Resources
The associations and resources listed below may be useful to professionals and students of Medieval and Renaissance studies. If you have other suggestions or find a link that needs updating please send us an e-mail, at jgoodhind@hfa.umass.edu.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- English Department
- Comparative Literature
- History Department
- Music Department
- Du Bois Library
- History of Art & Architecture
- Five College Consortium
Databases & Other Resources
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- Early Modern English Drama Database (EMED)
- British Book Illustrations
- Digital Library of Dutch Literature
- Luminarium
- Manuscripta Mediaevalia (German texts)
- Middle English Compendium
- Gallica Classique (medieval French texts)
- Open Source Shakespeare
- English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
- Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
- British History Online
- Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP)
- Records of Early English Drama (REED)-Patrons and Performances
- Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
- Politics, Literature and Theatrical Culture in London, 1625-1725
- The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Leeds Verse Database
- Union First Line Index
- Early Stuart Libels
- Broadside Ballad Archive
- National Archives
- Private Libraries of Renaissance England (PLRE)
- British Book Trade Index (BBTI)
- Perdita Manuscripts
- Cambridge Scriptorium
- Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive
- RBMS Resources
- Latin Place Names
- Latin Words in Imprints of Early Modern Books
- Reading Experience Database
- St. John's College, Cambridge Bindings
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Gazetteer of British Place Names
- William Whitaker's Words
- Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and 17th Century
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
- Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
- MLA International Bibliography
- MLA Directory of Periodicals
- Univ of Glasgow Emblems Site
- English Emblem Book Project
- British Printed Images to 1700
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL)
- Early Modern at the Beinecke
- Blogging the Renaissance
- Renaissance Lit
- Wynken de Worde
- Huntington Library-Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
- The Bibliographical Society: Electronic Publications
- Renascence Editions
- Plomer, Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers 1641-1667
- Online edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
- John Carter and Nicholas Barker, ABC for Book Collectors, 8th edition
- The Holinshed Project
Libraries
- The Folger Shakespeare Library (HAMNET)
- The Folger Shakespeare Library LUNA Image Database
- The Huntington Library
- The Newberry Library
- Houghton Library--Harvard (HOLLIS)
- Beinecke Library--Yale (ORBIS)
- Yale Finding Aid Database
- Harry Ransom Center
- Via Libri
- British Library (Integrated Catalogue)
- British Library-Manuscripts Catalogue
- British Library-Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)
- British Library-Database of Bookbindings
- The Bodleian Library (SOLO; Western MSS)
- The Library of Congress
- Birmingham Shakespeare Library
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Prints and Books
- Lambeth Palace Library
- World Cat
Centers for Renaissance and Medieval Studies
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Toronto)
- Warwick Center for the Study of the Renaissance
- Edinburgh University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies