Web Resources
Primary Texts Online
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
- Classics Archive (texts in translation)
- Herodotus
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
- Neo-Latin (bibliography of on-line Neo-Latin texts)
- Perseus Digital Texts
- Vergil
- The Aberdeen Bestiary
- Boethius: Consolatio philosophiae
- Byzantium: The Byzantine Studies Page
- The Canterbury Tales Project
- Gower: Confessio Amantis
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Medieval and Renaissance Documents
- Medieval Women’s Latin Letters
- Vincent of Beauvais (biography, bibliography, editions, and more)
- *Alciato (Memorial University; emblems in Latin and English)
- ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language), incl. *French Women Writers Project
- Boccaccio: The Decameron
- Early English Books Online
- Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies (includes the Erasmus Online Database)
- The John Milton Reading Room
- Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
- Luminarium: Renaissance English Literature (links to texts and resources)
- Medieval and Renaissance Documents
- The Orlando Project (A history of women’s writing in Britain)
- Perdita (Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Compilations)
- Renascence Editions
- *Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (Latin texts on music from the late antiquity to the seventeenth century)
- Women Writers Project
Renaissance Scholarship Online
- Archive for Reformation History
- Cahiers Elisabéthains
- Confraternitas
- English Literary History
- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Early Theatre
- Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento
- Milton Quarterly
- Renaissance Forum
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
- The English Literary Renaissance
- The Seventeenth Century
- The Sixteenth Century Journal
Reformation & Renaissance Resources Online
- Religion
- Bible
- The Bible Gateway (King James version)
- The Concise Matthew Henry Commentary
- Vulgate (with King James translation)
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Book History
- *Early Modern English Library Catalogues: A Working Bibliography
- Consortium Of European Research Libraries (CERL): Bibliographical Data
- British Library Book-bindings Database*
- Bavarian Incunabula
- SHARP Web
- *Sixteenth-Century Italian Editions
- *Index of Prohibited Books from the Roman Office of the Inquisition, 1559
- The Early Modern Pamphlets Online (full access requires institutional account)
- Renaissance Books and Paleography
- Aberdeen Bestiary
- Art Serve (art and architecture from the Mediterranean basin)
- *Art History Resources
- Medieval & Renaissance Maps
- Bodleian Map Room
- *Historic Cities (Contemporary maps of European cities)
- Images of Early Maps on the Web
- Wenceslaus Hollar Collection (from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto)
Selected Library Collections and Databases
- University of Toronto Libraries (also offers access to other library databases, including the Center for Research Libraries, the Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada)
- Victoria University Library (University of Toronto)
- National Library of Canada (Ottawa)
- Belgium
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Italy (including the Vatican)
- Spain
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Archives Hub (descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges)
- *COPAC (consortium of UK OPACs)
- British Library
- The National Archives
- National Library of Ireland
- National Library of Scotland
- National Library of Wales
- University of Glasgow: Stirling Maxwell Collection (emblem books)
- London University, School of Advanced Study (including the Warburg Institute)
- Bodleian Library
- Oxford University OPAC
- Cathedral Libraries Catalogue of Books Printed before 1701
- Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section
- Scottish Archive Network
- Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
- Archives and Manuscript Collections (outside Columbia Univ)
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Hamnet (Folger Library Catalogue)
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
- Library of Congress
- Newberry Library
- Ambrosiana Archive (Univ of Notre Dame)
- Yale University Library
Societies & Institutes, by Country
- Canadian Historical Association
- Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
- Centre For Medieval Studies, Univ of Toronto
- The Society for Confraternity Studies
- Erasmus of Rotterdam Society
- Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
- Canadian Society of Medievalists
- Poculi Ludique Societas, Toronto
- Records of Early English Drama (REED), Toronto
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
- Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
- The Renaissance Society of America
- Centre d’Etudes Elisabethaines
- Centre d’Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance
- Centre d’Histoire des Reformes et du Protestantisme de Montpellier
- *Centre de Recherche sur l’Histoire Sociale et Culturelle de l’Occident XXIIe – XVIIe Siecle
- Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Renaissance Italienne (CIRRI)
- *Centre V.L. Saulnier de Recherche sur la Creation Litteraire en France au XVIe Siecle
- Institut d’Histoire de la Pensee Classique, Institut Claude Longeon
- *Moreanum – Amici Thomae Mori
- *Societas Internationalis Studiis Neolatinis Provehendis
- Societe de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Francais
- *Societe Francaise d’Etude du Seizieme Siecle
- *Societe Internationale des Amis de Montaigne
- *Augustana
- *Institute of Renaissance Intellectual History (Munich)
- *Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellchaft
- Leibniz-Institut fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz
- *Insitut fur Spatmittelalter und Reformation
- Petrarca-Institut Bibliothek und Forschungsstelle der Universitat zu Koln
- Zentrum zur Erforschung der Fruhen Neuzeit (Renaissance-Institut)
- International Association for Neo-Latin Studies
- Instituts für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte
- *Institut fur Schweizerische Reformationscheschicte – Heinrich Bullinger-Briefwechseledition
- *L’Institut d’Etudes Medievales
- *Institut fur Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte
