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FRENCH PALAEOGRAPHY COURSE
Perhaps covering dates slightly late for some CERES members; but not for
others. And who would want to miss any on-line palaeography course, complete
with exams? The 13 lessons are archived at
http://www.mygale.org/07/voirin/paleo/html/sommaire.html.
MARLOWE ON-LINE
The Perseus Project at Tufts University (which already boasts impressive
classical materials) has released the first part of a freely available
electronic version of Christopher Marlowe's Complete Works on the web at:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html.
This site now provides users with the capacity to view various Dr Faustus materials: the original 1604 text, known as the A text, as well as the original 1616 text, the B text, alongside modernized versions of each. In addition, the site displays the links between the A and B texts side by side for comparison. The source text, The English Faust Book, is entered in its entirety and can be viewed as such, or it can be viewed alongside the A or B text where similar portions of each have been linked to one another. There are also scholarly notes and glosses in the form of hypertextual links in the English Faust Book. Eventually, a modernized version of the source text will be entered as well. In addition, the textual variants for Doctor Faustus and for all of Marlowe's other works will be entered, allowing users to select which variant version of either the A or B text or of the various historical collations they would like to read from. Soon the rest of Marlowe's works, including translations, will have received similar treatment.
ZWINGLIAN REFORMATION BIBLIOGRAPHY
The annual bibliography 'Neue Literatur zur zwinglischen Reformation' is
available not only in printed form (in the yearbook 'Zwingliana'), but also
on the net. URL: http://www.unizh.ch/irg/biblio.html.
SHAKESPEARE AND ASTROLOGY
A site exploring how examining Shakespeare's interest in astrology may
provide answers to problems of dating, textual variants, etc. With
particular ref. to Titus Andronicus, Winter's Tale, Antony and Cleopatra,
and Hamlet. The URL is: http://www.sonnet.co.uk/egma/.
WORLD SHAKESPEARE BIBLIO ON CD-ROM
It must be good because it has just been awarded the Besterman Medal, given
by the Library Association (UK) for the year's outstanding bibliography.
This is the first time it has been awarded to an electronic publication.
Full details are available at the World Shakespeare Bibliography website:
http://www-english.tamu.edu/wsb.
ERASMUS SOCIETY ON THE WEB
For a description of the Erasmus Of Rotterdam Society's goals and
activities, recent news, and the table of contents of the _Erasmus of
Rotterdam Society Yearbook_ 17 (1997) head for the following URL:
http://www.sfu.ca/~pabel/ers.htm.
CRRS (TORONTO) AND FICINO HOMEPAGE
CERES has mentioned the impressive list of resources at the Centre for
Reformation and Renaissance Studies site already. But anywhere with a
picture of a bookwheel can't be mentioned enough:
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/crrs/index.html.
It also gets a mention now because we can finally tell you where the
homepage of the FICINO discussion group (sponsored by CRRS) is...
http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CRRS/FICINO.html.
CHAPMAN'S ODYSSEY
Project Bartleby at Columbia has one Renaissance text on its list, the 1857
edition of Chapman's Odyssey. Useful, and very nice-looking. URL:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/chapman/.
COMPUTER & LETTEREN (UTRECHT)
The intimidatingly-titled Competence Center for Electronic Document
Engineering has an impressively businesslike and serious site with various
multimedia projects, including emblems, Dutch printers' devices, an
iconographic database, etc. This definitely merits a serious look-through by
a bibliographer, and CERES would be glad to hear of anyone's experiences:
http://candl.let.ruu.nl/.
BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA
Another rather splendid classical website, the incipient Bibliotheca
Augustana is run by Ulrich Harsch, and is devoted to making Latin texts
(ancient, medieval, post-medieval) freely available in electronic form. At
present it includes works by Ambrosius, Boethius,
Comenius, Copernicus, Dante, Descartes, Einhard, Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim,
Isidore, Lactantius, Melanchthon, Morus, Cornelius Nepos, Spinoza,
Theophilus presbyter, Ulfilas and Vergil, and several more are planned
(Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Diocletianus, Donatus, Francesco of Assisi,
Horace, Livius, Lucrece, Ovid, Petrarca, Sallust, Tacitus). Wot fine lists.
