Resource Guide:
The Reformation
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Reformation
- Protestant Reformation
- Church History -- 16th Century
- Protestantism
- Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
- Schmalkaldic League, 1530-1547
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Reformation & Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Lutheran Theology
- Sixteenth-Century Journal
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther, 1483-1546 | N 6865 .F76 |
| The Sacred Image in the Age of Art | ND 1432 .E85 H35 2010 |
| Women and the Counter-Reformation in early modern Münster | BR 359 .M85 L36 2014 |
| The unintended Reformation : how a religious revolution secularized society | BL 2747.8 .G74 2010 |
| Reformation and early modern Europe : a guide to research | BR 305.3 .R42 2007 |
| The Cambridge companion to Reformation theology | BR 305.3 .C36 2004 |
| Law and revolution, II : the impact of the Protestant Reformations on the western legal tradition | KJ 147 .B47 2003 v.2 |
| Luther's lives : two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther | BR 325 .L84 D27 2002 |
| Protestants : the birth of a revolution | BR 305.2 .O89 |
| The ninety-five theses and other writings | BR 331 .E5 2017 |
| Rebel in the ranks | BR 305.3 .G74 2017 |
| Martin Luther in his own words | BR 331 .E5 2017 |
| Martin Luther's theology | BR 333.3 .M364 2017 |
| Katharina & Martin Luther | BR 328 .D47 2017 |
| Luther the reformer | BR 325 .K455 2016 |
| The end of Protestantism | BX 4817 .L45 2016 |