Early Modern Resources

Bibliography of suggested readings for a course on 1763-89 by members of the H-OIEAHC discussion list.

Society is ‘dedicated to encouraging and advancing research that focuses on issues of gender and/or women’s role in the arts of early modern culture, circa 1660-1800′; links and syllabi as well as society information and recent newsletters

List of bibliographies on the history of the Atlantic world (1500-1825) (Atlantic History Seminar)

Fully searchable database of academic works on or relating to Bach studies (Yo Tomita)

Online tutorial: a beginners’ guide to the Latin used in English documents between 1086 and 1733. A more advanced tutorial is also available. (The National Archives)

Introductory bibliography and more specialised bibliographies on Erasmus, Luther, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola (William Harmless)

Selective annotated bibliography covering 1775-1818, with additional web links (Catherine Decker)

‘an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of eighteenth-century studies’

An interdisciplinary bibliography of the long eighteenth century. Regularly updated, massive and (fortunately) searchable (ed. Kevin Berland)

Useful tool for looking up the date of Easter (in Orthodox and Western calendars) from 325CE onwards, with good explanatory introduction and links to further calendar resources (Marcos J Montes)

Research Centre (Queen Mary, University of London), which develops archive-based research projects of relevance to the early modern period 1500 – 1800, particularly letter collections, lives and works and marginalia

Ongoing research projects, links to resources, an online newsletter (Cambridge University, English department)

There’s much of interest in this site: it covers literature, linguistics, cognitive science, psychology and early modern studies; this page has a range of early modern (especially long eighteenth century) literary resources, bibliography and more (Francis Steen)

e-journal publishing articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and Renaissance studies; special interest in articles that have an interdisciplinary or cross-cultural scope.

a common place for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture… speaks–and listens–to scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone interested in American history before 1900.

Cultures of Knowledge is an interdisciplinary group of scholars working with partners in Britain and abroad to reconstruct the correspondence networks central to the revolutionary intellectual developments of the seventeenth century.

Digiberichte.de aims to advance research on late medieval and early modern European travel accounts. This project provides digitized editions and research literature on approx. 375 different travels and pilgrimages through Europe in historical times. The bibliographical database allows quick reference for the travel accounts. Due

Digital Defoe is envisioned as a hybrid mediator, as an extension of, or a critical supplement to, print and not as a substitution for academic journals or newsletters. It is committed to making the best use of new and continually evolving digital technologies in addressing the life and works of Defoe and his contemporaries.

Annotated bibliography of Selected Sources on the Archeology of Old World Dutch Material Culture in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries (Paul R Huey)

A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America

Annually-published online journal under the auspices of the University of Texas, Arlington English Department, devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods

Bibliography of secondary sources (H-Albion)

Includes a ‘webliography’ of early modern resources; links to departments, organisations, scholars etc, and EMC events at Michigan (University of Michigan)

a broad-ranging themed bibliography of published secondary sources, searchable (EMR)

Aims to bring together scholars and practitioners working with early modern dress and textiles in different disciplines and settings to identify common areas of understanding and to develop new research tools; includes discussion list

Fully searchable database of 16 early modern dictionaries (Ian Lancashire)

The Centre for Early Modern Exchanges is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, historical, economic and social exchanges between England and Europe, European countries, the Old World and the New in the period 1450-1800.

Useful bibliography (primarily aimed at re-enactors) (Le Poulet Gauche)

list of early modern history sites (British Academy PORTAL)

A short listing of resources for students (University of Oxford)