RESOURCES FOR ELECTRONIC RESEARCH

Classical

• Classics Archive (texts in translation)
• Classics at Oxford
• Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Later Latin
• Latin Language and Literature Resources
• Neo-Latin (bibliography of on-line Neo-Latin texts)
• Perseus Project (Greek texts)
• Worlds of Late Antiquity (includes texts of Donatus' Ars minor and the Catonis Disticha)

Classical Authors

• Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
• Boethius: Consolatio philosophiae
• Herodotus
• Cicero
• Vergil

Medieval

• Aberdeen Bestiary
• Argos (Limited area search of the ancient and medieval internet)
• Byzantium: The Byzantine Studies Page
• Canterbury Tales Project
• De re militari
• Italian poetry from the origins to Dante Alighieri
• Labyrinth Home Page
• Manchester Medieval Sources
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Medieval Studies: Library Resources
• Medieval Studies: Main Index
• Middle English Collection (Electronic Text Center, Univ of Virginia)

Medieval Authors

• Chaucer (The Riverside Chaucer: Univ of Toronto only)
• Boethius (Worlds of Late Antiquity)
• Dante: La Divina Commedia
• Dante: Vita Nuova
• Gower: Confessio Amantis
• Vincent of Beauvais

Renaissance

• CERES (Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service)
• Records of Early English Drama (REED): Patrons and Performances site (Data about professional performers on tour in the provinces: patrons, performance venues, and routes)
• Burckhardt, Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
• Dutch Golden Age (early modern Dutch resources)
• Early Music
• Renaissance Electronic Texts
• Renascence Editions
• Representations of France in England
• Renaissance Liturgical Imprints
• Sixteenth-Century Renaissance English Literature (links to texts and resources)
• Spanish Literature
• Arms and Armor Society of America
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
• University of Virginia MEMEM Search (early modern textbase)

Renaissance Authors

• Alciato (Memorial University; emblems in Latin and English)
• Boccaccio: The Decameron
• Giordano Bruno: Bibliotheca Bruniana Electronica
• Christopher Marlowe
• John Milton
• Francesco Petrarca (selections in translation)
• Jospehus Justus Scaliger
• Renaissance Texts Research Centre: Shakespeare and the Globe
• Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella
• Shakespeare's Works (at M.I.T.)
• Internet Shakespeare Editions (at UVic)
• Shakespeare Database Project in Münster, Germany
• The Edmund Spenser Home Page (Cambridge)
• Edmund Spenser, On Line (includes a database of bibliographies, abstracts, and reviews from Spenser Newsletter and Spenser Review)
• Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered (Fairfax translation)
• John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

Erasmiana

• Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies (includes the Erasmus Online Database)
• Erasmus of Rotterdam Society
• Erasmus Text Project (University of the South)
• Latin texts
  • Moriae Encomium Erasmi
  • Scripta Erasmi Selecta
  • Colloquia familiaria
  • Colloquia familiaria (teaching text)
• Praise of Folly (introduction and partial text)

Book History

• Early Modern English Library Catalogues: A Working Bibliography
• British Library Book-bindings Database
• Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
• Bavarian Incunabula
• Book Sales Catalogues of the Dutch Republic
• Leiden Centre for the Book
• SHARP Web
• Sixteenth-Century Italian Editions
• Index of Prohibited Books from the Roman Office of the Inquisition, 1559
• The Early Modern Pamphlets Online (full access requires institutional account)

Renaissance Books and Paleography

• Aldus Bibliography
• Names of Printing Towns
• University of Oxford Early Printed Books Project
• Texts, MSS and Paleography (palaeography resources)
• English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course

Online Exhibits

• Redefining the Sacred in Early Modern England (An NEH Summer Institute at the Folger Library)
• Gutenberg Bible
• Rare Book and Manuscript Page
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI)

Societies and Institutes

Canada

• Canadian Historical Association
• Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
• Centre For Medieval Studies, Univ of Toronto
• Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria Univ, Univ of Toronto
• The Society for Confraternity Studies
• Erasmus of Rotterdam Society
• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
• Canadian Society of Medievalists
• Poculi Ludique Societas, Toronto
• Records of Early English Drama (REED), Toronto
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Societies and Institutes in Germany

• Augustana
• Institute of Renaissance Intellectual History (Munich)
• Luther Center (Wittenberg)

Societies and Institutes in the Netherlands

• Leiden Centre for Early-Modern Studies
• Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy (Nijmegen University)
• Williamite Universe

Societies and Institutes in Italy

• Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Florence)
• Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence)

Societies and Institutes in Spain

• Instituto Cervantes (Spain)
• Seminario de Filología Medieval y Renacentista, Universidad de Alcalá

Societies and Institutes in France

• Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université de Tours
• Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise (l'Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier)

Societies and Institutes in Switzerland

• Instituts für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte

Societies and Institutes in the United Kingdom

• Society for Renaissance Studies
• Bibliographical Society
• Courtauld Institute
• Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
• Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies (University of Durham)
• Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
• Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Tudor Studies (University of Kent at Canterbury)
• Centre for Early Modern Studies (University of Aberdeen)
• Center for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick)
• The Shakespeare Institute (Stratford-on-Avon)
• Institute for Historical Research
• The Public Record Office
• Reformation Studies Institute (St Andrew's University)
• Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
• Warburg Institute

Societies and Institutes in Japan

• The Renaissance Centre (Sophia University, Tokyo)

Societies and Institutes in the United States

• ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
• Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (University of California at Los Angeles)
• Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
• Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton
• Duke University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Oklahoma
• Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland
• Dante Society of America
• Medieval Academy of America
• Renaissance Society of America
• The Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (IRCPS)

Women in History

• ARTFL (French Women Writers Project)
• Diotima (Materials for the study of gender in the ancient world)
• Early Modern Women Writers (Montana State University)
• Margaret Cavendish Society
• The Orlando Project  (A history of women's writing in Britain)
• Perdita (Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations)
• Seventeenth Century Women Poets
• Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
• Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
• Women Writers Project

Histories of Exploration and Cartography

• 1492 (Library of Congress Exhibit)
• Bodleian Map Room
• Cartographic Images
• Hakluyt Society
• Historic Cities (Contemporary maps of European cities)
• History of Cartography
• Map History (History of Cartography)
  • Images of Early Maps on the Web
• Rare Map Collection

Histories of Witches

• Survey of Scottish Witchcraft (Database of all people accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland)
• Witch Bibliography Project (University of North Texas)