This
page contains what I consider to be some useful
links for students and scholars of Renaissance English Literature - and
possibly of other periods of English Literature as well. Of course, the
list is
not complete: if you know of other useful sites please let
me know.
What you will find here is a list of some of the most important
bibliographical and reference tools, together with a series of links to
pages devoted to some specific topics or authors. Some of the most
popular library catalogues (such as the British Library, the Cambridge
University Library, the Bodleian Library, the Library of Congress...),
have been included in the list. Fuller lists of library links can be
reached from some of the sites listed below (some of the reference
tools will open in a new blank window). All the links have now been
re-checked and updated.
UK - USA: who, where,
when...
E-mail addresses, Yellow pages, American and British institutions (they
could
be useful one day...).
LIBRARIES
Library catalogues and other resources.
UNIVERSITIES
Some useful collections of links for the most important Universities of
the UK
& the USA.
LITERATURE - General
Indexes and search tools for various periods of English Literature.
SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS
Two short sections on a) archives b) manuscripts and early printed
books.
REFERENCE
Dictionaries, encyclopaedias, various reference tools.
MISCELLANEOUS
On-line publishers and bookshops, microfilms, CD-ROMs, Italian
libraries' Web
pages and OPACs.
WhoWhere?
E-mail Addresses
Useful in particular to find individuals and institutions - for
academic
addresses see "University".
Telephone
Directories on the Web
Directories from all over the world - for academic directories see
"University".
USA Yellow Pages
Find more than 20 million businesses (and other things as well...) in
the US
and worldwide.
EYP -
English Yellow Pages
The on-line classified directory of UK businesses.
Multimap
Very useful
for finding locations both within London (digitized A-Z) and the
rest of
the UK.
a)search engines and major gateways to on-line library catalogues
Libweb - Library Servers via WWW
On-Line Library Catalogs
RLIN
Z39.50 Test Server
The Research Libraries Group - all of the most important libraries of
the USA.
b)On-line catalogues - UK and USA
COPAC
The UK online public access catalogue (providing unified access to the
catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the
UK and
Ireland).
London -
THE BRITISH LIBRARY
The British Library's On-line Information Server - Indexes and access
to the
catalogue.
Cambridge
- CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
General information and access to the catalogue of the University
Library and
to the Union Catalogue of Departmental & College Libraries.
Oxford
- THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY
General information about the Bodleian Library and Telnet access to
OLIS, the
catalogue of the Bodleian and other Oxford Libraries.
Oxford
- Oxford University libraries
Gateway
Information and very useful lists of recommended resources in given
subject
areas.
Washington
-LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Access to the multiple search catalogue of the Library of Congress (and
link to
the WWW/Z39.50 Gateway). This site includes a good selection of
databases and
resources.
a) General information, indexes, resources for academic studies
HERO - Higher Education and
Research Opportunities in the UK
Hero is the official gateway to the UK's universities, colleges and
research organisations.
It is the primary internet portal for academic research and higher
education in the UK. It is also a very good entry point for enquiries
about higher education in Great Britain. (For those who were familiar
with it, the NISS
Campus site has now moved to become part of Hero).
The Digital
Education Network Study
Abroad Index
From language schools to scholarships and much more.
The HUMBUL (via
Oxford University)
Collection of high quality links, searchable databases, catalogues,
access to
various bibliographic and reference tools.
b)British and American Universities
Braintrack: US collegesUSA
Universities and
Colleges by State
Another list of American academic institutions.
UK
Universities and colleges
British equivalent of the above with a sensitive Map (from HERO)
c) Some Universities and Colleges - UK
University of Cambridge
Link
to Cambridge U's main page. The Cambridge
University Library is now accessible via Web as well.
University of Cambridge
- The Faculty of
English.
A useful Web page from a prestigious institution
University of Oxford
links
to Oxford U's main page and to the relevant services. The Library system and the
Bodleian catalogue is now fully accessible on the Web
University College London
London's WWW- with an efficient search engine (especially good for finding people and institutes)
The University of Surrey d)
Universities and Colleges - USA and Canada (just a few, of course...)
WWW with search engine
Coventry University
Info on undergraduate and graduate courses, international programs, research etc.
Note that this istitution's Island
is now open in Second Life. NEW
LITERATURE
- Indexes, tools and search engines>
Voice of the Shuttle
Woven by Professor Alan Liu and a development team
at the English Department of the University of California, Santa
Barbara, is perhaps the most impressive gateway for the Humanities. Do
not miss its Literature
section, which can be browsed by period and offers a large
quantity of useful information on... well, almost anything literary.
