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Secondary sources
Open-access resources, ranging from online publications and web pages to videos and courses. Some files are large and may take a bit of time to load.
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| AUTHOR/EDITOR | TITLE | DATE | CONTENT TYPE | DETAILS | FORMAT/SOURCE | LINK |
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| BARAZ, Daniel. | Medieval Cruelty: Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. | 2019 | Book: Partial | "Daniel Baraz makes the striking discovery that the concept of cruelty, which had been an important issue in late antiquity, received little attention in the medieval period before the thirteenth century. From that point on, interest in cruelty increased until it reached a peak late in the sixteenth century." | Google Books preview |  |
| BENGER, Elizabeth Ogilvy. | Memoirs of the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, volume 1. | 1823 | Book: Complete | An influential and original account of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. This first volume covers her formative years in France. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF | |
| BENGER, Elizabeth Ogilvy. | Memoirs of the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, volume 2. | 1823 | Book: Complete | The second volume of the life of Mary Queen of Scots, covering her tumultuous reign in Scotland, her imprisonment and her ultimate execution. | FLIPbook, text-searchable PDF | |
| BERENSMEYER, Ingo. | Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630-1700 | 2020 | Book: Complete | Berensmeyer explores connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading, noting the shift towards neoclassicism. | De Gruyter | |
| BLANNING, Tim. | Protestant Reformation and early modern English Culture. | 2013 | Video | This lecture by Tim Blanning provides insights into the major cultural impacts of the English Reformation, including effects on portraiture, architecture, universities, music, and the rise of English nationalism. | YouTube | |
| BRANDTZAED, Siv Gøril, Paul Goring and Christine Watson (editors). | Travelling Chronicles News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century. | 2018 | Book: Complete | A collection of papers by leading scholars in the field of news studies, presenting fourteen episodes in the history of news and newspapers. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Brill Open Access | |
| BROCK, Mikki, and Chris Langley. | Mapping the Scottish Reformation. | 2022 | Video | An introduction to the National Records of Scotland database, Mapping the Scottish Reformation. | YouTube | |
| BRUNTON, Deborah. | Early Modern Europe: an introduction. | Online course | A basic introduction to the early modern period. | The Open University | |
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| BURRUS, Virginia. | Sex Lives of Saints: An erotics of ancient hagiography. | 2010 | Book: Partial | "Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus [argues] that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive 'countereroticism' that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition." | Google Books preview | |
| BUTTERWORTH, Charles C. | English Primers (1529-1545). | 1953 | Book: Complete | Butterworth gives a detailed account of these English-language textbooks, which contained the basic prayers and religious teachings of Christianity, and which played a significant role in promoting both literacy and Protestantism among the common people. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF. Digitised by the Internet Archive. | |
| CAULFIELD, James. | The History of the Gun-Powder Plot, with Several Historical Circumstances Prior to that Event. | 1804 | Book: Complete | A Protestant account. Caulfield provides a comprehensive narrative of the events and circumstances surrounding the Gunpowder Plot from a historical perspective. The book connects the Gunpowder Plot to broader alleged plots by Roman Catholics to re-establish Catholicism as the dominant religion in England, and presents the Gunpowder Plot as part of the wider religious conflicts and tensions between Protestants and Catholics in early 17th century England. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Digitised by Google Books | |
| CLARKE, Elizabeth, et al. | Perdita Project. | 1997- | External link | "An open-access, online, descriptive catalogue of manuscripts written or compiled by British women between 1500 and 1700, housed at Warwick University." Contains “everything but the text”. | Website | |
| CLELAND, Katharine. | Irregular Unions. Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature. | 2021 | Book: Complete | A "literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England, revealing its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time". Through an examination of such works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Cleland "argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England". | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Cornell Open | |
| CONTI, Brooke. | Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England. | 2014 | Book: Partial | Examines such works as Milton's political tracts, Donne's polemical and devotional prose, Browne's Religio Medici, and Bunyan's Grace Abounding in the context of the contemporary political climate, and showing how autobiography was used to negotiate political, personal, and psychological demands. | Google Books preview | |
| COOLAHAN,Marie-Louise, et al. | Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (RECIRC). | 2014-2020 | External link | "A research project about the impact made by women writers and their works in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | Website | |
