Cherchez-vous les sources littéraires et historiques? Voici une solution.
Oxford users have access ARTFL is an indispensable collection of electronic resources for researchers in French Language and Literature, spanning medieval to 19th century, which are also useful for historians. It includes some Italian texts too.
Here is the content:
- FRANTEXT: comprising 3,558 French texts from the 12th to the 20th centuries
- French Women Writers, over 100 works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
- Provençal Poetry, 38 collections of texts from the 12th and 13th centuries.
- Textes de Français Ancien (TFA), 103 works from the 12th through 15th century.
- The Journal de Trévoux, ou Mémoires pour l’Histoire des Sciences & des Beaux-Arts. 109 volumes, 1751-1758.
- Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th Edition, 1740).
- Louis Moréri, Le Grand dictionnaire historique, ou le Mélange curieux de l’Histoire sacrée et profane, etc. (1759).
- Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database, 1,960 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
- many lesser-known texts
Searching is a little basic so do make use of the index search options. Access is via SOLO or OxLIP+.
Looking for more French texts online? Oxford users have access to the following:
Corpus de Littérature Médiévale des origines a la fin du 15e siècle
Dictionnaires des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, L’
Bibliothèque de la Renaissance
