Early Modern Reference Works

General

Europe 1450 to 1789: encyclopedia of the early modern world, ed. by Jonathan Dewald. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004. 6 v.
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The New Cambridge modern history.

Encyclopedia of early modern history online

The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. by Hans J. Hillebrand. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 4 v.
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Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. by Paul F. Grendler. NY: Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999. 6 v. 
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Dictionnaire 
de l'Ancien Régime: royaume de France, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle, ed. by Lucien Bély.

The Cambridge history of Renaissance philosophy, ed. by Charles B. Schmitt et al. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Everyday Life: Rural/Urban

Encyclopedia of the city, ed. by Roger W. Caves. London ; NY: Routledge, 2005, 564 p.
Loeb Design | HT108.5 .E63 2005
Kennedy Sch of Gov | Ref | HT108.5 .E63 2005
Widener | WID-LC | HT108.5 .E63 2005

Encyclopedia of world cities, by Immanuel Ness. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999, 739 p.
Widener | RR 4201.72

Everyday life in Tudor London, by Stephen Porter. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley Publishing, 2016, 256 pages.
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Elizabeth's London : everyday life in Elizabethan London, by Liza Picard. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, 342 p.
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Shakespeare's London : everyday life in London 1580-1616, by Stephen Porter. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2009, 286 p.
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The Ashgate research companion to popular culture in early modern England, ed. by Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock and Abigail Shinn. Farnham, Surrey, UK England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014, 382 pages
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Humanism

Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World

Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world : Classical tradition covers the post-classical life of the classical heritage and the history of classical studies up to the present.

Religious Reformations

Encyclopedia of Christianity Online

Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

New Catholic Encyclopedia

The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. by Hans J. Hillebrand. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 4 v.
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Historical dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, by Michael Mullett. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010, 555 p.
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Encyclopedia of heresies and heretics, by Chas S. Clifton. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1992, 156 p.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | BT1315.2 .C55 1992
Widener | WID-LC | BT1315.2 .C55 1992

Wars

Wars of the age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715: an encyclopedia of global warfare and civilization, by Cathal J. Nolan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008, xliv, 607 p.
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The age of wars of religion, 1000-1650: an encyclopedia of global warfare and civilization, by Cathal J. Nolan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. 2 v.
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Companion to the English civil wars, by Peter Newman. New York: Facts on File, c1990, 180 p.
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Historical dictionary of the British and Irish Civil Wars, 1637-1660, by Martyn Bennett. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2000, 253 p.
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The Peace of Westphalia : a historical dictionary, by Derek Croxton and Anuschka Tischer. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002, 376 p.
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Witchcraft

Witch hunts in Europe and America: an encyclopedia, by William E. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003, 359 p.
Widener | WID-LC | BF1584.E9 B87 2003

Encyclopedia of witchcraft: the Western tradition, ed. by Richard M. Golden. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. 4 v.
Widener | WID-LC | BF1566 .E56 2006

Political Configurations

The Cambridge history of political thought, 1450-1700, ed. by J.H. Burns and Mark Goldie. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991, 798 p.
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Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political ThoughtPrint version.

Scientific Revolution

Early Modern Science (Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3).

Encyclopedia of the scientific revolution, from Copernicus to Newton. NY: Garland Pub., 2000, 758 pp.
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History of science & religion in the western tradition: an encyclopedia. NY: Garland 2000.
Cabot Science: Ref BL245 .H57 2000
Lamont: BL245 .H57 2000
Widener RR 5003.10

Ottoman Empire/Colonial Ventures

Historical dictionary of European imperialism, ed. by James S. Olson et al. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991, 782 p.
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Encyclopedia of Western colonialism since 1450, ed. By Thomas Benjamin. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 3 v.
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The British Empire: an encyclopedia of the Crown's holdings, 1493 through 1995, by John Stewart. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996, 370 p.
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Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, ed. by Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Masters. New York, NY: Facts On File, 2009, xxxvi, 650 p.
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Conflict in the early Americas: an encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan conquests, ed. by Rebecca M. Seaman. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2013, xvi, 485 pages
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Encyclopedia of exploration, by Raymond John Howgego. Potts Point, NSW: Hordern House, 2003-2006, 3 v.
v. 1: to 1800: a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel, and colonization from the earliest times to the year 1800
Widener  |  RR 4004.3

Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia, ed. by Jennifer Speake. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 3 v.
Fine Arts  |  Reading Room    |  RFA74.50
Widener  |  RR 4006.10

The Oxford companion to world exploration, ed. by David Buisseret. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. 2 v.
Map Coll (Pusey)  |  MAP-LC    |  G80 .O95 2007
Widener  |  RR 4004.3.20

Dutch Golden Age

The dictionary of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch philosophers, ed. by Wiep van Bunge et al. Bristol, England : Thoemmes Press, 2003. 2 v.
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Dutch art: an encyclopedia, ed. by Sheila D. Muller et al.New York : Garland Pub., 1997, 489 p.
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Historical dictionary of the Netherlands, by Joop W. Koopmans, and Arend H. Huussen, Jr. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007, 324 p.
Widener | RR 3850.5

Early Enlightenment

The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, by Frank A. Kafker and Serena L. Kafker. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1988, 430 p.
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Historical dictionary of the Enlightenment, by Harvey Chisick. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005, 512 p.
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, by Ellen Judy Wilson. Rev. ed. NY : Facts On File, 2004, 670 p.
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. by Alan Charles Kors. NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. 4 v.
Online version
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. by Michel Delon. Chicago; London : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 2 v. (xxx, 1481 p.).
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The Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment, by John W. Yolton et al. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992, 581 p.
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Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Oxford companion to philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 1056 pp.
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The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the eighteenth century, ed. by James A. Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, 670 p.
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French Revolution

Companion to the French Revolution, by John Paxton. NY : Facts on File, 1988, 231 p.
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A critical dictionary of the French Revolution, ed. by François Furet and Mona Ozouf. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989, 1063 p.
Lamont | DC148 .D5313 1989
Widener | WID-LC | DC148 .D5313 1989

Historical dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799, ed. by Samuel F. Scott and Barry Rothaus. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. 2 v.
Widener | WID-LC | DC147 .H57x 1985

Historical dictionary of the French Revolution, by Paul R. Hanson. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004, 393 p.
Widener | WID-LC | DC147 .H36 2004
--paperback ed.: The A to Z of the French Revolution, by Paul R. Hanson. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2007, 395 p.
Widener | Harvard Depository | DC147 .H36 2007

The encyclopedia of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: a political, social, and military history, ed. by G. Fremont-Barnes, editor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. 3 v.
Widener | RR 3739.10