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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

DescriptionA collection of bibliographic databases, electronic journals and directories pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) created by Iter, University of Toronto Libraries and several partners including the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State Univesity, and the Renaissance Society of America, as well as several society affiliates. Includes links to available full text. The Library currently subscribes to:
  • Databases
    • Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI) -- An international iconographic index of baptismal fonts from the early Christian period to the 17th century. It contains both images and text. The individual record for each work aims to include a complete description of the font and its imagery. [details]
    • Bibliography of English Women Writers: 1500-1640 -- A growing bibliography, listing the scholarship of about 738 recovered writers and located texts, canonical and non-canonical from the period, 1500-1640, compiled by Betty S. Travitsky. [details]
    • The Electronic Capito Project -- Provides access to the text of letters from and to Wolfgang Faber Capito (c. 1478-1541). Transcriptions are works in progress, and corrections and suggestions are welcome; contact information is available on the Project web site. Covers full text letters, either unpublished or published before 1850. [details]
    • Iter Bibliography -- Includes "secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues)." [details]
    • Iter Italicum -- The only online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. [details]
    • The Medici Archive Project: Documentary Sources for the Arts and Humanities in the Medici Granducal Archive: 1537-1743 (MAP: Documentary Sources 1537-1743) -- A beta version of The Medici Archive Project's Documentary Sources database currently describes "200 volumes of documents in the Medici Granducal Archive (Archivio Mediceo del Principato), with document records for approximately 10,000 letters and biographical records for approximately 11,000 people." For a limited time, the database is open to the general public and thereafter, by subscription. The Library does not currently subscribe. [details]
    • Milton: A Bibliography (1624-1799) -- A bibliography of "all manuscripts and editions of Milton's works and all studies and critical statements concerning Milton's life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799," compiled by John T. Shawcross, University of Kentucky. [details]
  • Electronic Books
    • New Technologies and Renaissance Studies
  • Electronic Journals
    • Aestimatio (v.1, 2004 - present) (open access)
    • Early Theatre (v.1, 1998 - present)
    • Quaderni d'italianistica (v. 1, 1980 - present)
    • REED Newsletter (1976 - 1997)
    • Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (v. 20, 1996 - present)
SubjectsMedieval and Renaissance European culture
CoverageCoverage varies; 1500 - present.
PublisherIter
VendorIter, Inc. and University of Toronto Libraries
Print EquivalentIter Italicum
LicenseThere are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users.

Access to Iter is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely.

Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.