Each entry in Major Authors is an archive which focuses on a significant writer or group of writers in world literature. Each gathers a comprehensive collection of a writer's published works and digital images of important manuscripts, first and rare editions. Notebooks, diaries, photographs and paintings are also included. A customized search engine allows scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, to search a writer's oeuvre for words, phrases, and concepts using a multitude of operators. Each author archive is enriched by the availability of a thesaurus and multiple search fields including title, author, date, type of document, index terms, individual works and chapter.
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This product is distinguished by the availability of facsimile images, the rarity of the materials, and the comprehensive nature and scholarly authority of each project. Witchcraft Witchcraft in Europe and America is a selection of the rarest and most important titles from Cornell University's world-renowned witchcraft monographs. This online database includes over 100 works in their entirety. These works range from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century and are in English, Latin, German and other languages. Edited by Cornell curator Mark Dimunation and Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania professor and noted scholar of witchcraft, this online database is an authoritative collection.