Reference
Key resources and guides for research and study of the early modern period, scholarly open access journals, dictionaries and other tools.
Bibliographies
fully searchable database of academic works on or relating to Bach studies
- music
site dedicated to the study of historical texts on cookery, food, nutrition and dietetics, with a particular interest in German texts
- books
- consumption
- europe
database with links to e-texts of important historical works of the 16th to 20th centuries
- books
- learning
a bibliography of scholarly work on villages, towns and rural areas during the Revolutionary period
- c18th
- france
- politics
a wide-ranging bibliography of secondary sources, with substantial early modern/18th century material
- society
The Marlowe Bibliography Online is intended to facilitate scholarship on the works of Christopher Marlowe by providing a searchable annotated bibliography of relevant scholarship
- drama
- literature
selective bibliography of secondary sources
- americas
- colonial
bibliography for scholars using wills and inventories in research and teaching
- law
- material culture
- society
database of bibliographical information about early novels
- books
- literature
an annotated bibliography of secondary sources
- scotland
- women
project on succession literature in c17th Britain, with bibliographical database of writing from 1603 to 1702
- britain
- literature
- politics
short bibliography of primary and secondary sources
- consumption
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E-journals
open access journal for all aspects of women in arts 1640-1830, especially literature, visual arts, music, performance art, film criticism, and production arts
- arts
- women
a peer-reviewed Australasian journal of medieval and early modern studies
- general
exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture
- americas
- cultures
a peer-reviewed online journal celebrating the works and culture of the eighteenth century
- c18th
- cultures
- literature
an open-access, peer reviewed ejournal on Renaissance and Early Modern culture
- arts
- literature
A peer-reviewed journal that publishes reviews on digital projects related to early modern society and culture
- general
a publication of the Early Modern Japan Network, an interdisciplinary, international community of specialists of early modern Japan
- east asia
a refereed journal for English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- cultures
- literature
A multidisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries.
- europe
annually-published online journal devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods
- cultures
- literature
an open access peer-reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion on issues concerning all aspects of early modern European culture
- europe
- general
JHNA publishes peer-reviewed articles that focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period
- arts
- netherlands
a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal dedicated to the study of both the cultural productions and the concept of the Northern Renaissance
- arts
- europe
- learning
- material culture
Journal18 is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the art and culture of the long eighteenth century from around the globe.
- arts
- cultures
journal dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary connections among literary and cultural texts
- arts
- cultures
- literature
- spain
An open access online journal on the broad field of research on the material culture of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.
- material culture
The Spenser Review is an online journal published three times a year
- literature
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Paleography
online palaeography course, focused on English manuscript sources
- britain
A resource for learning to read early modern French handwriting.
- france
A resource for learning to read early modern Italian handwriting.
- italy
a practical online tutorial
- general
online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists and other researchers in reading manuscript historical records, emphasising practical help to improve skills
- scotland
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Other useful tools
a directory of historical book owners, with information about their libraries, and signposts to further sources
- books
a database to aid identification of early modern hands and study them according to various criteria
- general
online handbook of dates for English history and literature
- general
database of English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works
- language
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