Directory of Renaissance Resources

Subcategories

English Handwriting, 1500-1700: An Online Course

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
Dedicated to writing by hand (as was done from the 15th to the 17th Century). This site includes lessons where one can practice how to understand old handwriting as well as history of how individual letters were written.
Iter

http://www.itergateway.org/
A database containing a bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700.
Luminarium: Essays on Sixteenth-Century English Literature

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/essays.htm
Links to essays on various sixteenth-century authors. Distinguishes between scholarly articles and student projects.
Old Spelling Renaissance Texts

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html
A couple of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts.
Sixteenth Century English Ballads

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/
Ballads from before and during 1600 along with sheet music and lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to modern listeners.
The Courtier During the Renaissance

http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/castiglione.html
Souvik Mukherjee discusses the notion of a courtier by dwelling on Bembo's Discourse on Love in Castiglione's The Courtier.

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