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Renaissance Humanism (Italian Renaissance/Early Modern) a useful overview

Reformation Europe (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

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 list of internet resources

The Reformation Guide resources for well-known individuals and regional variations

The Protestant Reformation (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents) online primary and secondary source materials and web resources

The Catholic Reformation (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents) online primary and secondary source materials and web resources

Reformation links includes e-versions of many important texts of Reformation writers

Reformation and Counter-reformation (Stephanie Marra, WWW-VL)

Early Modern Science links topics include astronomy, exploration, the Church, individual scientists

The Scientific Revolution (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

Readings in Modern Philosophy (J Carl Mickelsen) resources for philosophers from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, including Grotius, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Kant

The Enlightenment (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

Age of Reason and Enlightenment 1650-1800 (Robert L Jefferson) a taught course; lots of useful background information

People of Ideas during the Enlightenment (New Geneva) biographical and other information on key European thinkers of the late 17th to late 18th centuries

What was the Enlightenment? (The Guardian) extract from the late Roy Porter's book, giving a readable and intelligent introduction to the subject

More Specialised

Redefining the Sacred in Early Modern England some of the results of a collaborative study of the English Reformation at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1998, specifically intended for use in teaching; includes images of printed texts and manuscripts with excellent commentaries

Change and Continuity: Religious Reformations in Early Modern Europe special issue of the online Early Modern Journal (note that the URL is likely to change in the future), presenting papers from the Claremont Annual Early Modern Symposium. Topics include: the science of religion; providence, fortune and gender

Dissent, Doubt and spiritual Violence in the Reformation (Norton Topics Online) focuses on the 1520s and 1530s in England, including material on the 'Pilgrimage of Grace' and Anne Askew

The Puritan Movement (Internet Shakespeare Editions)

The John Foxe Project (British Academy) the website for the planned new electronic edition of the Acts and Monuments; includes historical background, a 'demonstration' of a snippet from the text to show us what to expect, information about current John Foxe research (check out the 'resources' link)

Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings (Bill Carson) a site compiled by a Christian enthusiast, including extensive extracts from many important writers and poets, as well as biographical and historians' writings and links

Books of Common Prayer (Reformed Episcopal Church) links to various online versions of the Anglican prayer book, including the 1552, 1559 and 1662 editions

John Calvin (Christian Classics Ethereal Library) works about and by Calvin, and search facility

The Wesleys and their Times (United Methodist Church) the family and their religion

John Wesley: an Online Exhibition (John Rylands Library) selections from the library's Methodist Archives

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress) from the first settlers seeking refuge from persecution to the Revolution, this online exhibit examines the role of religion in the making of the US

The Puritan Tradition and American Memory (Scott Atkins) 'Pilgrims' and 'Puritans' and their cultural influences

Religious Enfranchisement and Roman Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland (Hans Rollmann) article on the establishment of official tolerance of religious diversity in late 18th-century Newfoundland

John Dee and the English Calendar: Science, Religion and Empire (Robert Poole) IHR electronic seminar on an always-fascinating Renaissance figure, the Welsh polymath (mathematician and magician among other talents) John Dee

Spirits, witches and science (Richard Olson) an essay on the connections between the developments in seventeenth-century science and beliefs in the supernatural

The art of Renaissance science (Joseph W Dauben) online essay 'devoted to the genius of Galileo and the relation between his role in the Scientific Revolution and the equally remarkable achievements of Renaissance artists reflected, in part, in the discovery and application of mathematical perpective'

Luther and Science an e-essay, written by a professor of physics, examining the attitudes of Luther and his followers towards science (particularly astronomy)

Jesuits and the Sciences, 1540-1995 (Loyola University Science Library) extensive sections on the early modern period

The Galileo Project devoted to Galileo Galilei and the science of his times: includes biography, bibliography, information on the instruments he used, maps, timelines, and 'Galileo's Daughter

The Plurality of Worlds (Norton Topics Online) microscopes and telescopes opened up new worlds in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, here, this 'giant leap in perspective' is explored through contemporary writings

Alchemy Website (Adam McLean) 'over 1300 sections and providing thousands of pages of text, over 1700 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material', a searchable database

No High Heels in Paradise (London Review of Books) review by Keith Thomas of a new scholarly edition of Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens by John Evelyn: full of information on Evelyn, his gardening and politics

Renaissance Humanism and Christian Hebraism (National Library of Canada) an online exhibit, with examples of early printed texts in Hebrew: 'Nowhere was the contact between Jewish and Christian learning more evident than in the art of printing in the 16th century'

The Philological Museum (University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute) devoted to 'Humanistic Letters', principally British: an online library of humanistic texts, and a bibliography of Latin texts (written during the Renaissance and later) that are freely available to the general public on the Web. Authors in the library include: Francis Bacon, George Buchanan, William Camden, Abraham Cowley, erasmus, John Stradling. (Some, but not all, texts are presented with English translations.)

Catalogue of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Richard Westfall, Albert van Helden) database of over 600 detailed biographies, fully searchable

Seventeenth and eighteenth-century Mathematicians (David R Wilkins) biographies of mathematicians and some other scientists

Early Modern Historians and Philosophers (Scholiast.org) biographical information and links for a selection of early modern thinkers

Selected Works of Francis Bacon (Liberty Library) texts include The Great Instauration, New Atlantis

Francis Bacon: the Moral and Historical Works (OTDS) texts, biographical, reference

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (The Secular Web) full text

John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (The Secular Web) full text

The Electric Franklin (Independence Hall Association) a rather delightful mix of the light-hearted and the scholarly on Benjamin Franklin; includes a very good listing of links, biography, and texts of his writings as well as quotes

The Adam Smith Page (Edward J Harpham) sections on biography, bibliography, recent studies and general information on Smith

Thomas Paine (The Secular Web) texts of Paine's works and considerably more

Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Peter Suber) mainly biographical with some biographical information on various women philosophers

The Bluestocking Archive (Elizabeth Fay) 'an archive of texts by or relating to the eighteenth-century British Bluestocking Circle and the second generation Blues, including predecessor texts, and literature of sensibility as it is derived from the Bluestockings' concerns with aesthetics, and with women's aesthetic achievements' (no longer available?)

The Dictionary of Sensibility (Corey Brady et al) a hypertext resource for the language of eighteenth-century 'sensibility'; 24 'key terms', such as 'benevolence', 'sense', 'taste', are explored through extracts from primary texts

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