Offers access to Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists and other art databases. Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. (Only 5 users at a time.)

The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Third edition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Guide to the art of the Western world from classical times to the present.

A standard research tool on 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Provides coverage from the 4th century to the 15th.

Focus on 19th and 20th centuries, information on the religious, political, and social spheres of the modern Islamic world.

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2000.

Covers “Eastern and Western philosophy (with emphasis on the latter), all the main subdivisions of philosophy, terminology from other disciplines that is significant in philosophical discussion, and major historical figures.”

Provides accounts in chronological order of all the officially recognized popes from St Peter to John Paul II, provides a continuous history of the papacy.

Concise accounts of the lives, cults, relationships through patronage, and artistic associations of saints.

Covers all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe, including the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period.