| DAS, Nandini (editor). | Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England | 2021 | Book: Complete | Following the model of Raymond Williams’s Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), these essays "analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period". | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF European Research Council | |
| DAS, Nandini (editor). | Lives in Transit in Early Modern England. | 2022 | Book: Complete | Twenty-four case studies illustrating how questions of mobility and transculturality were negotiated in practice in the early modern world. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF European Research Council | |
| D'AUBIGNÉ, Jean-Henri Merle. | History of the Reformation, volumes 1-4. | 1847 | Book: Complete | D'Aubigné's work gave 19th-century Protestants a comprehensive account of their religious heritage from the Reformation, written from an evangelical perspective that emphasized its biblical foundations and opposition to Catholic doctrine and practices. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Digitised by the Internet Archive | |
| D'AUBIGNÉ, Jean-Henri Merle. | History of the Reformation, volume 5: The Reformation in England, volume 5. | [1853] | Book: Complete | The fifth volume, giving an account of the English Reformation of the 16th century. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Digitised by the Internet Archive | |
| DAVIES, Simon F., and Puck Fletcher (editors). | News in Early Modern Europe: Currents and Connections. | 2014 | Book: Complete | An interdisciplinary study of the production and dissemination of news in early modern Europe. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Brill / Knowledge Unlatched | |
| DEGENHARDT, Jane Hwang, Elizabeth Williamson (editors). | Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The performance of religion on the Renaissance stage. | 2011 | Book: Partial | "Focusing on the plays of Shakespeare as well as a range of other playwrights, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays." | Google Books preview | |
| DICKENS, A.G. | English Reformation. | 1966 (1964) | Book: Complete | The second edition. Dickens traces the Reformation to its late medieval roots, through to the Elizabethan Settlement and the rise of puritanism. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Digitised by the Internet Archive. | |
| DUFFY, Eamon. | Stripping of the Altars: Traditional religion in England, c.1400-c.1580. | 2005 | Book: Partial | Duffy argues that the Catholic Church in England was rich and vibrant and the the Reformation was a violent - and, for many, unwelcome - disruption of hallowed traditions. | Google Books preview | |
| FAINI, Marco, and Marco Sgarbi (editors). | Errors, False Opinions and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe | 2023 | Book: Complete | This book explores the efforts at establishing religious, political, and scientific orthodoxy made by philosophers, doctors, philologists, scientists and theologians during the early modern period. Ranging geographically from Italy to France, England, and Germany, the articles gathered here provide stimulating glimpses into one of the most controversial aspects of early modern culture. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Firenze University Press | |
| FREEBURY-JONES, Darren, and Isabella Magni (editors). | Early Modern Digital Review | 2018- | Open-access online journal | Refereed journal publishing reviews of digital projects related to early modern society and culture, evaluating established digital resources and recent tools and projects. | Text-searchable PDFs |  |
| GASKILL, Malcolm. | Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy. | 2007 | Book: Partial | A detailed account of the activities of Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne. | Google Books preview | |
| GERARD, John. | What was the Gunpowder Plot? The traditional story tested by original evidence. | 1897 | Book: Complete | A Catholic perspective. Gerard argues that, rather than it being a genuine conspiracy by religious extremists. the plot was manipulated - or even instigated - by Robert Cecil, King James I's chief minister, as a means to justify the persecution of Catholics and consolidate his own power. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Digitised by Google Books | |
| GILLOW, Joseph. | Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary, of the English Catholics: from the breach with Rome, in 1534, to the present time. Volume 1 (Abbot to Curr). | 1885 | Book: Complete | Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics is a monumental five-volume work that provides biographical details on English Catholics from the Reformation period, making it an invaluable resource for researching Catholic family histories and the history of Catholicism in England during the penal times. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF From the Wellcome Collection, digitised by the Internet Archive | |
| GILLOW, Joseph. | Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary, of the English Catholics: from the breach with Rome, in 1534, to the present time. Volume 2 (Dacre to Gradwell). | 1885-1902 | Book: Complete | Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics is a monumental five-volume work that provides biographical details on English Catholics from the Reformation period, making it an invaluable resource for researching Catholic family histories and the history of Catholicism in England during the penal times. | From the Wellcome Collection, digitised by the Internet Archive | |
| GILLOW, Joseph. | Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary, of the English Catholics: from the breach with Rome, in 1534, to the present time. Volume 3 (Graham to Kemble). | 1885-1902 | Book: Complete | Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics is a monumental five-volume work that provides biographical details on English Catholics from the Reformation period, making it an invaluable resource for researching Catholic family histories and the history of Catholicism in England during the penal times. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF From the Wellcome Collection, digitised by the Internet Archive | |
