Early Printed Books (Europe 1450 to 1800)

Search across documents dating back to the 16th century, this collection examines patterns of fertility and sexual practice; prostitution; religion and sexuality; the medical and legal construction of sexualities; the rise of sexology and more. Monographs, manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera, covering a wide range of previously taboo topics, provide context to the twentieth-century materials covered in Parts I and II with unique perspectives on history, society, social mores, and changing views of sexuality. Date coverage from 1600-1940.

Search the complete text of the collection Trésor de la Langue Française: nearly 2600 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of drama, non-fiction prose and...

Search across the editions of the works of Montaigne from the 16th and 17th centuries

Search for primary source documents related to gender studies from British and European libraries and archives

Search for primary sources related to the Reformation and post-Reformation eras

Search for essays, speeches, and other historical, philosophical, theological, political, and art history texts from early German writers through the work of major authors of the nineteenth century

Search digital copies of nearly every work printed between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America

Search digital copies of works printed in Europe before 1701, as well as pre-1701 works in European languages printed outside of Europe

Search across the complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, and hundreds of adaptations from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

Search the full text of English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800

Search primary sources and documents that provide social context for almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824

Search for original documents and essays by leading scholars in Empire Studies

Search more than 183,000 poems, comprising essentially the complete canon of poetry in English from the 8th century to the early 20th

Search for primary sources related to folklore, popular superstition and fairy tales of the German Renaissance compiled by Stuttgart antiquarian Johann Scheible, between 1845 and 1849

Search the full text of major primary sources in philosophy.

Search for primary sources relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. Materials include: "Fast literature," street ephemera, posters, advertising, playbills, ballads and...

Search for historical legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other countries in northern Europe

Search theories, practices, and consequences of economic and business activity in the West, from the 15th century to the mid-19th century

Find information and teaching resources related to women philosophers

Search for primary sources related to witchcraft in Europe and America between 1500 to 1930

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