ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES

• Cartularium: Primary Sources, sources for the study of women and monasticism (Monastic Matrix)
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Writings by monks, nuns, or mystics: Johannes (Meister) Eckhart(c. 1260-1327), Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), John of the Cross (1542-1591), Julian of Norwich (c. 1342-c. 1413), Richard Rolle of Hampole (c. 1290-c. 1349), Henry Suso (c. 1296-1366), John Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). Writings by “reformers”: John Calvin (1509-1564), Martin Luther (1483-1546)
• English Reformation Sources (Julie P. McFerran)
• Hanover Historical Texts Project: Council of Trent, Catholic (“Counter-”) Reformation (Hanover College)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham U.)
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Reformation Europe (Paul Halsall, Fordham U.)
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown U.)
• Martyrs Mirror (1660), Anabaptist history of martyrs from the first to the seventeenth century
• Medieval Heresy (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
• Project Wittenburg: Selected Works of Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
• Reformation, including links to online works by Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and others (Hans Rollmann, Memorial U.)
• John Wyclif and the Lollards (Geoffrey Chaucer page)

OTHER RESOURCES

• Bodleian Library: Western Manuscripts to 1500, images of manuscripts (University of Oxford)
• Digital Scriptorium, image database of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts (U. California, Berkeley)
• Hagiography, Lives of Saints (Thomas Head, ORB Online Encycl.)
• Monastic Matrix: Resources for the Study of Women’s Religious Communities from 400 to 1600 AD
• Monasticism in Medieval Christianity (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• NetSERF: Medieval Religion (Catholic U. of America)
• Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Christianity (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• The Reformation (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Reformation Picture Gallery: People, Places
• Religious Orders (Kimberly Georgedes, ORB Online Encycl.)
• Women and Hagiography in Medieval Christianity (Thomas Head, ORB Online Encycl.)

NOTE ON USING THE INTERNET FOR STUDYING THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS: Internet sites are not all equally valuable and reliable when it comes to historical information, and it is not always easy for everyone to distinguish which ones are reliable. Above I have limited myself primarily to sites which collect together or link sources from the time period we are studying (“primary sources”) and to sites with ties to legitimate educational institutions or produced by professors. This means that they will be relatively reliable. However, at this point in history, the internet is never a substitute for doing proper reading and research in primary sources, journal articles and books.

Other posts in the late-medieval and reformations series.