Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Studies: Archival Resources

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture
Major collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history.
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Defining Gender, 1450-1910
A digitized collection of original documents relating to Gender Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It has five thematic sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body.
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Empire Online
A digitzed collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It covers: cultural contact, empire writing and literature of empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, race, class & colonialism.
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English Historical Documents Online
An annotated collection of British historical documents from 500 to 1914, covering a wide range of topics. Primary sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, letters, diaries, and more.
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Making of the Modern World
Unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, Western world through the lens of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies, and more.
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Medieval Travel Writing
Manuscripts from the 13th to the 16th centuries relating to journeys to central Asia and the Far East, as well as the Holy Land.
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MEMSO: Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online
Contains medieval and early modern books and manuscripts related to medieval studies and early modern Britain and Ireland.
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ORLANDO: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Biographical entries on over 1000 writers, more than 850 of them British women. Also includes thousands of dated items representing events and processes in the accounts of these writers, but also in history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts.
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME)
Contains digitized versions of English parliament documentation from 1272 to 1509, alongside other relevant documents.
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Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
Index of manuscripts of early modern women authors, including full digital facsimiles of over 230 selections.
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Women Writers Online
Collection of early womens writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
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Other Archival Resources

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Within the Iter collection, there are a number subscribed and open access of archival resources. See specifically: Iter Italicum, a finding list to previously uncatalogued Renaissance manuscripts in libraries and other collections worldwide; French Renaissance Paleography; Gateway to Early Modern Sermons; Milton: A Bibliography, a listing of all manuscripts and editions of Milton’s works; Electronic Capito Project, access to the full-text of the correspondence of Erasmus contemporary and religious reformer Wolfgang Faber Capito; Medici Archive Project, documentary sources in the Medici Granducal Archive, 1537-1743; Baptisteria Sacra Index, an extensive inventory list of baptismal fonts dating from the early Christian period to the 17trh century.
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Microform Collections for Humanities Research

Significant Microform Collections for Humanities Research

Using Microforms at the Murray Library

Murray Library Microforms

Ruins - Hadrian's Library, Athens