Medieval and Renaissance digital humanities / electronic / hypertext research projects online, worldwide. Mainly projects using the TEI encoding scheme, marked-up text, and relational databases. May well be of rather a narrow focus. All are FREE AND OPENLY/PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE – even if one may need to sign up to get a password.
All of these hyperprojects are also listed in MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE RESOURCES; this present separate list of them is to show good examples of current practice (for those contemplating putting together new projects), and to act as a showcase for the sheer breadth and depth of Medieval and Renaissance hyperprojects. Not only is this a rich field, it’s also a lively one, and at the cutting edge of digital humanities research.
- AND: Anglo-Norman Dictionary Project
- Anglo-Norman Online Hub
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry Project
- Archimedes Palimpsest
- Base de Français Médiéval
- Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature (DIAS)
- Bibliotheca Augustana
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes
- Boccaccio’s Decameron
- British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Calendoscope
- CANTUS PLANUS: Data Pool for Research on Gregorian Chant
- CANTUS: Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
- Cartulaire Blanc de Saint-Denis
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, UCC
- CISP: Celtic Inscribed Stones Project
- CURSUS: Medieval Liturgical Texts
- Dafydd Ap Gwilym Edition
- DEAF: Dictionnaire étymologique de l’ancien français
- Digital Dante Project
- Digital Renaissance Editions will publish fully annotated, critical editions of early modern English drama. Adopting the already successful publishing platform developed by the Internet Shakespeare Editions, the Digital Renaissance Editions will offer open-access electronic editions of non-Shakespearean drama, from Tudor interludes through to the works of Margaret Cavendish.
- DMLCS: Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources
- Early Irish Glossaries Database
- Early Modern Women Database (University of Maryland)
- e-codices: Virtuelle Handschriftenbibliothek der Schweiz
- eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Electronic Ælfric
- Electronic Beowulf
- Electronic Boethius
- Electronic Cædmon’s Hymn
- ETRC Textbase: Early Modern French Women Writers (University of Minnesota)
- French Medieval Drama Database Project
- Galileo Project
- Holinshed Project (University of Oxford)
- In Dúil Bélrai
- IRHT: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (The University of Victoria and theSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
- Irish Annals, TCD
- Irish Bardic Poetry Database
- Irish Script On Screen
- Jean Froissart Project
- John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition Online
- Lives of the Saints
- Manuscriptorium
- Medieval Nordic Text Archive
- Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- Musical Sources (9th–15th Centuries) in the Austrian National Library
- Obscenity in Renaissance France
- Online Froissart
- Opere di Dante lemmatizzate
- Partial Transcription of John Lydgate’s “Fall of Princes”
- Partonopeus de Blois
- Perdita: Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Catalogue (AHRB and Nottingham Trent University, in conjunction with Warwick University)
- Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
- Princeton Charrette Project
- Princeton Dante Project
- Renaissance Electronic Texts (University of Toronto): A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period.
- Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto): version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
- Rialc
- Rialto
- Roman de la Rose Digital Library Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts (joint project of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- SATORBASE: Société d’analyse de la topique romanesque
- St. Gall Monastery Plan
- Thesaurus linguae hibernicae, UCD
- Thesaurus musicarum italicarum
- Timaeus Project
- Virtual Vellum
- Visionary Cross Project
- World of Dante
work in progress …
Juliet O’Brien 