Provides articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history. Focuses on Europe and Christendom. Also covers the rise of Islam and people of other cultures with whom Europeans came into contact.

Covers 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Includes entries on everything from patriarchy and emperors to entries on surgery, musical instruments, and the baking of bread. Brings to life this culture and empire, from the 4th century to the 15th.

As a convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on early literature, this series contains excerpts from criticism through the ages on the works of philosophers, poets and playwrights, political leaders, scientists, mathematicians and writers from other genres.

The philosophers profiled in DLB Volume 115 were involved in education, public life and ecclesiastical administration, and thus represent the various schools of thought that existed throughout this vast period.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.