| GILLOW, Joseph. | Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary, of the English Catholics: from the breach with Rome, in 1534, to the present time. Volume 4 (Kemeys to Metham). | 1885-1902 | Book: Complete | Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics is a monumental five-volume work that provides biographical details on English Catholics from the Reformation period, making it an invaluable resource for researching Catholic family histories and the history of Catholicism in England during the penal times. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF From the Wellcome Collection, digitised by the Internet Archive | |
| GILLOW, Joseph. | Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary, of the English Catholics: from the breach with Rome, in 1534, to the present time. Volume 5 (Meynell to Zoone). | 1885-1902 | Book: Complete | Gillow's Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics is a monumental five-volume work that provides biographical details on English Catholics from the Reformation period, making it an invaluable resource for researching Catholic family histories and the history of Catholicism in England during the penal times. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF From the Wellcome Collection, digitised by the Internet Archive | |
| GOODRICH, Jaime. | Faithful translators. | 2013 | Book: Complete | Women's translations of devotional and religious works in early modern England. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Swiss National Science Foundation Knowledge Unlatched | |
| HAIGH, Christopher. | English Reformations: Religion, politics, and society under the Tudors. | 2012 (1993) | Book: Partial | Haigh emphasises the insecurity of the sixteenth century, with its upheavals and reversals of religious policy, challenging the view that the success of Protestantism was inevitable. | Google Books preivew | |
| HOWARD, Sharon. | Gender and Defamation in York, 1660-1700. | 2015 | External Link | "A small but useful resource for research into early modern defamation, slander, gossip and defamation. | Website | |
| HOWARD, Sharon | London Lives Petition Project. | 2015 | External Link | Howard explores some 10,000 petitions and petitioning letters addressed to magistrates in the records of London and Middlesex Sessions of the Peace between 1690 and 1800. | Website |  |
| IRISH, Bradley. | Emotion in the Tudor Court. | 2018 | Book: Complete | Irish "argues that the dynamics of disgust, envy, rejection, and dread, as they are currently theorized in the modern affective sciences, can be seen to guide textual production in the early modern court". | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Northwestern University Press / Knowledge Unlatched | |
| JARDINE, Lisa, et al. Edited by Anthony Grafton, Nicholas Popper and William Sherman. | Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading. | 2024 | Book: Complete | Gabriel Harvey's copious marginal notes to the works of other writers offer a unique insight into | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF UCL Press | |
| LOEWENSTEIN, David, and Alison Shell (editors). | Early Modern Literature and England’s Long Reformation. | 2020 | Book: Partial | A collection of essays arguing that the Reformation extended well beyond the sixteenth century | Google Books preview | |
| LUIS-MARTÍNEZ, Zenón (editor). | Poetic Theory and Practice in Early Modern Verse | 2023 | Book: Complete | The essays in this book explore the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses, such as logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy, medicine, mythography and religion. Along with familiar figures like Reading canonical poets and critics – Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Puttenham and Dryden, the authors discuss a number of less well-known poets of the period, opening up for discussion the relationship between literary practice and the Renaissance theories from which they stemmed. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Edinburgh University Press | |
| LUNDQUIST, Shannon M. | Finding the Witch’s Mark: Female Participation in the Judicial System During the Hopkins Trials 1645-47 | 2014 | "Department Honors Project" | Women's role in the witch hunts of early modern Europe. Contributing factors, common accusations, methods of identifying witches, etc. | DigitalCommons@Hamline | |
| MALTBY, Judith. | Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. | 2000 | Book: Partial | Maltby focuses on "prayer book Protestants", that is, those who, out of personal conviction, conformed to the Church of England up to the outbreak of the Civil War. | Google Books preview | |
| MANSELL, Charmian. | Female Servants in Early Modern England. | 2024 | Book: Complete | Mansell draws on over 1000 testimonies drawn from English church court records of the experiences of women in domestic service between 1532 and 1649. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF British Academy Monographs | |
| MILWARD, Peter. | Elizabethan Controversialists. | 2022 | Book: Complete | This work is, in effect, Peter Milward's guided tour of his survey, Religious controversies of the Elizabethan age. Published posthumously. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Renaissance Monographs | |
| MONTA, Susannah Brietz. | Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England. | 2005 | Book: Partial | A study of the representation of Protestant and Catholic martyrs during the Reformation, illustrating the competing discourses of martyrdom, exploring a wide range of sources, many of which were popular in their day, but have since fallen into neglect and obscurity. | Google Books preview | |
