Bible: King James Version
fully searchable electronic (SGML) edition of the King James Bible (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)
Bibliographies for studies of the Reformation
Introductory bibliography and more specialised bibliographies on Erasmus, Luther, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola (William Harmless)
The ‘bloody papist’: murder, papists and propaganda in early modern prose pamphlets
NB: link to download MS Word document
article by Lynne Robson (Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance)
From Renaissance Journal, 2:1 (2004)
Books of Common Prayer
Links to various online versions of the Anglican prayer book, including the 1552, 1559 and 1662 editions (Reformed Episcopal Church)
British catholic policy in eighteenth-century Ireland and Quebec
PhD thesis (1998) by Karen Stanbridge, a comparative study of British Catholic legislation examining the processes leading to the legislation and their outcomes (Theses Canada Portal)
The Catholic Reformation
Links to online source materials and web resources (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents)
The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835
a relational database documenting the known careers of Church of England clergymen; can be searched by persons, locations, etc. Unfortunately, much of the supporting website is at present (Sept ‘06) incomplete.
The Conventicle
a group blog by students in Scotland with interests in the Puritans and the Reformation
Dissent, Doubt and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation
Set of pages focusing on the religious changes of the 1530s in England, with extracts from texts including material on the ‘Pilgrimage of Grace’ and Anne Askew (Norton Topics Online)
English Dissenters
Bibliography (ExLibris)
Popish habits vs. nutritional need: fasting and fish consumption in Iberia in the early modern period
essay by Regina Grafe, examining interactions between economic and cultural factors in the consumption of dried salted codfish (U. Oxford)
Discussion papers in economic and social history, 55 (2004)
Impact of the Reformation on women in Germany
Course materials including a bibliography (Henry J Cohn)
John Calvin
Texts about and by Calvin, with search facility (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)
John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
The new electronic edition: incorporating four early print editions (with facility to compare different editions), searchable, with additional resources, bibliography etc. (Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University)
The Protestant Reformation
Links to primary source materials and web resources (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents)
Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
Site includes extensive extracts from many important writers and poets, as well as biographical and historians’ writings and links (Bill Carson)
The Puritan Movement
A useful resource (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
The Puritan Tradition and American Memory
‘Pilgrims’ and ‘Puritans’ and their cultural influences (Scott Atkins)
Redefining the Sacred in Early Modern England
Site for a seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1998; includes images of printed texts and manuscripts with excellent commentaries (Folger Institute)
Reformation and Counter-reformation
Useful links (Stephanie Marra, WWW-VL)
Reformation and culture 1540-1700
essay by Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck ePrints)
chapter in The Cambridge urban history of Britain. Volume II: 1540-1840 (Cambridge UP, 2000)
Reformation Europe
Primary source extracts and web links (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
The Reformation Guide
Resources for well-known individuals, considers regional variations (Laurence Bates)
The European Reformation
a set of lectures and related resources (Skip Knox)
Reformation links
Links to many important texts of Reformation writers (Hans Rollmann)
‘Religion’s safe, with priestcraft is the war’: Augustan anticlericalism and the legacy of the English Revolution, 1660-1720
article by Justin Champion on anticlericalism in England 1660-1720 (Royal Holloway Research Online)
From The European Legacy, 5:4 (2000)
Religious Reformations in Early Modern Europe
Papers from the Claremont Annual Early Modern Symposium. Topics include: the science of religion; providence, fortune and gender (NB: Wayback Archive)
Society for Reformation Studies
Aimed at ‘anyone with a scholarly interest in Reformation and Renaissance theology, spirituality and related disciplines’; information on its activities as well as a useful list of internet resources
John Wesley 1703-1791
Selection of links and resources (John Rylands Library)
The Wesleys and their Times
Site about the family and their religion (United Methodist Church)
