HOW TO NAVIGATE

The archive offers fast and easy navigation. Visitors may jump from the Home to the About to the Texts, to the Dictionaries and to the Essential Bibliography pages by simply clicking on the menu buttons on the right.

About

This section offers general help with criteria adopted to produce the editions of the MSS, information on how to navigate the archive,  and a link to how to approach the digitised texts through corpus linguistics software.

Texts

By clicking on Texts you can select the diplomatic, semidiplomatic or modernised edition of the chosen manuscript. 

Dictionaries

This page contains links to English, Italian, and French open-access dictionaries  and word lists about Renaissance dance-related terms.

Bibliography

This section presents an essential bibliography about the practice of dance at the Inns of Court, previous transcriptions of the eight manuscripts digitised here and the practice of dance in early modern England in general.