Thomas Bodley is well known for his bibliographical activities and his benefaction of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, but his prior career as a diplomat has been largely overlooked, despite being celebrated by his contemporaries. A large and comprehensive corpus of letters survives from the twelve years he was on diplomatic business, during initial extraordinary missions as a special envoy to various European sovereigns between 1585-88, and then his long residence in The Hague during his post as English representative on the Council of State for the United Provinces (Netherlands) from 1588-97. These letters, previously unedited and unpublished, are a valuable interdisciplinary resource to scholars of religious, social, cultural, geographical, military and political history. The letters also offer an important understanding of the information networks and patronage structures between official and semi-official diplomatic agents and their patrons in the later sixteenth-century.

DigitalDonne constitutes volume 1 of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (8 vols. in 11 parts, Indiana UP, 1995-2022), a collaborative edition drawing on the labors of over 30 scholars from the United States and abroad. The project was organized in 1980 and enjoyed support from the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 through to its completion in 2022.

Digital Cavendish is a scholarly collaborative started Dr. Shawn W. Moore in 2012. The goal of the project is to highlight digital research, image archives, scholarly projects, and teaching materials/resources that focus on any aspect of the life and writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).

DigiPal is a new resource for the study of medieval handwriting, particularly that produced in England during the years 1000–1100, the time of Æthelred, Cnut and William the Conqueror. It is designed to allow you to see samples of handwriting from the period and to compare them with each other quickly and easily.

Using part of the corpus known as Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España – one of the most important colonial historical sources of America – concerned with the territory of Mexico, this project is creating and developing novel computational approaches for the semi-automated exploration of thousands of pages contained in these 16th century documents.

The word ‘decima’ translates literally to ‘one tenth’ in Latin and Italian. The DECIMA Project takes its name from the 1561 decima tax, a 10% property value tax. DECIMA is also an acronym that stands for the Digitally Encoded Census Information & Mapping Archive.

This site gathers artistic representations of death, dead bodies, relics, anatomical specimens and burial instructions to analyze how death altered the category of gender in the early modern period.

These are testimonies of real and symbolic interventions counteracting or re-signifying the loss of sexual markers and gendered behaviours in remains that had been part of gendered human beings.

With their interventions, producers and consumers of human remains (embalmers, artists, the faithful, anatomists) reinstated, effaced or transcended the remains' previous gender identity and the category of gender itself.

DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks allows scholars and students to investigate the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama in ways not possible using any other print or electronic resource. An easy-to-use and highly customizable search engine of every playbook produced in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the beginning of printing through 1660, DEEP provides a wealth of information about the original playbooks, their title-pages, paratextual matter, advertising features, bibliographic details, and theatrical backgrounds.

A digital paleography project that displays folia from 90% of surviving Syriac manuscripts securely dated before the twelfth century and generates custom designed script charts.

Intelligent Archive (IA) is a Java application for managing corpora of texts for stylometry. It builds on a long history of world-leading stylometry research at the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC), University of Newcastle, Australia.

This page provides downloads from the results of fully automated searches for matching N-grams and collocations among early modern plays.

In the decades around 1600, the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier produced one of the largest surviving sets of medical records in history. The Casebooks Project, a team of scholars at the University of Cambridge, has transformed this paper archive into a digital archive.

CASP is the first research project of its kind devoted to the systematic exploration and documentation of the ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatrical practice.

This book is the result of collaborative, hands-on research into Burgundian Black colour worlds. In addition to the historical essays, it also features a Practical Guide to the Production of Black Pigments and Watercolours that introduces readers to historical colour-making technologies and can be used for teaching and workshops.

brat is a web-based tool for text annotation; that is, for adding notes to existing text documents.

brat is designed in particular for structured annotation, where the notes are not freeform text but have a fixed form that can be automatically processed and interpreted by a computer.

This website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available a database of thousands of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain in fully-searchable form. It also offers ancillary facilities aimed to enhance users’ understanding and appreciation of the material it presents, such as various resources contextualising prints and printmaking, as well as original research on British prints to 1700.

Inspired by the discoveries made by Mary Malcolm Gaylord's Fall 2015 seminar, Cervantes' Fictions and the Early Modern Historical Imagination, this article offers a list of pre-nineteenth-century Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) titles and related materials held at the Folger Shakespeare Library (listed by publication date). 

Bess of Hardwick's Letters brings together, for the first time, the remarkable letters written to and from Bess of Hardwick

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. The story of her life told to date typically emphasises her modest birth, her rise through the ranks of society, her four husbands, each of greater wealth than the last, and her ambitious aggrandisement of her family.

The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. While printing in Asia pre-dates European activity by several hundred years, the rapid expansion of the trade following the discovery of printing in Mainz, Germany around the middle of the fifteenth century is a topic of great importance to the global history of communications, technology, and the dissemination of knowledge.

The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc. was chartered as a non-profit organization in 1984 to promote and foster greater appreciation for Spain’s classical drama in production. An international organization, the Association counts among its members literary scholars, theatrical directors and producers, teachers, and other aficionados of Spain’s Golden Age of Theater.
The Association maintains a rare collection of Spanish Renaissance and Baroque plays on film and videotape. The materials in the Association’s visual library are available to its members and serve as resources for scholarly investigations, an invaluable repertoire for theatrical companies, exciting tools for the classroom, and delightful entertainment for the general public.

ASODAT is a coordinated project by several research groups whose objective is to connect the information of different databases related to early modern Spanish theater and its documentation. ASODAT is the result of the conviction that connecting information among federated databases will contribute to allow for new discoveries related to this theatrical practice and draw critical attention to theatrical phenomena that are not visible on their own.