| MYERS, Anne M. | Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England. | 2013 | Book: Complete | Examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF John Hopkins University Press / Project Muse | |
| NEWTON, Hannah. | '‘Rapt Up with Joy": Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England. | 2017 | Book chapter | "Newton argues that dying children expressed diverse and conflicting passions, from fear to ecstasy. The underlying question is to what extent children’s experiences differed from those of adults. While the range of emotions was similar, the preoccupations of children differed; these included a concern about surviving siblings, and a more vivid imagination of heaven. Through highlighting such distinctions, we come closer to what it was like to be an early modern child." | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Springer Link. | |
| OCKERBLOOM, Mary Bloom. | A Celebration of Women Writers. | 11994- | List | Women writers living in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | Web pages | |
| PALLOTTI, Donatella, and Paola Pugliatti. | Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS). | Since 2012 | Open-access online journal | This journal "promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion on ... early modern European culture" and "provides a platform for international scholarly debate ... over a wide disciplinary spectrum: literature, language, art, history, politics, sociology, religion and cultural studies". It is "open to a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations and encourages studies that develop understanding of the major problematic areas relating to the European Renaissance". | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Firenze University Press | |
| POLLOCK, John. | The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II. | 1903 | Book: Complete | Pollock provides a detailed analysis of the plot's key players, from Oates himself to the perjured witnesses who corroborated his lies, and the judges and politicians who exploited the panic for their own ends. The book examines how the plot's fabricators manipulated public opinion through rumor and propaganda, leading to the execution of many innocent Catholics on the flimsiest of evidence. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Digitised by the Internet Archive. | |
| PORTER, Chloe. | Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama - Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion. | 2014 | Book: Complete | This book focuses on "the prevalence and significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in early modern plays" and "explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world." | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Manchester University Press Knowledge Unlatched | |
| QUESTIER, Michael. | Catholics and Treason: Martyrology, Memory, and Politics in the Post-Reformation. | 2022 | Book: Partial | Questier illustrates the ways in which early modern English Catholics described and defined themselves, drawing on contemporary narratives relating to the application to Catholics of the law of treason. | Google Books preview | |
| QUESTIER, Michael. | Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625. | 1996 | Book: Partial | This study concentrates on the experience of individual converts in the context of the political implications of conversion. Questier explores the ways in which people were exhorted to change religion, how they experienced conversion, and how they faced demands for Protestant conformity. | Google Books preview | |
| RAGNOW, Marguerite and William D. Phillips Jr (editors). | Religious Conflict and Accommodation in the Early Modern World. | 2011 | Book: Complete | These essays, arising from a conference inspired by the 2001 al-Quaeda attacks on the United States, demonstrate the relevance of early modern religious conflict to today's world. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing | |
| ROYAL, Susan Ann. | John Foxe's Acts and Monuments and the Lollard Legacy in the Long English Reformation. | 2013 | PhD Thesis | A study of the extent to which the Lollards of the late Middle Ages influenced the Protestant Reformation in England. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Durham University e-Theses | |
| RYAN, Salvador (editor). | Domestic Devotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. | 2020 | Book: Complete | A collection of papers investigating "the degree to which the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm intersected with the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings". The geographical range covers most of Europe, and there are chapters on Judaism and Islam, along with those on Christianity. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Mutidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | |
| RYRIE, Eric. | Being Protestant in Reformation Britain. | 2013 | Book: Partial | "Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640, drawing on a rich mixture of contemporary devotional works, sermons, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies to uncover the lived experience of early modern Protestantism." | Google Books preview | |
| RYRIE, Eric. | Liturgical Commemoration of the English Reformation, 1534-1635. | 2020 | Essay | "This essay considers one of the most resounding silences of the English post-Reformation: how the Reformation was or, mostly, was not commemorated in the Church of England’s liturgical life." This essay went on to become a chapter in Memory and the English Reformation (2020), edited by Alexandra Walsham et al. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Durham Research Online | |
