internet Medieval sourcebook - Sex and Gender - witchcraft is in the section enetitled "Woman and Misogyny "

Witchcraft Demonology and the Inquisition, from the University of Sydney Library, Rare Books.

Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563-1736

Charles Zika: Images of Circe and discources of Witchcraft 1480-1580.

There are also library resource guides for:
Classical Studies : Religion & Mythology : a guide to Library Resources......includes the early church
and
Witchcraft : a guide to library resources for Anthropology
and
Medieval Europe: the Crusades to the Black Death

Finding books in the catalogue

Useful ebooks for this course:

The witchcraft sourcebook edited by Brian P. Levack. Routledge, 2004. Online via Taylor and Francis ebooks

The Witch-cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray, 1921

...and a recent e-journal, online since 2006:
Magic, ritual, and witchcraft

For print books, use these terms to search in subject heading or in guided keyword searches

Witches
Witchcraft.....browse headings
Magic....browse headings
Heresy
Heresies ....browse down to
Heresies, Christian France Languedoc History .........
Heretics
Albigenses.....used for Cathars
Inquisition
Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500
Social history Medieval, 500-1500
Women Europe History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Women in Christianity

witch?
in guided keyword searches for
witches, witch-hunts, witchcraft etc