The Iter Bibliography

Iter's bibliography covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs, and material published in monographs and collections of essays. The bibliography contains more than 1,300,000 records. Updates: Daily

Subject access: Subject access to selected materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), published since 1990, is available via Library of Congress Subject Headings, Dewey Decimal Classification notation, and added keywords.

Iter Italicum

Brill Academic Publishers and Iter are pleased to announce the publication of the first online version of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes between 1963 and 1992, it is an essential tool for any scholar working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies. The database contains 2,779 records.

Subject access: The Basic version permits searching for keywords, countries, cities, libraries and / or library collections associated with a manuscript location. The Enhanced version permits searching and browsing for keywords, countries, cities, libraries and / or library collections associated with a manuscript location.

Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (MRTS) Online Series

- Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640

Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640, has evolved from an effort to compile a "comprehensive" record of often quaint past scholarship on some 180 known women writers into a still-growing list of scholarship about over 700 recovered writers and located texts, canonical and non-canonical. Identifying many hitherto unknown English women writers, 1500-1640, and including among them not only already familiar figures, but also women refugees such as the recusants, women in the colonies, women translators and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Gaelic and Welsh, the bibliography functions not only as a listing of mushrooming scholarship, but also as a roster of English women writers, 1500-1640.

Preliminaries consist of bibliographies, background studies (i.e., studies providing extended narrative or analysis), reference works (i.e., compendia of entries), anthologies of essays, special issues of journals, genre studies, handbooks (or pedagogical tools), and anthologies of primary sources. Individual listings, the bulk of the bibliography, begin with a main heading supplying the writer's name and dates, and contain lists of texts (including English Short Title Catalogue numbers or locations of manuscripts), of editions, of anthologies containing parts of texts, of contemporary references (where applicable), of scholarship, and genre notes. "Added entries" supply alternate forms of names and titles; notes provide essential information and acknowledgments to many individual scholars who have kindly responded to the compiler's queries. Travitsky's goal has been "comprehensiveness," except for celebrated authors such as Elizabeth I, for whom the scholarship is limited to studies of their writings.

The electronic format facilitates study of these traditionally hard-to-locate writers and their often scattered works; after the initial mounting of this 1,000+ page resource, it will enable its seamless updating and enhancement.

- Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700: Revised and for the Years 1701-1799

This bibliography is an extensive revision and continuation of Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700, published by Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (MRTS), Binghamton, New York, in 1984, and it is the only Milton bibliography that covers the eighteenth century. The bibliography tries to bring together all manuscripts and editions of Milton's works and all studies and critical statements concerning Milton's life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799. Users can browse by century or year, or perform Boolean, keyword or phrase searches. Cross references within the bibliography are hypertext links, allowing for ease of navigation. Shawcross's work represents an invaluable resource for Milton scholars, and literary, history, and publication scholars of both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The database contains more than 13,000 records.

Journals

- Renaissance Quarterly Online (RQ Online)

Iter, in partnership with the Renaissance Society of America, is pleased to offer Renaissance Quarterly Online (RQ Online). Authorized users can search, view, and print the full-text of current issues of the journal Renaissance Quarterly, going back to volume 53 (2000).

With a subscription to RQ Online authorized users will also have access to Preprints of Renaissance Quarterly Reviews, which distributes full-text book reviews before they are published in Renaissance Quarterly.

- Early Theatre (ET)

Iter, in partnership with the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria University in the University of Toronto, is pleased to offer online access to Early Theatre (ET). Authorized users can search, view, and print the full-text of volume 1 (1998) to the current issue.

- Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme

Iter, in partnership with the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria University in the University of Toronto, is pleased to offer online access to Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (RR). Authorized users can search, view, and print the full-text of the journal from volume 24, no. 1 (2000).

- Early Theatre

Early Theatre is a peer-reviewed journal that welcomes research in medieval or early modern drama and theatre history, rooted in the records and documents of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The journal also publishes articles or notes on related materials either in Europe, or in parts of the world where English or European travellers, traders, and colonizers observed performances by other peoples. Although primarily focused on the performance history of any art, entertainment, or festive occasion of the period, Early Theatre also publishes interpretive or literary articles relating to the performances themselves. Each year the journal also features "Issues in Review," a section of related, short essays that together highlight new research directions and shape the field for further study.

Early Theatre succeeds Records of Early English Drama Newsletter (REEDN), published from 1976 to 1997. A subscription to the online edition of Early Theatre includes access to an online edition of the full run of REEDN.

- Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is the only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender during the years 1400 to 1700. Each volume gathers essays on early modern women from every country and region, by scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, including art history, cultural studies, music, history, political science, religion, theatre, history of science, and history of philosophy.

- Quaderni d'italianistica

Quaderni d'italianistica is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles and book reviews in English, French, or Italian touching on any aspect of Italian literature from the origins to the present, Italian language, linguistics, and pedagogy. Publication is made possible by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

- Confraternitas

Confraternitas is a refereed journal publishing brief articles, news and notes of interest to colleagues, notices of forthcoming conferences or papers, and general queries about medieval and Early Modern confraternities (pre-1700).

International Directory of Scholars (IDS)

The International Directory of Scholars (IDS) is the fortunate result of a convergence of interests of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), who wanted a major revision of its own Directory, and the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC), who wanted to transform its highly respected Scholars of Early Modern Studies into an online database. The IDS is a comprehensive resource which accommodates not only the usual directory contact information, but also detailed information on the research and teaching careers of scholars around the world.

Updates: Updated membership information is received from the RSA and the SCSC and uploaded to the IDS regularly.