Early Modern Europe: Popular Culture: General Websites

A work in progress. Popular songs and printed images on topics like adultery, politics, astrology, religion, etc.

17th century broadside ballads fully accessible as texts, art, music, and cultural records.

Popular songs and printed images on topics like adultery, politics, astrology, bull baiting and cock fighting, religion, etc.

30,000 ballads from the 16th-20th centuries.

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Medieval and Renaissance manuscript images.

Images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts from scattered resources at different international institutions.

Reports on crimes, entertainment, family and daily life.

Early manuscripts in institutions associated with Oxford University.

Documents and images of Germany's political, social, cultural history from the 15th Century.

Access to historical data in the Medici Granducal Archive. Documentary sources in the arts, sciences, and Jewish history.

Archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images of the arrival, impact, and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348-1530.

Court records, church records, wills, alehouse licenses, etc.

On executions, courtship, suicide, body snatching, etc.

Academic writing about the peoples and nations of the Iberian Peninsula.

Primary and secondary source material about the literature from the Medieval period to 18th century England.

Hosted and sponsored by Stanford University, the Global Medieval Sourcebook (GMS) is an open access teaching and research tool. It offers a flexible online display for the parallel viewing of medieval texts in their original language and in new English translations, complemented by new introductory materials.

European primary historical documents that are either translated or digitized in original form.

Directory of published and unpublished bibliographies, catalogs, and other tools for Medieval manuscript collections (in German).

Bibliographies of all known texts and manuscripts in early Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.

433,000 citations to British history.