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Trial until 30 June: Past Masters (trial of selected collections)

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[re-blogged from University of Oxford eResources blog post]

Past Masters – Humanities Full Text Works is a collection of primary-source full-text humanities databases. Past Masters titles are usually comprised of the complete works of individual authors.

Trials of the following collections are running until 30 June 2020, many of which are of interest to historians also. Use SSO for remote access. > Access the trial

Bello: Obras Completas
Benjamin: Gesamtwerk
Browning: Works
Chawton House Memoirs
Chawton House Travel Writings
Chawton House Women’s Novels
Dilthey: Gesammelte Werke und Briefe
Early Franciscans
Edgeworth: Works
Female Gothic
Franciscan Philosophy
Friars Minor Rules Commentaries
Gaskell: Works
Goethes Werke
Grimm: Briefwechsel
Inchbald: Diaries
Lamb: Works
Lytton: Correspondence
Manley: Selected Works
Martineau: British Empire
Martineau: British History
Martineau: Collected Letters
Montesquieu: Œuvres Complètes
Nietzsche: Briefwechsel
Olivi: Works
Oxford Duden German Dictionary
Pickering Women’s Classics
Robinson: Works
Scheler: Gesamtwerk
Schiller: Sämtliche Werke
Shelley (Mary): Literary Lives
Silver Fork Novels
Smith, Charlotte: Works
Trollope: Novels
Weil: Oeuvres
Wharton: Unpublished Writings
Wodeham: Lectura Secunda
Women Writing Home
Women’s Sensation Fiction

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New ejournal: Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 1, 2016-

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Just before breaking up for term, here are details of a brand new journal:

Erudition and Republic of Letters - coverErudition and the Republic of Letters is a peer-reviewed journal devoted primarily to the history of scholarship, intellectual history, and to the respublica literaria broadly conceived.

It encapsulates multifarious aspects of higher learning as well as the manner in which such knowledge transcends confessional and geopolitical boundaries.

Brill 1, 2016-
ISSN: 2405-5050
E-ISSN: 2405-5069

Access is via SOLO and OU eJournals.

Table of content for volume 1, issue 1 (2016)

Iamblichus, Ficino and Schleiermacher on the Sources of Religious Knowledge
Author: James Hankins
pp.: 1–12 (12)

Christianity’s Jewish Origins Rediscovered: The Roles of Comparison in Early Modern Ecclesiastical Scholarship
Author: Anthony Grafton
pp.: 13–42 (30)

Erudition and Orthodoxy: John Fell and Patristic Scholarship in Restoration Oxford
Author: Jean-Louis Quantin
pp.: 43–78 (36)

Bernhard Pez: An Austrian Benedictine Scholar between Sacred Antiquarianism and New Practices of Scholarship
Authors: Thomas Stockinger and Thomas Wallnig
pp.: 79–105 (27)

Book Reviews
World Antiquarianism: Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Alain Schnapp with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Peter N. Miller, and Tim Murray. Los Angeles, LA: Getty Research Institute, 2013. ISBN 978-1-60606-148-0
Author: Kelsey Jackson Williams
pp.: 107–111 (5)

World Philology, ed. Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman, and Ku-ming Kevin Chang. xii + 452 pp. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). ISBN: 9780674052864.
Author: James Turner
pp.: 112–116 (5)

Katherine Harloe, Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity. History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-969584-3.
Author: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
pp.: 117–120 (4)