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www.earlymodernitaly.comoffers a comprehensive bibliography on Early Modern Italian topics (1550-1800) of works published in English and French. Interest in Italian history of this era, long neglected or denigrated by scholars, is quickly attracting the attention it deserves as the era of Italy's greatest cultural impact on Western Civilization. Since the late 1980s, the field has become one of the most rapid-growing areas of historical scholarship, and the community now counts about 2,000 active scholars publishing over 300 titles annually in English or French.
This bibliography is designed to enable both students and researchers of Italian and European history, art history, music, literature, philosophy, religion and science to have the entire range of scholarship over the past 150 years at their fingertips. It provides a comprehensive and growing list of studies (not sources unaccompanied by critical editorial commentary) published in English and French, the two foremost international languages for scholarly work in European history. It also includes titles of unpublished (but generally accessible) doctoral dissertations, indicating the institution and date they were defended. French titles constitute over a third of the total. For researchers, it provides an very extensive bibliography of the place, the period and the personalities of note. It illustrates the relative exposure of different themes over the last century and a half, and enables scholars to note recent developments. For university instructors, the compilation enables them to produce classroom reading-lists, and to select specific titles for purchase. The bibliography begins with a brief historiographical introduction (accessible to all under the Expansion of Literature placed above) based on an illustrated quantitative analysis of the titles published in each language since about 1850. The bibliography is an ongoing project, regularly updated every year, aimed at providing exhaustive coverage of the literature.
An earlier version of the bibliography was favourably reviewed by James Amelang, in the Journal of Early Modern History (2003).
At present, the 9th edition of the bibliography includes almost 10,100 titles (on 499 pages of small print), each mentioned once only, divided among ten rubrics for each language.
- General studies and Historiography
- Travel and Historical Geography
- Politics and Administration
- Economy and Demography
- Social Stratification and Behavioural History
- Religious History
- Literature and Erudition
- Music and Spectacle
- Art and Architecture
- Science and Technology
For this 9th edition, we have restored the option to purchase single copies of the work by credit card through a secure site, for US$22.00. Institutional customers can obtain the bibliography via site license, which allows them to configure the document to their own specifications on their own servers. For US$39.00 ($29.00 for an annual extension), customers may reproduce and disseminate the document in both hard copy and electronic form for each of their professors and students, with free periodic updating within the year of subscription. The document is currently provided in MS Word, Adobe Acrobat PDF and Corel WordPerfect formats. For a copy of the license agreement, right mouse click the following link and, for MS Internet Explorer choose "save target as"; for Netscape choose "save link as" to download it. License agreement for Institutional Customers.
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