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Library Catalogs
General
Gabriel
| Gateway to Europe's National Libraries.
Herzog August
Bibliothek
Karlsruhe
Virtual Catalog | Allows simultaneous search of the holdings of many
major libraries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, and the
UK; it functions then as a sort of European Union Catalog and a
counterpart to the mainly US/Canadian
WorldCat database in HOLLIS.
Lib‑Web‑Cats | Library Web pages, online catalogs, and profiles a
directory of over 5,000 libraries worldwide.
LibDex
| Worldwide Index of Library Catalogues, Web sites, and Friends of
Libraries pages.
Specialized
Early
English Books Online (EEBO) | Contains digitized versions of titles
listed in Pollard & Redgrave's A
Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland
and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475 1640 ("STC I"), and Donald
Wing's A Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland,
Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in
Other Countries, 1641 1700 ("STC II"). Altogether, EEBO contains over 125,000 titles, covering a broad range of
subjects such as literature, history, music, art, linguistics, and
religion.
English
Short Title Catalog (Eureka on the Web) (1473-1800) | Describes
English or English language letterpress materials published before 1801. ESTC contains records for items of all types published in Great Britain
or its colonies or in English from 1473 to 1800.
Hand
Press Books File | Includes records for European printing of the
hand press period (c.1455-1830) from the Consortium of European
Research Libraries, whose 37 members represent national and university
libraries in 15 countries.
SCIPIO | Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs (Eureka on the Web) (Late
1500s-): Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the
late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records
include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers,
institutional holdings, and titles of works.
Gateways (Access to full-text and
specialized databases)
ARTFL Project (click
here for
limited public access) | American and French Research on the Treasury of
the French Language, including:
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Trésor
de la Langue Française | Consists of nearly 2,000
texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds
of nonfiction prose and technical writing. The 18th, 19th, and 20th
centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of
seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance
texts.
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Dictionnaires d'autrefois | French dictionaries from the 16th, 17th,
18th, and 19th centuries. Unites the Dictionarium latinogallicum,
the Thresor de la langue françoyse, the Dictionnaire
historique et critique, and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie
française (1st, 5th, and 6th editions).
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Le Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Age au XXe siècle | Romans, Contes, Nouvelles. B.A.S.I.L.E. (Base internationale de
Littérature Électronique). Accessible from within ARTFL.
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The
ARTFL French Women Writers Project | A searchable database
containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th
century.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | (click
here for limited
public access). The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published
materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700),
through the creation of online bibliographic databases.
Includes:
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Journals | An
electronic bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature
pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for
articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, and discographies are
included.
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Iter
Italicum | Online version of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter
Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of
previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance
humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the
world. Note: the publisher of this resource states that it is not yet
available.
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Scholars of Early Modern Studies | Online edition of Scholars of
Early Modern Studies (vol. 34, summer 2000).
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International
Directory of Renaissance and Reformation Associations and Institutions
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Baptisteria Sacra | An international iconographic index of baptismal
fonts from the early Christian period to the 17th century.
Rinascimento: Research
Guide for Renaissance Studies | The site, developed by Michael Hemment and Sebastian Hierl of
the Harvard College Library, features links to essential reference works, web sites, electronic resources,
manuscripts, and more. "Rinascimento" allows users to browse hand-picked HOLLIS subjects in areas such as
Renaissance literature, history, art, and music, and to access selected Renaissance full texts freely available
on the Web.
Full-Text Databases
Restricted Access
Acta Sanctorum | An electronic version (not yet complete) of the
complete texts of the sixty-eight printed volumes, from the two January
volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in
1940 by the Société des Bollandistes. Copies of the printed work are
available at the Andover-Harvard and the Widener Libraries.
Deutsche Lyrik im WWW | Contains poems of about 100 authors written
in the 17th to 20th centuries.
Early English Prose Fiction (Lion) (1500-1700) | Contains 211 works
in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period
1500-1700. Excluded are non-fictional prose, translations (with the
exception of Argenis from Barclayu's Latin) and medieval" survivals,"
that is, works written before the period but printed within it.
Prefatory matter and annotation by the original author are included.
English Drama (Lion) (1280-1915) | Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200
authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
English Poetry (Lion) (600-1900) | Essentially the complete English
poetic canon from 1100 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250
poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
Luthers Werke | Reproduces the Weimar Edition in electronic form.
Past Masters | Full-text electronic editions of works by major
philosophical figures, in both original language and English
translation. Areas covered include the history of political thought and
theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and
German studies. Texts include published and unpublished works, articles
and essays, and correspondence.
Patrologia Latina Database | An electronic version of the first
edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina published
between 1844 and 1855 and the four volumes of indexes published between
1862 and 1865. The PLD includes the works of the Church Fathers from
Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Public Access
ABU | Complete
text of works of the French-speaking public domain.
Athena: Textes Francais
BIVIO: Biblioteca Virtuale On-Line | Collection
of neo-Latin texts, largely by Italian authors.
The
Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe | Selected
transcriptions, facsimiles, and translations.
Gallica | A
site from the Bibliothèque Nationale providing full-text books by French
writers, searchable by period.
The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts | A collection of
texts on various subject matter published between 1640 and 1740.
Oxford Text
Archive | ~2,500 texts, English and some French, medieval-modern,
Oxford University.
Journals
Electronic Journals
Book History (1998- )
British Journal for the History of Science (1997- )
Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1996- )
Eighteenth-Century Studies (1967-1995) and
(1995- )
Journal of Modern History (1929-1999)
Journal of the History of Ideas (1940-1995) and
(1996- )
Renaissance Quarterly (1967-1998)
Renaissance News (1948-1966)
Sixteenth Century Journal (1972-1996)
Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies (1970-1971)
Yale French Studies (1948-1999)
Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775)
Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)
French Historical Studies (2000- )
Other Early Modern Journals
Guides to Journals
The History
Journals Guide | An international directory for journals and
discussion lists in the fields of history and archaeology.
Revues.org | A
consortium of French journals in the humanities with a search engine to
locate materials in the journals and many other features.
Portals
(collections of web sites)
Aleph: Histoire et
sciences sociales | Not a portal, strictly speaking: a French search
engine for specialized scholary sites.
Dortmunder
Linkkatalog zur Geschichtswissenschaft | Index of on-line historical
resources. Click
here for the early modern page.
Dutch
History Index
H-FRANCE | An electronic forum for the discussion of all aspects of the history and
culture of the Francophone world.
Humbul
Humanities Hub | A service of the Resource Discovery Network
hosted by the University of Oxford.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook: Early Modern World
Italian History Index
Spanish History Index
Virtual Library: German History Index
Virtual Library
Histoire
Virtual
Library History: Early Modern History (Stephanie Marra, University of Dortmund) | Part of VL-History.
Web Links:
French History (Zoë Schneider, Georgetown University)
WWW-VL EUI
European History Project
Professional Organizations
Specialized
Renaissance Society
of America
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies
SFDES: Société Française d'Étude du Seizième Siècle
General
Académie des Inscriptions et
Belles-Lettres
Scholarly
Societies Project | Access to information by and about scholarly and
professional associations worldwide.
programs
for summer study
Aestiva Romae Latinitatis: Reginald Foster's
intensive Latin course in Rome has no website, nor does Fr. Foster have
email. But an unofficial FAQ page, including address and application
information, may be found
here.
Institut d'histoire de la Réformation (Geneva) | Offers a topical Cours d'été each
summer.
Bridgewater State College Summer Program at Lucca
Maps and
Atlases
The Harvard Map Collection
, Harvard University, including original and digitized
antiquarian maps.
Historical Map Websites
Periodical Historical Atlas
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