WWW-Accessible Resources
16th & 17th Century Literary Materials: Shakespeare | Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | Spenser | Milton | Dante | Other Literary Sites
Other 16th & 17th Century Resource Materials: Journals | General Sites | Art and Architecture | History | Science | Music | Religion and Philosophy | Other Resources for Early Modern Studies
General Resources and Catalogues
This page gathers links to a number of sixteenth and seventeenth century resource materials which can be found on the Internet, as well as others which have a more general appeal and those which catalogue resources of interest to literary scholars.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literary Materials

• Iter: The bibliography of Christian Europe from 1300-1700
• Latin dictionary of Saxonian Latin.
• Academic Discussion Groups (from EMLS). A descriptive listing of information regarding academic discussion groups.
• Electronic Texts and Related Materials (from EMLS).
• World- Wide Resources for Early Modern Studies. Maintained by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
• Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance: A Rough Bibliography.

Shakespeare Sites

• Internet Shakespeare Editions: Home Page. Finally--a serious attempt to create and make scholarly editions of Shakespeare available on the WWW. A distinguished editorial board will oversee the production and publication of works. It should seriously alter the following link, since Prof. Lancashire is a member of the editorial board.
• The Public Domain Shakespeare. A paper delivered by Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto, at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December 29, 1992, in which he analyzes several editions of Shakespeare available in the public domain and over the Internet.
• Shakespeare Globe USA start page. A virtual tour of the Globe Theater--an exciting application of the visual elements of the WWW to Shakespeare.
• Renaissance Texts Research Centre: Shakespeare and the Globe
• The International Shakespeare Globe Centre, Germany. This is the WWW site of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre, and exists in both German and English. While the focus of this site is the Globe, there are in addition a number of links to related resources.
• The Shakespeare Database Project. A dissemination site for the Shakespeare Database Project at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany, giving up-to-date information on the project and its publications.
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. A collection of links to other Shakespeare WWW Sites.
• The Shakespeare Authorship Page. "Dedicated to the proposition that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare."
• NewsHour Online: Shakespeare. Transcript of the interview in January 1995 with Prof. David Foster on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Shakespeare Illustrated. An attempt to collect paintings inspired by Shakespeare or his plays, from the 19th Century. A fascinating look at Shakespeare's influence on art.
• S hakespeare by Individual Studies: Table of Contents. A syllabus of a course offered by Michael Best at the University of Victoria. Includes bibliographies, filmographies, and links to pertinent WWW sites.

Edward de Vere Sites

• The Shakespeare Oxford Society. The purpose of the Shakespeare Oxford Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare. The quarterly Shakespeare Oxford Society Newsletter and the Web online magazine Ever Reader carry articles, essays, news, debate and bibliographies which impart a wide range of corroborating information and commentary.
• Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Transcriptions of letters and other historical documents by Alan Nelson (Univ of California, Berkeley).

Spenser Sites

• Edmund Spenser Home Page. Richard Bear has created editions of some of Spenser's works, has linked to other sites for other works, and has created a virtual Spenser library.
• Hypertext and Renaissance Studies. John Tolva has created a hypertextual edition of the Shepheardes Calendar, and has authored and linked to a number of articles on hypertext and literature.

Milton Sites

• Journals
  • The Milton Quarterly Contains information about the journal: subscription rates, manuscript submission guidelines, and advertising rates. Also includes a discography of music from Milton's time, compiled by Diane McColley.
• The Milton-L Home Page Archives of the electronic discussion group, MILTON-L, with links to a large number of works by Milton and other related materials.
• Electronic Transcriptions of Milton's Divorce Tracts. Created by Alasdair Bradley, University of British Columbia.
• William Blake's Milton: Meaning and Madness. An undergraduate honors thesis by Edward Friedlander (Brown, 1973).
• Milton's Areopagitica and the Modern First Amendment. A paper delivered by Vincent Blasi at the Yale Law School in March 1995.

Dante Sites

• Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) (Chicago). This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library.
• The Dartmouth Dante Project. A searchable database of commentary on the Divine Comedy.

Cervantes Sites

• The Works of Miguel de Cervantes.
• Cervantes 2001 Project
• The Don Quixote Exhibit. A digital exhibit of translations and illustrations of Cervantes's novel from Johns Hopkins University. Also includes information about Cervantes and his character.

Other Literary Sites

• Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology. This page is designed to complement a session on Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology that will be held at the 1995 Modern Languages Association conference at Chicago, December 29, 1995.
• STC 14751: Benjamin Jonson, The Workes of Beniamin Jonson. David Gants, University of Virginia: The Jonson folio, the examination and analysis of which forms the center of this project, poses a number of tantalizing problems to the book historian.
• Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature. A database of works in Latin from the Nordic countries, written from 1530-1800.
• Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is the only dictionary to attempt to comprehend the entire Latin language. Its chronological termini reach from the third century B.C. to A.D. 600, including both literary texts and documentary evidence (inscriptions, etc.). TLL is the authoritative starting point for all research involving Latin (which is also the language in which its lexicographic entries for individual words are composed). Founded in 1894, TLL is the oldest and largest collaborative project in the discipline of ancient Latin and Greek studies. (from the introduction)
• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe. (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
• The Renaissance Sources Project (Perseus Project, Tufts University). Plans for the development of an on-line digital library of Renaissance source materials.
• Alciato's Book of Emblems. Andrea Alciato's Emblematum liber or Book of Emblems had enormous influence and popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is a collection of 212 Latin emblem poems, each consisting of a motto (a proverb or other short enigmatic expression), a picture, and an epigrammatic text.
• The International John Bunyan Society
• Printed Heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador: 16th and 17th Centuries.

