Early Modern Resources

for researchers, teachers and students of early modern history

www.earlymodernweb.org.uk

Sharon Howard

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Pieter Breughel, 'Peasants' Wedding' (Artchive)

Welcome!

My intention with these pages is to bring together a wide range of online resources for the early modern period. The categories are meant to guide, not to prescribe (as are the brief descriptions of the sites) and boundaries may be fuzzy; use the search engine if uncertain where to look. I have not intensively or extensively evaluated the sites; their inclusion here is not a guarantee of quality or historical accuracy. All the usual cautions concerning the use of online materials (or any other information source, for that matter) should be applied. Try this particularly useful Guide to Evaluating Internet Information).

My definition of 'early modern' covers the period roughly from 1500-1800. Sometimes earlier, sometimes a little later: if you want an idea of the sheer diversity of the term, have a look at the debate in the H-Albion discussion logs for May-June 2000. Equally, you could mull over the historian Peter Burke's thoughts on the subject. As he says, no one can agree on this one.

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I usually only include resources that are free to use (or in the case of certain subscription services do at least contain some useful free-to-view materials). (If you have access to any of these through your academic institution - say, Chadwyck-Healey's Literature-Online, or online journals - you should already know about them or be able to find out.) Nor do I (usually) include sites whose only discernible function appears to be to persuade you to spend money (buy the book/CD-ROM etc). Also, I don't generally list the many sites that cover long periods of history and happen merely to include short sections on early modern topics: by 'early modern resources' I mean sites, or pages, that are either devoted to or substantially about early modern history.

And finally: I cannot do your homework for you. If you can't find something to help you here, try Google or the Open Directory project. Or a book or two.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Reference Section

General

Early modern: general

Sixteenth/seventeenth centuries

Long eighteenth century

E-texts

E-journals

Visual images and maps

Useful tools

 

Themes

Old and New Worlds
'discovery' and exploration; travel and 'encounters'; colonisation and enslavement; nations and states

Material and symbolic cultures
production, consumption and trade; the 'meanings of things'; festivities and rituals; 'popular' beliefs

Society, economy, demography
social structures and long-term trends; population change and movement; 'everyday' life (and death)

Politics, rebellions, revolutions
governors and the governed; forms of government; war; plots and risings

Women, gender, sexuality
women's history, gender history; masculinities; sex and sexualities

Crime, law, disorder
criminality and criminals; law and law enforcement; criminal justice; disputes and litigation

Religion, science, philosophy
Reformation; scientific 'revolutions'; humanists to philosophes; connections and influences

Literature, art, performance
writers, texts; drama, music and performing arts; visual arts and architecture

Medicine and illness
patients and practitioners; diseases and treatments; health and sickness

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Representing Early Modernity

Writing histories

'Popular' representations

 

QUICK LINKS

Early Modernity on Film

Early Modern Bibliographies

Reviews in Early Modern History

Women's Lives in the British Civil Wars

Wales and the Law, 1500-1800

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EARLY MODERN NOTES WEBLOG

The place to go for early modern news, stories and comments. Is blogging the future? Try it and see!

 


 

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For resources on: British and Welsh History; History of Crime; Women's History.

 


This page last updated 2 January 2023 by Sharon Howard

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