Literary
Research Tools on the
Net
The
(alas!) former Humanities
Computing
Unit (HCU)
from the Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) had a number of
components: the Centre for Humanities Computing (CHC); the Oxford Text
Archive(OTA); the British National Corpus (BNC); and the HCDT. Access
to most of these is still possible through the main home page.
Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies
The CRRS is a library and research centre devoted to the study of the
period
from approximately 1350 to 1700. The Centre also organizes a programme
of lectures
and seminars, and maintains an active series of publications. From this
page
you can access many useful resources, and bibliographies on the
European
Renaissance - in particular:
Sixteenth Century
Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
A richly illustrated guide to English Renaissance Literature which
boasts 100
original pages, many biographies, bibliographies, on-line texts... and
even a
bookshop.
Literary
Resources --
Renaissance Sixteenth
Century
Renaissance English Literature: Background Information Early
Modern
Literary Studies: Electronic Texts Elizabethan Costuming
Homepage - An attractive page which takes you right into the
Elizabethan
era. It includes links to "Queen Elizabeth I Portrait Gallery",
"16th century Paintings of Lower-class garb", "19th century
engravings of Early and Later 16th century Costume" "Elizabethan
Portraits
at Tulane University", "Photos of Tudor and Elizabethan
Costumes", "Elizabethan soldiers, gentry, and peasants",
"Costumes for the Stage Production", "Elizabeth the Queen"
"A Modern Portrait in the Elizabethan Style". Renaissance:
The Elizabethan World
is a very interesting website including:
Portraits of Queen
Elizabeth I abound, particularly from the later years of her
reign. Elizabeth was perhaps the first monarch to understand
the importance of public relations and she carefully prepared her image
for public consumption. Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
presents a good deal of them...
Bartebly.com RENAISSANCE
ELECTRONIC
TEXTS The On-line
Books Page Project Gutenberg
Renascence
Editions REPRESENTATIVE
POETRY ON-LINE The
San Antonio College LitWeb
see
also: Prof.
Mitsuharu Matsuoka’s pages at Nagoya university, Japan on Shakespeare
and
other
Renaissance authors. ...
and do not miss: The
Philological Museum
Pre-1600
English
Ballads Bodleian
Library: Broadside
Ballads Project see
also
AUTHORS
SIR
THOMAS MORE, (1477-1535) NEW
SIR THOMAS WYATT, the Elder (1503-1542) Sir Thomas
Wyatt
HENRY HOWARD, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547) JOHN FOXE (1516/7–1587) NEW EDMUND
SPENSER (1552-1599) Edmund
Spenser Home Page Hap
Hazard: A manuscript resource for Spenser studies Sir EDWARD DYER (1540-1607) NEW Sir PHILIP
SIDNEY (1554-1586)
Texts from Astrophel and Stella (1591), and Certaine
Sonnets (1580s)
GEORGE
CHAPMAN (1559?-1634) The
Odyssey of Homer
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
(1564-1616) Some
controversial sites... CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE (1564 -1593) The
Complete Works of
Christopher Marlowe original
intro: Discovering
Christopher Marlowe JOHN
MILTON (1608-1674) The
Milton-L Home Page John Milton's A Maske or Comus magazines: criticism: RICHARD
LOVELACE (1618-1657) Richard
Lovelace
Page ANDREW
MARVELL (1621-1678) Andrew
Marvell Page JOHN
BUNYAN (1628-1688)
Part of the Literary Research collection
maintained by Jack Lynch (University of Pennsylvania).
Early Modern Resources NEW
in fact, more than the title tells: a comprehensive gateway for all those interested in finding electronic resources relating to 1500-1800.
Useful sources and historical backgrounds for literary historians and
students
(from Luminarium).
A very good set of links to texts 1500-1700 and also to various
reference
tools. An impressive page (unfortunately, not frequently updated) from Early
Modern Literary Studies.
Though not a scholarly site, Elizabethan
Peerage
is a useful tool to find coat of arms and information on who's who in
the ELizabethan Era.
Part of My Tudor
Court, a nice Argentinian site by Jorge H. Castelli.
The site which was once named Project Bartleby now
contains thousands of free texts
and reference materials. The internal engine allows multiple searches
on all
the texts in the archive.
"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." A great
page from The
University of Toronto Library
A directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It
includes: an index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet;
pointers to
significant directories and archives of on-line texts; special
exhibits... and
more. Some of the files are accessible only in FTP mode.
