Guides: GTX 2302: Medieval Intellectual Tradition: Books & Monographs

Finding Book Reviews

Book Review Index
Lists reviews of scholarly, non-fiction, and fiction books. Use the "Retro" version for books published before 1983.
H-Net Reviews
A source of scholarly reviews for books and media in all areas of the humanities and social sciences fields. Reviews and reviewed items may be in any language. Simple and advanced search as well as browse lists are the main options for identifying reviews. Advanced search allows limits (including to which list the review was published), but no limits for language.
New York Review of Books
Use the "Opinion Archives" to access these in-depth reviews written by scholars and well-known authors.

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New York Times Book Reviews are known for their quality and in-depth comparisons with related works

Times Digital Archive, 1785 - 1985
Reviews fiction and non-fiction for the years covered. In the "Limit the Current Search" options check on "Book Reviews" (under Features - Arts and Entertainment).

Tips for Finding/Using Book Reviews

Book reviews, especially scholarly or lengthy ones, can be good sources of information about the author of the book, his/her scholarly background and biases, as well as how this book compares to others in the field (or if it's unique).

Use the indexes to the scholarly literature in your field (and related fields) to find book reviews in the scholarly journals for your discipline.

GTX 2302: Medieval Intellectual Tradition

Finding Book Reviews

Tips for Finding/Using Book Reviews

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