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Bibliographie de la litterature française

Bibliographie de la litterature française

The Bibliographie de la littérature française (BLF) is coedited by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Société d’histoire littéraire de la France, and Classiques Garnier Numérique. The bibliographic tool documents all the studies on French-speaking literature from the sixteenth century to the present day which have appeared between 1998 and the present day both in France and abroad. Conceived as a veritable crossroads of information, it constitutes a unique resource for researchers, professors, students, and, more broadly, all those seeking to inform themselves on French-speaking literature or on a particular writer, theme or period. The online BLF is updated daily, as and when publications are recorded by specialists.

Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe

Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe

The exhibition “The Art of Disagreeing Badly: Religious Dispute in Early Modern Europe” is now permanently available on an interactive website. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were an age of confessional polemic. After the beginning of the Reformation in 1517, church history presented a challenge to each confession in its own right. Protestants aimed to explain, through examples from history, why error had come into the Church after apostolic times and after centuries of decadence the Reformation had become necessary. Catholics argued, on the other hand, that the Church had always remained the same. Protestants also doubted specific key events in church history. They asserted, for example, that St. Peter had never been in Rome, so that the Petrine tradition, on which the papacy based its own primacy, was invalid. Catholics, of course, never doubted Peter’s stay in Rome. Many other such polemical arguments were thrown back and forth, making church history a hot battleground of the confessional struggle. A large number of the books exhibited are from the collection of Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of York (1546–1628).

Digital Cicognara Library

Digital Cicognara Library

Contains the full text of Conte Leopoldo Cicognara’s Catalogo ragionato dei libri d’arte e d’antichità, published in 1821, integrated with digital images of the full text of every title in the Cicognara Library. Includes both black-and-white facsimiles of the original volumes in the Vatican Library (digitized from microform masters), and one or more high-resolution, color digital facsimiles of unique copies from project partner libraries, along with thorough bibliographic information.

Arkyves: A Databse of Early Modern Imagery

Arkyves: A Databse of Early Modern Imagery

Arkyves is a website that offers a single access point to a variety of scholarly databases of early modern sources, such as emblems, printer’s devices, fables, adages, mythography, and typography. Its focus is on subject indexing. Subject queries can be done in English, French, Italian and German. By subscription.

The Anglo-American Legal Tradition

The Anglo-American Legal Tradition

Images of legal documents from medieval and early modern England from the National Archives in London digitized and displayed through the O’Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and Department of History. Useful to anyone working on English history, literature, law, or culture.