Probably the biggest collection of on-line texts in the world (the idea
is to
have 10,000 texts available by the year 2000). A search engine helps
you to
find the author or title you need. Allows you to browse though the
texts or get
them in zip format
A very good selection of texts, some of which are usually difficult to
get hold
of (e.g. George Gascoigne's The Steele Glas & The
complaynte of
Philomene), via The University of Oregon.
Texts prepared at the Department of English, University of Toronto.
Includes a very
big selection of texts.
From The Department of English at San Antonio College
A GREAT site developed by Prof. Dana Sutton (University of
California, Irvine) and co-edited by Martin Wiggins (Fellow of the
Shakespeare Institute,
The University of Birmingham) including Renaissance Neo-Latin poetry, a
very useful ANALYTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ON-LINE NEO-LATIN TEXTS,
many texts not easy to get hold of. Well worth a visit - and worthy of
the highest praise!
original
site presentation:
"The goal of this project is to produce a short book of
"interesting" ballads from before 1600, containing sheet music and
lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to a
modern
listener") (Gregory Blount of Isenfir [Greg Lindahl] / Society for
Creative Anachronism)
Includes a bibliography
of early music materials.
The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads
in several major collections. The original printed materials range from
the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the
digitised copies of the sheets and ballads
available to the research community.
The Center for Thomas More Studies
Biographical sketch of Thomas More as a statesman; chronology; quotes;
list of his writings, bibliography, on-line articles from Moreana. Very, very useful.
Amici Thomae Mori
Hompage of the The Friends of Thomas More Association (Société des Amici Thomae Mori), publisher of Moreana
William Roper:The Life of Sir Thomas More
Roper's life From The Internet Modern History Sourcebook - Department of History, Fordham University, New York.
Biography, quotes, collected works and tools (from Luminarium).
Some texts based on the manuscript versions of the poems published also
in Tottel's Miscellany (from Representative
Poetry On-line)
From the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Sheffield, here is the Revised version (v.1.1) of Foxe's Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition Online. This edition contains the full text of three of the four editions (1563, 1570, 1583). The 1570 edition is missing books 3 and 4. These will be added in subsequent versions. Complete with editorial commentary, textual variants, Introductory Essays
Image commentary, Person Glossary and much more...
The ultimate Spenser Web page. Originally conceived by Richard Bear,
and now edited by Andrew Zurcher (Gonville & Caius College,
Cambridge), it is the home of Edmund Spenser studies on the Internet.
This set of pages is devoted to supporting the reading, study, and
discussion of the words of Edmund Spenser.
It aims to serve the needs of the scholar, of the student, and of the
interested passer-by, offering resources and links of various level of
specialization.
A very useful online resource dedicated to the study of Edmund Spenser,
and more particularly to the study of manuscript materials relating to
his writings. From the Cambridge CERES website.
12 poems in all. Definitely not
a scholarly edition... still better than RPO's
selection, which features "My mind to me a kingdom is", probably not by
Dyer...
This site, edited by Donald Stump in collaboration with C. Stuart Hunter, Jerome S. Dees, and Tim Moylan,
and sponsored by Department of English & Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies of Saint Louis University
is probably the largest on-line collection of bibliographic references on Sidney. It includes all the items originally
published in Sir Philip Sidney: An Annotated Bibliography of Texts and Criticism, 1554-1984 (New York: G.K. Hall, Macmillan 1994)
as well updates from 1985 to the present.
Full-text - from Bartebly.com
/ The Bartleby Archive.
a handy and rather fun search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, with search results clustered by topic, work, and character (Clusty Labs)
This database is intended to promote cross-cultural understanding and serve as a core resource for students,
teachers, and researchers. Current features of the archive include: a catalogue of more than 200 productions compiled by Alex Huang,
which will be continuously updated; a collection of video clips from major productions; interactive maps and timelines; interviews
and biographies of directors and actors; essays on Asian Shakespeare by major scholars
"This site provides an edition of Marlowe's works that begins to
transcend
the limits of print publication and exploit the flexibility of an
electronic
medium.* Please see in particular our edition of Doctor Faustus that
presents
links between the two extant versions of the play (A text and B text)
and its
primary source, The English Faust Book." Part of the New Library
of Renaissance
Source Materials, in progress.
Dr. Faustus with commentary, a biography,
bibliography, and much more...
Ample choice of texts (9 versions of Paradise Lost!),
articles,
bibliography, book and articles reviews, links to other Miltonian Web
sites -
University of Richmond (Virginia).
Texts and scholarly resources for the study of John Milton's A Maske, or Comus.
