User:Frumentarius/History Bibliography

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Ancient History (General)

[CAH] The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd ed. Cambridge, 2006.

Classical History (General)

[OCD] Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, eds. Oxford Classical Dictionary, revised ed. Oxford, 2003.

[LSJ] Liddell, H.G., and R. Scott, eds. A Greek-English Lexicon. Edited by Henry Stuart Jones, 9th revised edition, with Supplement edited by P.G.W. Glare. Oxford, 1996.

This work is available in three sizes: the smallest and most basic lexicon, or "Little Liddell"; the medium, useful for the intermediate student of Ancient Greek, or "Middle Liddell"; and the large, comprehensive edition, or "Big Liddell". H.G. Liddell was the father of Alice Pleasance Liddell, upon whom Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) based the fiction character of Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.

[OLD] Glare, P.G.W., ed. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford, 1982.

[Lewis & Short] Lewis, C.T, and C. Short, eds. Latin Dictionarry Based on Andrews's edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary, reprint ed. Oxford, 1989.

This is especially useful for Silver Age and Late Antique Roman authors.

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, eds. The Oxford History of the Classical World, reprint ed. Oxford, 1993.

Talbert, Richard J.A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, with map-by-map directory on CD-ROM. Princeton UP, 2000. An absolutely indispensible topographical reference.

Classical History (Specific Topics)

Ancient Greece (Periods)

Archaic Greece

Classical Greece

Hellenistic Greece

Ancient Rome (Periods)

Early Rome

Roman Republic

Roman Empire

Julio-Claudian Emperors

Augustus

Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, Translated by Alex Shapiro, reprint ed. UMichP, 1990.

Tiberius

Flavian Emperors

Adoptive and Antonine Emperors

Severan and Neo-Antonine Emperors

Military Emperors

The First and Second Tetrarchies

The Constantinian Resolution

Later Roman and Early Byzantine Empires

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, ed. and tr. John C. Rolfe [Loeb Classical Library], 3 vols. Harvard UP, 1935-1939.

[PLRE] Jones, A.H.M, J. R. Martindale, and J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. 3 vols. in 4. Cambridge, 1971-92.

Medieval History (General)

[NCMeH] The New Cambridge Medieval History Cambridge, 2005.

Medieval History (Specific Topics)

Albigensian Crusade

Costen, Michael. The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade. Manchester & New York, 1997.

O’Shea, Stephen. The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars. New York, 2000.

Sumpton, Jonathan. The Albigensian Crusade. London & Boston, 1978.

Modern History (General)

[NCMoH] The New Cambridge Modern History Cambridge, 1957-1979.

Modern History Specific Topics)

The Eighty Years' War (De Tachtigjarige Oorlog)

Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries. London & New York, 2003.

Maltby, William. The Reign of Charles V. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire & New York, 2002.

Kamen, Henry. Philip of Spain. New Haven & London, 1997.

Islamic History

Bosworth, Clifford Edmund. The New Islamic Dynasties. Edinburgh UP. Edinburgh. 1996.