HIST 352: Mental Health in European History

Covers the history of books, from printing technologies to the trends in and economics of publishing. Most useful for its overview articles on book history in specific regions and time periods, and articles on important figures and institutions such as libraries or publishers.

Covering the “long” Enlightenment, from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815, these 700 articles by leading scholars range from discussions of mercantilism and democracy to the battlefield to the dissemination of ideas in salons and coffeehouses.

Surveys the historical period and cultural movement known as the Renaissance. Covers the period of 1350 to 1650 with biographical and topical entries on culture, philosophy, religion, economics, politics, science, and the arts, arranged alphabetically. For high school and college students, scholars, and general readers.

Wellesley owns volumes 1-6 in print and the resource is also available online.

Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines, historical periods, concepts, and methodologies and philosophies. Coverage is international, tracing the spread of science from its traditional centers and explaining how the prevailing knowledge of non-Western societies has modified or contributed to the dominant global science as it is currently understood.

Wellesley owns volumes 2-7 of this series on the history of science. Entries are rich and include images as well as strong references.

v. 2. Medieval science
v. 3. Early modern science
v. 4. Eighteenth-century science
v. 5. The modern physical and mathematical sciences
v. 6. The modern biological and earth sciences
v. 7. The modern social sciences

Michel Delon is a distinguished specialist of the Enlightenment. He is currently Professor at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) and is a regular contributor to the Magazine Littéraire and the RevueEurope.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation is the definitive source for information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature. This broadly cast, interdisciplinary definition allows for a comprehensive social and intellectual history of early modern Europe.

The scope of this encyclopedia is the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, during which time the pivotal events of the Renaissance and Reformation occurred, irrevocably changing the future's course. as well as general interest topics such as the role of women, drawing, families, food and cookery, literacy, libraries, and travel. Along with the addition of substantial new material emphasizing the recent findings of cultural historians, the text has been updated and revised throughout, taking into account the newest scholarship.

Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, and ethics, Roger Smith recounts how the human sciences gradually organized themselves around a scientific conception of psychology, and how this trend has continued to the present day in a circle of interactions between science and ordinary life, in which the human sciences have influenced and been influenced by popular culture.