Local Resources for Early Modern Studies:
- University
of Arizona Libraries provide extensive resources in support of
the humanities, sciences, social sciences, with over 5 million titles
and 75,000 new ones added each year; subscriptions to 36,000 journals,
most of them electronic as well as paper; access to all databases
essential to early modern studies, including Archives USA, Art Abstracts,
ARTbibliographies Modern, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
EEBO (Early English Books Online), Gerritsen Collection of Women's
History Online, 1543-1945, Early Encounters in North America, Peoples,
Cultures, and the Environment, Library of Latin Texts, Literature
Resource Center, and Renaissance Women Online; a significant collection
of microfilms and microfiches, including Medieval and Early Modern
Women (manuscript holding of the British library), Sex and Sexuality
1640-1940, El Archivo de Hidalgo del Parral, 1631-1821, the H. P.
Kraus Collection of Documents Relating to Spanish America, 1500-1819,
and Die Getreidehandelspolitik der Europaischen Staaten vom 13. bis
zum 18. Jahrhunderts; and major collections in East Asian Studies
and the Middle East.
- University
of Arizona Library Special Collections, recipient of the Association
of College and Research Libraries 2001 Excellence in Academic Libraries
Award, has an extensive collection of documents and manuscripts of
the Southwest dating from the late 17th century, including those of
Native Americans, Spanish missionaries and other explorers, and Anglo
settlers; the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives, documenting early synagogues,
Jewish life, and possible traces of crypto-Jewish life in the Southwest;
a history of science book collection with works from the 15th through
the 18th centuries, including first editions of books by Copernicus,
Galileo, and Huygen; a first edition of La Dictionnaire de l'Académie
Française; a growing collection of facsimiles of important
medieval and early modern manuscripts and printed works; and the T.
E. Hanley Fine Arts and Theatre Arts collection of over 38,000 volumes,
featuring extensive holdings in English Restoration and 18th-century
drama.
- University
of Arizona Fine Arts Library, housing resources for research in
music, art, and architecture, has substantial resources for the study
of early music that features a rich collection of early music from
the Americas supported by subscriptions to databases such as the Naxos
Music Library, which provides access to over 130,000 tracks plus liner
notes for the entire Naxos and Marco Polo collections, Grove Music
Online, the International Index to Music Periodicals (full text),
and all other standard bibliographic resources.
- University
of Arizona Law Library has over 450,000 volumes, including a foreign
and international collection with an emphasis on Mexican and Latin
American law and extensive collections on Native American and indigenous
law.
- Arizona
State Museum, an anthropology and research museum documenting
the cultural history of indigenous peoples in the greater Southwest,
holds over 150,000 catalogued archeological and ethnographical artifacts
of the Southwest and 50,000 books on the anthropology of the Southwest;
the largest vessel collection of Southwest Indian pottery in the world;
and an extensive textile collection, including one of the largest
collection of Navajo textiles.
- University
of Arizona Museum of Art has one of the largest collections of
Renaissance and Baroque art in the Southwest, including the Retablo
Room, with 26 panels of the 15th-century retablo from the cathedral
of Ciudad Rodrigo by the Spanish master Fernando Gallego, as well
as works by Vittore Carpaccio, Domenico Tintoretto, Pontormo (Jacopo
Carucci), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Lucas van Leyden, Albrecht
Dürer, Hendrik Goltzius, Rembrandt van Rijn, Pieter Breugel,
Canaletto, and Francisco Goya as well as a significant collection
of modern masters and Western American art.
- Division
for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, directed by Professor
Susan Karant-Nunn, hosts a prestigious annual Town and Gown Lecture
and holds the Heiko O. Oberman library of 10,000 works, one of the
largest private collections of early modern and modern books on the
Reformation, including early printed works from the sixteenth century.
- University
of Arizona Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee (UAMARRC),
an organization for faculty and students with interests in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance, sponsors an annual Work in Progress Symposium
for University faculty and graduate students; subsidizes invited speakers
and visiting scholars; offers an annual research grant for graduate
students; is the constituent body of ACMRS (see below); underwrites
UA membership in the Institute for Historical Research, London;and
is a member of the Medieval Academy of America's Committees on Centers
and Regional Associations.
- University
of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) has formal
links to universities and programs throughout the Middle East, organizes
scholarly conferences and workshops as well as a lecture series, and
supports undergraduate and graduate study of the Middle East, including
study abroad programs.
- Arizona
Center for Judaic Studies promotes advanced study in the various
fields of Judaica and supports the Shaol Pozez Memorial Lecture Series
on Jewish history, traditions, and culture and the Rabbi Albert T.
Bilgray Memorial Lectureship.
