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Medieval Studies

A research guide to help you get started researching in the medieval field.

Issues and Topics

Some important events and trends:

The Crusades

Islamic Golden Age

Angevin Empire

Early Mongol Invasion

 

 

 

Subject Headings

Presented below are some of the many subject headings that the library of Congress uses to identity these topics that you can use to find relevant books in WorldCat. To use these subject headings, either go to advanced search, go to "search Index" and select subject or subject phrase and enter the phrase; or in the search bar type in SU="subject heading"

Crusades Subject Heading

Crusades

Crusades—13th-15th centuries

Church history—Middle Ages, 600-1500

Baltic StatesHistory

CrusadesFirst, 1096-1099

Jerusalem—History—Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244

CrusadesSecond, 1147-1149

Richard—I,—King of England,—1157-1199—Military leadership

Children's Crusade, 1212

Crusades—Influence—History

Crusades—Historiography

Saladin,—Sultan of Egypt and Syria,—1137-1193

CrusadesThird, 1189-1192

Islamic Golden Age Subject Headings

Islamic Empire—History—750-1258

Muslims—Mediterranean Region—History

Education—Iraq—Baghdad—History—To 1500

Baghdad (Iraq)—Intellectual life—To 1500

Iraq—History—634-1534

Angevin Empire Subject Headings

Great Britain—History—Angevin period, 1154-1216

Great Britain—History—12th century

France—History—Capetians, 987-1328

Great BritainHistory—Norman period, 1066-1154

France—Politics and government—987-1328

France—History—Philip II Augustus, 1180-1223

Mongol Subject Headings

Genghis Khan,—1162-1227—Influence

Mongols—Middle East—History

Mongols—Asia, Central—History

Mongols—Europe, Eastern—History

Mongols—Kings and rulers—Biography

Mongols—History

Russia—History—1237-1480

Golden Horde