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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Companions, Guides |
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For background information and definitions refer to the following library reference works and online reference collections:
The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Blackwell, 1999.
Main Level, Reference: R 942.01 B568B
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English [CREDO Reference], Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006. Authoritative and international survey of world literature in English with entries on eras, theses, genres and critical terms, authors, poems, novels, literary journals and plays.
A Companion to the Gawain-Poet. Derek Brewer and Jonathan Gibson, editors.
D.S. Brewer Pub., 1997. Upper Level: 821.109 C738C
A Concordance to Beowulf. Albert Cook. Max Niemeyer Pub., 1911.
Reprinted by Gale Research Co., 1968. Main Level, Reference:
R 829.3 C771C
Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature [CREDO Reference], Continuum International, 2006.
A comprehensive guide to all British literature. Includes entries for the Gawain Poet, Layamon’s Brut, Middle English, etc.
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols [CREDO Reference], Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Print edition also available, Main Level, Reference: R 809.915 F373D [2000 ed.]
The first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than "universal" psychological archetypes, myths, or esoterica. Concentrates on English literature, but its entries range widely from the Bible and classical authors to the twentieth century, taking in American and European literatures.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Joseph R. Strayer, editor, Scribner, c1982-c1989.
Main Level, Reference: R 909.07 D561D [13 vols, suppl.] |
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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations, Arthur Cotterell, ed.,
Mayflower Books, 1980.
Main Level, Reference: R 930.03 En19E
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature [CREDO Reference], Robert Thomas Lambdin and Laura Cooner Lambdin, eds. Greenwood Press, 2000. While the volume is devoted primarily to the literature of medieval England, its multicultural scope also encompasses Islamic, Mongolian, Celtic, Hispanic, Italian, Russian, and Germanic works.
Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World. Pam J. Crabtree, ed. Facts on File, 2008 (4 volumes).
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Andre Vauchez, ed., Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
Main Level, Reference: R 909.07 En19E [2 vols]
European Writers, Volumes 1- 2: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Scribner, 1983.
Main Level, Reference: R 809.894 Eu74E
Also available online via Literature Resource Center and Literature Resources from Gale
Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, Paul E. Szarmach, ed., Garland Pub., 1998.
Main Level, Reference: R 942 M468M
Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, William W. Kibler, ed. Garland Pub., 1995.
Main Level, Reference: R 944.003 M468M
The Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopaedia, H.R. Loyn, ed. Thames and Hudson, 1989.
Main Level, Reference: R 909.07 M584M
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Norris J. Lacy, ed.
Garland Pub., 1996.
Main Level, Reference: R 809.93351 N42N
The Oxford Companion to English Literature [Oxford Reference Online], Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
Also available in print edition: Main Level Reference: R 820.9 Ox2O
Gale Biography in Context 
Biography Resource Center combines Gale biographies with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, thousands of images, and links to vetted websites. Search for current or historic figures based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.
Literature Resource Center [Thomson Gale] 
Search here for your author or use advanced search criteria to compile a list of authors by type. Contains biographical information from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, as well as British Writers [Main Level, Reference: R 820.9 B777B] and thirteen Scribner print sources.
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
[Gale Virtual Reference Library], St. James Press, 2001.
Encyclopedic in scope. Electronic edition of four volume set giving thorough coverage of films and filmmakers, including legendary films, actors and actresses, directors, writers and other production artists. Entries include a detailed essay written by an expert; biographies; filmographies; comprehensive credits; major awards; and updated bibliographies, as well as photographs.
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, Schirmer Reference, 2007.
Main Level, Reference: R 791.4303 G767S [4 vols] |
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
7th edition. Modern Language Association, 2009.
2 copies: Main Level, Reference R 808.02 M72M
AND Ready Reference Shelf (behind Reference Desk)
Humanities: Documenting Sources [Research and Documentation Online], Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.
Writing Center, Presbyterian College
Citation styles, writing guides, and scheduling an appointment with a tutor.
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THOMCAT
Use the online catalog to locate books in Thomason Library. You can search by author, title, keyword, or subject.
- Search for a person, as AUTHOR or SUBJECT, using last name first for modern names.
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Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph [as AUTHOR] |
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 [as AUTHOR] |
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein [as SUBJECT, specific work] |
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- SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. The terms below are examples of subject headings related to the Medieval literature:
- Materials may also be found by specifying the country of origin, era, literary genre, or the material type in which you are interested, or by identifying broader themes in literature.
Subject searching is an effective and precise method of searching the catalog, however, KEYWORD searching has benefits, also.