| SCHINDLER, Kilian. | Religious Dissimulation and Toleration in Early Modern England. | 2023 | Book: Complete | Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Cambridge Core Open Access | |
| SKUSE, Alanna. | Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England. | 2021 | Book: Complete | Skuse explores early modern attitudes towards the altered body, from mastectomy to castration and amputation to facial reconstruction. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Cambridge University Press and the Wellcome Trust | |
| TARANTINO, Giovanni, and Charles Zika (editors). | Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe. | 2019 | Book: Complete | A study of the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Taylor & Francis open access | |
| THOMSON, Andrew. | Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England | 2022 | Book: Complete | A survey of three dioceses across the course of the seventeenth century, covering such issues as attendance at court, completion of business and the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. This study challenges orthodox perceptions of excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues of the times. | University College of London Press | |
| TODD, Margot (editor). | Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England. | 1995 | Book: Partial | An introduction to the historiographical debates about politics and religion in early modern England. | Google Books preview | |
| TYACKE, Nicholas (editor). | England's Long Reformation: 1500-1800 | 2003 | Book: Partial | Challenges the notion that the Reformation was purely a 16th-century phenomenon and takes a broader look at "the making of a Protestant nation" over three centuries. | Google Books Preview | |
| WALSHAM, Alexandra. | Church Papists: Catholicism, conformity and confessional polemic in early modern England. | 1999 | Book: Partial | "Church papists" were Catholics who, unlike recusants, conformed outwardly to the requirement to attend Church of England services. The focus on recusants led to the neglect of this sizeable number of Elizabethans, whose role and relevance is demonstrated in this seminal work. | Google Books preview | |
| WALSHAM, Alexandra, Bronwyn Wallace, Ceri Law, Brian Cummings (editors). | Memory and the English Reformation. | 2020 | Book: Partial | "Examining dissident as well as official versions , this richly illustrated, interdisciplinary collection traces how memory of the religious revolution evolved in the two centuries following the Henrician schism, and how the Reformation embedded itself in the early modern cultural imagination." | Google Books preview | |
| WATSON, Jackie, and Simon Smith (editors). | Senses in early modern England, 1558–1660. | 2020 | Book: Complete | The essays in this work offer "a picture of early modern thought in which sensory encounters are unstable, suggesting ways in which the senses are influenced by the contexts in which they are experienced: at night, in states of sexual excitement, or even when melancholic. The book looks at the works of art themselves and considers the significance of the senses for early modern subjects attending a play, regarding a painting, and reading a printed volume." | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF Manchester University Press Knowledge Unlatched | |
| WHITTLE, Jane, et al. | The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790. | 2023- | External link | A four-year Leverhulme-funded project to "transcribe, index and analyse the contents of a very large sample of 25,000 English wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury". | Website | |
| WRIGHTSON, Keith E. | Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts. | 2009 | Online course | An introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. Topics covered include the changing social structure, gender roles, economic development, religious change, the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, witchcraft and education, literacy and print culture; crime and the law; poverty and social welfare; the changing structures and dynamics of political participation and the emergence of parliamentary government. | Open Yale Courses | |
| YAMAMOTO, Koji (editor). | Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England. | 2022 | Book: Complete | This book "explores practices of stereotyping as contested processes", adducing case studies from the period to show "how stereotypes and their mobilisation shaped various negotiations of power, in spheres of life such as politics, religion, everyday life and knowledge production". | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF University of Tokyo and Vanderbilt University | |
| YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. | Catholic literature and the rise of Anglicanism. | 2022 (2002) | Book: Complete | Protestant editions of Catholic literature during the early modern period. | Flipbook, text-searchable PDF | |
| YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. | Early modern period. | Video playlist | Videos covering various aspects of the literature and history of early modern England. | YouTube | |
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| YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. | Pain, pleasure and perversity: discourses of suffering in seventeenth-century England. | 2013 | Book: Partial | An in-depth study of early modern attitudes towards suffering, with particular emphasis on the differences in perception between Catholics and Protestants. | Google Books preview | |
| YAMAMOTO-WILSON, John R. | Reformation of the Church in 16th-century England. | 2021 | Video | An overview of the English Reformation. | YouTube | |
Databases
Open-access databases of relevance to the study of the early modern period in Europe in general, and in England in particular.
