History 330: Religious toleration and violence in Europe, 1450-1800
A Brief Guide To Resources
Using the Catalog to locate materials
INNOPAC is the libraries' catalog. It lists books, newspapers, journals, audio-visual materials, databases, internet resources, maps, and recordings which are available through the Grinnell College Libraries.
For more information about using the library catalog see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/opac.html
Keyword and subject searching
Keyword searching allows you to select your own terms to describe your topic. Subject heading (controlled vocabulary) searching relies on assigned terms chosen by experts to describe your topic. Keyword and subject heading searches do not generate the same results and both are useful and often necessary to find the best information for your topic.
For more information about using keywords and subject headings, see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/subjectkeywords.html
Helpful Hints:
To locate primary source material, use the terms "sources," "case studies," "personal narratives," or "diaries." For example: London (England) – History – Sources.
Pay attention to the options of selecting other books with the same subject headings or general call numbers to locate additional resources.
Use the term “bibliography†to locate specialized lists of resources pertinent to your research.
Boolean Searching
In order to perform searches well, you need to know how to do a Boolean Search. For a review of Boolean Searching, see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/booleanmodule.html
Series which include primary documents
Camden Society (DA 20 .C17 through DA 20 .R913)
This series includes works of fiction, drama, poetry, but also diaries, chronicles, parliamentary debates, political papers, and some accounts. For example, v. 8 is Ecclesiastical documents (in Latin). You may want to browse through this series on the shelf.
Records of Social and Economic History (HC 251 .B7 n.s.)
We have seven volumes of this series: Household Accounts from Medieval England, vol. 17, and The Early Records of Medieval Coventry, vol. 11, are two which may be especially useful. The series also includes diaries and personal papers.
Records of Civilizations: Sources and Studies
This series includes a variety of material from many countries. Because each volume is cataloged individually, call numbers vary. Browse this series by using the keyword search on Innopac.
English Historical Documents (DA 26 .E55 and DA 26 .E55 1979)
Volumes 1-8 cover 500 AD through 1832 AD.
Early English Text Society (PR 1119 .E5)
Similar to the Camden Society texts, this series reprints a variety of documents in their original form. It includes world of literature, as well as papers, diaries, and other documents.
Bibliographies
Bibliographies are essential research tools for scholars. Always check the footnotes and bibliography in your readings. This is how scholars identify primary source materials, secondary resources, and key authors. Separately published bibliographies, often with annotations, can provide a good starting point for any research project. Specialized bibliographies also provide a means to identify archival and manuscript resources which may be available in microform or on the internet.
AHA Guide to Historical Literature (Oxford UP, 1995) Vol. 1 section 24. R.K. Webb, Britain and Ireland since 1760. (Ref. D20 .A43x 1995)
Guide to the Sources of Medieval History (D 117 .C2213).
Bibliography of the Continental Reformation : Materials Available in English. (Z 7830 .B16 1972)
Reformation Europe: a Guide to Research. (Ref. BR 305.2 .R39 1982)
Research Guide to European Historifcal Biogrtaphy, 1450 - Present (Ref. CT 759 .R47x 1992
Short-title Catalog of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 (Z2002 .P77 1956)
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/)
Repositories of Primary Sources (http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html)
RefWorks is a tool to help you manage your own growing bibliography.
Indexes to Journal Articles and Scholarly Resources
Historical Abstracts is the scholarly index for history excluding North America. Journal articles, books, and dissertations in all areas of history (political, cultural, intellectual, etc.) are included.
Arts and Humanities Search offers a unique way of searching for relevant materials by generating a bibliography from a single known source. The Social Sciences Citation Index is available through a mediated search with a reference librarian.
Humanities Abstracts covers major English-language journals in religion, philosophy and literature.
JSTOR is a collection of full-text articles from major journals published in the social sciences, humanities, arts, and some sciences. The most current issues of journals are not included.
Project Muse is another database that offers full-text journal articles from a number of academic journals.
Social Sciences Abstracts covers general English-language journals in history, political science economics, sociology and psychology.
ATLA Religion Index covers theological and religious journals.
World Cat is an international cataloging database of books, periodicals, manuscripts, web sties and other materials held by public, academic, government, and private libraries around the word. It currently includes over 52,000,000 items.
Center for Research Libraries http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/ is a consortium of libraries that acquires, preserves, and shares materials with member institutions.
Reference Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ref. DA 28 .O95 2004)
Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Ref. D 114 .D5 1982)
Cambridge Medieval History (D 117 .C3)
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Ref. CB 9 .N49)
Atlas of Medieval Europe (Ref. CB 351 .M293 1983)
Historical Dictionary of the reformation and Counter-Reformation (Ref.BR 302.8 .H55 2000)
Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620L a biographical dictionary (Ref. CT 749 .R46 2001)
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation (Ref. CB 359 .B47 2004)
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Ref. BR 302.8 .O93 1996)
Companion to the Reformation World (BR 309 .C62 2004)
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Ref. B 802 .E53 2003)
Blackwell's Companion to the Enlightenment (Ref. CB 411 .B57 1991)
Dictionary of Concepts in History (Ref. D13 .R49 1986)
Key Journals
Social History
Church History
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Journal of the History of Ideas
Sixteenth Century Journal
Web Resources and Images
Labyrinth, from Georgetown Univesity, is devoted to the study of medieval culture.
Project Wittenberg for works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans
Modern History Sourcebook and Internet Medieval Sourcebook from Fordham University make available primary and other resource material on a variety of historical topics.
ArtStor
http://www.artstor.org/info/
This is a growing collection of images from a number of sources, including Grinnell College.
Sunsite
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
This is from Berkeley and lists a number of good image collections on the web.
Google Images
http://www.google.com/
This is the Google search engine for images.
Interlibrary Loan
You may request materials through Interlibrary Loan simply by completing the form available from the main menu of the catalog. You will be asked to enter your name and ID number; then you may request materials. Be sure all information is correct and complete. Plan ahead, since it may take two weeks to receive material.
If you have any questions, please contact me at rod@grinnell.edu, or consult any of the other Reference Librarians .
Created by: Catherine Rod on September 9, 2005
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