Erasmus Text Project
This small website offers several writings by Erasmus, including a seventeenth-century translation of Praise of Folly accompanied by sketches by Hans Holbein the Younger.
http://smith2.sewanee.edu/erasmus/ Internet Modern History Sourcebook
This website offers a range of selections from important texts related to the Reformation and the Counterreformation, including the writings of Martin Luther and John Calvin. Many of the documents are excerpts from larger works. The texts are arranged thematically.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html#Protestant%20Reformation Internet Medieval Sourcebook: The Reformation
A companion to the site described above, this website is arranged in the same fashion and contains some of the same documents, but includes a collection of documents presaging the Reformation.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1y.html Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English between the Years 1477 and 1799
This website offers an eclectic mix of texts, including standards such as the works of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser, and a number of minor works by largely forgotten authors. Good for browsing.
http://uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/ren.htm#s Art Cyclopedia: Northern Renaissance
This compendious website catalogues links to other sites (usually museum websites) where students can find images of the works of specific artists of the Northern Renaissance (sometimes the links identify the specific artwork as well).
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/northern-renaissance.html National Theater of Japan
This website provides excellent and highly detailed introductions to noh, kabuki, and other forms of Japanese drama. The site offers images of masks, schemata of stages, summaries of plots, identification of characters, and even a few video clips.
http://www.ntj.jac.go.jp/english/index.html Umeå Academic Choir: The English Madrigal
This website provides a detailed history of the madrigal, accompanied by audio clips of modern recordings of the works of English Renaissance composers, including Thomas Morley.
http://www.acc.umu.se/~akadkor/early/IVM2.html Internet Shakespeare Editions
This comprehensive website offers not only the complete plays and poems of Shakespeare, but also an account of the playwright's life, a detailed history of English drama during his time and before it, images of original folios, and more.
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/index.html Center for Thomas More Studies
Along with e-texts of many of More's writings (including Utopia), this website provides a brief biography, a chronology of his life, and a map of locations that figured prominently in his life.
http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/ Cervantes Project
This website provides an e-text of Don Quixote (in the original Spanish and in English translation), as well as a biography and a large collection of images of both Cervantes and Don Quixote.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/V2/CPI/index.html Project Gutenberg: Montaigne
At this site students can find the complete essays of Michel de Montaigne in English translation. The works of many of his contemporaries can be found elsewhere on the site as well.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a1230 Web Gallery of Art
At this site, students can find biographies of major artists such as Bosch, Dürer, and van Eyck, as well as images of a number of their artistic works.
http://www.wga.hu/ Ricci-Art: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
This website offers access to a number of large reproductions of Brueghel's paintings. (Students can search the site for works by other artists—including Hieronymus Bosch—but most of the artists represented are modern ones.)
http://www.ricci-art.com/en/Pieter-Bruegel-the-Elder.htm Art History Resources on the Web: Renaissance Art Outside Italy
This website doesn't contain original material; instead it provides access to dozens of links to other sites covering a variety of topics related to the art of the Northern Renaissance (as well as many other cultures and time periods).
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html Timeline of Art History: European Art in the Renaissance
This website, maintained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides access to a good combination of images and thematic essays divided according to culture, time period, and medium. The site contains dozens of pages dedicated to aspects of Northern Renaissance art and culture, including "The Reformation," "The Printed Image in the West," and "Elizabethan England."
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