An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000. Access is limited to 3 users at a time. Please log out when you are finished.
Over 5100 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics, written by over 2000 specialists from universities around the world. Also lists over 22,000 works by date, country and genre. Covers canonical literature originally written in English, French, German and Russian, and is extending its coverage of Italian, Spanish, Latin and Greek. Data can be arrayed by date, country and genre.
Contains a bibliography of numerous known and unknown women writers. Offers short descriptions of many of the texts described.
Historical journal coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
JOHN FORTESCUE
Sir John Fortescue on the Laws and Governance of England, ed. Shelley Lockwood (Cambridge, 1997) - [KD600.F6713.1997] – Law Library LC and Political Science Collections
Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394-1476
JOHN FISHER
John Fisher’s Court Sermons: Preaching for Lady Margaret, 1507-1509, ed. Cecelia A. Hatt (Oxford, 2021) - [PDF of ‘Funeral Sermon for Henry VII’ from SH and on CANVAS]
Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535
JOHN SKELTON
John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, ed. John Scattergood (New Haven, 1983) - [PR2346.S3.1983] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
GEORGE CAVENDISH
The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. R.S. Sylvester (London, Early English Text Society OS no.243, 1959) - [PR1119.A2.243] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
Schwartz-Leeper, Gavin. From princes to pages: The literary lives of Cardinal Wolsey, Tudor England's 'other king.’ Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016. Also in eBook
Gardiner, L.R. "George Cavendish: an Early Tudor Political Commentator?" Parergon 6, no. 1 (1988): 77-87, https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.wustl.edu/pub/62/article/490961/pdf.
A Companion to the Cavendishes. Tom Rutter & Lisa Hopkins, eds. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2021.
THOMAS MORE
Utopia, ed. Edward Surtz (New Haven, 1964) - [HX811.1616.E964] - Olin Library Level 2 Stacks
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535 and Utopia. More, Thomas…
THOMAS ELYOT
A Critical Edition of Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Boke Named the Governour, ed. Donald W. Rude (New York, 1992) - [JC393.B3.E67.1992] - Law Library Political Science
ROBERT CROWLEY
The Select Works of Robert Crowley, ed. J.M Cowper (London, Early English Text Society OS no.15, 1872) - [PR1119.E5.15] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588 – nothing in WUSTL Libraries’ catalog
Thompsett, Frederica Harris. "Robert: Gospeller and Pamphleteer in Tudor England." PhD dissertation. The University of Chicago, 1973. http://libproxy.wustl.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.libproxy.wustl.edu/dissertations-theses/robert-crowley-gospeller-pamphleteer-tudor/docview/251654407/se-2.
McCartor, Robert Lynn. “The Social and Political Theories of Robert Crowley, a Sixteenth-Century Radical.” M.A. Thesis, History. Texas Tech University, 1971, https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/af97f9be-991a-4509-8154-bada87957c01/content.
Graham, Kenneth J. E. (Kenneth John Emerson). "Distributive Measures: Theology and Economics in the Writings of Robert Crowley." Criticism 47, no. 2 (2005): 137-158, https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.wustl.edu/pub/27/article/206032/pdf.
HUGH LATIMER
Sermons (London, 1906) - [BX5133.L3.1906] - Olin Library Level B Stacks
THOMAS SMITH
A Discourse of the Commonweal of This Realm of England: attributed to Sir Thomas Smith, ed. Mary Dewar (Charlottesville, 1969) - [HC254.C74.1969] - Olin Library Level 2 Stacks
JOHN FOXE
John Foxe’s The Acts and Monuments Online-DHI
THOMAS SACKVILLE AND THOMAS NORTON
Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex, ed. Irby B. Cauthen (Lincoln NE, 1970) - [PR2729.N7.A7.1970] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608
JOHN STUBBS
John Stubb’s ‘Gaping Gulf’ With Letters and Other Relevant Documents, ed. Lloyd E. Berry (Charlottesville, 1966) - [DA350.S7.1968] - Olin Library Level 3 Stacks
Stubbes, John, 1543-1591 – nothing in WUSTL Libraries
EDMUND SPENSER
The Shepheards Calendar, Containing Twelve Eclogues to the Twelve Months, ed. C.H. Hertford (London, 1925) - [PR2359.A2.H4] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 plus Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Shepherd's calender
PHILIP SIDNEY
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia [The Old Arcadia], ed. Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973) - [PR2342.A5.1973] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
MARTIN MARPRELATE
The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernised and Annotated Edition, ed. Joseph L. Black (Cambridge, 2008) - [NOT HELD: PDF of ‘Tract IV: Hay Any Work for Cooper’ from SH and on CANVAS]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry VI, Part 2, ed. Ronald Knowles (London, 2002) - [PR2815.A2.K56.2002] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
King Richard II, ed. Charles R. Forker (London, 2002) - [PR2820.A2.F67.2002] - Olin Library Level A Stacks
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 plus King Henry VI and King Richard II
If there are other texts which we have alluded to in class on which you might like to focus (e.g. More’s Epigrams, or Elyot’s Dialogues [including Pasquil the Plain], please come and see Professor Hindle to get access to a scholarly edition].
A resource for the study of Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800). Combines the key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history with original manuscripts and the latest web technologies.
An array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Drawn from major repositories including the Danish Royal Library, the National Central Library in Florence, the National Library of France, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Wellcome Library in London.
International books, pamphlets, serials and other documents published from 1500 to the early 1900's, providing original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more.