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I'm Sharon Howard, and since summer 2006 I've been working at the University of Sheffield as Project Manager for two digital primary source projects: the Proceedings of the Old Bailey/Central Criminal Court and London Lives and the Making of Modern London 1690-1800. I'm now working on Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900, a federated search facility for a wide range of distributed electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British History. I've been running an early modern resources website in one form or another since about 2000 and started this blog in June 2004.

"Engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy whose visual language is composed entirely of lines. From 1480 to 1650 Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to the technique of engraving as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks. ‚The Brilliant Line' follows these visual transformations and offers new insight intothe special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Early Modern engravers."

Digiberichte.de aims to advance research on late medieval and early modern European travel accounts. This project provides digitized editions and research literature on approx. 375 different travels and pilgrimages through Europe in historical times. The bibliographical database allows quick reference for the travel accounts. Due to copy right restrictions only literature from the 19th century and earlier is provided in full text. The majority of the material provided here is based on the so called "analytical bibliographies" of medieval travel accounts that have been edited under the direction of Prof. Werner Paravicini and published by Peter Lang. Initially only bibliographies on German, French and Dutch travel-accounts have been published, but there was always the idea of collecting material for the other European countries (especially Italy, England, Spain, Portugal, Scandinavia and East-Europe) als well. Digiberichte.de therefore collects information also for travellers from these countries that left accounts of their journey.

"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture of the Baroque. What do the music of Bach, the Colonnades of St Peter's, the paintings of Caravaggio and the rebuilding of Prague have in common? The answer is the Baroque - a term used to describe a vast array of painting, music, architecture and sculpture from the 17th and 18th centuries. Baroque derives from the word for a misshapen pearl and denotes an art of effusion, drama, grandeur and powerful emotion. Strongly religious it became the aesthetic of choice of absolute monarchs. But the more we examine the Baroque, the more subtle and mysterious it becomes. It is impossible to discuss 17th century Europe without it, yet it is increasingly hard to say what it is. It was coined as a term of abuse, denounced by thinkers of the rational Enlightenment and by Protestant cultures which read into Baroque the excess, decadence and corruption they saw in the Catholic Church. With Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge; Nigel Aston, Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester and Helen Hills, Professor of Art History at the University of York."

"The first major exhibition in forty-five years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) brings together Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints and places them in the context of the art and artists that influenced his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode. Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early sixteenth century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck (ca. 1380/90-1441), and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). "

"Renaissance Forum is an interdisciplinary refereed journal. It specialises in early-modern English literary and historical scholarship and in the critical methodologies of these fields. The journal is published biannually by an editorial board based in the Departments of English and History at the University of Hull."

"Welcome to the new website of Shakespeare's Words, the online version of the best-selling glossary and language companion.The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader."

Die Sammlung der Leichenreden im Staatsarchiv war bisher nur zu einem kleinen Teil im Bibliothekskatalog IDS Basel/Bern erfasst. In einem Rekatalogisierungsprojekt konnten nun durch die Universitätsbibliothek 5689 Aufnahmen entweder neu erstellt oder an vorhandene Aufnahmen angehängt werden. Die hohe Quote von rund 85 Prozent Neuaufnahmen verweist auf die substantielle Erweiterung des Gesamtkatalogs durch die Sammlung der Leichenreden in der Bibliothek des Staatsarchivs. Zeitlich reicht die Sammlung vom 16. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Der Schwerpunkt liegt allerdings im 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert.

Auf dieser Internet-Präsenz finden Sie die im Rahmen des Projektes »Sandrart.net« erarbeitete Online-Edition der von Joachim von Sandrart verfassten »Teutschen Academie« und der »Iconologia Deorum«, die von 1675 bis 1680 publiziert wurden.\n\nIn den grundlegenden Dingen unterscheidet sich diese Edition nur wenig von einer ›klas­sischen‹ Edition in Buchform: der Originaltext ist - abgesehen von vorsichtigen editorischen Anpassungen - unverändert abrufbar, wahlweise durch seitenweises Blättern wie auch durch gezielten Einstieg über die Gliederung. Auch die im Original­werk enthaltenen Kupferstiche können angezeigt werden.\nSelbstverständlich ist diese Edition in vergleichbarer Weise zitierbar, wie Sie es von gedruckter Literatur gewohnt sind; hierzu besitzt jede Seite eine dauerhafte und ein­deu­tige Adresse (»PURL«), die eine genaue Zitation erleichtert.

"But it is now the quadricentennial of Milton's birth in 1608, and it is startling that this work, once central to the literary and religious experience of the English-speaking world, is so much a curiosity, sentenced to the margins by its preoccupations with biblical interpretation, condemned by the density of its prosody, which does not instantly seduce but, instead, commands the reader to give way before it, persisting until no resistance is possible. So perhaps the most we can expect is the library's modest, one-room exhibition "John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life."

"Slides / Photo Cds Illustrating Maps from the Renaissance Period 1500-1700."

"Hans Holbein the Younger. German painter (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London)"

"Vergesst Aeneas nicht! Enea Silvio Piccolomini - Humanist, Poet, Gelehrter, Diplomat und Papst. Vor 600 Jahren wurde Enea Silvio Piccolomini geboren, der als Papst Pius II. in die Kirchengeschichte eingegangen ist, mit seinem literarischen Werk und seinen biografischen und historischen Schriften aber wohl mehr in die Waagschale gelegt hat."

"Aside from information about the history, the objectives and the workings of our organisation, this site offers a comprehensive overview of the research projects and activities carried out since the start of the Alamire Foundation in 1991. Short summaries and practical information concerning the scientific publications are provided. If you want to stay informed of our oncoming activities, please take a look at the calendar."

"Dieses Projekt entsteht am Institut für Fränkisch-Pfälzische Geschichte und Landeskunde (FPI) der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, gefördert durch die Klaus Tschira Stiftung"