Early Modern Europe Seminar: Crime and Punishment

Course Number:

HST 414/554

Instructor:

Mollenauer

Starting Points

Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance

Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation

Articles & eResources

In addition to the databases in the "Starting Points" list, be sure to give these databases a try. Those marked as EbscoHost databases can be searched simultaneously by going to the EbscoHost page and selecting the databases you wish to search.

Historical Abstracts

Indexes more than 1,800 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

JSTOR

Full-text searching of an archive of over 165 history journals. Typically excludes the latest 3-5 years of publication.

WorldCat

This union catalog of 9,000 libraries contains over a billion records. Includes a direct link to the Illiad interlibrary loan service.

Academic Search Complete

A great database for any topic, this database indexes over 5,600 journals, with full-text access for 4,600. (EbscoHost)

ARTFL

A database of nearly 3,000 French-language texts from the 12th through the 20th centuries.

Project MUSE

Provides current issues for many of the same journals in JStor.

Iter: gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, etc.

Google Scholar

Access to a wide range of journal articles, books and legal opinions. From off campus, be sure to check availability of resources in the Library Catalog -- the links to our ejournal packages will not work directly from Google Scholar.

Using the Library Catalog

Click here to search the Library Catalog

The library catalog and WorldCat use Library of Congress Subject Headings. The list of authorized subject headings is available online from the Library of Congress Classification/Subject Headings database However, you can also start with keyword searches to gather some relevant titles, then look at their subject headings to discover the official terms to use.

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings will aid your searches.

Renaissance -- [Europe or country name]
[Europe or country name] -- Social history
[Europe or country name] -- Social life and customs -- To 1500 [or 16th century, 17th century, 18th century]

The following subject headings are used for specific aspects of crime and punishment:

Adultery
Blasphemy
Capital punishment
Crime
Crime and superstition
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminal law
Criminals
Demonaic possession
Executions and executioners [also consider narrower terms for types of execution, e.g., Beheading, Hanging]
Heresy
Homicide [broader term than Murder]
Imprisonment
Infanticide
Justice, Administration of
Murder [Narrower term than Homicide]
Offenses against religion
Prisoners
Prisons
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Punishment
Rape
Sacrilege
Sex crimes
Torture
Trials ([type of crime])
Violent crimes
Women prisoners

Websites

This list provides links to the resources Dr. Mollenauer lists in your syllabus, plus a few additional resources you may find useful.

Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection

Early Modern Resources: Bibliographies

Eighteenth Century Resources - History

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

Eyewitness to History

Internet Archive of Texts and Documents: Early Modern Europe - The Witch Hunts

Internet History Sourcebooks

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1834

Primary Sources

See the guide "Finding Primary Resources for Historical Research" for a more complete discussion of the library's resources.

Search the Randall Library catalog and WorldCat (see below for links) for history makers' names as authors. This should retrieve their memoirs, diaries and correspondence.

As you search subject topics in the catalog and WorldCat, note that the following subdivisions indicate primary source:
Archives*
Correspondence*
Diaries*
Early works to 1800
Facsimilies
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Pamphlets
Personal narratives (used in relation to specific events only)
Songs and music
Sources
Speeches, addresses, etc.*
Treaties

*Used with individuals' names,classes of persons (e.g., soldiers), and organizations.

Early English Books: The library has a selection of early English books on microfilm. Each title is cataloged separately. There are also guides to the microfilm collection on the cabinets where the reels of film are stored.

Google Books: 12 million and counting!

Internet Archive: Another effort at making digitized texts freely available.