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
- 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
- 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
- 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