Medieval Drama

The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing.

The Ancient & Medieval Studies Reading Room, containing c. 10,000 volumes, provides researchers with an extensive selection of primary texts as well as commentaries, concordances and reference works useful in study of these texts. The collection is not comprehensive. The research collections supporting these fields remain primarily in the Butler Stacks. But every effort is made to provide an Reading Room environment that is conducive to work in these fields.

The Map of Early Modern London is comprised of four distinct, interoperable projects: a digital edition of the 1561 Agas woodcut map of London; an Encyclopedia and Descriptive Gazetteer of London people, places, topics, and terms; a Library of marked-up texts rich in London toponyms; and a versioned edition of John Stow’s Survey of London

There is a ten-day difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars, complicating comparing dates across countries in early modern Europe. This calendar makes it easy to see why Britain had a Friday the 13th in 1588, but Spain did not. The multi-country Historical Calendar permits easy comparison of the Julian and Gregorian calendars for thirteen Western countries between 1000 and 2100. Select a date to discover what that day was called in each country. The site also features a handy explanation of both calendars.