Links
Relevant Institutions, Research Centres, Societies
AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures, University of Warwick (includes the John Nicols Project to re-edit and republish Nicols’ great collections of documents relating to English royal progresses and court masques, and the Europa Triumphans projects for the digital publication of early modern books of court festivals)
American Society for 18th Century Studies
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Victoria University)
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (with link to digitised collection of German festival books)
Institute of Historical Research
IULCE – Instituto Universitario ‘La Corte en Europa’ (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
International Society for 18th Century Studies
The London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
The Mausolea and Monuments Trust
The Renaissance Society of America
Rudolstädter Arbeitskreis zur Residenzkultur
The Society of Jewellery Historians
The Society for Seventeenth Century French Studies
Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Archives, Major Libraries, and Online Guides to Sources
UNESCO Portal to World Archives
Belgium
Britain
British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
The National Archives, England – search facility
Denmark
Europe
The European Library (portal to Europe’s National Libraries)
EuroDocs (links to online primary source documents)
France
Bibliotheque Nationale Manuscripts Catalogue
Gallica: Database for French Texts
Cour de France (online publications relating to the French court)
Germany
Bavaria | Brandenburg | Prussia (regional archives)
India
Italy
Bologna | Florence | Montavo | Milan | Naples | Torino | Udine | Urbino | Venice | Genoa (various state archives)
Japan
Lithuania
Office of the chief archivist of Lithuania
Mexico
Netherlands
Peru
Poland
Russia
House of Romanov (with links to letters and archives)
Spain
Real Biblioteca (Catalogue and Detailed Information)
Sweden
National and Regional Archives
The Royal Library (National library of Sweden)
Turkey
United States
Museums, Palaces and Royal Families
Austria
Belgium
The Former Palace of Brussels (The archaeological site of Coudenberg)