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Renaissance History: Selected Resources

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Encyclopedias

Books (Primary and Secondary Sources)

Library Catalog

Scholarly Articles

Databases

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Biographies of major [British] historical figures.

Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

General Sources (Useful for All)

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance by Michael Wyatt (Editor)
Call Number: WCU GENERAL DG533 .C36 2014
ISBN: 9780521699464
Publication Date: 2014-06-26

Encyclopedia of Religion

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol 3: The Renaissance by George A. Kennedy (Editor); Glyn P. Norton (Editor); H. B. Nisbet (Contribution by); Claude Rawson (Contribution by)
Call Number: WCU GENERAL PN86 .C27 1989 v.3
ISBN: 9780521300087
Publication Date: 1999-11-25

Selected Titles by Topic:

Discovery/Exploration	Islam
Elizabethan Drama	Reformation
Epic Tradition	Sonnet Tradition
Humanist Education	Technology

Discovery/Exploration

Oxford Companion to World Exploration
WCU REFERENCE G80 .O95 2007 v.1

Elizabethan Drama

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama by A. R. Braunmuller (Editor); Michael Hattaway (Editor)
Call Number: WCU GENERAL PR651 .C36 2003
ISBN: 0521821150
Publication Date: 2003-09-25
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy by Emma Smith (Editor); Garrett A. Sullivan (Editor)
Call Number: WCU GENERAL PR658.T7 C36 2010
ISBN: 9780521519373
Publication Date: 2010-08-12

Epic Tradition

The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past

Humanist Education

Islam

Reformation

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

A Companion to the Reformation World by R. Po-chia Hsia (Editor)
Call Number: WCU GENERAL BR309 .C62 2004
ISBN: 0631220178
Publication Date: 2004-01-05
The Reformation by Peter Marshall
Call Number: WCU GENERAL BR305.3 .M37 2009
ISBN: 9780199231317
Publication Date: 2009-11-23

Sonnet Tradition

Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry by Robert C. Evans
Call Number: WCU GENERAL PR531 .E93 2015
ISBN: 9781472505705
Publication Date: 2015-10-22

Technology

Scientific Revolution by Lawrence M. Principe
Call Number: WCU GENERAL DG533 .C36 2014
ISBN: 9780199567416
Publication Date: 2011-05-19

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