An online archive of digitized broadside ballads from American and European libraries. Includes ballad sheet facsimiles, facsimile transcriptions, and recordings, and an extensive catalog with basic and advanced search functions. Recently added features include a visualization tool for topic modeling, a woodcut search using image recognition, and ballad illustration costume book.
A fully searchable digital repository of depositions or witness testimonies from the 1641 Irish rebellion housed at Trinity College Dublin Library. The resource comprises transcripts and images of all 8,000 depositions, examinations, and associated materials which provide insight into the cultural, religious, and political history of seventeenth-century Ireland.
The site includes historical background, bibliographic resources, a detailed user guide, browsing, and search functions.
A search engine and database which contains every playbook published in England, Ireland, and Scotland through 1660. Includes information on author, theater company, printer, and paratextual material.
Data can also be exported in HTML, CSV, and XML formats.
A searchable database of 65,000+ links to freely accessible electronic texts and digitized photographic reproductions of Neo-Latin works, organized by author/commentator and title.
These scientific, religious, diplomatic, legal, and medical texts etc. are arranged by author, title, link, and subject. Included are notes on publication dates and edition.
Impressae. Women Printers in Early Modern Antwerp, Leuven and Douai
This project reconstructs the lives and work of women printers in Antwerp, Leuven and Douai during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, providing users with information about kinship and commercial networks, printing houses and rare books.
Books of Duchesses – Mapping Women Book Owners in Francophone Europe, 1350-1550
This project collects, organizes, and presents data related to late-medieval and early modern laywomen and their books. Through an interactive map of Europe, users are able to visualize networks of manuscripts, texts, and readers and explore the libraries and peregrinations of women book owners.
The data collected in the project has the potential to shift scholarly paradigms by challenging narratives of national literary history and uncovering the active role played by women in creating, consuming literary and material culture and in circulating texts across national, geographic, and generational borders.
Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17thc-Dutch Republic
The project aims to explore and visualize how knowledge circulated during the booming scientific revolution of the 17th-century. The CKCC project built a web application called ePistolarium. With this application researchers can browse and analyze around 20,000 letters that were written by and sent to 17th century scholars who lived in the Dutch Republic. Moreover, the ePistolarium enables visualizations of geographical, time-based, social network and co-citation inquiries.
This is a database of some 3,600 citizenship privileges conferred on some 4,000 immigrants to Venice, from the twelfth century (one case) to the year 1500. The search program is easy to use; an introduction to the database is Reinhold C. Mueller’s Immigrazione e cittadinanza nella Venezia medievale, Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie 1, Rome: Viella, 2010.
This HERA-funded project investigated the role of foreign consorts as agents, instruments or catalysts of cultural and dynastic transfer in early modern Europe (1500-1800). The consorts studied were chosen because they revealed cultural synergies between northern (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Britain), eastern (Poland-Lithuania), and southern (Italy, Spain, Portugal) Europe and that enabled them to interrogate modern notions of centre and periphery, nationhood and dynastic.
Emblematica Online draws from the most important collections of emblematica worldwide. It is hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and its founding partner is the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. Contributing partners include Glasgow University Library and Utrecht University, which contributed both book- and emblem-level data. Additional contributors include the Getty Research Institute Library, Newberry Libaray, and Duke University Library, both of which contributed book-level information. Scholars can freely access 1,406 full digital facsimiles of these rare books as well as search for individual emblems across collections.
