Reference books are shelved in the Alumni Reading Room, on the main floor of the Library. They are limited to In Library Use Only.
The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Chrisitan Thought
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance
The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers
The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Historical dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
The Penguin Dictionary of English and European History, 1485-1789
The Renaissance: an illustrated encyclopediaThese are invaluable entry points into the lexicon of a given thinker, written and edited by eminent scholars of that thinker. They are shelved in the Alumni Reading Room, and are In Library Use Only. The entries and bibliographies of these books are a good place to start your research into a particular area of a thinker's work, and will help you refine your terminology, making the rest of your research more effective.
