Research Guides
English Literature: The Medieval, Middle Ages, and Renaissance: Home
This Guide's purpose is to help researchers studying English literature from the Medieval, Middle Ages, and Renaissance time periods.
Welcome!
A couple pages in a commonplace book from the Renaissance time period.
Starting Points
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new windowDigital reproductions of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window18th century English-language publications in the humanities, arts, and sciences
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowComprehensive database of poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, author biographies, topic overviews, and critical essays.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal articles and books covering the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive source for scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
- ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new windowProQuest One is for scholars who must engage with an exhaustive and diverse set of scholarly resources around a given literary topic for research and course planning. It contains 5 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings.
