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For more assistance in researching your
topic, contact Margaret
Schaus. For recommended titles for your paper topic, see the
list
of books brought to the library research session.
Contents:
Gathering Background Information
Encyclopedias
The following sources provide overviews of ideas, people,
and events in the history of early modern Europe. When using an article
in an encyclopedia or handbook, always check the bibliography for further
reading at the end of the article. It will provide a selective list of
the books, articles, and, frequently, Web resources considered to be the
most up-to-date and reliable. This is a good start for your research as
well as a good corrective later on, providing a broader perspective than
your research on one specific topic.
- Britain in the Hanoverian Age
(1997) (print location via Tripod)
- This single volume treats many specific topics.
- Encyclopedia of European Social History (2001)
(print location via Tripod)
- This title deals with the full chronological range
of European history, but the articles treat topics in essay-length
pieces rather than in shorter dictionary-like entries.
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- Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2003) (print location via Tripod)
- A very new set for early modern Europe.
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- Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern
World (2004) (access via Tripod)
- A new encyclopedia set that is online only.
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- Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (2001) (print location via Tripod)
- Another single-volume encyclopedia that has a combination
of short, specific entries with some essays on broad topics.
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Metasites
- Early Modern Women Database
- Many links organized both for searching and browsing.
An invaluable resource.
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- Men's Bibliography
- Keyword index to journal articles and essays from
books about men and masculinities.
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Finding In-depth Information and Analysis
Finding Books
Tri-College Collections
Use the Tripod Library Catalog
to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn
Mawr.
The following suggested subject searches are only a sampling
of possibilities. To find materials on a topic not listed below, try
doing a keyword search in the Tripod Library
Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings
assigned to those materials to find more.
Examples of Subject Searches
WorldCat (access via Tripod)
An important place to look for many materials not owned
by the Tri-College Libraries. This combined library catalog contains
more than 49 million records describing items owned by libraries around
the world. Many of these items are available to you through interlibrary
loan.
E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary
Loan
Use the E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary
Loan Request forms on Tripod to request items that are not available
in Tripod. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to get books not
in Tripod, while the Interlibrary Loan request is for books not in
E Z Borrow. It takes around three days to get books from E-Z Borrow,
while ILL takes 10 days to 2 weeks. For journal articles not in Tripod,
use the article request form.
Dissertations
Doctoral students go through an exhaustive literature
search when writing their dissertations. They also tend to work on
new questions, sometimes ones that have received very little attention
from scholars before. You can sometimes obtain these dissertations
and benefit from all the bibliographic treasures and new ideas.
Check Dissertation Abstracts Online (Access via Tripod) to identify
dissertations on your topic. Then request them through the Interlibrary
Loan page. Some dissertations are not available in multiple copies
and cannot be loaned.
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Finding Articles
Journal articles and similar periodical publications provide
focused and, frequently, current information on specific questions. The
following indexes are the best ways to find journal articles.
Good Starting Points
Expanded Academic ASAP
(access via Tripod)
Expanded academic indexes over 1500 scholarly journals,
magazines, and news sources in the social sciences, humanities, and
sciences starting with 1980. About half of the journal citations include
the full-text of the article.
Discipline-specific Indexes
These indexes are particularly good for accessing the
scholarly literature of specific disciplines, i.e., articles written
by historians and scholars in related fields.
For history, use Historical Abstracts (access via Tripod) Historical
Abstracts covers all of the world (except for the United States)
from 1500 to the present. Be sure to use the advanced search with
limits by century or decade.
For literature, use MLA Bibliography (access via Tripod)
For religion, use ATLA Religion Database (access via Tripod)
For women's studies, use Women's Resources
International (access via Tripod) and Gender
Watch (Full Text Service) (access via Tripod).
Once you have found citations to journal articles, do
a journal title search in Tripod to see if the Tri-College libraries
own the title. If the journal is not held by the Tri-Colleges, use the
Interlibrary Loan Request
Form on Tripod to request a copy of the article from another library.
A Few Important Journals
Watch for these journal titles when you are searching
indexes and scanning footnotes.
Journal of Early Modern History (access via Tripod). Older
issues are in paper (print location via Tripod).
Journal of the History of Sexuality (access via Tripod). Older
issues are in paper (print location via Tripod)
Journal of Women's History ( access via Tripod). Older
issues are in paper (print location via Tripod).
