This site developed for the
Residential Seminar for Teachers sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities
24 July 1997
Day four at Princeton University Library
Steve Ferguson
email: ferguson@princeton.edu
World Wide Web resources for the Renaissance
There is no omnibus site. There are sites by individual scholars (courses, compendia of materials), academic departments (NYU), scholarly societies (Renaissance Society of America), digital projects (JSTOR), museums and libraries (exhibitions, reference outreach). Some sites favor text, other pictures; some favor literary studies, other historical studies; some are topic oriented (history of science), others nationally oriented.
Near Omnibus
Other General
Mike Lee's The Renaissance
Websites of interest to Renaissance scholars
Medieval & Renaissance Resources
University of Pennsylvania. Center for Electronic Text and Image. Renaissance Projects.
English
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
English literature -- Renaissance and 17th Cent
Science
The Art of Renaissance Science:
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
History of the Book
Paper, Leather, Clay & Stone: The Written Word Materialized
Pictures
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library &
Renaissance Culture
A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
Professor Hurlbut's DScriptorium
Journals
RENAISSANCE
forum
An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical
Studies
Renaissance Society of America
Varia
Site for the enthusiast of the Renaissance Faire
John White's drawings -- the basis for the engravings in Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. [America. pars 1] Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae (Frankfurt, 1590).
Steve Ferguson November, 1996 ferguson@princeton.edu
Search the WWW | Libraries, Archives, and Manuscripts and General | Pictures, photographs, images | Princeton | History of the Book | Special Topics: Conservation, Security, etc | Professional Groups | Scholarly | Personal | WWW
Alta Vista: Main Page Product of
Digital. Word, phrase, image, person searches. Intuitive. Over 30
million pages indexed.
HotBot:
Product of Wired. Word, phrase, image, person searches.
Over 50 million pages indexed.
Yahoo Structured,
classified.
"Just the Answers Please" Choosing a Web Search Service. The author begins "I'm a no nonsense searcher..." Includes search engine feature chart.
Good general introduction to the Internet is The Inter-net : how to get connected and explore the World Wide Web, exchange news and e-mail, download software, and communicate on-line [editors, Anna Milner, Terry Burrows ; text contributors, Brian Cooper ... [et al.] -- 1st American ed. -- London ; New York, N.Y. : DK Publishing, 1996. . ISBN 0789412888
Repositories of Primary Sources
Provides hyperlinks to over 1,200 websites describing holdings of
manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,
and other sources. Actively maintained.
Geographically arranged.
Special Collections Resources on the
Web Also actively maintained. Well organized.
Archival
Resources on the Internet Attractively designed, efficient.
Archival and Conservation Resources
Maintained by C.L. Mundale. Grad student project Spring 1995 and
still updated.
List
provided by a colleague at Columbia
Ton Cremers and Marian Beereboom BOOKS
Covers a wide variety of cognate fields,
over 1k links, updated almost daily
Library of Congress
HRHRC at Univ Texas
Rare Books and Special Collections
Department Main page being a subsection of the
Library's Web site
Princeton Univ Library - Guide to
Selected Special Collections Web version of the 140
page
Guide together with an index done using frames
A Guide to the Book Arts and Book
History on the World Wide Web Maintained by
Andrew Pace at Catholic University, Washington
http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/histbook.html
From the RBMS Web site
Internet Resources for the Study of
Communications Provided by Princeton's Paul Starr for
Sociology 344.
Print, Literacy and Power: To 1900
Syllabus of M. Duggan, professor at Berkeley. Typical of
the many such like findable using the term "print
culture."
Cultures
of the Book: Bibliography The common theme of this
bibliography [by Prof. James O'Donnell of the Univ of Penn] is
the technological adaptation of the written word from antiquity
to the present and the interplay between intellectual, cultural,
and social change that enacts itself around the written word
Watermarks
Watermark Archive
Incorporating the The University of Delaware Library Thomas
L.Gravell Watermark Collection Provided by the Center for Textual
& Editorial Studies and the Scholarly Communications Project
at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University)
Digital Watermark & Ornament
Catalogue Focused on the work of William Stansby,
printer of the folio edition of Ben Jonson's Works
Emblem Books
University of Glasgow : Emblems Website
Stolen Book Registry Maintained by
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. See also the theft list
of the RBMS Security Committee
Conservation OnLine. Walter Henry's unparalleled efforts on behalf of the collections conservation community and it's adherents. Note listserv archives: Exlibris, Book Arts-L, et al,
Exhibits
Library Exhibits around the World
RBMS
RBMS ETECH experimental homepage -- SF.
Maintained here at Princeton.
SAA
Society
of American Archivists. Maintained at the Univ. of Texas.
ABAA
Antiquarian Booksellers
Association of America
The Scholar's Net compiled by Jon
Edwards, deputy to Princeton's Vice President for
Computing and Information Technology.
Index of Resources for History is maintained jointly by the Department of History of the University of Kansasand the Lehrstuhl für Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg,and is managed by Eric Marzo of Regensburg and Lynn H. Nelson of Kansas. Index consists of a single large file (approximately 185 Kb) offering over 1700 connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name.
Using the Web for Scholarly Purposes: http://www.princeton.edu/~place2/
Some examples of the generous volunteerism that typifies the
scholarly content of the WWW
Daniel Traister's Home Page
PG Books Links Page
Peter Kilpe's page http://allison.clark.ne...pe/home/earlyBooks.html
Technical
HTML Writer Home Page
The Web
Developer's Virtual Library
Web Resources and Services
Web-Counter
Creation Page
Netscape Communicatior's Composer Free. WYSIWYG editor for HTML mark-up.