The Dictionary of the Middle Ages is a 13-volume encyclopedia of the Middle Ages published by the American Council of Learned Societies between 1982 and 1989. An encyclopedia (or '''encyclopædia''') is a comprehensive written Compendium that contains Information on either all branches of Knowledge The American Council of Learned Societies, founded in 1919 is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight scholarly organizations It was first conceived and started in 1975 with American medieval historian Joseph Strayer (1904–1987) of Princeton University as editor-in-chief. Joseph Reese Strayer (1904&ndash1987 was an influential 20th century American Medievalist historian Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. A "Supplement 1" was added in 2003 under the editorship of William Chester Jordan. William Chester Jordan (born 1948 is an American Medievalist, currently the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at
The encyclopedia covers over 112,000 persons, places, things and concepts of "legitimate scholarly interest" in 7,000 discrete articles in over 8,000 pages written by over 1,800 contributing editors from academic institutions mainly in the United States but also Europe and Asia
It is the largest and most detailed modern encyclopedia of the Middle Ages in the English language, comparable to the nine volume German Lexikon des Mittelalters. [1]
The "upside-down-T in a circle" symbol on the spine and cover is an artistic interpretation of the T and O map, which was first described in the Etymologiae, the most influential encyclopedic work of the Middle Ages. A T and O map or O-T or T-O map ( orbis terrae, orb or circle of the earth is a type of Medieval World map, sometimes also called Etymologiae (or Origines, standard abbrev Orig) is an Encyclopedia compiled by Isidore of Seville (died
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References
- Joseph Strayer, editor (1989). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-19073-7
- William Chester Jordan, editor (2003). Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-80642-8
External links
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages, publisher website.
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1, publisher website.
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