RENAISSANCE MATERIALITIES

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ONLINE RESOURCES

Research Tools

The Oxford English Dictionary Penn Only
The English Short-Title Catalogue Penn Only
Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healy) Penn Only
English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) at the Center for Electronic Texts and Images
Early English Books Online Penn Only
Paleography Tutorial from the West Sussex Record Office
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts from Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
Das Museum der Kulturgeschichte der Hand in Wolnzach, a site on hands (including how to use them for memory systems)

Reformation and Counter-Reformation Resources

Elizabethan Homilies
The Book of Common Prayer
The Liturgy of the Church of England
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Selections from Ethereal Library
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Selections from Chick Publications
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Selections from Calvary Chapel
The British Academy John Foxe Project
The National Gallery for paintings of Adam and Eve, etc.

Bibles
Geneva Bible (1583) Front Matter and Genesis
King James Bible Authorized Version
Die Bibel Martin Luther translation
The New Testament (Rheims, 1582) English Catholic translation
The Bible Browser--searchable database includes English versions and the Latin Vulgate
The WWW Bible Gateway
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

General
Renaissance Liturgical Imprints (RELICS)
Reformed Books and Commentaries
The Catholic Encyclopedia

Literary Resources

John Donne Poems (1633)
Hamlet (1611)
Hamlet (1623) First Folio
The Faerie Queene (1596) from Renascence Editions)
Paradise Lost (1674) from the Milton Reading Room)
Paradise Lost (1667) in ten books; from Renascence Editions
Renaissance Electronic Texts

Journals

Journal of Early Modern Culture
Early Modern Literary Studies