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 Primary Sources page. For language resources and online dictionaries, please see our Dictionaries and Languages page.
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
Images Online (Both actual images and resources for finding images or art):
- 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
- Connecticut College's Wetmore Print Collection (Includes Rembrandt and Durer prints)
- Fine Arts in Hungary
- German History in Documents and Images
- Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
- Kaiser im Kreis der Kurfürsten (1663/4)
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
- 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!)
Calendars, Timelines, and Dating Tools Online:
- Easter Date Calculator
- Medieval Calendar Calculator
- Online Calender of Saints Days
- Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
Online Secondary Sources (and finding tools):
- Google Book Search
- Google Scholar
- Live Search Books (Microsoft's version of Google Book Search)
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)
- The Zurich Roll of Arms (14th C Heraldry)
Other Useful Links for Teaching and Learning:
- 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!)
- Voice of the Shuttle
- What Every Medievalist Should Know
- 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