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HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe

This guide is a companion to the research paper assignment for Ms. Choudhury's course.

Textual Sources

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Newspapers, newsbooks, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, and more.
ARTFL
"representing a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries."
Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
Early American Imprints/Evans 1639-1800
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other primary sources
Electronic Enlightenment
“With 57,334 letters and documents as of June 2010, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid 19th century.”
Gerritsen Collection of Women's HIstory
Primary sources in women's history 1543-1945
Parker Library on the Web
Over 530 manuscripts spanning the sixth to the sixteenth centuries
Renaissance Women Writers Online
A special subset of the main WWO collection consisting of 100 Renaissance texts presented with topical essays and introductions to the individual works.

Thomason Tracts in EEBO

Search Thomason Tracts in EEBO
On this advanced search page, under the heading "UMI Collection" select Thomason Tracts from dropdown. Note also, a "keyword" search here works more like a "title" search, i.e. word order matters. For example, a search for pearl dounghill doesn't find a pamphlet, but you do if you search pearle in a dounghill

The Thomason Tracts are an incredible collection that includes many pamplets and broadsides, which were a crucial format for the sharing of ideas during the English Civil Wars. The collection was compiled by London publisher and bookseller George Thomason, beginning November 3, 1640. The originals are housed in the British Library, and we are fortunate to have access to digitizations of the material through our Early English Books Online (EEBO) database

Visual/Material Culture Sources

ArtSTOR
Collections of art images and descriptive information as well as software tools for viewing and analyzing images
Index of Christian Art
Documents works of art in all media produced from apostolic times through 15th century with Christian themes or for ecclesiastical settings. Extensive bibliographic citations.
LUNA Insight
Image collections
Metropolitan Museum Collections Database
Explore by Department and navigate through results using page numbers, organized chronologically

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