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• History -- To 1500

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

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• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)
• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: J. Murray, 1854), by Charles Knight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Rhonda L. McDaniel (PDF at wmich.edu)
• Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Abraham, Moses, and Piers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Ruth M. Ames (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Andrea Denny-Brown (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• The Episcopate in the Kingdom of Leon in the Twelfth Century, by Richard A. Fletcher (PDF files at Libro)

• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Les Idées Féministes de Christine de Pisan (thesis in French; 1911), by Rose Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier ((based on) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967), by Robert I. Burns (PDF files at Libro)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

• The Deficient Cause of Moral Evil According to Thomas Aquinas (1996), by Edward Cook (multiple formats at Google)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• Mountain and Plain: From the Lycian Coast to the Phrygian Plateau in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Period (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by R. M. Harrison, ed. by Wendy Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mountain and Plain: From the Lycian Coast to the Phrygian Plateau in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Period (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by R. M. Harrison, ed. by Wendy Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Travels of Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon (London: Trubner, 1856), by Pethahiah of Regensburg and Judah ben Samuel, trans. by A. Benisch, contrib. by William Ainsworth (PDF at seforimonline.org)

• Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jonathan Horng Hsy (PDF at Ohio State)

• Tacitus and Bracciolini: The Annals Forged in the XVth Century (1878), by John Wilson Ross (Gutenberg text)

• Form and Reform: Reading Across the Fifteenth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Shannon Noelle Gayk and Kathleen Ann Tonry, contrib. by Jessica Brantley, Andrew Cole, Karen A. Winstead, Rebecca Krug, Robert John Meyer-Lee, Mishtooni Bose, and James Simpson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Peter W. Rose (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The English Dream Vision: Anatomy of a Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by J. Stephen Russell (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Theology and Poetry in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1969), by Sarah Appleton Weber (PDF at Ohio State)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)

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