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 Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall. The site and its documents are well organized and the breadth of materials is impressive. The Sourcebooks include: an Ancient History Sourcebook, a Medieval Sourcebook, and a Modern History Sourcebook. The Internet Modern History Sourcebook contains thousands of sources in dozens of categories. Subjects covered in the Interrnet Modern History Sourcebook include: the Late Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, the Early Reformation, Protestant Reformation, Catholic Reformation, Women and Reformation, The Early Modern World System, The European "Age of Discovery," Structures of Life in the West, Everyday Life, From Popular to Mass Culture, The Enlightenment, Religion in an Age of Reason, Responses to the French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and more.
Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change
Compiled by an Arts and Humanities team at the University of Maryland Libraries, this site provides annotated links to useful resources for the study of women in early modern Europe (and the Americas), particularly those between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The site offers searchable full-text resources, images, and sound recordings, though some resources are not free.
Early Modern Resources
In 2000 a Ph.D student began Early Modern Resources, a gateway site for the early modern period (c.1500-1800). It contains a wide range of links. Subject themes are Old and New Worlds, Material and symbolic cultures, Society, economy, and demography, Politics, rebellions and revolutions, Women, gender, and sexuality, Crime, law, and disorder, Religion, science, and philosophy, Literature, art, and performance, and Medicine and illness. Also includes links to General Resources, E-tests, E-journals, and more.
The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple: Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
This Oxford University site describes how the Biblical stories of the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the Temple of Solomon provided explanations for the human condition and seemed to offer plans for escape into a better world. The searchable site aims to provide a broad picture of the role of biblical interpretation in early modern Europe and shows how stories from the Bible were used by early scientists and Reformation leaders as a story of the growth and decline of knowledge. Mostly text with a few hyperlinks, but there are some engaging images.
World Civilizations: An Internet Classroom and Anthology
World Civilizations is an interactive reading environment that combines materials of two World Cultures courses taught at Washington State University using web-based materials since Fall of 1994. Although designed for university freshman students, World Civilizations' texts, glossary, and learning modules are intended to be usable for high school level students and advanced undergraduates. In order to increase usability for advanced undergraduates, bibliographies of works consulted are being assembled for textbook entries, glossary entries, and learning modules.
The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The University of Calgary's End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students studying the Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history. Intended to provide a overview of the conditions at the end of Europe's Middle Ages, the site is presented in a series of well-organized chapters that summarize the economic, political, religious and intellectual environment of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Section titles are: Economy, Feudal Institutions, New Monarchies, Holy Roman Empire, Italy's City-States, Eastern Europe, Ottoman Turks, The Church, Literature, Intellectual Life, Visual Arts, and Music. In each section there are useful internal links to definitions of historical terms as well as external links to supplemental primary sources.
History of the Netherlands
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an ambitious Web site chronicling the history of the Netherlands from 50BC through the present. The site is broken up by time period into a series of short, readable essays that Chronicle the rise of one of Europe's great naval powers and empires. The essays are illustrated with works of art and photography, and the entire site would be a fine reference work for anyone beginning research into the Dutch and their impact on Europe and the world.
Labyrinth: Medieval Resources
This Georgetown University site features bibliographies, a searchable index, links to special topics, and full-text versions of medieval works
Printing: Renaissance & Reformation
Printing: Renaissance & Reformation is part of "An Exhibit for History 101: European Civilization I," a course offered at the University of South Carolina. Originally exhibited fall 1995 at the Thomas Cooper Library, the items in this exhibit of early printing are more than four hundred years old and each is accompanied by concise explanatory text.
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