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Finding Primary Sources
Check this list of Primary
Source and Background Readings recommended by Professor Graham and
available in the three colleges.
The sections below give a few general pointers for locating
primary sources.
Sometimes good leads to primary sources appear in histories
and other recent studies that you have already found.
Finding Primary Sources in Library Catalogs
You can find some primary sources in Tripod. Look for
the subject word "sources" along with subject words like england
and homosexuality:
TITLE Same-sex desire in the English Renaissance : a sourcebook of texts,
1470-1650 / edited by Kenneth Borris
PUBLISHER New York : Routledge, 2004
DESCRIPT xvi, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
SUBJECT English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Sources
Homosexuality -- Literary collections
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Translations into English
Homosexuality -- Literary collections
Sexual orientation -- History -- 16th century -- Sources
Sexual orientation -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
Homosexuality -- History -- 16th century -- Sources
Homosexuality -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
Sexual orientation -- Literary collections
Renaissance -- England -- Sources
For autobiographical accounts, look for such terms as
"Correspondence," "Personal Narratives," etc. e.g
"princesses france correspondence”
AUTHOR Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orle'ans, duchesse
de, 1627-1693
TITLE Against marriage : the correspondence of la Grande Mademoiselle
/ edited and translated by Joan DeJean.
PUBLISHER Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
DESCRIPT
SUBJECT Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orle'ans, duchesse de, 1627-1693
-- Correspondence
Motteville, Franc,oise de, d. 1689 -- Correspondence
Princesses -- France -- Correspondence
Ladies-in-waiting -- France -- Correspondence
Marriage
Sex role
France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715
France -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century
Other voice in early modern Europe
Series and Online Sources
There are major online collections of
printed texts for the early modern era now available at Haverford. Many
of the individual titles are already appearing in Tripod for conveninet
use:.
1. Early English Books Online. Will eventually include
Early English Books Series I and II, 1475-1640 and 1641-1700. Online (access via Tripod)
Set that will reproduce the two Early English Books Series
with over 86,000 titles published during the fifteenth, sixteenth, and
seventeenth centuries. It is based on the Short-Title Catalogue that attempted
to list and describe every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in
Great Britain as well as English books printed abroad. There is a great
deal of material in the set related to women and gender as well as to
other fields of interest to this class.
Example of titles in the collection includes:
" The murderous midwife, with her roasted punishment
[electronic resource] : being a true and full relation of a midwife that
was put into an iron cage with sixteen wild-cats, and so roasted to death,
by hanging over a fire, for having found in her house-of-office no less
than sixty two children, at Paris in France. Publisher [London : s.n.],
Printed in the year 1673.
2. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Offers
access to English language texts published in Great Britain 1701-1800.
Online (access via Tripod)
ECCO includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, Bibles
and treatises. Subjects covered include history, geography, fine arts,
medicine, science, literature, language, religion, philosophy and law.
There aremany women authors included as well treatises on topics concerning
gender and women's issues.
Example of titles in the collection includes:
" W. D. (William Darrell) (1651-1721). The
gentleman instructed, in the conduct of a virtuous and happy life. In
three parts. Written for the instruction of a young nobleman. To which
is added, a word to the ladies, by way of supplement to the first part.[electronic
resource]: with a full confutation of atheism and latitudinarianism|Gentleman
instructed in the way of conversation, entertainment of friends, management
of his estate, company-keeping, travelling, &c. London : printed
by W.B. for E. Smith, and are to be sold by Rich. Wilkin at the King's-head
in St. Paul's Church-yard, M,DCC,XXVII. [1727].
There are also more specialized online
and printed sources for primary texts by and about early modern women.
See, for example:
Early Modern Women
Extensive listing of primary sources in English translation
French Women Writers
(ARTFL Project)
Online texts by forty women authors from the 16th through the centuries
Other
Voice in Early Modern Europe
A series of print editions of writings by or about women. All available
titles are listed in Tripod.
Women Writers' Online (print location via Tripod)
A subscription service for texts written by women.
Sources at Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr's special collections library actively buys
material published in 17th and 18th century France. The list of titles
currently has close to 500 entries. Please contact Margaret Schaus (mschaus@haverford.ed)if
you would like a copy of the title list e-mailed to you.
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