Renaissance History
The purpose of this guide is to list relevant Internet sites, Library databases, electronic journals and printed reference sources relating to the Renaissance. This is not a comprehensive guide or gateway but rather a starting point to information in the area. Other useful resources will appear under General History.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
• Electronic journals generally provide access to the full text of articles via the Internet.
Latest list of Renaissance history ejournals, direct from the catalogue
Sixteenth Century Journal
The site contains table of contents for the journal from 1999+, and a bibliograhy from the articles.
The Library has the printed issues in Fisher Research 940.2 4, vol 1, 1970+.
NB Remember, there may be printed copies of the journals, especially earlier issues, in Fisher Research Library.
Other Ejournals
The Library does not subscribe to the online version of these journals, so the full text cannot be accessed via the Internet in the Library. The websites of these journals do provide abstracts of the articles though and some are received as print journals.
EIRC: Explorations in Renaissance Culture
The journal contains articles on literature, art and iconography, music, history, gender studies and culture. The webpage contains an index for vols 1, 1974+.
The journal itself is available at Monash University.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Full text sites
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
The full text of Jacob Burckhardt's standard work, translated by S.G.C. Middlemore. Printed copies are in Fisher Short Loan 914.5 5.
url: http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html
Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature, 1485 - 1603
The site contains biographical details of authors, links to the full text of their works, selected articles and essays, and further links available on the Internet. It has been created by Anniina Jokinen, who has used the Norton Anthology of English Literature, sixth edition, as the main authority for accuracy of dates and details.
url: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/
Renaissance Electronic Texts
These texts, including the Life and Death of Wolsey and Elizabethan homilies, has been created by the University of Toronto Library as a free resource. The original spelling is retained, and the texts are html and sgml coded documents rather than scanned facsimiles.
url: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html
Renascence Editions
An online repository of works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799. It includes 155 titles transcribed from the originals or from
later editions.
url: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
Subject directories
Literary Sources - The Renaissance
Links for Shakespeare, Erasmus, Cervantes and much more.
url: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ren.html
Renaissance Sites
An extensive list of links to sites on research, portraits, costumes, literature, food, husbandry, music, games, weapons, guilds and festivals.
url: http://renaissance.dm.net/sites.html
Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance & Seventeenth Century
Contains mainly links to English literature.
url: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749
Internet Sites
CERES: Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
Reviews new developments in electronic resources for research in the Renaissance, as well as relaying calls for papers and conference programmes.
url: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/
Digital Scriptorium: A Prototype Image Database and Visual Union Catalog Of Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts
An image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts. It consists of close to 10,000 color images from the joined holdings of the Berkeley and Columbia-affiliated libraries.
url: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/scriptorium/
RELICS: Renaissance Liturgical Imprints - A Census
A database of information about worship books printed before 1601. RELICS now includes information on over 8,890 titles.
url: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~davidcr/
Renaissance: the Elizabethan World
Features articles on life in Elizabethan England, heraldry, trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton and links to other Renaissance sites.
url: http://renaissance.dm.net/
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture
A Library of Congress Exhibition of Renaissance treasures from the Vatican Library.
url: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/toc.html
PRINTED RESOURCES
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance / Paul F. Grendler, editor in chief.
New York: Scribner's published in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999. 6 vols.
Fisher Ref 940.2303 20
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance / Thomas G. Bergin, consulting editor.
New York: Facts on File Publications, c1987.
Fisher Ref 940.210321 1
Historical dictionary of the Elizabethan world: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America / John A. Wagner.
Phoenix, Ariz : Oryx Press, 1999.
Fisher Ref 942.05503 1
Thames and Hudson dictionary of the Italian Renaissance / J.R. Hale, ed.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1995, c1981.
Fisher Ref 945.05 74 A
Bibliographies
Bibliography of British history, Tudor period, 1485-1603: issued under the direction of the American Historical Association and the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain / Conyers Read, ed.
2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1959
Fisher Ref 942.05016 1
Gender and sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Italy: a working bibliography / Patricia Simons.
[Sydney]: Power Institute of Fine Arts, c1988.
Fisher Short Loan 016.3053 2; Fisher Rare Books RB 378.944S M.Po1 24
Renaissance humanism, 1300-1550: a bibliography of materials in English / Benjamin G. Kohl.
New York: Garland Pub. Inc., 1985.
Fisher Research 016.94019 1
Biographies
Extraordinary women of the Medieval and Renaissance world: a biographical dictionary / Carole Levin ... [et al.].
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Fisher Research 920.7203 2
Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation /
Peter G. Bietenholz, editor.
Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1985-c1987. 3 vols.
Fisher Ref 879.8 E65 X 6
Indexes
Bibliographie annuelle de l'histoire de France du cinquième siècle á 1958.
Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1979+
Fisher Ref 944 6
Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance.
Genève, Librairie Droz. 1965+
Fisher Ref 940.605 2
Sixteenth century bibliography.
St. Louis, Mo.: Center for Reformation Research, 1975-1995
Fisher Research 016.2706
Primary Source collections
Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: a sourcebook / compiled by Kenneth R. Bartlett.
Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, c1992.
Fisher Short Loan 945.05 96
Early modern Englishwoman: a facsimile library of essential works /
Betty Travistsky &Patrick Cullen, general editors.
Aldershot, Hants, England: Scolar Press,1996-
pt.1. Printed writings, 1500-1640. - v.1. Anne Askew - v.2. By and attributed to Elizabeth Cary -
v.3. Katherine Parr - v.4. Jane Anger, Rachel Sowernam, and Constantia Munda - v.5.Admirable events
v.6.Philippe de Mornay, A discourse of life and death ; Antonius, a tragedie / by R. Garnier
v.7. Alice Sutcliffe - v.8. Margaret Tyler - v.9. Anne Wheathill - v.10. Mary Wroth Fisher
Research 820.8 399