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ENGL:3287 Shakespeare in Iowa and the World 2018: Historical Contexts

Blaine Greteman's summer 2018 undergraduate class created this guide.

Historical Contexts

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance

  • Includes databases, books, and academic journals from early modern Europe
  • Non-profit
  • University login required

MoEML: Map of Early Modern London

  • Helps students visualize Early London during Shakespeare's time
  • University of Victoria project
  • Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Free and open access
  • Includes layers highlighting brothels, bars, bridges, etc.
  • Search the Encyclopedia or Library to look up specific locations 

BREPOLiS

  • Combines digital library and database resources
  • Includes medieval/early modern bibliographies and encyclopedias, as well as religious texts in English and Latin
  • Founded by Brepols, a Belgian publishing house that was among the largest in the world

Early European Books

  • Traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century
  • Offers full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources
  • Has a partnership with 5 national libraries in Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and France
  • All works are printed in Europe before 1701
  • Available in English, Danish, French, Italian, and Dutch
  • Easy to navigate
  • University login required

Shakeosphere

  • Allows users to search, analyze, and contribute to a visualization of the early modern print and manuscript network
  • University of Iowa Department of English and School of Library and Information Science project
  • Maps early modern social networks 
  • Find information on the connections between publishers, booksellers, printers, and authors
  • Search by author and text