Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Search the Duke Catalog using the "Subjects" (the terms below are just a selection to get you started) below: 

• Middle Ages
• Middle Ages History
• Civilization Medieval
• Medievalism
• Art, Medieval
• Cities and Towns, Medieval
• Cookery, Medieval
• Drama, Medieval
• Literature, Medieval
• Women – History – Middle Ages
• Chivalry
• Crusades
• Knights and Knighthood

• Art, Medieval history - Sources
• Church history Middle Ages 600-1500 - Sources
• cities and towns, medieval - sources
• Civilization, Islamic - Sources
• Civilization, Medieval - Sources
• Civilization, Medieval 14th century - Sources
• France history Medieval period, 987-1515 - Sources
• Heresies, Christian History Middle Ages, 600-1500 - Sources
• Middle Ages history - Sources
• Military history, Medieval -- Sources
• Social history Medieval, 500-1500 - Sources
• Reformation - Sources
• Renaissance - Sources
• Women England History Middle Ages, 500-1500 - Sources
• Women in Christianity history early church ca. 30-600 - Sources

Secondary scholarly literature can lead you to primary sources; check the footnotes and bibliographies of the following sample titles:

• Clifford Rogers Essays on medieval military history : strategy, military revolutions and the Hundred Years War
• Bradbury, Jim The medieval siege
• Goffart, Walter The narrators of barbarian history (A.D. 550-800) : Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon
• Madden, Thomas The crusades : the essential readings

The study of medieval daily life became a respected field in the early 20th century; there is a large body of literature in this area; use the few samples below to find more:

Click into the catalog record and use the Subject tab to find similar books

Look at the footnotes and the bibliography of the chapters; they will give you names and titles of primary sources

• Eileen Power. Medieval  People. 1924 
• Eileen Power. Medieval English nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 
• Eileen Power. The goodman of Paris : (Le Ménagier de Paris) a treatise on moral and domestic economy 
• Eileen Power.  Medieval Women 
• G.G. Coulton Life in the Middle Ages 
• G.G. Coulton Scottish abbeys & social life 
• Henri Pirenne. Medieval cities; their origins and the revival of trade
• Delort, Robert. Life in the Middle Ages. 
• Arno Borst. Medieval worlds : barbarians, heretics, and artists in the Middle Ages
• Pierre Riché. The Carolingians : a family who forged Europe
• David Herlihy. Medieval households
• David Herlihy. Opera muliebria : women and work in medieval Europe
• Christopher Dyer Everyday life in medieval England
• Jean Dunbabin. Captivity and imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300
• Barbara A. Hanawalt.  Growing up in medieval London : the experience of childhood in history
• Nicholas Howe. Home and homelessness in the medieval and Renaissance world
• Linda Mitchell Family Life in the Middle Ages
• Jeffrey Forgang Daily Live in Medieval Europe