Aims & Scope

The IBHR has a wide and ambitious scope. The core of the Bibliography focuses on European history and culture that spans the 16th and 17th centuries.

Both the geographical and the chronological delimitations are not restrictive as the IBHR also includes publications on the European interactions with the wider world through exploration, colonisation, slavery and the Christian mission and extends its coverage to the modern period with the inclusion of modern hermeneutics, reception studies and the 21st-century teaching of texts written in the target period.

Coverage

The International Bibliography of Humanism and Renaissance (IBHR) comprehensively spans a wide array of disciplines, including religious history, philosophy, science, the arts, military and political history, social studies, and gender studies. Furthermore, it encompasses works written in multiple languages, such as English, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish, and Japanese.

The list of journals is available here.

Key Features

• A comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system, using familiar, multilingual terminology
• 120,000 index terms
• English, French, Spanish and Italian thesaurus
• Numerous search fields: author, title, year of publication, subject, etc.
• Several export formats (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, Microsoft Office Word)
• Citation tools: MHRA, MLA, APA and Chicago
• Multi-lingual interface
• Live links to encyclopaedic works (Lexikon des Mittelalters, International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages and Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques)
• Compatible with OpenURL, facilitating linkage to full text
• DOI links
• Email Alerts
• Harmonized index with IMB and BCM