- Try a KEYWORD if you are unsure of the exact title or the correct subject heading to use. Search using two or three of the most significant words from the title or subject you are trying to find. Place phrases in "quotation marks."
- Connect words with AND, OR, NOT to focus your search.
- Try truncation at the end of a word stem to retrieve singular, plural, and other variations of the word. Use an asterisk (*) to truncate from 1 to 5 characters. Use a double asterisk (**) to include word endings with an unlimited number of characters.
KEYWORD Searching Tips |
· Add * (asterisk) to the root of a word to truncate or expand
a term:
knight* = knight, knights, knighthood
monster*= monster, monsters
monstro*= monstrous, monstrosity
· Use AND between words or phrases to narrow your search:
frankenstein AND human*
· Use OR between words to expand your search
medieval OR mediaeval OR middle ages
·When combining AND with OR terms,
use NESTING (parentheses) around "OR' terms
(monster* OR monstro*) AND (medieval OR middle ages)
(song OR chanson) AND Roland
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PASCALCAT -If you need books in addition to those found at Thomason Library, try your search here for books in other academic libraries in SC. Through PASCAL Delivers, you can order books online for delivery within 3-4 working days. This service for current PC students, faculty, and staff is a project of PASCAL- Partnership Among SC Academic Libraries. Borrowers will be notified by e-mail when requested items arrive at Thomason Library. Click here for searching and ordering tips.
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Dimensions of monstrosity in contemporary narratives: theory, psychoanalysis, postmodernism / Andrew Hock-soon Ng. |
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Houndmills [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. |
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WorldCat – A catalog of books and materials at libraries worldwide. Try searching here to find ALL books available on a topic. Materials available at Thomason Library are highlighted and others can be borrowed through ILL or searched in PASCALCAT.
Interlibrary Loan - ILL is available to PC students, faculty and staff in order to share resources between libraries. Check link for instructions.
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Literature Resource Center [Thomson Gale]
Biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, as well as full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database. Contains full-text journal articles from more than 250 literary journals, critical essays, author biographies, and definitions of literary terms from Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Includes full-text coverage of the monographic series Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism.
Scribner Writer's Series
Full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study.
MLA International Bibliography [EBSCOhost]
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.
Academic Search Premier - Humanities[EBSCOhost]
Search this subset of full text peer-reviewed humanities journals indexed in Academic Search Premier.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
JSTOR
Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, & III contain an archive of over 350 full-text journals which are searchable through JSTOR or accessible through Journal Finder, which guides the user to full-text articles available at Thomason Library. The collections include journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, and humanities. This archive covers the full run of journals from the first issue of volume one; however, the most current three to five year issues of the journals are not available as specified by the publishers in their agreements with JSTOR.
Project MUSE Basic Undergraduate Collection
Current and recent volumes of 112 core journals in the humanities and social sciences.
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Beowulf; reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript, British Museum Ms. Cotton Vitellius A. xv, with a transliteration and notes by Julius Zupitza. Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by the Oxford University Press 1959 [c1967, reprinted 1981]
2d ed., containing a new reproduction of the manuscript, with an introductory note by Norman Davis.
Upper Level: 829.3 B45B7
Beowulf.
Translated by Francis B. Gummere. New York: P.F. Collier & Sons,
1910. Digitized version via University of Virginia Library.
Beowulf. George Clark.
Twayne Publishers, 1990. Upper Level. 829.3 C547B
Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript. Rev. ed. Kevin S. Kiernan University of Michigan Press, c1996.
Kings, Beasts and Heroes.
Oxford University Press, 1972
Upper Level: 398.22 J716K
Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript
Andy Orchard. U. of Toronto Press, 2003.
[Google Books]. Note: Preview—contains full text of most of this book, but random pages have been omitted from the scan.
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. J. R. R. Tolkien
Oxford University Press, 1960. Upper Level: 829.3 T577B
Also available as a chapter in the ebook Rebirth and Renewal. Harold Bloom, editor; Blake Hobby, volume editor.
Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009.
[EBSCOhost eBook Collection].
The Mode and Meaning of "Beowulf." Margaret E. Goldsmith.
Athlone Press., 1970.
Upper Level: 829.3 G574M
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance. Ad Putter.
Clarendon Press, 2001.
Upper Level, Circulating Collection:821.1 P986S
Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents,
E. L.Risden, ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.
Upper Level, Circulating Collection: 821.1 Si76S2
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1968.
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend. Alan Lupack. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Upper Level, Circulating Collection: 809.93351 L973O
Includes chapter "Gawain."
Making of the Middle Ages, Southern, R. W., Yale University Press, 1959.
ON RESERVE: CIRCULATION DESK: 940.1 So88M
The Medieval World: Europe, 1100-1350, Heer, F., World Pub.Co, 1962.