(Helen Hull, Meg Pearson, and Erin Sadlack
Graduate Students in English Literature
at the University of Maryland, College Park).
Darkness visible
Develped by English students at Christ's College, Cambridge, this site is a very good resource for school students studying Milton's Paradise Lost
, and perhaps for many undergraduates as well...
From Poetry Archives - good selection of on-line texts.
From The San Antonio College LitWeb.
Magazines:
Magazines devoted to the study of editing, early printed books and/or manuscripts:
Bibliographical Journals (includes links and indexes - a comprehensive list from the University of Oxford HoBo site (The site formerly known as "History of the Book @ Oxford")
Book History: the journal of The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP).TEXT Reviews Transactions of the society for textual scholarship
Journal of the Printing Historical Society
Gallica, the website sponsored by the Bibliothèque National de France, provides (so far) free full text access to:do not miss:
Internet Library of
Early Journals
A growing collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century journals
(including
- FULL TEXT - the Philosophical Transacctions of the Royal
Society, Gentleman's Magazine, and
Notes and Queries).
a) Archives
Institute of Historical
Research
The home page of the London Historical Institute, with very useful
sub-pages
for bio-bibliographical research. See in particular:
ARCHON
directory
The first and most complete source of information on manuscript sources
for
English History. The ARCHON Directory provides contact details for
record offices, libraries and other record collecting institutions
throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Now part of The National
Register of Archives
The National
Register of Archives (NRA)
The old London Public Record Office (PRO) and Historical Manuscript
Commission (HMC) websites have been removed from the Internet. The
content and catalogues from both websites have been transferred to this
website.
British History
Online
A digital library containing some of the core printed primary and
secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British
Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History
of Parliament Trust
Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy
much more than what the modest title suggests: VERY useful links to sources and documents (State Papers, Probate Rolls and what not...)
C.I.R.V.I. b)
Manuscripts and early printed books English Short Title Catalogue
1473-1800
Travel in Italy - documents, papers and bibliographies from the
international
research institute for travel based in Moncalieri, Italy.
The Internet Archive NEW
The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access
for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive started to grow in late 1999 to include
more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software
as well as archived web pages in its collections.
The one and only ESTC, now FREE - from the British Library, London.
The Thomas L. Gravell
Watermark Archive
Over 2700 images and records, plus links to other watermark resources.
Resources
for the
History of Books and Printing
An excellent (and very big!) list of annotated links on book history.
Rare
Books on the Web
A good place to start a research on ancient and modern books or
manuscripts
(via The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.).
Literary
Resources
- Bibliography and History of the Book>
A nice page from "
collection" (University of
Pennsylvania)
Society for the History of
Authorship,
Reading, & Publishing (SHARP)
Provides access to many book-history sites. Its SHARP-L archives are
searchable
back through 1992.
Uncatalogued
Manuscript Control Center
(formerly known as the Union Manuscript Computer Catalogue)
many important private collections listed in De Ricci's Census of
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada
and in Faye and Bond's Supplement have been dispersed and have passed
into institutional libraries. This automated census will at once
provide a corrected, updated, machine-readable census of manuscripts in
American and Canadian libraries, as well as a flexible and expandable
computer database.
Some other useful links:
do not miss:
English
Handwriting 1500-1700: An online course.
A great resource designed for students and scholars of early modern
English letters, history, theology, and philosophy--for anyone whose
research will embrace original English manuscript sources in this
period. From the Cambridge CERES website.
An Introduction to
Palaeography by Dave Postles, Marc Fitch Research Fellow,
University of Leicester, England. Scottish Handwriting NEW Transcription Marker NEW The
Leeds Database of Manuscript English Verse
Bodleian
Library: Broadside Ballads
Project The Perdita Project a)
General Reference BUBL
General Reference
General/Interdisciplinary Databases Google
Reference Directory Ask a Librarian.
b)
Encyclopedias, glossaries, biographical and technical dictionaries Britannica online Encyclopedia.com
Biography.com
Find more than 20,000
personalities of the past and of the present. The WWW
Virtual Library - Biographical Sources Biographical
Sources Biographical links and tools - O'Keefe Library,
St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa. A
Handbook of
Terms for Discussing Poetry Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations The
Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable The Web
Concordances Cambridge History
of English and
American Literature: c)
Dictionaries and corpora Web
of On-line Dictionaries
WWWebster Dictionary
British National Corpus
(BNC) OED ONLINE Guide to Grammar
and Writing d)
bibliographies MLA On the Web Iter: The Bibliography
of Renaissance Europe (1300-1700) (University of Toronto). see
also"Miscellaneous" e)
The Middle Ages and The Renaissance Sources
for the
Study of the Arthurian Legends Ian's English
Calendar AIA -
ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA DI
ANGLISTICA
website providing online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists and other researchers in reading manuscript historical records written in Scotland (though the usefulness of the site is not limited to those reading Scottish sources) in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, with the emphasis on practical help to improve skills (Scottish Archives Network)
useful selection of 17th-century documents for transcription practice (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters)
Contains detailed information on individual texts in 17th and 18th
century manuscripts
housed in the Leeds University Library. In progress, although already
including
more than 4,500 entries.
