The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

4 Volumes

Robert E. Bjork

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a major new four-volume reference resource for all aspects of European history, society, religion, and culture, from 500 to 1500
Includes over 5,000 A-Z entries, written by more than 800 international scholars
Ten geographical editors and sixteen topical editors, for topics from Archaeology to Technology, have ensured the broadest and most balanced coverage possible
Separate entries of 2,000 words each on women, and 1,000 words each on children, in all of the geographical areas represented as well as in Jewish and Islamic society
Unusually broad coverage of topics such as music, medicine, and technology
Covers neighbouring civilizations including the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples such as the Avars and the Mongols
Every entry includes an up-to-date bibliography
Extensive cross-referencing, a general index, and a thematic listing of entries ensure the reader can find the information they need quickly, and enhance browsing
Over 500 carefully selected illustrations and 50 maps complement the text
Introductory offer: £325.00 until 31st July 2010, £375.00 thereafter

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

4 Volumes

Robert E. Bjork

Description

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a major new reference resource for all key aspects of European history, society, religion, and culture from 500 to 1500. Since neighbouring areas of Asia and North Africa impinged on and helped shape the civilization of the West, relevant aspects of the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples such as the Avars and the Mongols are included. It is designed both for medievalists, who need a detailed and reliable reference tool for their own research and teaching, and for non-specialists, who need an accessible guide to the study of the Middle Ages. All entries are written with both audiences in mind. Over 800 scholars, guided by an international advisory board of five and an international editorial board of 26, have written the over 5,000 entries, and these entries have been lavishly supplemented by more than 500 illustrations and 50 maps. Each entry contains a brief bibliography.

Distinguishing this research resource are its balanced coverage of both the whole geographical extent of the European Middle Ages and sixteen major topics centrally important to the study of the period. Ten members of the editorial board have ensured ample coverage of geographical regions: France, Germany and Austria, Spain and Portugal, Italy, Sicily, and Latin Greece, the Low Countries, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Scandinavia and Iceland, and Central and Eastern Europe. In addition sixteen members of the board have ensured similar coverage of major international topics: art and architecture, archaeology, science, medicine, technology, law, ecclesiastical history, intellectual history, philosophy, social and economic history, Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages and literatures, Islam, Judaica, medieval Latin, and music and liturgy. There are also separate and substantial entries on women and children in each of the geographical areas represented and in Jewish and Islamic society.

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

4 Volumes

Robert E. Bjork

Volume 1
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Editors and Contributors
Thematic Listing of Entries
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages A-C
Volume 2
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages D-J
Volume 3
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages J-Q
Volume 4
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages R-Z
Medieval Popes and Antipopes
Index of Variant Place Names
General Index
Picture Acknowledgements

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

4 Volumes

Robert E. Bjork

Author Information

Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University

Contributors:

GENERAL EDITOR

Robert E. Bjork
Foundation Professor of English and Director
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State University

ADVISORY BOARD

Giles Constable, FBA, FMA
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ

Helen Cooper, FBA
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English
Magdalene College
University of Cambridge

R. R. Davies, FBA [deceased]
Former Chichele Chair of Medieval History
All Souls College
University of Oxford

Roberta Frank, FMAA
Marie Borroff Professor of English
University of Yale

Professor Edward James
Professor of History
University College Dublin

EDITORIAL BOARD

SCANDINAVIA
Theodore M. Andersson
Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies
Stanford University

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
János M. Bak
Professor Emeritus
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
and
Central European University, Budapest

FRANCE
Elizabeth A. R. Brown, FMAA
Professor Emerita of History
Graduate School and Brooklyn College
CUNY

ITALY, SICILY, AND LATIN GREECE
Gene Brucker, FMAA, FBA
Shepard Professor Emeritus of History
University of California, Berkeley

SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND WALES
R. R. Davies
Advisory Board. See above.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY
Stephan R. Epstein [deceased]
Formerly Professor of Economic History
London School of Economics and Political Science

MUSIC AND THE LITURGY
Margot E. Fassler
Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History
Yale University

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Michael S. Flier
Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology
Harvard University

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Paul H. Freedman, FMAA
Department of History
Yale University

ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Simon Gaunt
Professor of French
King's College, London

ENGLAND
John B. Gillingham, FBA
Emeritus Professor of History
London School of Economics and Political Science

LAW
Richard H. Helmholz, FMAA
Professor of Law
University of Chicago

ARCHAEOLOGY
John Hines
Professor, School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University

GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
C. Stephen Jaeger, FMAA
Gutgsell Professor (Emeritus)
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Herbert L. Kessler, FMAA, FAAAS
University of Chicago

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
Felice Lifshitz
Professor of History
Florida International University

SCIENCE
David C. Lindberg, FMAA
Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the History of Science
University of Wisconsin

TECHNOLOGY
Pamela O. Long
independent historian

PHILOSOPHY
David Luscombe, FBA
Emeritus Research Professor of Mediaeval History
University of Sheffield

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
Joseph H. Lynch, FMAA [deceased]
Formerly Distinguished University Professor and Joe R. Engle Designated Professor of the History of Christianity
Ohio State University

JUDAICA
Ivan G. Marcus
Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History and of Religious Studies
Yale University

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Steven P. Marrone
Professor of History
Tufts University

ISLAM
Ian Netton
Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies
University of Exeter

LOW COUNTRIES
David Nicholas
Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor Emeritus of History
Clemson University

SCOTLAND, IRELAND, WALES
Huw Pryce
Professor of History
University of Wales (Bangor)

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
Timothy Reuter [deceased]
Formerly Professor of Medieval History
Southampton University

MEDICINE
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, FMAA
Curators' Professor of English Emerita
University of Missouri
Kansas City

MEDIEVAL LATIN
Jan Ziolkowski, FMAA
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Harvard University

There are also c.800 contributors, details available on request.