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augusta.html.
For those interested in Dante, the Bibliotheca offers e-texts of the Quaestio de acqua et terra, of the two Eclogues, and of Epistola III (and a new HTML version of Jim Marchand's e-text of Epistola XIII); De vulgari eloquentia will be available shortly.
EARLY MODERN LITERARY STUDIES NEW ISSUE
This has finally appeared, heralded by a mighty apologia cross-posted to
many lists CERES members subscribe to. For those who depend only on us,
issue 3.1 is at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html. Or the U.K. mirror:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~emls/emlshome.html. The issue includes Steve Sohmer on "12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe", Randall Martin on "Isabella Whitney's 'Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith'", Emma Roth-Schwartz on "Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle", and Jeffrey Kahan on a possible source for Caliban, as well as a host of reviews.
Included alongside issue 3.1 is the first in the EMLS Special Issue Series,
edited by Ian Lancashire and Michael Best, and entitled New Scholarship
from Old Renaissance Dictionaries: Applications of the Early Modern English
Dictionaries Database.
COPAC UPDATE
COPAC is an internationally accessible catalogue giving unified free access
to some of the largest university research library collections in the UK and
Ireland. A *new release* of COPAC has just been made available containing a
number of changes such as new libraries (incl. The University of London
Library), more local data, and extended search facilities. To access COPAC
you can use the Web Interface at: http://copac.ac.uk/copac/. Or the Text Interface using telnet: telnet copac.ac.uk. Username and password are both 'copac'.
CESARE RIPA'S ICONOLOGIA
The ORBIS Foundation (the Hungarian centre for computer applications in art
history) is preparing an annotated CD-Rom edition of Cesare Ripa's
Iconologia. The first issue (to be published in December 1997) will
comprise: the full text of eight Italian editions of the Iconologia and
every illustration (c. 150 - 400 engravings per edition); a critical
comparison of the Italian editions with notes on textual variants;
comprehensive annotations; the full Hungarian translation of the first
illustrated edition of 1603, with Hungarian footnotes; two English versions
(the full text of the 1709 London edition, and the full text of a hitherto
unpublished 17th century English translation in manuscript (British Library,
MS Add. 23195); an iconographic index on the basis of the ICONCLASS
international iconographic descriptive system; and the full text of all the
cited sources. It will also contain the full text of a number of sources
used by Ripa, including works by Boccaccio, Comes, and Dante.
Further information and a sample (the article on Avaritia) can be found at http://vega.ceu.hu:80/medstud/or/ripa.htm.
The hypertexts of Ripa's sources will be made freely available on the web; the first of these texts, Pietro Vasolli da Fivizano's Italian translation of Horapollon's Hieroglyphica (printed by Giolito, Venice 1547), is already online at: http://vega.ceu.hu:80/medstud/or/horap/horapollo.htm.
INTERNATIONAL MILTON SYMPOSIUM
The next International Milton Symposium will be at York University, England,
from July 18-24, 1999. The call for papers and conference information will
go out in March 1998, and the deadline for submissions will be September
1998. Papers on all aspects of Milton's work will be welcome, as well as on
the already announced: Milton and the Civil War, Milton and Marvell, and
Milton and the Millennium. Meanwhile, enquiries can be directed to Graham
Parry at the Department of English, University of York, York YO1 5DD;
e-mail: gp8@york.ac.uk. Announcements about the 1999 Symposium will be appearing on the Milton Quarterly home page
(http://voyager.cns.ohiou.edu/~somalley/milton.html) and there is an
announcement as well on the Milton-L page (http://www.richmond.edu/~creamer/sub.html).
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