Rembrandt, Harmenszoon van Rijn, The Mennonite Minister Cornelis Claesz. Anslo in Conversation with his Wife, Aaltje (1641) Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Teaching Resources
This page contains links to resources for teaching and studying the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Please let us know if you have a syllabus, good online teaching resource, or other teaching material you would be willing to share. For lists of primary sources, please see our sources page. For language resources and online dictionaries, please see our language page.

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Images Online
Maps Online
Calendars and Dating Tools Online
Online Secondary Sources
HRE-specific Images, Maps, Teaching Resources
Other Useful Links for Teaching and Learning
Course Syllabi

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Images Online (Both actual images and resources for finding images or art):

• Art Online
• Art-Guide: Sammlung kunsthistorischer Internetquellen (An idiosyncratic searchable portal to online art and architecture)
• Art History (Resources for the study of Art History)
• Artchive
• Artcyclopedia
• British Library Images Online
• CGFA: Carol Gerten's Fine Art - A Virtual Museum
• Connecticut College's Wetmore Print Collection (Includes Rembrandt and Durer prints)
• Digitalisierte Handschriften (From Manuscripta mediaevalia)
• Druckgraphische Buchillustrationen des 15. Jh.
• Fine Arts in Hungary
• German History in Documents and Images
• Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
• Kaiser im Kreis der Kurfürsten (1663/4)
• Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina
• Louvre, Paris
• Mauritshuis, The Hague
• Mnemosyne Image Atlas (Excellent historical images)
• The National Gallery, London
• National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• National Portrait Gallery
• Olga's Gallery
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Treasures from the Saxon State Library
• Turning the Pages at the British Library
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
• Virtual Catalogue for Art History
• Web Gallery of Art (Very good source of online images)
• The Zurich Roll of Arms (14th C Heraldry)

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Maps Online:

• The digital map collection of the University of Utrecht Library
• Google Maps
• Das Heilige Römische Reich deutscher Nation um 1580
• Historical City Maps
• Index of Cartographic Images, Illustrating Maps of the Early Medieval Period.400-1300 A.D.
• Informationsnetzwerk zur Geschichte des Rhein-Maas-Raumes, Kartenforum
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook Maps and Images
• Latin Place Names
• Political Map of Europe in the year 1000
• Orbis Latinus Online (More Latin placenames. Very useful!)
• Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
• Timeline of Art History (Includes various historical maps)

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Calendars, Timelines, and Dating Tools Online:

• Easter Date Calculator
• Medieval Calendar Calculator
• Online Calender of Saints Days
• Timeline of Art History
• Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit

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Online Seconary Sources (and finding tools):

• Google Book Search
• Google Scholar
• Live Search Books (Microsoft's version of Google Book Search)

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HRE specific images, maps, and teaching resources:

• Das Heilige Römische Reich deutscher Nation um 1580 (map)
• Heiliges Roemisches Reich Deutscher Nation (info, maps and images from Uni Muenster's Einführung in die Frühe Neuzeit)
• Heiliges Römisches Reich on Wikipedia
• Info on the history and structure of the HRE
• Kaiser im Kreis der Kurfürsten (image, 1663/4)
• Regesta Imperii: Blätterversion: Urkundenverzeichnis zu den deutschen Königen und Kaisern (760-1516)
• The Zurich Roll of Arms (14th C Heraldry)

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Other Useful Links for Teaching and Learning:

• Ad Fontes (Tutorials on how to use an archive)
• Archival Research Techniques and Skills
• Best of History Websites
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Clio-online: Fachportal für die Geschichtswissenschaften
• Gang durch Alt-Zuerich
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Goethe Institut (Learning and Teaching German)
• Gothic Germany 1250-1520, Bibliography of English Language Works
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Studying History (Includes sections on how to read sources and on historiography)
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies/Teaching Page
• Orbis Latinus Online (Latin placenames. Very useful!)
• The Protestant Reformation: religious change and the people of sixteenth-century Europe
• Serielle Quellen in südwestdeutschen Archiven
• Syllabus Finder (Awesome search tool for finding online syllabi. Key word searchable!)
• University History (a site that pulls together online history from across the web)
• Voice of the Shuttle
• What Every Medievalist Should Know
• World Civilizations: An Internet Classroom and Anthology (At WSU. Modules for teaching various topics in World Civ)

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Course Syllabi and Lectures:

• Creating a Course on the Black Death (Charles T. Wood, based on David Herlihy's course)
• Ecclesiology: A Short Course on the Medieval Church
• Germany 1517-1806
• Lectures for A Medieval Survey (by Lynn H. Nelson)
• Manuscripts Studies (An online course at U Alberta)
• The Radical Reformation
• The Reformation Era
• Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
• World Religions
• Syllabus Finder (Awesome search tool for finding online syllabi. Key word searchable!)

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