Early Modern Resources is a research portal for the early modern period (c.1500-1800 CE). It only lists websites that are free to access and focuses on high-quality resources that are suitable for advanced research, study and teaching.
Important note
Regular visitors will have already noticed that the site looks a bit different! This is a temporary version with limited features. There is no search; individual resource pages with more detailed descriptions haven’t yet been rebuilt. Nonetheless, its listings are near complete and I hope to be able to reintroduce all or most of the missing elements in the next few months. ~~ Sharon Howard, February 2021
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Substantial digital editions of full text transcriptions, usually searchable and/or downloadable; many have accompanying page images
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High-quality image libraries of texts and documents, usually with searchable metadata but not full text
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Collections of images of artworks, artefacts and maps (again, usually with searchable metadata)
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Databases or calendars, mainly containing abstracts or summary information about sources rather than full transcriptions/images
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Anthologies: transcriptions of personally selected collections of texts or single texts; may be full text or extracts; probably more suited to teaching than in-depth research
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Bibliographies
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Open access e-journals
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Palaeography and transcription resources
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Dictionaries and language resources
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Useful tools
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Exhibits: multimedia presentations in which objects and images are the primary focus, with varying degrees of textual analysis or narrative
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Text essays: text-based (or primarily so) articles, analyses and commentaries; relatively conventional and ‘print-like’ in form
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Hypertext essays: more heavily textual than exhibits, but created for the Web to exploit its hyperlinking and multimedia capabilities