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| Arkyves. | A database of some 900,000 images, texts and other materials from a range of libraries and museums. | |
| Broadside Ballads Online. | A Bodleian Libraries resource, featuring the Bodleian's digital collections of ballads, with links to the English Broadside Ballad Archive and to the folk song scholarship of the Roud Broadside Index. | |
| Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant. | Contains transcriptions and metadata for thousands of chant manuscripts from the 9th to 16th centuries. | |
| Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700 (CELM). | Originally created and hosted by King's College, London, this resource is now hosted by the Folger, It contains detailed entries on over 37,000 literary manuscripts from major British authors of the 16th-17th centuries. | |
| Collations and N-grams. | data sets derived from automated searches for N-grams and collocations among early modern English plays. | |
| Corpus Query Processor (CQP). | A University of Lancaster initiative. Users can analyse the EEBO corpus according to genre, etc. The Corpus of English Dialogues, the Lancaster Newsbooks Corpus (incomplete) and the Shakespeare First Folio are also included here. | |
| Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP). | Basically a detailed catalogue compiled from ESTC, EEBO and other sources. | |
| Digital Quaker Collection (DQC). | A plain text searchable database of 17th- and 18th-century Quaker texts. | |
| Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO TCP). | University of Michigan portal for the Text Creation Partnership database of a plain text corpus of over 50,000 books printed in England prior to 1700. | |
| Early Modern Crime and the Law. | Resources and materials related to crime in early modern Britain. | |
| Early Modern Crime Bibliography. | A comprehensive list of research into crime in Britain during the early modern period. | |
| Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO). | Created by the Cultures of Knowledge Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and maintained by the Bodleian Libraries, funded by the Packard Humanities Institute. EMLO is a combined finding aid and editorial interface for basic descriptions of early modern correspondence. | |
| English Handwriting Online 1500-1700. | This Cambridge University online course is an essential resource for anyone working with manuscript material. | |
| English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC). | CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE The British Library was targeted by a cyber-attack and the catalogue is offline until further notice. | |
| Hap Hazard. | A manuscript resource for Spencer studies. | |
| Hooke's Books. | A database of all the books known to have been in Robert Hooke's personal library, with a searchable transcription of the Bibliotheca Hookiana. | |
| London Lives. | A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from 1690-1800, giving access to 3.35 million names. | |
| Lost Plays Database. | Draws on the Stationers' Register, Henslowe's Diary, legal records, narrative and dramatic sources, etc., to piece together information about plays known to have existed but no longer extant. | |
| Mapping the Scottish Reformation (MSR). | A digital prosopography of the Scottish clergy between 1560 and 1689 that allows users to explore and visualize clerical careers during this essential period in Scottish history. Built with data from manuscripts held at National Records of Scotland (NRS). | |
| Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Websites/Databases. | A useful set of links for students of the early modern period. | |
| Medici Archive Project. | An extensive database of materials related to the Medici. | |
| Medieval Music & Arts Foundation. | A comprehensive resource on early music, including databases of composers, works, and recordings. | |
| Perseus Digital Library. | The main value of this site for early modernists is its repository of Greek and Latin texts, but it also has material in other languages. | |
| Perseus Word Study Tool. | A branch of the main Perseus project. This is an invaluable guide to Greek and Latin words (and also Arabic and Old Norse), with full explanations of inflected forms, copious examples, etc. | |
| Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL). | An extensive database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era in Europe. | |
| Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England. | Over 2,500 early modern petitions drawn from seven key collections of petitions held at national and local archives, giving new insights into the social and political changes of the time. | |
| Private Libraries in Renaissance England (PLRE). | An ongoing Folger project, giving an indispensable insight into patterns of early modern book ownership. | |
| Records of Early English Drama (REED). | A University of Toronto international project establishing the broader context of medieval and early modern theatre to 1642 through historical documents containing evidence of drama, secular music, and other forms of entertainment and ceremony. | |
| Renaissance Dance. | European dance from the 15th to early 17th centuries. | |
| Society for Renaissance Studies. | A list of online databases for early modernists. | |
| Spencer's Letters. | Transcripts of diplomatic and other papers relating to Spencer’s years in Ireland. | |
| Universal Short Title Catalogue. | An open access bibliography of early modern print culture. |  |
| Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. | The library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Essentially a detailed catalogue, though some of the material has been digitised. The original materials are publicly available at the library itself (Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London). | |
| Web Gallery of Art. | Originally a Renaissance project, this site has expanded into a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts, decorative arts and architecture from the 3rd to 19th centuries. | |