Early Modern History

Lab Assignments

Course Texts:

John Merriman A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleon, Volume I.

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre

Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre

Readings

  • Internet Modern History Sourcebook
  • EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
  • Reading About the World vol. 2
  • The Historical Text Archive
  • History Reviews On-Line
  • Modern/Contemporary History Web Index

    Maps & Images

  • Tony Belmonte's Historial Atlas of Europe and the Middle East
  • ArtServe Art & Architecture (Australian National University)

    Other Courses

  • The Great Books of Western Civilization (Mercer University)
  • History of Western Civilization (Dr. Ellis L. Knox, Boise State U.)
  • Culture, Conflict, and the Modern: World Clutures from 1500(Richard Hooker, Washington State U.)
  • Western Civilization II(Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College)

    Early Modern Europe

  • Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
  • Project Wittenberg
  • The Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics
  • The Thirty Nine Articles of Religion
  • Documents of the Council of Trent

    Jacob Burckhardt

  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    Francesco Petrarch

  • Francesco Petrarch: Letters, c 1372
  • Selections from his Correspondences

    Pico della Mirandola

  • Indroduction
  • Oration on the Dignity of Man

    Vergerius

  • Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education (c. 1400)

    Vasari

  • Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci 1550

    Lorenzo De Medici

  • Lorenzo De Medici: Paternal Advice To A Cardinal (C. 1491)

    Machiavelli

  • Political Morality? (Washington Post, 19 January 1999)
  • Machiavelli Online
  • Machiavelli
  • Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527(The History Guide)
  • Machiavelli Page
  • Nicolo Machiavelli Western Canon University Lighthouse (Discussion Group?)
  • The Executive - An updated version of "The Prince"
  • Machiavelli and the Renaissance (A Course at Denison U)
  • Machiavelli Links (Wheaton C)
  • Machiavelli Notes (St. Thomas U)
  • The Portable Machiavelli (Darden School)
  • Machiavelli Quiz
  • The Prince
  • Machiavelli's Page

    Erasmus

  • The Praise of Folly

    Reformation

    General

  • The Reformation(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)

    Martin Luther

  • The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther
  • TO THE CHRISTIAN NOBILITY OF THE GERMAN NATION
  • Address to the Christian Nobility (Brief) (Hanover College)
  • Introduction to Address to the Christian Nobility (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • Martin Luther(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Martin Luther
  • On the Freedom of A Christian WSU
  • Exsurge Domine
  • Martin Luther: The Jews and Their Lies (1543) (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • Martin Luther: Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz, 1517 (Medieval Sourcebook)

    Ulrich Zwingli

  • Ulrich Zwingli(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Biographie Huldrych Zwinglis (1484-1531)(Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte)
  • Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte

    John Calvin

  • Calvin's Letter to the King of France (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • The Five Points of Calvinism (TULIP)
  • Institutes of the Christian Religion
  • "A Summary of the Christian Life"Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 7
  • "Of Justification by Faith"
  • "The Right Use of the Present Life"Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, Chapter 10
  • "On Civil Government"(Richard Hooker, WSU)
  • John Calvin(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Calvinism(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Calvin on Prayer (Wheaton College)

    The English Reformation

  • The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey 1539 (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • Cranmer Letter on Henry VIII's Divorce (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • The Thirty Nine Articles of Religion
  • "Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity"Richard Hooker,
  • The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan
  • Erastus and Erastianism(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Henry VIII(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • The 1646 Westminister Confession of Faith
  • The Church of England Website
  • The Book of Common Prayer

    The Catholic Reformation

  • The Council of Trent(Hanover Documents)
  • The Fathers of the Church
  • Documents of the Council of Trent: Session 5
  • Documents of the Council of Trent: Session 6
  • Documents of the Council of Trent: Session 7
  • The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • The Council of Trent(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • St. Ignatius Loyola: Spiritual Exercises (Medival Sourcebook)

    The Return of Martin Guerre

    Film Reviews

  • Readings on Martin Guerre (University of Adelaide)
  • Film Review by Rhea Worrel
  • Film Review by Dave Kehr
  • Internet Movie Database

    The Musical

  • Synopsis of Stage Musical
  • Interactive Guide

    Natalie Zemon Davis

  • A Life of Learning - Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997

    The Scientific Revolution

  • Scientific Revolution(Dr. Ellis L. Knox, Boise State U.)
  • Scientific Revolution(Richard Hooker, Washington State U.)