The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads
in
several major collections. The original printed materials range from
the 16th-
to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised
copies
of the sheets and ballads available to the research community.
a collaborative project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Board of the
British Academy and Nottingham Trent University. which will produce a
database
guide to about 400 manuscript compilations in collections around the
world.
The Reading Experience Database(RED)
RED was launched in 1996 at the UK Open University. Its mission is to accumulate
as much data as possible about the reading experiences of readers of all nationalities
in Britain and those of British subjects abroad from 1450 to 1945.
The Map of Early Modern London NEW
interactive map of “the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London”, with a wealth of supporting material (Janelle Jansted)
REFERENCE:
Internet Resources by Type - from the great BUBL LINK / 5:15 Catalogue
of Internet Resources
From the Carnegie Mellon Libraries, USA
Perhaps too vast but comprehensive.
On-line Reference from the Library of Congress.
The world's best famous Encyclopaedia - now accessible via the Internet
by
everybody
Britannica.com lets users simultaneously search the Encyclopaedia
Britannica,
expert reviews of the Web's best sites, timely articles from leading
magazines,
and related books.
The first free Encyclopaedia on the Web.
Concise and very helpful list of sites, with descriptions of scope and
publisher.
Compiled by "Harry Rusche and the students of English 205,
'Introduction
to Poetry' at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia".
(1919 ed. - hypertextual version).
Based on the 1894 edition.
For the time being only Shelley, Keats, Hopkins, Coleridge and
Wordsworth...
but in progress and well worth a visit.
An Encyclopaedia in Eighteen Volumes. This excellent free resource
"comprises the largest public reference work of literary criticism and
history on the Internet." Originally published in 1907-1921, the
volumes
include 303 chapters and more than 11,000 pages, edited and written by
a
worldwide panel of 171 leading scholars and thinkers of the early
twentieth
century. The online version features over 5,600 files, searchable by
keyword
and browseable by volume, chapter, and section.
Do not miss:
Lexicons
of Early Modern English (LEME)
LEME searches and displays word-entries from monolingual
English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and
other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1702
Dictionaries for (almost) any language, thesauri and what not...
The Web version (for the time being, free of charge!) of one of the
best
mono-lingual dictionaries of the world.
A 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language
from a wide range of sources, designed to
represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken
and
written.
The Oxford English Dictionary official Web page. Information and
contacts.
Sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation Hartford,
Connecticut
The Modern Language Association of America - info and contacts.
Bibliography and links
A nice and useful tool for dates: "converts between old and new style
dates, calculates day of the week, British regnal years, and the date
of Easter and other movable religious holidays" (Ian McInnes, Albion
College)
The Italian society for the study of English. Member of ESSE - European
federation of national higher educational associations for the study of
English.
ABELL Bibliography (Italy)
Instructions for Italian scholars, contacts, etc. etc....
Tutti gli OPAC
italiani
UPenn: Call for Papers
Calls for papers on English and American Literature and Culture - by the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania
All the Italian on-line library catalogues (OPACs) available on the
Internet.
Bookshops and publishers
provides links to bookshops and publishers offering online
catalogue and how-to-order information, listed in alphabetical
order; a great page from
HERO , the official gateway to universities, colleges
and research organisations in the UK (formerly known as NISS
Information Gateway).
Plurabelle Books
Cambridge antiquarian bookseller specialising in English and American
Literature.
Links to catalogues - mostly USA and UK publishers.
UMI - University Microform
International
Dissertations and out-of-print volumes on microfilm.
Literature Online -
Chadwyck-Healey
Including the new version of The Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).
Società Tolkieniana Italiana
The official website of the Italian Tolkien Society. Links to publications, conferences and events.NEW
Doppia Laurea italo-francese in lingue e comunicazione
the new homepage of the double degree course of Università della Valle d'Aosta - Faculty of Modern Languages NEW