CATALOGUE
First, consult the
catalogue.
The Barr Smith Library
has very extensive collections on this period of European
history, including microfilm copies of all books published in
English 1473-1700.
Add the word EARLY WORKS TO 1800 to your search - this will lead you to the microfilms of
Early English Books.
For other primary documents, add the word SOURCES to your search.
In either Basic search or Guided Keyword search use terms such
as:
Subject Heading or Keywords from subject heading:
Middle Ages History
Europe History 476-1492
Europe History 1492- ...and then browse the various time periods
Also search for individual countries such as England, Italy etc
Plague Europe History--16th century
Black Death
Humanism
Renaissance
Europe Civilization....browse dates
Science History
Science Europe History
Sciernce, Medieval
Science, Renaissance
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Religion and science
Enlightenment
Imperialism History
Europe Colonies History
Europe Territorial expansion
Indians First contact with Europeans
Racism History
Reformation...Try a Guided Keyword seach, with Reformation as a subject heading in one box and then other keywords in the second search box.
Despotism
Europe History 1648-1789
France History 17th century
France History 18th century
France History Louis XII, XIV, XV
Peasantry Europe
Peasantry France
Family France History
Women France History
France Social life and customs
France Social conditions
France History Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598
Witchcraft Europe History 16th century etc
Witchcraft England History 16th century etc
DICTIONARIES AND
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
Oxford reference online a huge collection of Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedais, including the Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation and the Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance.
Medieval
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, N. Cantor, 1999
Reference collection 940.103 C232e
The illustrated encyclopedia of medieval civilization, Aryeh Grabois. 1980
Reference collection 909.103 G728i
Middle Ages, Judson Knight, 4 vols. 2001
Reference collection 909.0703 K69m
Middle Ages : a concise encyclopaedia, H.R. Loyn, 1989
Reference collection 940.1003 L923m
Europe after the Middle Ages
Europe 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world, ed. J. Dewald 6 vols. 2004
Reference collection 940.203 D5153e
Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000, Peter N. Stearns, 6 vols, 2001
Reference collection 940.03 S799e
Historical dictionary of the Elizabethan world : Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America, J. A. Wagner., 1999
Reference collection 942.05503 W133h
A companion to the reformation world, ed. R. Po-chia Hsia., 2006
Reference collection
270.6 H8732c
The Routledge companion to early modern Europe, 1453-1763, Chris Cook, 2006.
Main collection
940.22 C7712r
Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand, 4 vols, 1996
Reference collection
270.603 H652o
Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance, Gordon Campbell, 2003
Reference collection 940.2103 C1879o
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler, 6 vols, 1999
Reference collection 940.2103 G826e
Hutchinson encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. David Rundle, 1999
Reference collection 940.2103 R941h
World History and Empire
Historical dictionary of the British empire, J. S. Olson, 1996
Reference collection 325.34203 O52h
Historical dictionary of European imperialism, J. S. Olson, 1991
Reference collection 903 O52h
Palmer, A.W. Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth. 1996
Reference collection 325.34203 P173d
Britain
The Oxford companion to British history ed. John
Cannon. rev ed 2002
Reference collection 941.003 C226o 2002France
France : a reference guide from the Renaissance to the
present, William J. Roberts, 2004
Reference Collection 944.003 R648f
Religion and the Church
The Catholic encyclopedia : an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church. Edited by C.G. Herbermann.
Web version of the the 1st ed. 1913.
Science and medicine (including Plague)
The Oxford companion to the history of modern science, ed.J.L. Heilbron, 2003.
Reference collection 509.03 H466o
The timetables of science : a chronology of the most important people and events in the history of science, Alexander Hellemans, 1988
Reference collection 509 H477t
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence: from ancient times to the present, G. C. Kohn, 3rd ed, 2008.
Reference collection 614.4903 K79e.3
Cambridge historical dictionary of disease, ed. K. F. Kiple, 2003
Reference collection 614.4903 K57c
Witchcraft and Heresy
The encyclopedia of witches and witchcraft, R. E. Guiley, 2 vols, 1999
Reference collection 133.4303 G956e.2
ATLASES
Cassell atlas of the early modern world : 1492-1783, John Haywood, 1998
Reference collection 911 H427ca
FINDING
JOURNAL ARTICLES
History
Historical abstracts, covering world history, except the Americas, from 1450
General and Intersisciplinary
Academic OneFile 1980-
Broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals.
Academic Search Premier
Includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals
JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago
Project Muse
full text access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social ciences, humanities etc. since the mid 1990's.
Royal Historical Society bibliography for witings on English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh history.
WEB RESOURCES
Internet modern history sourcebook . Scroll down green side bar for topics such as Reformation, Early modern world, Absolutism etc
WebChron - the web chronology project from David Koeller. Western and Central Europe chronology
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Black Death - Dr Skip Knox, Boise State University
Italian Renaissance from Richard Hooker at Washington State University
Scientific Revolution Homepage, by Robert A. Hatch and is made available by the University of Florida.
Archive of early American images is drawn entirely from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library, located at Brown University since 1901. The Library houses one of the world’s outstanding collections of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial period of the Americas, North and South, from 1492 to ca. 1825.
Empire Online
This database is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007
offering over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material
linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies with
hypertext links which to the documentary evidence provided. Covers Africa,
the Americas, Australasia, Oceania and South Asia. can be searched by names,
topics and places.
