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Journals ι Dissertations ι Visual Resources | Library of Congress Subject Headings | English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
English drama -- 17th century
English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
English literature -- Early Modern, 1500-1700
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
Renaissance -- England | Subscription Databases | | | | | | | | | | | | | Web Resources | Historical Websites | | Bibliographies for Studies of the Reformation
Provides extensive bibliographies on the Reformation, including background,
events, and important figures. Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
Broadside Ballads project makes digitized copies of the sheets and ballads
in the collection of the Bodleian Library available to the research community. Early Modern Dictionaries Database
The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database comprises a fully searchable database of 16 sixteenth and seventeenth century dictionaries. Early Modern Women Database
The Early Modern Women Database provides links to Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. Institute for Historical Research
A UK-based site that provides resources for historians. These resources include online articles, free event advertising, MA/PhD study, training courses, an open-access library and more. Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project
The goal of the MMTTDP is to digitize printed reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought Public Records Office (PRO) / National Archives (UK)
The UK government's official archive, containing 900 years of history with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites. The National Archives and PRO make open records available to all, either onsite or online. Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
Images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall, University of Virginia, and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture. Renaissance Liturgical Imprints
An authoritative database of information about worship books printed before 1601. Royal Historical Society Bibliography (with Irish History Online & London's Past Online)
An authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (UPenn)
SCETI, a fully integrated digital library, was created in 1996 to publish virtual facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the Penn Library's collections. WESS Medieval and Renaissance Resources
Provides access to scholarly resources for Western Middle Ages and the the Renaissance. It includes vendor information for commercial products, as well as access to free sites. | Bibliographical Websites | | English Short Title Catalog (Free version)
Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. Incunabula Short Title Catalog
The database records nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501, but not material printed entirely from woodblocks or engraved plates. | | Literary Websites | | Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
CERES offers those working in the area of English Renaissance literature a Starter Guide to help them get more information from the internet, and a regular email newsletter, CERES Harvest, detailing and reviewing new developments in electronic resources for research in the Renaissance, as well as relaying calls for papers and conference programs. Early Modern Literary Studies (Electronic Texts)
A refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. English Literature: Early 17th Century
A comprehensive guide to English literature of the late Renaissance and Early 17th Century. Contains dozens of authors and hundreds of pages Perseus: English Renaissance Online Texts
A gathering of primary materials from the early modern period in England and selected secondary materials from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Begun with an electronic edition of the complete works of Christopher Marlowe, it now includes the works of William Shakespeare, important historical sources from the period, and a variety of secondary reference works. Leeds Verse Database
Contains detailed information about individual items of English poetry contained in the 17th and 18th-century manuscripts from the Brotherton Collection. The database indexes over 6600 poems from more than 160 manuscripts. Luminarium
A comprehensive anthology and guide to English literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Seventeenth Century, Restoration and Eighteenth Century. REED (Records for Early English Drama)
Provides access to historical MSS offering external evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres. Renaissance Electronic Texts (U Toronto)
A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts,and of plain transcriptions of such works,published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period. Renascence Editions
An online repository of works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799. Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th Century
Part of Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle project. Links to information on writers, criticism, journals, newsgroups, listservs, and conferences in early modern England. 16th Century English Renaissance Literature
A comprehensive guide to British literature of the Renaissance with over 100 original pages, biographies, and works never before published on the web. | | | Dissertations | | Proquest's Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations and Theses Full Text indexes dissertations and masters' theses from most North American graduate schools as well as some European universities. Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published from 1980 include abstracts; master's theses from 1988 include abstracts. Titles available as native or PDF formats include twenty-four page previews.
Index to Theses
The Index to Theses describes theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards from 1716 to date.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (1968-)
The WSB Online includes "annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1965 and early 2004." The scope is international. | | | Selected Print and Electronic Journals | | | Clicking on the journal title below will either connect researchers directly to the free electronic version of the journal or to the online catalog record where you can find the holding information and the url (in the case of e-journals). Most e-journals listed here require a JHED ID and password for access. | | Book History
Cahiers élisabéthains
Comitatus
Early Modern History
Early Modern Literary Studies
English Literary Renaissance
Exemplaria
Gutenberg Jahrbuch
Humanistica Lovaniensia
Italia medioevale e umanistica
Journal for early modern cultural studies | Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Medioevo e rinascimento
Nouvelle revue du XVIe siècle
Parergon
Renaissance and Reformation
Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance Studies
Renaissance News
Sixteenth Century Journal
Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies
Studies in the Renaissance | | Visual Resources |
ARTstor
The ARTstor Digital Library includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
Art Index Retrospective
A bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art index. It contains records for items in the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications and graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Grove Dictionary of Art
Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource. |
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