The first twenty-four titles are already online including John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments (1632) from King's Lynn Public Library, Britannia (1695) by William Camden from Norfolk Heritage Centre, and Josephus’s The Jewish War (1480, from Blickling).
“The digital resource opens up a stunning range of beautiful, centuries-old books from these collections for people to explore,” said Dr. Sophie Butler, lecturer at UEA’s School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and a co-leader of the project. “It includes groundbreaking books that changed the way Renaissance readers understood the world around them, as well as showing how learned books of the past can be relevant to urgent modern issues around nationhood, identity, trans-nationalism, women's history, and faith. The project will help to make these important, yet under-appreciated historic treasures available to new audiences.”