- Women's Studies
Department and Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW),
with 14 core faculty members, 6 adjunct faculty, a dozen research
specialists and program coordinators, and some 60 affiliated faculty
from departments across campus, provides students and faculty with
resources for the study of the history of women, gender, sexuality,
race, and class with a particular focus on the Southwest and Latina
history and culture; offers and cross-lists graduate courses in feminist
theories, queer theories, Latina feminisms, feminist political theory,
women and the body, feminist methodologies, cultural theory, queer
(lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) history, women and literature,
women's history, women and religion, gender and the law, and gender,
race, and ethnicity; and provides research and travel support for
students and faculty pursuing research on women, gender, and sexuality.
- Committee
on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies supports the study
of the histories, politics, and cultures of gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender people and diverse scholarship on sexuality, especially
the interconnections between sexuality, gender, race, and economic
processes and the complex material and symbolic, local, and global
forces that shape practices of sexual identity and community; offers
interdisciplinary reading groups and public programs such as an Annual
Sex and Scholarship Symposium; and supports curriculum development
around issues of concern to LGBT studies.
- University
of Arizona Collegium Musicum, an early music ensemble of 40 singers
and instrumentalists, specializes in music written before 1750, with
attention to historically-informed performance practice on period
instruments.
- Arizona Early
Music Society (AEMS) organizes concerts featuring music from the
Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods performed by early music
specialists on period instruments; AEMS hosts an annual series that
brings internationally-famous musicians and ensembles to Tucson as
well as Hausmusik, concerts by local early music specialists in a
more informal setting.
- Musica Sonora,
directed by Christina Jarvis, is a Tucson ensemble specializing in
early music, with vocal and instrumental repertoire spanning the 13th
to the 17th centuries.
- Arizona
Historical Society is charged with collecting, preserving, interpreting,
and disseminating the history of Arizona and the West; the Tucson
Main Museum Library, adjacent to the University of Arizona campus,
houses a collection of over 500,000 artifacts and other materials
related to Arizona history.
- San
Xavier del Bac Mission, a National Historic Landmark built in
the late 18th century by Franciscan missionaries and the Tohono O'odham
people (who continue to worship in the church) on the site of a mission
established by the Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1692, provides
unique opportunities for study through its ongoing restoration and
a small museum that documents the history of indigenous peoples on
the site as well as missionary life and the building of the church
and surrounding structures.
- Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), a state-wide
research unit housed at Arizona State University in Tempe, coordinates
and stimulates interdisciplinary exploration of Medieval and Renaissance
culture; ACMRS organizes lectures and programs at the three major
Arizona universities; hosts an annual conference in Medieval and Renaissance
Studies; and offers a Summer Study Abroad Program in conjunction with
St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Regional Libraries and Archives:
Huntington Library
Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San
Marino, California, is a research institution for the scholarly study
of British and American history, literature, art history, and the history
of science, with notable collections in
- American art, British 18th-century paintings, British
drawings, silver, sculpture, and miniatures, French 18th-century furniture,
sculpture, and decorative arts, and an extensive art reference collection;
- American history, including a nearly complete collection
of very rare 16th-century accounts of exploration from Columbus onward,
7,500 imprints from 1640-1800, including newspapers, pamphlets and
almanacs, and an extensive collection of printed books and pamphlets
about the American Revolution;
- British history, featuring resources unequaled in
the United States for medieval and early modern history, including
the Battle Abbey Papers, the Hastings Papers, the Ellesmere Collection
(with estate and local records for the entire 16th century and monastic
accounts up to the Dissolution), and the Brydges Papers (with the
papers of James, 1st Duke of Chandos), as well as 5,400 British and
Continental incunabula, manuscript and printed material on the Civil
War, Cromwell, non-conformists, Puritanism, and British colonialism,
especially Ireland, and over 40,000 books printed in England between
1475 and 1700;
- literature, including the Ellesmere Chaucer, the
Towneley Plays, and the Chester cycle, half the titles printed in
England before 1641, including manuscripts of Swift, Pope, and Johnson,
95% of English plays and masques in one or more early edition;
- Continental books, especially 16th-century;
- the history of science, including strong holdings
of scientific books published in the 15th century, with a focus on
the history of medicine, and many scientific, medical, and technical
books of the 16th and 17th centuries, including the works of Robert
Boyle, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Martin Lister, and many others.
The Huntington hosts many lectures and conferences on
early modern topics and is the site for the annual Renaissance Conference
of Southern California.
William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, with holdings in
- British literature and history from the Civil War
through the reign of George II, with works by Newton, Boyle, Halley,
Evelyn, and Digby forming the core of the largest history of science
collection in the western United States;
- literature, featuring virtually all first editions
of Restoration drama, a Dryden collection rivaled only by that of
the British Library, and collections centering on Milton, Defoe, Swift,
Pope, Fielding, and Behn;
- an extensive collection of music books and songs,
scores, and musicology printed before 1750, ballad and comic operas,
the edited works of Purcell, Handel, and their contemporaries in England,
and manuscript anthems, hymns, and incidental music;
- Protestant theology, including the library of Thomas
Cartwright and more than 8,500 religious pamphlets from the period.
