Early Modern Resources

18thConnect gathers together a community of scholars that shapes the world of digital resources, offering federated search for digital archives and peer-review of included digital resources and archives.

Abraham Adcock was an eighteenth century British musician and organ builder; he was a regular performer at Handel’s Foundling Hospital concerts and was considered to be the greatest exponent of the trumpet in the country.

includes early music archive and music history links (Gordon J Callon)

Includes biography, bibliography, e-text, listserv (Kari Boyd McBride)

Annotated Links for Theatre History and Early Music (REED)

Very useful resources and links (Jone Johnson Lewis)

(Representative Poetry Online)

resource for poetry, biography and sources (Ellen Moody)

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

Essay on ‘the genius of Galileo and the relation between his role in the Scientific Revolution and the equally remarkable achievements of Renaissance artists’ (Joseph W Dauben)

An essay about theatregoing experiences in London around 1600 (Andrew Gurr)

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

A selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ballads (L E Pearson)

30,000 ballads online, from the Bodleian Library’s collections, fully indexed and searchable by author, title, subject etc. There are also woodcut images and some musical scores (Bodleian Library)

This exhibition features seventy prints by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) that highlight the artist’s contributions to European culture and religious experience.

An “online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women” written between 1789 and 1832 (University of California Davis)

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

A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on the South Sea Bubble (which burst in 1720), focusing on its cultural history and influence on the arts, includes bibliography, essays, historical outline (David McNeil et al)

a freely-accessible record of surviving manuscript sources for over 200 major British authors of the period 1450–1700; will incorporate descriptions of many thousands of manuscript texts of poems, plays, discourses, translations, etc…

CESAR is a dynamic resource at the service of all those with an interest in the French theatre of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It offers two major interlinked facilities — a database and an imagebank — and also supplementary materials (complete online versions of key compendia such as Parfaict and Léris, a corpus of contemporary reviews, police reports and treatises).

Architecture was commonly identified as a branch of practical mathematics through design, the practical skills of drawing, and a reliance on measurement, calculation and proportion. This exhibition brings together major loans from public and private collections across Britain to reveal the material world of the English architect.

online database of every printed playbook produced in England up to the Restoration, intended to aid study of “the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama in ways not possible using any other print or electronic resource”; provides information about title-pages, paratextual matter, advertising features, and bibliographic background (Alan Farmer and Zachary Lesser)

Photographs of a range of forms of architecture, from wigwams to industrial buildings (Jeffery Howe)

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.

The Folger's Digital Image Collection offers online access to over 40,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more.

Poetic miscellanies are vital to understanding the diversity of eighteenth-century literary culture. In mapping the contents of these popular collections, the Digital Miscellanies Index will enable researchers to know, with greater precision and scope than ever before, who was reading what, when and how.

‘REED has for the last 25 years worked to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England before 1642′; includes extensive listing of online resources (Center for Research in Early English Drama)

Brief biographical information on hundreds of musicians, arranged within chronological sections, as well as an extensive bibliography (EXLibris)

Early Modern Architecture explores global, interdisciplinary frameworks for the architectural design and theory of Europe and its colonies, 1400-1800. This site particularly disseminates and opens up international scholarly exchange of innovative research and education. We seek to showcase new methodologies that link areas of architectural history, art history, and the humanities.

scholarly digital editions of an expanding range of 16th/17th-century non-Shakespearean English plays, which aims ‘to bring these plays to light and make them readily accessible to students, scholars, actors, and general readers, in the form of critical, fully annotated editions’ (Digital Renaissance Editions)