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Trade Products in Early Modern Europe cloves, cod, coffee, porcelain, potato, sugar, tea... a delightful site that has grown out of a seminar on 'the Expansion of Europe' at the James Ford Bell Library

Coins in colonial America (University of Notre Dame) online exhibit of coins, including state, national and imported coins. Also a similar exhibit on Colonial Paper Currencies

Renaissance Maiolica (Anita Kovacevic) studies maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) for its significance in material culture

Pl[a]ying the Trades: trades and crafts in early modern plays (Doris Teske) syllabus with links for a taught course [unavailable, January '04]

Dress and Fashion in Early Modern Europe (at this site)

Renaissance Dance online resources and sources, bibliography, discography, Rendance mailing list

Minstrel Page (Greg Lindahl) plenty of useful material related to the performing arts in the middle ages and early modern period, primarily aimed at re-enactors

Medieval & Renaissance Weddings despite a personal aversion to weddings, I find this site wonderful; includes articles, images, primary documents

Consuming Pleasures: Food, Drink and Drugs (at this site)

The Printing Press Online (at this site) resources for early modern printing, publishing and books, including the growing number of online exhibitions and digitisation projects by libraries devoted to their holdings of early printed materials

Gunpowder, Compass and Printing Press (History department, Oxford University) materials for a course on technology and society in early modern Europe; images, texts, artefacts [unavailable, January '04]

The Bubble Project (co-ordinated by David McNeil) a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on the South Sea Bubble (which burst in 1720), focusing on its cultural history and influence on the arts: at present contains an overview of the events, bibliography, links; with much more planned, this looks set to become an invaluable resource

'The Legacy of the Horse' 600-1630 and 1660-1830; online exhibition at the International Museum of the Horse

Luxury in Eighteenth-century London (Warwick Eighteenth-century Centre) reading list of primary and secondary sources, and some extracts

Taste in the Eighteenth Century (Warwick Eighteenth-century Centre) a bibliography of primary and secondary sources

Eighteenth-century mirrors (Clive Edwards) aimed at antiques collectors in fact, but an informative short article

North American Fur Trade (White Oak Society) lots of useful information; includes sections on languages of the fur trade, women in the trade and the beaver hat (and the beaver itself)

Witchcraft and Magic Beliefs

Folk Magic in Britain (Brian Hoggard)exploration of objects, such as witch-bottles, written charms, horse skulls, that that were concealed in and around buildings as spells or counter-spells; sections on each of the various kinds of object, links, book list

Witchcraft in Salem an excellent resource for the history of the 1692 witchcraft trials

Salem and Seventeenth-century New England bibliography and web links, including some links for The Crucible play and film

Best Witches a wide range of material relating to the witch trials [unavailable, January '04 - and has been for some time now; may well have gone for good]

The Witching Hours (Shantell Powell) a beautifully designed site, with sections on: documents; potions and spells; modern parallels; people; punishment and torture; and much more. A terrific resource.

The Salem Witchcraft Papers full transcripts of the 1692 court records, and the text of Burr's Narratives of the Witchcraft Trials, with search facility

The Witch Hunts (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents) online primary and secondary source materials and web resources

Johann Weyer's defence of Witches (Elisa Slattery) an essay on Weyer's 'De praestigiis demonum'

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This page last updated 16 January 2004 by Sharon Howard

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