Other Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Resource Materials

Journals

• Cahiers élisabéthains: Late Medieval and Renaissance English Studies
• Chronicon - an online journal of History. Chronicon is an electronic journal of international history published by the Department of History, University College, Cork. It is envisaged that the journal will appear twice yearly beginning in Spring 1997.
• Confraternitas: the Bulletin of the Society for Confraternity Studies.
• ELH: English Literary History
• Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• The FICINO Electronic Discussion Group
• Medieval Renaissance Drama Society Newsletter, Spring 1996
• The Milton Quarterly
• Renaissance Forum.
• Sixteenth Century Journal

General Sites

• The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
• The Vatican Exhibit: Rome Reborn.
• Leonardo da Vinci Museum
• The Oxford Early Printed Books Project. The first phase of the project aims to create a database of accurate bibliographic descriptions for all foreign books in non-Bodleian libraries, printed before 1641.
• Renaissance Society of America
• SHARP Web--The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Contains a useful set of links to other sites concerned with the history of publishing.
• Warburg Institute. Descriptions of the collections and holdings, information about lectures, seminars, and fellowships, and connection to the online catalog.
• A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Contains facsimiles from works of art, music, religion, literature, geography and science.

Art and Architecture

• WebMuseum: The Italian Renaissance (1420-1600)
• WebMuseum: The Northern Renaissance (1500-1615)
• WebMuseum: Baroque (1600-1790)
  • Visit http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ for a list of mirror sites for the Webmuseum around the world.
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102
• Women Artists in the Renaissance to Baroque Periods
• Medieval/Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective.
• Ambrosiana Archive. The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame is privileged to possess a photographic copy of the entire manuscript collection of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

History

• Early Modern England Source.
• The Gunpowder Plot Society.
• List of Gunpowder Plotters.
• The Perdita Project: Early Modern Women's Manuscript Compilations.
• The 1492 Exhibit.
• The Columbus Navigation Homepage.
• Richard III Society Homepage.
• The Renaissance Faire.
• The Medici Archive Project: Documentary Sources for the Arts and Humanities: 1537-1743
• Electric Renaissance
• Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
• Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Catasto of 1427

Science

• Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy. This site is a virtual visit to Room IV of the History of Science Museum in Florence which is dedicated to Galileo.
• The Galileo Project. The aim of this project is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise.
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective.
• Parace lsus and the Medical Revolution of the Renaissance: a 500th anniversary celebration
• The Codex Arundel: A Notebook of Leonardo da Vinci
• Newtonia: pages about Sir Isaac Newton
• Yale Medical Library: Historical Library. Describes the library's many collections, and includes a new project to provide electronic texts from the 16th-18th centuries.
• Renaissance engineers from Brunelleschi to Leonardo da Vinci: an exhibit

Music

• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
• Renaissance Consort.
• Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets (from the Society for Creative Anachronism).
• The Early Music Home Page

Religion and Philosophy

• Project Wittenberg--The Martin Luther Archive
• The Ecclesiastical Calendar.
• Guide to Early Church Documents
• The Religion in England Web
• St. Pachomius Library. Contains uncopyrighted English translations of the Church Fathers, the acts of the Christian martyrs, the proceedings of the Councils, the lives of the early saints, etc.
• The New Testament (Rheims 1582)
• Die Bibel, Martin Luther translation
• Leibniz: Drôle de pensée. A critical edition of the 1675 work by Leibniz.

Other

• Proper Elizabethan Accents (from the Renaissance Faire). Beginning with the proclamation that Elizabethan is more akin to the speech of backwoods communities on the East Coast, where language has not changed significantly since the founding of those communities, this site offers tips on proper pronunciation, with audio clips of the Lord's Prayer for reference and other materials.
• Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Information
• Folio Font. A font based on Shakespeare's First Folio.

General Resources and Catalogues

• Academe This Week.
• American Philosophical Association.
• The Bibliographical Society. Founded in 1892, the Bibliographical Society is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history.
• The Bodleian Library WWW Server.
• Books On-line, Listed by Author (Carnegie Mellon).
• The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (University of Toronto).
• The Coalition for Networked Information.
• Current Middle Ages Web Server. The Society for Creative Anachronism home page.
• The Decameron Web.
• The English Server (Carnegie Mellon).
• European Medieval Drama.
• Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.
• Humanities. (EINet)
• The Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page.
• Literary Research Tools on the Net. (Jack Lynch, U. Penn.)
• The Medieval Labyrinth. (Georgetown University)
• The Medieval Romance Society
• MHRA Home Page
• NetSERF
• Humanities Computing Unit (Oxford).
• The Printing Historical Society.
• The University of Toronto English Library.
• The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
• World Wide Web Search Tools from the Library of Congress.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Literature.
• WWW Resources for English and American Literature (Indiana University)
• The YAHOO Site (Stanford).

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If you wish to add information to this page or to comment on it, contact Perry Willett, PWILLETT@indiana.edu, Indiana University.

© 1996, R.G. Siemens (Editor, EMLS).
February 23, 1998.