Research Guides: Medieval Time: References

Overview

Intended as an overview of available reference material. Grouped into the following categories:

Surveys
Chronologies
VFL References
Mainly chronologies
Bibliographies
Encyclopedias/ Dictionaries

Surveys

Medieval Studies: an introduction by James M. Powell (Editor)
Call Number: D116 .M4 1992

Contains a detailed survey entitled "Medieval Chronology: Theory and Practice" by R. Dean Ware, 252-277.
The Oxford companion to the year by Bonnie J. Blackburn; Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Call Number: CE73 .B553 1999
Time in the Medieval World by Chris Humphrey (Editor); W. M. Ormrod (Editor)
Call Number: CB353 .T56 2001
Time in theMedieval World by Colum Hourihane
Call Number: N8253.T5 T55 2007

ISBN: 9780976820222

Publication Date: 2007
The Light Ages by Seb Falk
Call Number: Q124.97 .F35 2020

ISBN: 9781324002932

Publication Date: 2020-11-17

An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks.

Bibliographies

World Holiday, Festival and Calendar Books by Tanya Gulevich (Editor)
Call Number: GT3930 .W67 1998

An annotated bibliography of more than 1,000 books on contemporary and historic religious, folk, ethnic, and national holidays, festivals, celebrations, holy days, commemorations, seasonal celebrations, and calendar systems from around the world, arranged by topic, supplemented by descriptive lists of periodicals, associations, and web sites, and indexed by author, title, and subject.
Manuale di bibliografia musulmana by Giuseppe Gabrieli
Call Number: BP161 .G32

Chronologies

Traditional Turkish Calendar (1452).
This kind of calendar was based on a cycle of 12 months, each corresponding to a different animal. This calendar for the year of the monkey by Hamdi Mustafa b. Sunbul was presented to Mehmed II.
Mehmed II. Topkapi Palace Museum Library, MS B 309.

A Meteorological Chronology to A.D. 1450 by C.E. Britton
Meteorological Office, Geophysical Memoirs no. 70. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1937.
Chronologies of the Ancient World: names, dates and dynasties by Walter Eder (Editor); Johannes Renger (Editor); Wouter F. M. Henkelman (Translator)
Call Number: DE5 .P33323 2007

Pius Reference
Consuls of the Later Roman Empire by Roger S. Bagnall; Alan Cameron; Seth R. Schwartz; Klaas A. Worp
Call Number: DG83.5.C7 C68 1987

Publication Date: 1987
Greek and Roman Calendars by Robert Hannah
ISBN: 9780715633014

Publication Date: 2005
Greek and Roman chronology; calendars and years in classical antiquity by Alan E. Samuel
Call Number: PA25 .H24 Abt.1 T.7

Publication Date: 1972
Jewish chrononomy : the calendar and times-of-day in Jewish Law, together with extensive tables by Leo Levi
Call Number: CE35 .L375 1967
Manual de cronologia espanola y universal by J. Agusti y Casanovas (Editor)
Estudios No. 25. Madrid;Escuela de Estudio Medievales, 1952.
New and Full Moons 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651 by H.H. Goldstine
Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 94, 1973
The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar by A. Spier
New York: Bohrman House, 1952.
The Islamic and Christian Calendars: : AD 622-2222 (AH 1-1650) : a complete guide for converting Christian and Islamic dates and dates of festivals by G. S. Freeman-Grenville
Call Number: CE59 .F7 1995
The Muslim and Christian calendars by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville
Call Number: CE59 .F7 1963

Tables for the conversion of Muslim and Christian dates from the Hijra to the year A.D. 2000

VFL References

La chronologie by V. Grumel
Call Number: DF503 .T73 1955 v.1

In Traité d'études byzantines, no. 1.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref.
Cronologia, cronografia e calendario perpetuo. by Adriano Cappelli
Call Number: CE11 .C25 1930

Dal principio dell'èra cristiana ai giorni nostri. Tavole cronologico-sincrone e quadri sinottici per verificare le date storiche.
Handy-book of rules and tables for verifying dates with the Christian era. by John Bond
Call Number: CE11 .B7 1966
Book of Calendars by Frank Parise (Editor)
Call Number: CE11 .B66 1982
Medii Aevi kalendarium, or, Dates, charters, and customs of the Middle Ages by R.T. Hampson
Call Number: CE57 .H18 1841

Kalendars from the tenth to the fifteenth century and an alphabetical digest of obsolete names of days : forming a glossary of the dates of the Middle Ages : with tables and other aids for ascertaining dates