Dictionary of the Middle Ages

The Dictionary of the Middle Ages is an English-language encyclopedia on the Middle Ages . The 13-volume encyclopedia was published from 1982 to 1989 by the American Council of Learned Societies and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York. The project was initiated in 1975 by the American historian Joseph Strayer , who also became the responsible editor / editor and headed a group of co-editors (including Theodore M. Andersson ). In 2003 a supplementary volume appeared under the editorship of William Chester Jordan .

The dictionary deals with a period from 500 to 1500 AD and extends geographically over the Europe of the Latin West, over the Scandinavian and Slavic area, over Asia Minor and Persia and the Muslim-Christian areas of North Africa. An interdisciplinary committee of co-editors awarded the contracts for the writing of the articles to almost 1,300 internationally recognized and well-known researchers.

The Dictionary of the Middle Ages is comparable to the German lexicon of the Middle Ages and the French Dictionnaire encyclopédique du moyen âge .

expenditure

• Joseph Strayer (Editor in Chief): Dictionary of the Middle Ages , Charles Scribner's Sons 1982-1989, ISBN 0-684-19073-7 . OCLC 8474388 (Vol. 1-13 )
• William Chester Jordan (Editor): Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1 , Charles Scribner's Sons 2003, ISBN 0-684-80642-8 .

See also

• List of specialty encyclopedias
• The New Cambridge Medieval History

Web links

• Christian Heitzmann: Review , in: Information resources for libraries (IFB) 7 (1999) 1/4.