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Reference

Contents

  • Bibliographies
  • E-journals
  • Paleography
  • Other useful tools

Key resources and guides for research and study of the early modern period, scholarly open access journals, dictionaries and other tools.

Bibliographies

Bach bibliography
fully searchable database of academic works on or relating to Bach studies
  • music
Culinary and dietetic texts of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800
site dedicated to the study of historical texts on cookery, food, nutrition and dietetics, with a particular interest in German texts
  • books
  • consumption
  • europe
Electronic Library of Historiography
database with links to e-texts of important historical works of the 16th to 20th centuries
  • books
  • learning
The French Revolution at the Grassroots
a bibliography of scholarly work on villages, towns and rural areas during the Revolutionary period
  • c18th
  • france
  • politics
Gay and lesbian history bibliography
a wide-ranging bibliography of secondary sources, with substantial early modern/18th century material
  • society
Marlowe Bibliography Online
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
Mary Rowlandson and captivity narratives
selective bibliography of secondary sources
  • americas
  • colonial
Medieval and early modern wills and probate inventories
bibliography for scholars using wills and inventories in research and teaching
  • law
  • material culture
  • society
Novel in Europe 1670-1730
database of bibliographical information about early novels
  • books
  • literature
Pre-modern Scottish women
an annotated bibliography of secondary sources
  • scotland
  • women
The Stuart Successions Project
project on succession literature in c17th Britain, with bibliographical database of writing from 1603 to 1702
  • britain
  • literature
  • politics
Taste in the eighteenth century
short bibliography of primary and secondary sources
  • consumption
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E-journals

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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
CERAE : An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
a peer-reviewed Australasian journal of medieval and early modern studies
  • general
Common-place
exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture
  • americas
  • cultures
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and his contemporaries
a peer-reviewed online journal celebrating the works and culture of the eighteenth century
  • c18th
  • cultures
  • literature
Early Modern Culture Online
an open-access, peer reviewed ejournal on Renaissance and Early Modern culture
  • arts
  • literature
Early Modern Digital Review
A peer-reviewed journal that publishes reviews on digital projects related to early modern society and culture
  • general
Early Modern Japan: an interdisciplinary journal
a publication of the Early Modern Japan Network, an interdisciplinary, international community of specialists of early modern Japan
  • east asia
Early Modern Literary Studies
a refereed journal for English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • cultures
  • literature
Early Modern Low Countries
A multidisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries.
  • europe
Early Modern Studies Journal
annually-published online journal devoted to literary and cultural topics of study in the medieval and early modern periods
  • cultures
  • literature
Journal of Early Modern Studies
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
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
JHNA publishes peer-reviewed articles that focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period
  • arts
  • netherlands
Journal of the Northern Renaissance
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: a journal of 18th-century art and 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
Laberinto: an e-journal of early modern Hispanic literatures and culture
journal dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary connections among literary and cultural texts
  • arts
  • cultures
  • literature
  • spain
Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online
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
The Spenser Review is an online journal published three times a year
  • literature
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Paleography

English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course
online palaeography course, focused on English manuscript sources
  • britain
French Renaissance Paleography
A resource for learning to read early modern French handwriting.
  • france
Italian Paleography
A resource for learning to read early modern Italian handwriting.
  • italy
Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800
a practical online tutorial
  • general
Scottish Handwriting 1500-1750
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

Book Owners Online
a directory of historical book owners, with information about their libraries, and signposts to further sources
  • books
Early Modern Hands (1450-1700)
a database to aid identification of early modern hands and study them according to various criteria
  • general
Ian's English Calendar
online handbook of dates for English history and literature
  • general
Lexicons of Early Modern English
database of English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works
  • language
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Links last checked: January 2025
with extra spot checks and updates in August 2025