Teaching Resources

The resources listed below were gathered as part of a roundtable discussion on teaching early modern print culture at the "Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture" conference at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto, 22-24 October 2010. Members of the roundtable were Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library), Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto), Christopher Kyle (Syracuse University), and Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania).

Unless otherwise noted, all online resources below are open access.

Catalogues and digital text collections:

English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC)

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home (subscription only)

Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP)

British Printed Images to 1700

http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/index.html

English Broadside Ballad Archive

http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/

Shakespeare Quartos Archive

http://www.quartos.org/

Bibliothèque nationale de France

http://www.bnf.fr

Gallica (the digital collections of the BnF)

http://gallica.bnf.fr

La biblioteca complutense (Universidad Complutense Madrid)

http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/ayuda/27938.php

Colección digital dioscórides

http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/atencion/24063.php

El Buscón (Biblioteca Nacional de España)

http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/ElBuscon/

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, University of Pennsylvania (SCETI)

http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/

(includes the Furness Shakespeare collection and the Schoenberg manuscript collection)

Primary research tools:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (subscription only)

Transcripts of the Stationers’ Registers, 1554-1640 and 1641-1708

http://cliobeta.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6177070

http://cliobeta.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6177199

(links to pdfs of the volumes in Arber and in Eyre and Rivington)

British Book Trade Index (BBTI)

http://www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/

Other useful resources for studying early modern books:

The Atlas of Early Printing

http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/

ABC for Book Collectors

http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/29-abc_for_book_collectors.html

(link to pdf of the 8^th edition of John Carter’s book, revised by Nicholas Barker)

Latin Place Names

http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/latin/index.html

(from the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries)

Web Resources for the Rare Books Cataloguer

http://lib.nmsu.edu/rarecat/

(from RBMS; includes helpful links for rare books researchers as well)

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)

http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ (open access, with advanced functions limited to subscribers)

Sites useful for teaching foreign emblems:

• http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
• http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/french/
• http://www.italianemblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
• http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/

Scholarship that will lead students back to primary sources: (from Chris Kyle)

• David Cressy, “Book Burning in Tudor and Stuart England” Sixteenth Century Journal, 36:2 (2005), 359-74.
• David Cressy, “Books as Totems in England and New England” Journal of Library History, 21:1 (1986), 92-106.

Resources on pedagogy

Heidi Brayman Hackel and Ian Multon, eds, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives, MLA Options for Teaching (New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2011)

Ann R. Hawkins, ed., Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006)

Leslie Howsam, Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture (Toronto: U Toronto P, 2006)

Ian Gadd, “The Use and Misuse of Early English Books Online” Literature Compass 6 (2009): 680-92. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00632.x (subscription only)

Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser, "Early Modern Digital Scholarship and  DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks" Literature Compass 5 (2008): 1139–1153. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00577.x (subscription only)

Early Modern Online Bibliography

http://earlymodernonlinebib.wordpress.com/

(a blog by Anna Battigelli and Eleanor Shevlin; includes useful discussions and a bibliography of articles about online resources)

Wynken de Worde

http://wynkendeworde.blogspot.com/

(a blog by Sarah Werner; includes discussions about teaching as well as student-accessible discussions of early modern book history and bibliography)

Images of a newsbook that can be printed to fold into a quarto (see also the discussion in Wynken de Worde)

Virtual Printing Press

http://www.virtualprintingpress.com/

Syllabi

Sarah Werner, Folger Shakespeare Library: Books and Early Modern Culture (undergraduate)

Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto: Bibliography (graduate); see also her printed book description assignment and her bibliography for rethinking print culture.