HIST 214 – Introduction to European History

Essays (from the New Cambridge Medieval History)

• Halsall, "The Barbarian Invasions"
• Riley-Smith, "The Crusades, 1095-1198"
• Hamilton, "Religion and the Laity"

Reference Works

These sources briefly summarize the scholarly work on a given topic and provide factual background information.

• Brill's New Pauly
• Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
• Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
• Dictionary of the Middle Ages
• Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
• Key Figures in Medieval Europe: an Encyclopedia

Translations

• Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae, Book XXVIII, Chapter 6
  
  • Online via the Tertullian Project
  • 1952 translation
• Bernard de Clairvaux's Letter to the people and clergy of eastern France and Bavaria
• Heresies of the High Middle Ages (see pages 203-4 and 209-10)

Books on your topic

• Classic Catalogue
• McGill Worldcat Catalogue

Articles on your topic

Bibliographic databases allow you to search for peer-reviewed articles written by scholars. Some of them target a specific subject area in great depth (e.g. medieval history). Others provide access to articles on a broader range of subjects, but not as comprehensively as a more targetted database.

• International Medieval Bibliography
• Iter
• Humanities Full Text
• JSTOR

Chicago Style

• Chicago Manual of Style
• Brief guide from Purdue University
• Citation management software
  • How-to workshops