Introduction
The International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR) is the international reference bibliography of academic publications on the Renaissance and the early modern period.
The IBHR is a continuation of the Bibliographie internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance, coordinated and published by Librairie Droz since 1965. Brepols Publishers acquired the rights to the Bibliography in 2013 and has since been working on updating the content, extending the coverage, and building new software to support the online edition of the Bibliography.
New Interface
Since February 2024 we gave IBHR’s interface an important update with improved search functionalities. A beta version is now available for testing. The old version of the interface remains available.
For more details, please visit https://about.brepolis.net/brepolis-bibliographies-new-interface-beta/
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, and encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects, ranging from religious history through to philosophy, science and the arts; and from military and political history through to social and gender studies.
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.
The IBHR covers publications written in various languages: English, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Japanese.
Key Features
- 460,000+ entries searchable
- 20,000 references added annually
- 900 journals regularly checked
- A comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system, using familiar, multilingual terminology
- 120,000 index terms
- English and French 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
Coverage
The list of journals is available here.
Leaflet
English version (PDF)
Flyer
English version (PDF)
Slides
Download the French version
Download the English version
Videos
French version:
English version:
Clusters & Related Databases
Clusters
The International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (IBHR) is part of the cluster BREPOLiS Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies (BMEMO), together with the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) and Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (BCM)
Related Databases
- The IMB, BCM, and IBHR share an interface, enabling simultaneous cross-database searching of more than 1,175,000 records. Together, they cover 14 centuries of European history from 300 to 1700.
- Together, L’Année philologique (covering Antiquity), the IMB, the BCM and the IBHR cover more than 3,000 years of human history
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