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European History: Books for History 207: Medieval History

This guide highlights resources for classes in European History, including Medieval History, Women in European History, and European History I and II

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Law and order, witchcraft and more

Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700; a documentary history. by Edited, with an introd., by Alan C. Kors and Edward Peters.
Call Number: BF1566 .K67
ISBN: 0812276450
Publication Date: 1972
The Malleus maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. by Translated with introductions, bibliography, and notes by Montague Summers.
Call Number: BF1569.A2 .I5 1971
ISBN: 0486228029
Publication Date: 1971
Witches & neighbors : the social and cultural context of European witchcraft by Robin Briggs
Call Number: BF1584 .E9 B75 1996
ISBN: 0670835897
Publication Date: 1996
Life in a medieval city by Joseph and France Gies
Call Number: CB353 .G48 1981
Publication Date: 1981
Medieval gentlewoman : life in a gentry household in the later Middle Ages by Ffiona Swabey
Call Number: DA247.D42 S93 1999b
Publication Date: 1999
Life in the castle in medieval England by John Frederick Burke
Call Number: DA660 .B89 1992
ISBN: 0880298154
Publication Date: 1992
The Virgin Warrior by Robert Louis Wilken
ISBN: 9780300161298
Publication Date: 2009-10-06
The Burgundian Code : Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments by Katherine Fischer Drew and Edward Peters
ISBN: 9780812201789
Publication Date: 1972
Interrogation of Joan of Arc by Karen Sullivan
ISBN: 9780816689866
Publication Date: 1999
The Lancashire Witches : Histories and Stories by Robert Poole
ISBN: 9781847790217
The Laws of the Salian Franks by Katherine Fischer Drew
ISBN: 9780812200508
Publication Date: 1991
Lost Letters of Medieval Life : English Society by Martha Carlin and David Crouch
ISBN: 9780812207569
Publication Date: 2013

The Renaissance

Dante : the story of his life by Marco Santagata
Call Number: PQ4339 .S2613 2016
ISBN: 9780674504868
Publication Date: 2016
White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance by Paola Zambelli
ISBN: 9789047421382
Publication Date: 2007-07-30
Machiavelli's Art of Politics by Alejandro Barcenas
ISBN: 9789004298026
Publication Date: 2015

Travel and Tourism

Jewish Travellers by Elkan Nathan Adler (Editor)
ISBN: 9780203005712
Publication Date: 2014-04-04
From eBook Central. Note there is a chapter on Benjamin of Tudela.
Wandering Women and Holy Matrons by Leigh Ann Craig
ISBN: 9789047427728
Publication Date: 2009-01-01

Reference Books

Atlas of European history by Fox, Edward Whiting.
Call Number: REF G1796 .S1 F68 1957
Publication Date: 1957
The Cambridge historical encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland by editor, Christopher Haigh
Call Number: DA34 .C28 1985
ISBN: 0521255597
A Concise History of the Middle East by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Publication Date: 2019
Cultural atlas of the Renaissance by Black, C. F.
Call Number: CB361 .C858 1993
ISBN: 0671865234
Publication Date: 1993

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Medieval Thinkers

Abelard and Heloise by Constant J. Mews
ISBN: 9780198035688
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Anselm by Sandra Visser; Thomas Williams
ISBN: 9780199718863
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Avicenna by L. E. Goodman
ISBN: 9780203026625
Publication Date: 2013-01-11
From Paradise to Paradigm by Willemien Otten
ISBN: 9781433705021
Publication Date: 2004-09-15
History as Prelude by Joseph Montville
ISBN: 9780739168158
Publication Date: 2011-11-16
Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede by Scott DeGregorio (Editor)
ISBN: 9781935978299
Publication Date: 2011-05-01
Living Together, Living Apart by Jonathan Elukin
ISBN: 9781400827695
Publication Date: 2009-01-10
Thomas Aquinas by John P. Hittinger (Editor); Daniel C. Wagner
ISBN: 9781443875547
Publication Date: 2015-05-15
Vibrant Andalusia by Ana Ruiz
ISBN: 9780875865416
Publication Date: 2007-02-01

Power and Religion

The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden
ISBN: 9781442215757
Publication Date: 2013-09-19
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam by Jonathan Riley-Smith
ISBN: 9780231517942
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
The Investiture Controversy by Uta-Renate Blumenthal; Ruth Mazo Karras (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9780812200164
Publication Date: 2010-08-03
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith
ISBN: 9780191505966
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Parallel Histories by James S. Amelang
ISBN: 9780807154113
Publication Date: 2013-12-09

Very Short Introductions (Brief overviews of various topics. From Oxford University Press)

Witchcraft: A very short introduction by Malcolm Gaskill
Call Number: BIC BF1566 .G37 2010
ISBN: 9780199236954
Publication Date: 2010
Dante : a very short introduction by Peter Hainsworth and David Robey.
Call Number: PQ4390 .H35 2015
ISBN: 9780199684779
Publication Date: 2015
The Crusades : a very short introduction by Tyerman, Christopher.
Call Number: D157 .T88 2005
ISBN: 9780192806550
Publication Date: 2005
Machiavelli : a very short introduction by Quentin Skinner
Call Number: JC143.M4 S57 2000
ISBN: 0192854070
Publication Date: 2000