Projects in the Greater Toronto Area
An annotated list of links for theatre history and early music, with resources on medieval and early modern theatre, Shakespeare, play texts, early music and dance, palaeography, local history, archives libraries and other repositories and online journals.
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This collection features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy. Each illustration has been fully indexed using medical subject headings (MeSH), and techniques of illustration, artists, and engravers have been identified whenever possible. There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867.
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Baptisteria Sacra is an international iconographic index of baptismal fonts from the early Christian period to the 17th century made available via the World Wide Web for scholarly research in a searchable electronic format which contains both images and text. The individual record for each work aims to include a complete description of the font and its imagery. More than 18,000 fonts have been identified, recorded and more than 28,000 digital images in the database. This project was founded by H.Sonne de Torrens and is co-directed with Miguel A. Torrens.
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A comprehensive on-line database of popular performance culture in Canada West (now 'southern Ontario') from its formative years prior to Confederation until just after World War One.
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Pre-1930 Canadian pamphlets and broadsides from the collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The collection includes items printed in Canada, by Canadian authors, or about Canadian subjects, mainly of a non-literary nature. Searching, browsing, full text and images are provided for each document.
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A collection of poems, biographies, bibliographies and writing philosophies of contemporary and 19th-century Canadian poets.
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This site contains the first 20 years of the most significant Canadian trade journal documenting the history of the printing and publishing industry.
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A resource that examines pre-1642 documents related to professional performance in purpose-built theatres and other permanent structures in the London area, and how these documents have been used in the proceeding four centuries.
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eREED is an initiative that is working towards creating a digital editing and publication environment for the dissemination of the collections of the Records of Early English Drama (REED) series.
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This project is about visualizing the movement of people and things around culturally significant places.
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The iBrary Online is a digital repository of diverse scholarly resources related to the study of Islam and Muslim Civilizations from across the world. Through its collections, the iBrary Online attempts to foster a dialogue of civilizations that begins in the sphere of the digital and reaches beyond the academic to engage a broader audience.
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A not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development and distribution of online resources.
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This bibliography is a work in progress that aims eventually to provide descriptions of all the volumes of verse in English that were published from 1770 to 1835. Phase I presents the years from 1798 to 1835 and includes 17,160 entries. Phase II will add the years from 1770 to 1797. The bibliography includes books that appeared for the first time in 1770 or later, with a minimum size of ten pages.
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This site provides information on the 250-year relationship between Moravian missionaries and the Inuit of Labrador. This interaction led to the establishment of settlements for a formerly nomadic people, their conversion to Christianity and exposure to aspects of North American culture. The information has been gathered from a variety of sources that shed light upon this unique adventure.
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Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods.
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This project is mapping the Gesar epic’s “therapeutic geographies” as a way of studying the intersections between religion and medicine in Inner Asia.
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One of the most important research collections pertaining to the independence movement in Mexico, 1789-1828, compiled by the late Prof. James McKegney. The collection contains a bibliographic database of more than 11,000 citations and over 1,150 digital copies of pamphlets listed in the database. This database and the accompanying documents are one of the most important archival sources in the world for the study of the political, social and cultural aspects of the independence movement in Mexico.
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Literary annuals had a massive influence on the British publishing market from the mid-1820s through the 1840s. This project offers an introduction to the annuals by bringing together materials from different libraries and collections across the University of Toronto.
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On the Road Again, a theatre history hub, connects primary sources such as original documents, images and newspaper clippings, for the study and understanding of touring entertainment from the 14th to the 20th centuries.
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Project Open Source|Open Access was a University of Toronto initiative to develop a networked community of scholars, students and members of the broader community interested in the phenomenon of open source and open access.
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The REED Patrons and Performances Web Site is designed to include a wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom.
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This wordbook is a compilation of the Latin vocabulary glossed in various REED volumes. Special attention has been paid to the terminology of drama, music, and pastimes.
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An electronic version of the original Representative Poetry, a University of Toronto anthology of poetry. This project includes a searchable database of poems and commentary, as well as supplying information on the poets themselves.
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This ongoing project has sponsored the development of PlateauCulture.org, a platform for sharing digital resources about the Tibetan plateau,a partnership between University of Toronto faculty and students, Eastern Tibetan photographers, writers, musicians and ethnographers, and independent scholars.
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The Roots and Routes Summer Institutes discuss scholarly approaches to historical interactions across linguistic, religious, and political boundaries. In addition to the conference meetings, participants engage in a variety of related Web 2.0 projects.
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The Children's Literature Archive at Ryerson University has particular strengths in adventure stories, fairy tales, and Canadiana. At present, the physical archive can be visited and used by appointment.
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A project dedicated to the masque as it existed in Early Modern England. Currently under development.
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This site documents the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1920-1925, here at the University of Toronto. It presents over seven thousand page images reproducing original documents ranging from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, and published papers to photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera and artifacts.
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Named after early minstrelsy's most famous and most unusual early practitioner, the Juba Project includes a collection of historical texts, images, songs, and contemporary responses, all related to minstrelsy.
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This digital collection features over 2500 of the prints of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), a great master of the art of etching. The lion’s share of Hollar’s work was produced in and about his adopted England, but his artistic interest was broad ranging and the site also includes religious and historical prints, maps, portraits, costumes, and natural history.
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