Upper Level, Circulating Collection: 940.17 H36M
Includes chapter “Courtly Love and Courtly Literature.”
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Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales. Vol. 2. edited by Robert M. Correale and Mary Hamel D.S. Brewer Pub., 2005. Upper Level:
821.1 So84S v.2
Includes section on "The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale," pp.270-350.
Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, Bynum & Freedman, eds., 2000.
Request this title through PASCAL Delivers
Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages, Geary, Patrick, 1994.
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Essays in Medieval Studies
Each volume has had a thematic focus based on the theme or topic of the annual meeting of Illinois Medieval Assoc.
Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
Open source journal. To view past issues, or to search all of the archive, click on "Journal Navigation" link.
Focuses on North-western Europe during the early medieval period (from the early 4th through 13th centuries). Seeks to foster dialogue between all scholars of this period across ethnic and disciplinary boundaries, including—but not limited to—history, archaeology, and literature pertaining to the period.
Medieval Studies
The annual journal published by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. The journal was established in 1939 and from the outset its purpose has been the publication of research on the Middle Ages by scholars throughout the world, particularly research involving unedited manuscript and archival material.
Most volumes are divided into three sections: “Texts ” includes extensive editions with substantial introductions; “Articles” includes studies based on unedited or edited documents and texts and also includes studies of other monuments of medieval culture; “Mediaevalia” consists of notices or short articles on specific documents or topics.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Speculum: A Journal of Mediæval Studies Publishes articles and book reviews on any and all aspects of the Middle Ages, including art, history, literature, philosophy and theology, music, science, law, and economics.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
ELH (English Literary History)
Superior studies interpreting the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature while publishing articles with an intelligent mix of historical, critical, and theoretical concerns.
Studies in English Literature
Focuses on four fields of British Literature which rotate quarterly as follows: Winter-English Renaissance, Spring - Tudor and Stuart Drama, Summer-Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Autumn - Nineteenth Century with historical and critical essays which contribute to the understanding of English Literature.
Journal Finder provides access to PC's electronic and print journals, magazines, and newspapers in one convenient location.
Browse Journal Finder by title or subject. When browsing or searching, you can read articles from any journal that is available in the Full-text resources online group of results. Choose a database in this group based on the dates available and the time frame in which you are interested.
Library article databases are inter-connected by Journal Finder, which will lead you to the full-text of an article when available.
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The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Luminarium's Gawain Site Texts, essays, links to other resources.
Middle English Compendium Bibliography, Middle English Dictionary, and more
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester Bibliographies, Images, and Links to other Arthurian resources.
TEAMS Middle English Texts Another resource from the University of Rochester/Camelot Project. The goal of TEAMS is "to make available to teachers and students texts which occupy an important place in the literary and cultural canon but which have not been readily available in student editions." In addition to the Middle English texts, TEAMS also provides commentaries (some of which are quite extensive) and bibliographies.
The Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo Saxon and Medieval [Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara]
An extensive annotated guide to Romanticism-related resources on the Internet, arranged by category.
Electronic Beowulf
"The Third Edition of Electronic Beowulf is designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require
a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want
to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations."
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Beowulf Bibliography, 1990-2010.
Kevin Kiernan.
(Included in the Electornic Beowulf project).
Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
Still important and accessible is the famous nineteenth-century Bosworth-Toller Dictionary, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth ... Edited and Enlarged by T. Northcote Toller (Oxford: Clarendon, 1882-98). Charles University in Prague has recently provided a searchable version. [from Electronic Beowulf page]
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ARTstor ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Bridgeman Art Library Archive Archive of images drawn from collections throughout the world. Coverage includes fine art, design, antiques, maps, architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, and anthropological artifacts
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Oxford Arthurian Society The Oxford Arthurian Society was founded in 1982 to explore the figure of King Arthur in history, literature and legend.
Site includes a selection of online articles from the Oxford Arthurian Society magazine, Ceridwen's Cauldron.
Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA)
The mission of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) is to promote the study and enjoyment of the Middle Ages by students at every level of expertise. Professional and independent scholars from various branches of medieval studies--history, arts, science, philosophy, archaeology, paleography, theology, language, and literatures--make the Association's annual meeting a forum for scholarly and pedagogical growth within those disciplines as well as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. Members publish their research in the Association's refereed journal, Medieval Perspectives.
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MS. Bodl.614 12th C. Marvels of the East--
http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/view/all/what/MS.+Bodl.+614/when/12th+century,+middle/
Seventeen examples of the 'monstrous races', Harley 2799 f.243r, c.1175
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