A growing list of web sites of particular use and interest to Early Modern scholars. With the exception of the first section on Research Databases, all resources are free and open to the public.
Research Databases at UofM (authorization required)
Bible in English -
Contains twenty-one different versions of the English Bible, including the West Saxon, Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale, Great, Thomas Matthew, Bishops', Rheims Douai, Geneva, and King James versions.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in Englinsh from 1473-1700.
Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) - Full-text editions for a significant portion of the Short Title Catalog of Early English books published between 1473 and 1700. Integrated with EEBO.
Early English Prose Fiction -
A collection of over 200 works of prose fiction dating from 1500-1700. Includes Elizabethan fiction, Jest Books, novellas, Restoration fiction and works of popular fiction.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare - contains eleven major historical editions (First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6), twenty-eight contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha, and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques (17th-19th centuries).
English Poetry Database - Full-text collection of
the works of almost 1,350 poets from 600-1900.
English Prose Drama - Contains more than 1,600 plays, masques, and entertainments written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.
English Verse Drama - Contains more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance -
An online bibliography of more than 842,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts and reviews. Updated daily.
Medieval Realms - Contains images of manuscripts, artefacts and buildings together with transcripts and translations into modern English of key written sources. There are also sound clips of medieval music and spoken Middle English.
Oxford English Dictionary - The latest (3rd) online edition of the OED.
Riverside Shakespeare - A searchable full-text version of this popular Complete Works.
World Shakespeare Bibliography - a searchable database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1962 and 2006. Contains over 110,000 annotated entries.
General Resources
Literary Resources on the Net - A wide-ranging resource listing site dealing especially with English and American literature. Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers.
The National Archives, UK - UK government records and information management. Includes the Historical Manuscripts Commission.
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature - The site provides information, texts, and links to resources on a large number of individual authors from the medieval to Restoration periods.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies - An index of medieval-related databases, services, texts, and images. Organized into searchable categories.
The Medieval Bestiary -
An encyclopedia of animals in the Middle Ages, with a particular emphasis on bestiaries and the manuscript tradition.
Hanover Historical Texts Project - Searchable versions of a wide variety of literary and historical texts.
Middle English Compendium - Offers easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
EuroDocs: Medieval & Renaissance Europe - E-texts and images of historical documents, posted by BYU.
Trade Products in Early Modern History - Information on trade products (coffee, tobacco, furs, etc.)
that chronicles the development of global trade in the early modern period.
From books, maps, and manuscripts in the James Ford Bell Library
at the University of Minnesota.
Voice of the Shuttle - A thorough and comphrehensive collection of Renaissance-related web links.
Electronic Journals
Early Modern Culture - A Journal that is set up as an "electronic seminar." Each issue contains
four works-in-progress by major scholars in early modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers--some junior, some senior--working on similar topics.
Early Modern Literarary Studies -
A refereed journal with articles that examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also includes an extensive index of web links.
Renaissance Forum - An electronic journal of early modern literary and historical studies, published 1996-2004.
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Internet Shakespeare Edition - Site posted by University of Victoria to help teach Shakespeare; includes extensive Internet resource list.
Shakespeare Oxford Society - Offers current information on Shakespeare's followers.
Shakespeare Society of America - Offers current information on Shakespeare's followers in America.
Shakespeare Mystery - Posted on the web as part of the television show "Frontline"; meant to investigate claims that Shakespeare did not author the famous plays.
Complete Works of Shakespeare - The works of Shakespeare in electronic form are the focus of this site.
Ben Jonson Catalogue - Digital catalogue of Ben Jonson's work posted by IATH at the University of Virginia.
Sir Thomas Browne Page - Page on University of Chicago server dedicated to the works of Browne.
Milton Reading Room - The site offers e-texts relating to Milton.
Milton-L Page - The site supports a discussion group devoted to Milton; also includes images and e-texts relating to Milton.
Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe - Site dedicated to resources and e-texts relating to Marlowe.
Libraries
The British Library - The national library for the UK.
The Bodleian - Library collection, Oxford University, UK.
Cambridge University Library - Library collection, Cambridge University, UK.
Houghton Library - Harvard University library.
Beinecke Library - Yale University library.
The Folger - The Folger Shakespeare library, in Washington, DC.
The Huntington - UCLA library.
The Newberry - University of Chicago library.
The Library of Congress - National library and archive for the USA.
e-texts :
Bartelby Verse Project - Searchable database of verse.
Coprus of Middle English Prose and Verse - A growing full-text collection of Middle English texts.
Renaissance Electronic Texts - Large collection of early modern e-texts (from Donne to Cavendish) posted by the University of Toronto.
Renaissance Women Online Collection - Part of the Brown University "Women Writers Project"; features e-texts.
Perdita Project - Information on the upcoming early modern women's writing compilation project.
dance, music, art & architecture :
Renaissance Dance - The site provides access to dance treatises written about dance in the ealry modern period.
Renaissance Dance Sources - A resource page dedicated to online early modern dance resources.
Internet Renaissance Band - The site provides hundreds of musical midi files containing early modern musical works.
Sixteenth Century Ballads - Offers work-in-progress information on early modern music materials.
Renaissance Image Gallery - Early modern images collected by a University of Pennsylvania professor.
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - The site gathers images of art and architecture in early modern europe.
fun :
Shakespearean Insult Page - Load and reload insults gathered from Shakespeare's plays.
"Proper" Elizabethan Accent Guide - Fun site helps develop "proper" Elizabethan pronounciation; sound files.
Alciato's Book of Emblems - The site features high-quality images and a translation of Andrea Alciato'sLatin Emblematum liber.
The English Emblem Book Project - Contains high-quality digital images of nine major emblem books.
Tudor & Elizabethan Portraits - http://www.tudor-portraits.com/