Academy of Projectors
An ‘address book’ of researchers on the late 17th/early 18th centuries (Olaf Simon)
Joyce Appleby, historian of early modern ideas
Google Directory links
Fernand Braudel, historian of early modern France, ‘Annales’ school
- Braudel et ‘histoire totale’ (in French) (Label France)
- Review of Civilization and Capitalism (Danny Yee)
- Fernand Braudel Center
- Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics
Peter Burke, cultural historian of early modern Italy and Europe
JCD Clark, historian of eighteenth-century English politics and religion
- Review of English Society in the 18th Century (Frank O’Gorman)
Colonial America
webpage for a ‘mock’ taught course; material on Spanish, British and French colonial America, West Indies, native American, African-Americans, women, etc. Plenty of useful links and texts (Diana Laulainen-Schein)
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe
Basic information and reading for a taught course syllabus (Susan Dinan)
Natalie Zemon Davis, cultural historian of early modern France
- Bibliography, to 1990 (Eddie Yeghiayan)
- A Life of Learning, reflecting on her life and career in a 1997 lecture
- A conversation on Rabelais and his critics’ (PDF file)
- The historian as advisor to filmmakers, focusing on Davis’s work on the film The Return of Martin Guerre (David Hart) (NB: Wayback Archive)
- Interview (2000)
Early Modernity on Film
Discussions of the ways in which the early modern period has been represented in movies, with further reading and web resources (EMR)
The Sixteenth Century and Education
The Seventeenth Century and Education
The Eighteenth Century and Education
Resources for lectures, useful outlines of developments, with reading lists, notes on key thinkers (Virtual Museum of Education Iconics)
Norbert Elias, historical sociologist
- Norbert Elias (Robert van Krieken)
- The Norbert Elias Foundation, includes biographical and bibliographical material
- Clockwork history and Elias defended (Geoffrey Barraclough, Johan Goudsblom)
- Reviews of books on Elias by Robert van Krieken and Thomas Salumets (ed)
Elizabeth
Exhibition to mark 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I’s death, includes sections on her youth, the court, representations, threats to the crown, the final years (National Maritime Museum)
GR (Geoffrey) Elton, historian of early modern English government
- Defender of the faith (Geoffrey Roberts)
- Wikipedia article
English Civil War
Outline narrative account, from a taught course (E L Skip-Knox)
English Civil War Society
Re-enactment society’s website
Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian
- The World of Foucault (Ben Attias)
- Bibliography (Jeffrey Hearn, the untimely past)
- Wikipedia article
Carlo Ginzburg, cultural historian of early modern Europe
- UCLA homepage
- Review of The Night Battles
- Witch hunting (Robert Bartlett)
- The Witches’ Sabbath (Carlo Ginzburg)
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Web site for the novel by Tracy Chevalier; includes sections on the book (and the paintings mentioned in it) and on Vermeer
Also the film website
Hamlet Conundrums
A site for a course examining interpretations of Shakespeare’s play, including themes of spirits and apparitions, revenge, melancholy and suicide, contrasting thinking on these topics in the Elizabethan period, the Romantic revolution or the 20th century (Erik Pearson)
Christopher Hill, Marxist historian of early modern England
- Obituary (The Guardian)
- Obituary (Telegraph)
- A Soviet spy? (Cronaca)
- Left in Stalin’s shadow (Observer)
- The English Revolution 1640 (Marxist Writers’ Archive)
The Purpose of the Historical Novel
1935 essay by Lion Feuchtwanger
Imagining Early Modern Worlds
teaching resources and materials for a course exploring ’some of the worlds discovered by early modernity’, including images and reading (Grant Williams)
Impact of the Reformation on women in Germany
Course materials including a bibliography (Henry J Cohn)
Invitation to a Funeral
An online ‘jaunt around Restoration London’ inspired by a ‘tale of Restoration intrigue’ written by Molly Brown, which stars Aphra Behn (and ‘a cast of thousands’ including Nell Gwyn, the dukes of
York and Monmouth and the earl of Rochester)
Italian Renaissance/Early Modern
Set of teaching resources ‘designed as a learning module in the form of a “research textbook”‘ , with commentaries and resources; part of a larger ‘world civilizations’ resource (Richard Hooker et al)
Peter Laslett, social and demographic historian of early modern England
- Obituary (The Guardian)
Le Poulet Gauche
Website of a re-enactment group of sixteenth-century France
The League of Diggers and Levellers
English Revolution re-enactment society (website ‘under reconstruction’ October ‘05)
The 1642 Living History Village
(Gosport Living History Society)
Alan Macfarlane, social and cultural historian of early modern England
