ARTFL Project: Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Texts, dictionaries, and reference works. Some public resources available; other resources by subscription.
Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe
The exhibition “The Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe” is now permanently available on an interactive website. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were an age of confessional polemic. After the beginning of the Reformation in 1517, church history presented a challenge to each confession in its own right. Protestants aimed to explain, through examples from history, why error had come into the Church after apostolic times and after centuries of decadence the Reformation had become necessary. Catholics argued, on the other hand, that the Church had always remained the same. Protestants also doubted specific key events in church history. They asserted, for example, that St. Peter had never been in Rome, so that the Petrine tradition, on which the papacy based its own primacy, was invalid. Catholics, of course, never doubted Peter’s stay in Rome. Many other such polemical arguments were thrown back and forth, making church history a hot battleground of the confessional struggle. A large number of the books exhibited are from the collection of Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of York (1546–1628).
Arkyves: A Databse of Early Modern Imagery
Arkyves is a website that offers a single access point to a variety of scholarly databases of early modern sources, such as emblems, printer’s devices, fables, adages, mythography, and typography. Its focus is on subject indexing. Subject queries can be done in English, French, Italian and German. By subscription.
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition
Images of legal documents from medieval and early modern England from the National Archives in London digitized and displayed through the O’Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and Department of History. Useful to anyone working on English history, literature, law, or culture.
A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550-1563, by Henry Machan
An electronic scholarly edition created by Richard W. Bailey, Marilyn Miller, and Colette Moore. The edition gives a complete inventory of material required by scholars and readers: images of the manuscript, a faithful transcript of those images, and a rendering in modern English of this fascinating document.
Digital editions and analysis of an important corpus of 16th-century works founded on contrapuntal borrowing.
A brand new digital edition of the music settings of Torquato Tasso’s poetry, c. 1570–1640.
A digital research project dedicated to a repertory of polyphonic songs from mid-sixteenth-century France, featuring facsimiles of printed books of music, a chanson database, and a music reconstruction project.
The fruits of an active research network on soundscapes in the early modern era, featuring a blog, bibliography, and list of relevant websites, as well as information on past and future workshops and conferences.
Digitized collection of over 300 printed books of music held in the British Library.
