European History: The Renaissance
Reference
- Renaissance and Reformation - Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowThe field of Renaissance and Reformation studies, which has a critical importance for the understanding of Western culture, can best be approached through a combination of several disciplines including history, the arts, and literature. Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation is designed to provide authoritative guidance (Oxford Univ. Press).
Primary Sources
- Early European Books This link opens in a new windowCurrently, Rice University owns access to Collections 1-10 and 13.
- Early English Books Online-- Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) This link opens in a new windowSearchable and downloadable handmade transcriptions of thousands of texts from the Early English Books Online database.
- Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowBibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, Festschriften, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogs).
- Monumenta Germaniae historicaA comprehensive collection of primary sources for the study of German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. Contains digital images of the complete text of all published volumes of MGH up to the year 2000. Also in print -- search the catalog under "series".
- Patrologiae Graecae This link opens in a new windowMigne's Patrologiae Graecae contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. Edited by J.-P. Migne, it was published in print in the nineteenth century and is now made available electronically for the first time.
More Primary Sources
Perseus Digital Library
Originating out of the Classics Department at Tufts University, this Website now includes primary and secondary resources in Classics, the English Renaissance, and more.
Medici Archive Project
An ongoing mission to digitize and transcribe one of the most exhaustive and complete courtly archives of early modern Europe: the Medici Granducal Archival Collection (Mediceo del Principato). This archival collection ― comprising over four-million letters distributed in 6,429 volumes and occupying a mile of shelf space ― covers a chronological span of two hundred years, from 1537 to 1743. It documents the political, diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military and medical culture of early modern Tuscany and Europe.
The World of Dante
A multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
The TLG Digital Library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words.