Reformation History
The purpose of this guide is to list relevant Internet sites, Library databases, electronic journals and printed reference sources relating to the Reformation. This is not a comprehensive guide or gateway but rather a starting point to information in the area. Other useful resources will appear under General History.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
There are not many ejournals specifically for the Reformation, but the following ejournals do contain articles on that period of history. Also check the ejournals listed under General History.
Renaissance Quarterly
Published by the Renaissance Society of American, it continues Renaissance News and absorbs Studies in the Renaissance.
The Library has the printed issues in Fisher Research 940.6 26, vol. 20(1967)-52:2(1999),53(1(2000)+
Gender & History
An international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations, spanning epochs and continents.
The Library has the printed issues in Fisher Research 305.405 8, v.1, 1989+
Past & Present
The Library has the printed issues in Fisher Research 905 46, 1(1952)-23(1963),25(1963)+
Historical Journal
Publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
The Library has the printed issues in Fisher Research 905 29, v.1, 1958+
Sixteenth Century Journal
The site contains table of contents for the journal from 1999+, and a bibliograhy from the articles.
The Library has the printed issues in Fisher Research 940.2 4, vol 1, 1970+.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Full text sites
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: the Reformation
Links to full text of documents on precursors and papal critics of the reformation, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.
url: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1y.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: the Reformation
Links to full text of documents on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, resulting conflicts, and Women and the Reformation.
url: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html
Protestant Reformation
Links to full text of documents from Hanover College History Department.
url: http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html
Reformation
Links to full text works of Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Zwingli,etc.
url: http://www.mun.ca/rels/reform/index.html
Subject directories
Crawford Reformation Guide
Created by Laurence Bates of the University of Michigan
http://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence/reformation/index.htm
Internet Sites
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
A research centre devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700. The Library does not subscribe to their database ITER, and users have to pay to access it, but the site does contain a list of useful links.
url: http://crrs.utoronto.ca/
PRINTED RESOURCES
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation / Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 4 vols.
Fisher Ref 270.603 1
Reformation Europe: a guide to research / Steven Ozment, ed.
St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, c1982.
Fisher Research & Undergraduate 270.6 169
Bibliographies
Bibliographie de la Reforme, 1450-1648.
Leiden: Brill, 1958-1982. 8 vols.
Fisher Ref 270.6 22
Bibliography of the continental reformation: materials available in English / by Roland H.Bainton
and Eric W. Gritsch.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1972.2d ed., rev. and enl.
Fisher Research 016.2706 2
Bibliography of the Reform, 1450-1648, relating to the United Kingdom and Ireland for
the years 1955-70 / Derek Baker, ed.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1975.
Fisher Ref 016.2741 2
Biographies
Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation /
Peter G. Bietenholz, editor.
Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1985-c1987. 3 vols.
Fisher Ref 879.8 E65 X 6
Indexes
Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte. Archive for reformation history.
[Gutersloh, etc.] Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn [etc.], vol 49, 1958+
Fisher Research 270.6 184
Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte. Beiheft, Literaturbericht.
Supplement: Literature Reviews
Gutersloh, G. Mohn, vol 1, 1972+
Fisher Research 270.6 185
Sixteenth century bibliography.
St. Louis, Mo.: Center for Reformation Research, 1975-1995
Fisher Research 016.2706
Primary Source collections
Correspondance des reformateurs dans les pays de langue francaise /
recueillie et publiee avec d'autres lettres relatives a la Reforme et des notes historiques et
biographiques par A.-L. Herminjard.
Nieuwkoop, Netherlands: B. De Graaf, 1965-1966. 9 vols.
t.1. 1512 -- t.2. 1527-1532 -- t.3. 1533-1536 -- t.4. 1536-1538 -- t.5-6. 1539-1540
t.7. 1541-1542 --t.8. 1542-1543 -- t.9. 1543-1544.
Fisher Research 940.2320922 1
Documents illustrative of the Continental Reformation / edited by B.J. Kidd.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. 1st ed. repr.
Fisher Research & Undergraduate 270.6 15
Documents on the continental Reformation / edited and translated by William G. Naphy.
Basingstoke, Hamps.: Macmillan, 1996.
Fisher Short Loan 270.6 426
The European reformations sourcebook / edited by Carter Lindberg.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Fisher Research 274.06 10