- Institut d’Histoire de la Reformation
- Zweingliverein
- Societies and Institutes – ItalyMuseo Galileo (former Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence)
- Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence)
- Academia Raffaello
- Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut fur Kunstgeschichte
- Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur le Voyage en Italie (C.I.R.V.I)
- Centro di Studi Sorani “Vincenzo Patriarca”
- Centro di Studi sulla Cultura el’Immagine di Roma
- Centro di Studi Matteo Bandello e la Cultura Rinascimentale
- Instituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento Meridionale
- Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Umanistici
- Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi Sull’Alto Medioevo
- Centro Interdipartimentale per Ricerche di Filosofia Medievale
- Instituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno del CNR. Sezione di Milano
- Fondazione Centro Studi Rinascimento Musicale
- Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale
- Deutsches Historiches Institut in Rom – Instituto Storico Germanico di Roma
- The Casa Buonarroti Foundation
- “Europa delle Corti” Centro Studi sulle Societa di Antico Regime
- Instituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (INSR)
- Institute of Medieval Thought, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
- Museo Galileo (former Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence)
- Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence)
- Academia Raffaello
- Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut fur Kunstgeschichte
- Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur le Voyage en Italie (C.I.R.V.I)
- Centro di Studi Sorani “Vincenzo Patriarca”
- Centro di Studi sulla Cultura el’Immagine di Roma
- *Centro di Studi Matteo Bandello e la Cultura Rinascimentale
- Instituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento Meridionale
- Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Umanistici
- Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi Sull’Alto Medioevo
- *Centro Interdipartimentale per Ricerche di Filosofia Medievale
- Instituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno del CNR. Sezione di Milano
- Fondazione Centro Studi Rinascimento Musicale
- *Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale
- Deutsches Historiches Institut in Rom – Instituto Storico Germanico di Roma
- *The Casa Buonarroti Foundation
- *“Europa delle Corti” Centro Studi sulle Societa di Antico Regime
- Instituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (INSR)
- Institute of Medieval Thought, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
- Leiden Centre for Early-Modern Studies
- *Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy (Nijmegen University)
- Erasmus of Rotterdam Society
- *Williamite Universe
- *Centre d’études sur le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance (CEMR)
- *Transitions:
- *Centre d’études du Moyen Âge tardif & de la première Modernité
- *Institut interuniversitaire pour l’Étude de la Renaissance et de l’Humanisme
- Henri Pirenne Institute for Mmedieval Studies
- Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae
- Société d’Études Latines de Bruxelles – Latomus
- *Conseil International pour l’Edition des Oeuvres Completes d’Erasme
- Societe Internationale pour l’Etude du Theatre Medieval (SITM)
- Society for Renaissance Studies
- Bibliographical Society
- Courtauld Institute
- Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
- *Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies (University of Durham)
- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- *Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Tudor Studies (University of Kent at Canterbury)
- Centre for Early Modern Studies (University of Aberdeen)
- Center for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick)
- *The Shakespeare Institute (Stratford-on-Avon)
- Hakluyt Society
- *Institute for Historical Research
- The Public Record Office (UK National Archives)
- *Reformation Studies Institute (St Andrew’s University)
- *Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
- *Warburg Institute
- Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
- Dante Society of America
- Medieval Academy of America
- Renaissance Society of America
- The American Boccaccio Association
- The American Cusanus Society
- De re militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
- South-Central Renaissance Conference
- The Cervantes Society of America
- Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance
- *The Francis Bacon Foundation
- International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
- The John Donne Society
- Margaret Cavendish Society
- Medieval Academy of America
- The San Francisco Early Music Society
- *Medieval Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
- Milton Society of America
- Medieval-Renaissance Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
- Renaissance Conference of Southern California
- Renaissance Seminar Records, University of Chicago
- Renaissance English Text Society
- Richard III Society – American Branch
- Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
- Shakespeare Association of America
- Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
- Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
- Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
- The Spenser Society
- The Thomas More Society of America
- Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar
- SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference
- ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
- Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghampton University
- *Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University
- Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Florida
- Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
- *Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland
- Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- The H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
- The Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (IRCPS)
- International Center of Medieval Art
- Jacobs School of Music, Early Music Institute, Indiana University
- Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
- Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
- The Shelby Culluom Davis Center for Historical Studies