GEMS is a consortium member of:
Newberry
Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium,
Chicago, has magnificent collections embracing the history and literature
of Western Europe and the Americas, with major strengths in
- European discovery, exploration, and settlement
of the Americas, with extensive manuscript, pamphlet, and book holdings
on the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French colonies;
- American Indian history and literature, with over
130,000 volumes, a million manuscript pages, 500 atlases, 2,000 maps,
and 3,500 drawings and paintings on indigenous history;
- Early American history, from the colonial period
to the early republic, documented by colonial records, published state
archives, historical society papers, county and town histories, newspapers
and periodicals, missionary accounts, travel literature, diaries,
sermons, hymns, and historical monographs, featuring pamphlets from
the French and Indian War and material on the Hudson Bay Company;
- British history, with especially strong collections
of recusant books, pamphlets, and manuscripts from 1559 through the
19th century, local histories and records, the history of education,
and travel literature;
- French history, especially the French Revolution,
including political treatises from the Middle Ages through the 19th
century, with particularly strong holdings in the 16th and 17th centuries,
emblem books, courtesy books, and works on religious non-conformity;
- Italian history, especially the Renaissance, with
40 pre-1500 and over 350 post-1500 manuscripts, featuring emblem books,
family histories, family papers, travel narratives, religious texts,
including Hebraica, and political commentary as well as hundreds of
incunabula that document the history of Italian printing, including
extensive holdings on the work of Bodoni, and extensive collections
on Italian Renaissance rhetoric and poetics;
- the history of cartography, with over 800 maps printed
in Italy during the 16th century and the materials of the Ayer collection,
which includes 2,000 maps, 500 atlases, and 300 manuscript maps that
document the development of geography and cartography of the Western
Hemisphere;
- the history and theory of music, with many hundreds
of opera libretti, liturgical works from the 16th through the 18th
centuries, and numerous volumes of motets and madrigals;
- dance and dance history, with first editions of many
early works from France and Italy;
- the history of printing and early philology and linguistics;
- British literature, with virtually all early printed
books represented in the collection and with a particular focus on
Elizabethan and Restoration drama, early English translations of classical
and Continental works, 18th-century periodicals, and poetry.
The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry hosts
many conferences and seminars on early modern topics each year and supports
visiting scholars.
Folger Shakespeare
Library, Washington DC, has a world-renowned collection that supports
the study of Britain and Europe in the early modern era, with particular
strength in the 16th and 17th centuries and the study of Shakespeare
and the theater to the present day, including
- 250,000 English books, among them 116,000 rare books
(many with interesting and important marginalia), including one of
the largest collection of Short Title Catalogue books in the world;
- a Continental collection that includes over 400 incunabula,
a Reformation collection of 2,000 volumes, plus important collections
on Italian drama, travel literature, science and technology, military
history, and French and Dutch historical and political pamphlets from
1500-1700;
- 60,000 manuscripts from the 13th century to the present,
including original poetic, literary, and dramatic works, music (including
works for the lute by John Dowland), correspondence (including letters
of John Donne), family papers, diaries, commonplace books, miscellanies,
sermons, account books, receipt books, warrants, deeds, and forgeries;
significant collections include papers of the Bagot, Bacon-Townshend,
Rich, and Cavendish-Talbot families as well as the papers of Sir Thomas
Cawarden, First Master of the English Revels, and the papers of the
Strozzi family, comprising 200 volumes of transcripts from the Papal
and Venetian Archives;
- 200 oil paintings and 50,000 drawings, prints, photographs,
and other images, including works by the Elizabethan artists George
Gower and Nicholas Hilliard, the engravings of Wenceslaus Hollar,
and an important set of Jacobean watercolors;
- a wealth of material artifacts, including musical
instruments, costumes, and films, an extensive collection of early
English porcelain, featuring plaques, tiles, ewers, jugs, and portrait
medallions celebrating figures of the 18th- and 19th-century English
stage, Tudor and Stuart furniture, 16th- and 17th-century French and
Flemish tapestries, coins, tokens, and games, and 250,000 playbills;
- a collection of materials related to Shakespeare
(the largest in the world) that includes 229 quarto editions of Shakespeare's
plays and poems and 79 First Folios (1623), deeds for Shakespeare's
purchase of New Place and the Blackfriars Gatehouse, almost 1,000
prompt books for Shakespeare plays, and manuscripts associated with
all the leading dramatists and Shakespearean actors through the 18th
century;
- a noted collection of early instruments.
The Folger hosts many conferences and seminars on early
modern topics and supports visiting scholars and fellows. |
