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Abstract
This paper will discuss Early English Books Online (EEBO) as a tool for locating and researching contemporary references and responses to historical texts and authors, specifically George Sandys' A Relation of a Iourney begun An: Dom: 1610 (1615). It will focus upon two main themes. The first is methodological and will discuss the nature of EEBO and the possibilities and limitations it presents for this kind of historical research. The second turns to a case study of seventeenth-century responses to, and readings of, the Relation and shows how references found through EEBO can both broaden the context within which we view this work and alter our interpretation and understanding of it.
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1. Vulcano's, 23.
2. CitationHaynes, Humanist as Traveler; Davis, George Sandys; CitationEllison, George Sandys. All contain detailed biographies of Sandys.
3. Early English Books Online. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/marketing/about.htm. As of October 2009, EEBO comprises works from the following collections and units: Early English Books I (Pollard & Redgrave, STC I), 1475–1640, Units 1–80; Early English Books II (Wing, STC II), 1641–1700, Units 1–129 (scanning remaining STCI and STCII titles will continue as new microfilm units are catalogued and scanned); the Thomason Tracts; the first Unit from the Tract Supplement and part of Unit II (scanning the remainder of this collection will continue in 2010).
4. CitationKichuk, “Metamorphosis: Remediation in Early English Books Online (EEBO)”; Gadd, “The Use and Misuse of Early English Books Online.” Both articles cover the physical limitations and characteristics of EEBO, and their implications for researchers, extensively.
5. CitationGadd, “The Use and Misuse of Early English Books Online.”
6. CitationTabor, “ESTC and the Bibliographical Community”; CitationMcKitterick, “Not in STC: Opportunities and Challenges in the ESTC.” Both articles provide in-depth discussion of EEBO, the ESTC and electronic bibliographical databases.
7. CitationCavallo and Chartier, eds, History of Reading, trans. Cochrane, 2.
8. CitationSandys, Relation of a Iourney.
9. CitationChew, Crescent and the Rose, 97; CitationAvicoğlu, “Ahmed I and the Allegories of Tyranny in the Frontispiece to George Sandys's ‘Relation of a Journey’.”. Avicoğlu's article describes the Relation's frontispiece in detail.
10. CitationJackson, “Some limitations of Microfilm,” 285.
11. Kichuk, “Metamorphosis: Remediation in Citation Early English Books Online (EEBO) .”
12. Cavallo and Chartier, eds., History of Reading, trans. Cochrane, 26.
13. EEBO is no the only such full-text source; see The Citation Hartlib Papers.
14. CitationHockey, Electronic texts in the Humanities, 2000; CitationSchreibman et al., eds., Companion; CitationBoonstra et al., Past Present and Future. As I am treating widely used and non-specialist resources such as EEBO this article is not to be considered a contribution to the more detailed and specialised field of ‘history and computing’ or ‘humanities computing’.
15. Chartier and Cavallo, eds, History of Reading, trans. Cochrane, 2.
16. Haynes, Humanist as Traveler.
17. Haynes, Humanist as Traveler, 62.
18. CitationIngram, “Lego Ego,” 160–76.
19. CitationDavis, George Sandys, 27.
20. CitationClifford, Diaries, 47.
21. CitationStewart, Close Readers, 169.
22. CitationLewalski, “Re-Writing Patriarchy and Patronage,” 93.
23. Chew, Crescent and the Rose, 184, 535, 15. The same associative logic is clear in the title to CitationMoryson, Fynes. Shakespeare's Europe: Unpublished Chapters of Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, ed. Charles Hughes. London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1903. This text has no relevance or connection to Shakespeare beyond describing travels in the sixteenth century.
24. CitationG.S., Anglorum Speculum, 903.
25. CitationWinstanley, Lives, 152–3.
26. CitationWood, Athenae Oxonienses, sig.C3r, f 25.
27. CitationCoryate, Thomas Coriate Traveller for the English Wits. See also the better known CitationCoryate, Coryates Crudities.
28. CitationHeylyn, Full Relation, 36. Other works by Heylyn which quote Sandys' Relation extensively are CitationHeylyn, Cosmographie; CitationHeylyn, St. George; CitationHeylyn, History of the Sabbath.
29. Fuller, Pisgah-Sight, 82.
30. CitationEchard, Most Complete Compendium, 168.
31. CitationEvelyn, Numismata, 262–3.
32. CitationBoyle, Colours, 159.
33. CitationBoyle, Effluviums, 45.
34. Haynes, Humanist as Traveler, 14.
35. CitationPurchas, Pilgrimes, vol. II, lib. VIII, 1274.
36. Chartier and Cavallo, eds, History of Reading, trans. Cochrane, 29–30.
37. Heylyn, Cosmographie, book one 3, book two 243, 258, 266, book three 210, book four 49.
38. CitationPurchas, Pilgrimage, (1617), 339–40.
39. CitationBaron, Mirza, 164.
40. CitationKnolles, Generall Historie.
41. CitationBolton, Nero, 50.
42. CitationLeigh, Analecta, 56, 171, 252.
43. CitationBrowne, Pseudodoxia, 204; CitationSandys, Relation, 148.
44. CitationFuller, Pisgah-Sight, 82; Boyle, Effluviums, 45; Bohun, Geographical Dictionary, 288.
45. Boyle, Colours, 159.
46. CitationFuller, Historie, 4, 36; Fuller, Pisgah-Sight.
47. Heylyn, History of the Sabbath, 190.
48. CitationBaxter, Divine Appointment, 24.
49. Bampfield, Sabbatikh, 24.
50. CitationKeach, Rector Rectified, 169. I have not been able to locate the work to which Keach was replying.