Research Guides: History: Europe

Europe

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Over 180,000 titles published mostly in the UK during the 18th including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue,
Europeana
An online portal to the digitized collections of European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Search for images, texts, and media by topics, periods of history, country and language.

Medieval England and France
Medieval manuscripts that were digitized as part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700–1200. Discover stunning highlights of illuminated manuscripts set in their cultural and historical context and explored in a range of articles.
1641 Depositions
The 1641 Depositions (Trinity College Dublin, MSS 809-841) are witness testimonies mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Medieval England and France
Medieval manuscripts that were digitized as part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700–1200. Discover stunning highlights of illuminated manuscripts set in their cultural and historical context and explored in a range of articles.
Iowa State - Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments.
Global Middle Ages
An ambitious effort by an international collaboration of scholars to see the world whole, c. 500 to 1500 CE, to deliver the stories of lives, objects, and actions in dynamic relationship and change across deep time.
Digital Dante
Searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
Medieval Digital Resources
Curated database of peer-reviewed digital materials for the study of the Middle Ages.

Alchemy of Color - Medieval Manuscripts (3.5min)
Getty Museum, 2014
The Medieval Calendar (4min)
Getty Museum, 2012
The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript (2min)
Getty Museum, 2009
Middle English Dictionary
The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. An invaluable resource for lexicographers, language scholars, and all scholars in medieval studies.
Middle Ages for Educators
Designed for teachers, students, and anyone who wants to learn about the Middle Ages (c. 300-1500 C.E.)

Dramatic Extracts
searchable database of extracts transcribed from seventeenth-century manuscripts. DEx aims to provide much-needed information to textual editors, literary scholars, and cultural historians interested in theater history, audience reception, early modern print and manuscript culture, and the history of reading.
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DEx catalogues extracts from plays written and published before the closure of theaters in 1642 and copied into manuscript before ca. 1700.
Bess of Hardwick's Letters
Bess of Hardwick (c.1521/2 or 1527-1608) is one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures. She is renowned for her reputation as a dynast and indomitable matriarch and perhaps best known as the builder of great stately homes like the magnificent Hardwick Hall and Chatsworth House.