    The Enlightenment

  • The European Enlightenment (Richard Hooker, Washington State U.)
  • Jean Le Rond d'Alembert: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
  • Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration (1763)
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract (1762)
  • The Age of Enlightenment
  • Voltaire Foundation
  • The Hume Archives
    Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
  • The Virgin Queen
  • Bibliography: Elizabeth I and her Parliaments(Dr Graham Smith's Resource Information)
  • ADD. MS 8915: CAMBRIDGE VERSES FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH I, 1564(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY)
  • SELECTED POETRY OF ELIZABETH I (1533-1603)
  • The 39 Articles of Religion
  • The Elizabethan Homilies 1623
  • A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and how the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown by Richard Hooker
    James I (1603-1625)
  • The Gunpowder Plot Pages
  • Puritan Voices
    Charles I (1625-1649)
  • William Laud
  • The Petition of Right 1628
  • The Petition of Right 1628
  • The Declaration of Sports

    Commonwealth and Protectorate

    Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (1653-1658)
  • Oliver Cromwell: Constitutional Crisis in England
  • Notes on the Film "Cromwell" (1970)
  • English Civil War (Dr. Ellis Knox, Boise State University)
  • THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH (1646)
  • GEORGE FOX: An Autobiography
    Charles II (1660-1685)
  • The London Gazette (1674-1692)
    James II (1685-1688)
    William (1689-1702) and Mary (1689-1695)
  • BILL OF RIGHTS [1689]
    Anne (1702-1714)

    Hobbes

  • Hobbes Page

    Locke

  • A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATION
  • AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
  • CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT, SECOND ESSAY
  • Locke's Page
  • John Locke, Treatise on Civil Government

    The Glorious Revolution

  • The Bill of Rights (1689)

    The Eighteenth Century

  • The New Child: British Art & the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830(UC Berkeley)
  • The English Server - Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Voice of the Shuttle - RESTORATION & 18TH CENTURY
  • Eighteenth-Century Resourses
  • William Hogarth and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture
  • The 18th Century Website
  • Tyburn Tree Homepage
  • The Bubble Project
  • The Sir Robert Walpole Homepage

    French Revolution

  • Maximilien Robespierre: The Cult of the Supreme Being (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Maximilien Robespierre: On the Principles of Political Morality, February 1794 (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Maximilien Robespierre: Justification of the Use of Terror (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Napoleon's Account of the Internal Situation of France in 1804(Hanover Historical Texts Project)
  • Farewell to the Old Guard, April 29, 1814 (Modern Sourcebook)
  • DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN
  • Maps of the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
  • The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine
  • The reign of Louis XVI (1774-1791)
  • Marie-Antoinette by Vigee-Lebrun
  • The Revolution (1789-1799)
  • Political Background to Wordsworth
  • Wordsworth on the French Revolution (1809)
  • Chronology of the French Revolution
  • French Revolutionary Pamphlets
  • The French Republican Calendar
  • The French Revolution
  • Select Bibliography of the French Revolution
  • The Napoleon Series
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France (excerpts -Modern Sourcebook)

    General Web References

  • AP European History
  • Directories of Historical Resources
  • The McKinley Internet Directory
  • Yahoo History List
  • Tennessee Tech History Home Page
  • Electronic Documents
  • The Historical Text Archive
  • The HUMBUL Gateway
  • The Institute of Historical Research (University of London)
  • Oxford Humanities Computing
    ttaylor@ctc.edu