Electronic enlightenment
Electronic Enlightenment is a full-text database compiled at the Bodleian Library and distributed commercially by Oxford University Press . It was first published in 2008 and has been continuously expanded since then.
The database contains over 55,000 letters and documents from the Age of Enlightenment from over 7,000 people from Europe, Asia and America. 45 percent of the texts contained are in English and French, the rest is divided into German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. The digitized source texts were provided with cross-references, biographical information and over 250,000 editorial comments. A keyword search is possible across the entire database. There are also entry points to search for name, occupation, nationality, life data, gender, language, sender, addressee, date, place, source and inventory.
In 2010 the project was awarded the Digital Prize of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies . In Germany, the database at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the university libraries in Heidelberg , Erlangen-Nürnberg and Trier can be accessed (as of November 2011).
Web links
- The project homepage (English)
- Review of the Center for Research Libraries , updated November 4, 2011