GENERAL PRINT RESOURCES IN THE KENYON REFERENCE COLLECTION

While researching your topic you may come across unfamiliar terms (for example: transept or clerestory). You should use one of our many art dictionaries to clarify the term. Below is a selected list of dictionaries in the reference collection, please note that these materials may not leave the library and should be returned to the circulation desk when you are finished using them.

Dictionary of Art located on Index Table 2 in the reference area (use the index to locate specific articles in various volumes). An online version of the Dictionary of Art is also available.

Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques REF/N/33/M36 (Other art dictionaries located on the same shelf. Some architectural terms are included so you may need to consult several dictionaries may need to be consulted.)

Dictionary of the Middle Ages REF/D/114/D5/1982 A valuable resource for architectural terminology, see index for specific volume and plate numbers.

Dictionary of National Biography REF/DA/28/D48 Biographies on notable people in British history.

Encyclopedia of World Art REF/N/31/E4833 Use the index to locate specific articles in various volumes and matching plates. Please note: the numbers given in the index do not refer to page numbers, rather they refer to column numbers in each volume. All plates are located in the back half of individual volumes.

Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans, Details and Elements REF/NA/2840/H34/1984 A collection of architectural compositions.

A History of Architecture REF/NA/200/F63/1987 This resource includes brief passages to late romanesque and gothic castles, with illustrations. A short glossary of terms used begins on page 1527.

Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture REF/NA/31/B83/1998 Terms are very BRIEFLY explained.

Encyclopedia of Saints REF/BX/4655.8/J6313/1995

The Oxford Dictionary of Saints REF/BX/4659.G7/F37/1978

FYI: Guide books/travel books often provide insight into the architectural descriptions of buildings. The Bookstore has many guide books and the library has a number (i.e. Baedeker's Great Britain DA/650/B2/1927 for example in the main collection). Some of these books have historical and architectural information which may help you in your selection of a cathedral. We also have in the books on medieval religious life, artists and individual cathedrals.

ASSIGNMENT:

Bibliographic Treasure Hunt: Win valuable prizes!! This assignment is to encourage you to exapnd and practice some of the bibliographic search techniques we learned about last week. The bibliographic treasure hunt will sharpen your abilities.

Part 1: Each student will be given two terms and/or people to look up. Please hand in your findings and include where you found your answer and explain how you located the terms' meanings.

Part 2: Just by browsing the shelves of the library, find and retrieve two useful books on your topic and bring them to class. Be ready to explain in class where and how you found them.

Part 3: You will be given a photocopied page of a bibliography (that is not your own). Your assignment will be to locate the indicated sources using the bibliographic techniques discussed in class. Using the online catalogues, the electronic journal indices, etc., find five of the marked sources on the bibliography. Does Kenyon College own them or does Consort or Ohiolink? Would you need to use Interlibrary Loan for some of these sources? Indicate next to the five marked sources how you would locate the various sources.

Terms:

clerestory	presbytery	misericords
choir stall	choir screen	stained glass
armature	pyx	monstrance
Henry III	John of Salisbury	Gervase of Canterbury
William Wykham	William of Sens	Eleanor of Castile
The Black Prince	St. Ethelreda	St.Frideswide
St. John	Premonstratensians	privy seal
demesne	corrody	Cluniacs
chantry	William Caxton	Alan of Walsingham
purbeck marble	cruck (construction)	Henry Yvele
William Wynford	grisaille	Matthew Paris
chapter house	mystery plays	battlement
Stephen Langton	bend sinister	Rolls of Arms
Robert Grosseteste	crypt	ambulatory
narthex	Lady Chapel