Reformation, Dr Hans Rollmann, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Le Poulet Gauche website offers a non-academic introduction to various aspects sixteenth-century French history. Not scholarly, but it is rather fun and has a very good bibliography.
Survey of Scottish Witchcraft: 1563-1736 - database of Scottish witchcraft trials, compiled by eminent experts in the field, led by Julian Goodare of Edinburgh University and contains data from over 4,000 trials for witchcraft.
Witchcraft, demonology and the Inquisition an online exhibition of rare books and pamphlets on the subject of
witchcraft, demonology and the occult. It also contains much information on the inquisition, prophecy, and grimoires. Published by the Rare Book Library, University of Sydney, it was compiled by Suzana Sukovic and Neil Boness.
Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection
SOURCES
The library holds many useful sources, mostly in collections, on the Early Modern period.
There is a strong emphasis on British history.
Individual sources and collections can be located via the catalogue by adding these terms to subject searches:
Sources
Early works to 1800
Personal narratives
Diaries
Correspondence
Useful collections may be located in print, on microfilm (in the multimedia collection) or on the www. Some are:
Internet modern history sourcebook . Scroll down green side bar for topics such as Reformation, Early modern world, Absolutism etc
Empire Online
This database is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007
offering over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material
linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies with
hypertext links which to the documentary evidence provided. Covers Africa,
the Americas, Australasia, Oceania and South Asia. can be searched by names,
topics and places.
17th-18th century collection Burney newspapers
Microfilm collections
The Aristocracy, the state and the local community: the
Hastings Collection from the Huntingdon Library.
Mfilm 19064 -102
British Museum. Dept of Manuscripts. The Harleian
Manuscripts.Parts 1 - 9
Mfilm Per 34
Cholmondeley family. Records and correspondence, 1662 - 1720.
Mfilm 15372-77
Mfilm 16979-89
Cholmondeley family. Accounts and correspondence, 1579 - 1722.
Mfilm18145-49
Clarke, Sir W. Sir William Clarke manuscripts , 1640 - 1664,
Worcester College Oxford.
Mfilm14535-51
Coventry papers from the Archives of Longleat House.
Mfilm 13547-631
Dudley papers, 1559 - 1580, from the Archives of Longleat House.
Mfilm 8158-60
Early Quaker writings, 1650 - 1750.
Series 1 Mfilm 11207
Series 2 Mfilm 14622-31
English Books, 1475 - 1640. Mfilm Per 94
English Books, 1641 - 1700. Mfilm Per 95
English cartoons and satirical prints , 1382 - 1832, in the
British Museum.
Mfilm 16951-71
English experience, 964v.
Facsimiles of early English books.
For Index see last volume of set.
Main collection 901 E58
Episcopal Registers, 1215 -1650.
Parts 1 - 9
Mfilm Per 89
Great Britain. Public Record Office. State Papers. Mfilm Per 66
Edward VI, and Mary Domestic
Elizabeth I, 1558 - 1603. Domestic
Addenda to Edward, Mary & Elizabeth
James I, 1603 - 1625. Domestic
Charles I, 1625 - 1648. Domestic
Interregnum, 1649 - 1660
Unpublished State Papers of the English Civil
War and Interregnum,1642 - 1660
Charles II
Anne, 1702 - 1715, Domestic
George I, 1714 - 1727. Domestic
George II, 1727 - 1745. Domestic
George III, 1760 - 1782. Domestic
These are indexed by the Calendar of State papers, shelved at the end of the Reserve collection. MF per 66 Index
Justice and Authority in England, 1540 - 1800:
County Quarter Sessions.
Series 1,Cheshire Part 1.
Mfilm Per 213
Lowther family. Extracts from papers, 1582 - 1755.
Mfilm 6359-70
Oxford. University. Bodleian Library.Rawlinson manuscript
collection.Parts 1 - 7
Mfilm Per 83
•Oxford. University. Bodleian Library. Tanner Collection
of manuscripts.
Mfilm Per 21
Politics and administration of Tudor and Stuart England:
selections from the Lansdowne collection.
Mfilm Per20
Records of an English village, Earls Colne, 1400 - 1750
Mfiche 1160
Records of a Scottish village, Lasswade, 1650 - 1750.
Mfiche 1418
Seymour papers from the Archives of Longleat House.
Mfilm 8180-85
Mfilm 19914-33
Stuart papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle.
Mfilm 3611-35
Talbot papers from Lambeth Palace Library. X
includes the papers of the 5th, 6th and 7th earls
of Shrewsbury
For calendar see 942.5106 D428/4
Mfilm Per20
Thomason Tracts, 1640 -1661.
Mfilm Per15
Thynne papers, 1542 - 1789: the official and private
correspondence of the Thynne family, from the
Archives of Longleat House.
Mfilm 15826--87
Proclamations, broadsides, ballads and poems, 1357-1830.
Mfilm 20063
Women's language and experience, 1500-1940
MICROFILM PER 274
Women advising women parts 1-7:
Part 1, Early women's journals, c1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library
MICROFILM 21000
Part 2, Advice books, manuals, almanacs and journals, c1625-1837 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
MICROFILM 20954
Part 3 & 4, The lady's magazine 1770 to 1832
MICROFILM 20955
Part 5, Women's writing and advice, c1450 - 1700
MICROFILM 20965
Part 6, Household management, domestic economy, c1600-1800
MICROFILM 21078
Part 7, Sources from the Women's Library, London
MICROFILM 21084 |
