major happenings in early modern textual studies: publications, conferences, funding opportunities, research
EMC is an aggregator for blogs covering the period c.1500-1800. It is intended as a resource to help readers to keep up with early modern blogging, and to connect with people who share their interests (more...).
The blogs included in EMC have been tagged by topic areas.
NB: This searches the information about blogs in EMC's database,
but not the content of the updates from blog feeds.
For descriptions of the tag topics see the Tag List
For a full list of the blogs included see the EMC Blogroll.
A resource to keep up with CFPs and announcements about conferences from selected early modern blogs:
Ideas welcome!
EMC is something of an experiment. Blogs are, as we all know, quite fluid. They spring up, vary in activity levels, shift in focus over time, go dormant, and sometimes disappear altogether. Nonetheless, I hope it will be useful, and expand in the future. General feedback is welcome here!
If you know of an early modern-related blog (or similar online journal) that isn't listed here, please submit it for consideration using this form. A substantial concern with early modern topics and things is the only essential requirement, although I may not be able to include blogs that aren't written primarily in English. They do not have to be scholarly. They don't need to be exclusively concerned with early modernity, although it should be a substantial element of a blog's content and the blogger's stated interests. Nor do they have to be very regularly updated.
NB: only blogs that publish a web feed can be included.
Much of the information on EMC has been automatically extracted from the RSS feeds published by blogs. This means that the site is very much dependent on material created elsewhere and does not have any control over the content of that material.
Descriptions have usually been extracted from the description field in feeds, blog's sub-titles or about pages, shortened if necessary. (I've added a descriptive summary of my own if no description is provided at all.)
Tags have been assigned by me, for convenience and as a rough guide, not an authoritative one. They represent quite broad and/or popular categories that point to the main interests of a blog. Most blogs will have multiple tags, but they are certainly not intended to cover every topic their owners might sometimes write about!
Pages may sometimes be slow to load, especially if feeds are being refreshed - please be patient! Sometimes feeds stop displaying temporarily for no obvious reason; if this happens, try refreshing the page, or come back later. However, if you know the fault is due to a permanent change at the blog's end, or if it seems to be causing a serious problem at this end, please get in touch via the general contact form.
I follow some but not all of the blogs listed here, so won't always know about changes. I'll attempt to check that links are working fairly regularly, but it's almost inevitable that at any given time some of the information here will be out of date. At some stage I'll create a separate category for blogs that have been inactive for a substantial period (say, more than 2 years), but I'll want to avoid removing them altogether if they're still accessible (and not obviously defunct, or taken over by spammers).
For anyone interested in setting up a similar aggregator for their own field of interest: there are various tools available for online aggregation (eg Planet), but this is the approach I've taken....