Prof. GADDIS

Essential reference works for research in late antique and early Christian history:

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Encyclopedias: (all in Reference section, Bird Library)

Dictionary of the Middle Ages (13 vols) D114 .D5 1982

Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3 vols) DF521 .O93 1991

Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2^nd edition, 1997: 2 vols) BR162.2 .E53 1997

Encyclopedia of the Early Church (2 vols) BR66.5 .D5813 1992

Oxford Classical Dictionary (3^rd edition, 1996) DE5 .O9 1996

Late Antiquity:  A Guide to the Post-Classical World (1999) DE5.L29

Note: each of these works has different strengths and weaknesses, and none of them covers everything. Look up your subject in several different encyclopedias. Make sure to use the newest edition if it’s available; it will have the most up-to-date bibliography for further reading.

Atlases: (in Map Room, Bird Library 3^rd floor)

Matthew, Atlas of Medieval Europe G1791 .M3 1983

Cornell and Matthews, Atlas of the Roman World DG77 .C597

Also, lots of great maps for early Christian history can be found in back of v.2 of Encyclopedia of the Early Church.

Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (3 vols): a who’s who of magistrates and officials. DG203.5 .J6 in Bird general stacks.

Cambridge Ancient History, second edition, v.13: The Late Empire 337-425. Long scholarly articles on particular topics.  General stacks, D57.C2515 v.13. Unfortunately, the new editions for the volumes covering the second and third centuries are not yet available. The first edition was done in the 1930s and is very out of date.

Quasten’s Patrology (4 vols): Basically a massive guide to early Christian literature. Long chapters on significant Christian authors, both Latin and Greek; what they wrote, where to find it, what scholars have said about it. BR67 .Q3 1984, general stacks.

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