List of Folger Institute resources
This article lists various resources useful to Folger Institute faculty and other scholars. For more information on site-specific Folger Shakespeare Library resources, please consult Digital resources at the Folger.
Digital reference tools
Time
Multi-country Historical Calendar: allows for easy conversion between the Julian and Gregorian calendars
Geography
Latin Place Names File: compiled by the Rare Books and Manuscripts division of the ALA, provides Latin place names found in the imprints of books printed before 1801 and their vernacular equivalents.
Money
Currency Converter : a legacy tool by the National Archives (UK), converts old prices to 2005 values.
Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank: includes five sets of data on European currency exchange and commodities prices from the 13th to the 18th centuries (focusing on the Rhineland, the Low Countries, and Venice)
Measuring Worth: 1774 to the Present
Weights and Measures
An Introduction to Weights and Measures: (University of Nottingham) provides equivalencies for historic weights (Avoirdupois weight, Troy weight, Apothecaries' weight), as well as measurements and volumes.
Libraries
- American Antiquarian Society
- Bibliothèque Nationale
- The Bodleian Library
- The British Library
- Cambridge University Library
- Herzog August Bibliothek
- The Huntington Library
- The Library of Congress
- Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek
- The National Archives
- The National Sporting Library
- The Newberry Library--for more information on the Folger's relationship with The Newberry Library, see Folger Institute and Newberry Library reciprocity agreement.
Listservs
- Folger Institute Commons listserv
- Ficino--An interdisciplinary Renaissance listserv.
- H-Albion--The H-Net discussion network for British and Irish history.
- Milton-L
- Shaksper--The global electronic Shakespeare conference.
- SHARP-L--The electronic conference for the history of print culture.
Research centers and societies
Research centers
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Center for British and Irish Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder
- Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen
- Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota
- Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at Maryland
- The Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto
- Centre for Research in Early English Drama
- The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick
- City University of New York's Renaissance Studies Program
- Columbia University Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona
- emwo (the early modern web at Oxford)
- The Group for Early Modern Studies at the University of Arizona
- HoBo: History of the Book @ Oxford
- Keogh-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
- Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, at McGill University
- The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee
- Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University
- Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame
- Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University
- Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen
- St. Andrews Reformation Institute
- UCSB Early Modern Center
- USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
Societies
- American Historical Association
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- American Society for Legal History
- Bibliographical Society of America
- Early Book Society
- John Donne Society
- The Malone Society
- North American Conference on British Studies
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- The Renaissance Society of America
- Shakespeare Association of America
- Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
- Society for Reformation Studies
- Society for Renaissance Studies
- Society for the Study of Early Modern Women