Sites of interest for Renaissance Studies
Gateways | Discussion groups | Organisations | Other sites of interest
These listings are selected and in no way comprehensive or exhaustive. Click on a heading above to move to that section.
Gateways
Quality-controlled subject gateways to Renaissance studies resources - go to the subject indexes, and select eg Renaissance or early modern literature, drama, poetry, theatre resources
- Backstage a performing arts gateway for the UK - funded as part of the Research Support Libraries Programme
- BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries): Literature and rhetoric
- Intute: Humanities
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies Web
- Renaissance History and Renaissance Literature from Academic Info
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English
Discussion groups
- JISCmail - national academic mailing list service facilitating discussion, collaboration and communication within the UK academic community and beyond
Organisations
- Arts and Humanities Research Council - supporting research into the arts and humanities
- British Academy - the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences
- English Subject Centre - part of the Higher Education Academy - supports the teaching of English literature, language and creative writing in UK Higher Education
- Society for Renaissance Studies founded in 1967 to provide a forum for those interested in any aspect of the study of the Renaissance
Other sites of interest
- A2A: Access to archives contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.
- British History Online from the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
- Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (CERES) hosted by the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and aimed at those working in the area of English Renaissance literature.
- Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies the CRRS is a library and research centre devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700, from the University of Toronto
- Early Modern Cartographic Resources on the World Wide Web from Rhonda Lemke Sanford at the University of Colorado
- Early Modern England Source: Research Resources Many links to archives, bibliographies, libraries, Public Records Offices, e-journals and e-texts
- Elizabethan authors: texts, resources and authorship studies from Robert Brazil and Barboura Flues
- English handwriting 1500 - 1700: an online course
- Gombrich Archive articles and more from the art historian Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich
- John Foxe's Book of Martyrs This Variorum Edition concentrates on the four English editions of Foxe’s martyrology published in London during his own lifetime: those of 1563 ; 1570 ; 1576 and 1583.
- Literary Resources - Renaissance part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch, English Department, Rutgers University, Newark.
- Luminarium 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) - combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature.
- History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents links to full text sites
- Online Literary Criticism Collection From the Internet Public Library (IPL), can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
- Perseus Renaissance Collection A growing compilation of texts and resources pertaining to the early modern period in England. Begun with an electronic edition of the complete works of Christopher Marlowe, it now includes a facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays and several resources from the period.
- Renaissance Electronic Texts A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period.
- Renaissance Festival books view 253 (selected from the British Library's collection) that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700.
- Renaissance secrets (based in part on a television series) Open University/BBC, this site addresses four different historical questions, along with providing material on the practice and art of writing about and understanding history.
- Shakespeare in Quarto the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by William Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642.
- Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance from Internet Shakespeare Editions
- Thomas Middleton: the collected works
- Touchstone a research tool for Shakespeare research in the United Kingdom.
