500 years agone today a niggling known monk called Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to a chapel door inwards Wittenberg. It was an human action that would Pb to the Reformation as well as that would alter the the world forever. Here I Stand is a website exploring the life as well as run of Martin Luther, the nativity of the Reformation as well as its lasting result on the world.
Here I Stand includes a number of interactive as well as static maps which are used to explore the spread of the Reformation as well as to explicate the the world inwards which Martin Luther lived. These maps include a 3d map of Sixteenth Century Wittenberg, where Martin Luther lived as well as worked. Although a static map it does include labels (turn them on using the 'discover more' button) which exhibit of import locations inwards the town.
Here I Stand likewise features a number of interactive maps. These include a map of the Holy Roman Empire showing locations amongst a Martin Luther connection. Another interactive map shows how the reformation rapidly spread through towns as well as cities inwards the Holy Roman Empire during the showtime one-half of the Sixteenth Century. The Reformation Movement map includes buttons which allow you lot to filter the cities shown yesteryear the engagement that they introduced the reformation.
If you lot similar the maps featured on Here I Stand you lot tin print them out every bit PDF map posters.
The Newberry Library inwards Chicago is currently asset a major exhibition on Religious Change as well as Print, 1450-1700. In back upwards of this exhibition they accept seat together an online collection of the Newberry Library's manuscripts, maps as well as images from the Reformation.
One online contribution to the exhibition is an interactive even out map Tracking the Lutheran Controversy. The map explores the business office of printing inwards spreading the ideas of an obscure monk inwards Wittenburg to the whole of Europe.
Tracking the Lutheran Controversy examines about of the fundamental pamphlets as well as texts published yesteryear Martin Luther (and the papal bulls issued inwards response). As you lot progress through Tracking the Lutheran Controversy the map shows how Luther's ideas spread throughout Europe. It likewise looks at the publication of responses to Luther, both inwards back upwards as well as against his beliefs.
The Newberry Library online collection likewise includes a superb interactive presentation of Giovanni Merlo’s engraved map of Venice from 1676. This interactive version of Merlo's Map includes information almost the engraving as well as about of the Venetian locations depicted inwards the map. The colored circles on the map alternative out about of Reformation Venice's most of import churches, monasteries as well as printing centers. You tin click on these circles to larn to a greater extent than almost each highlighted location as well as sentiment other illustrations of the location from the Newberry collection.
If you lot direct the 'toggle maps' push clit (from the navigation buttons running downward the view of the interactive) you lot tin direct compare Merlo's Map side-by-side amongst other vintage maps of Venice. These other maps include Jacopo de Barbari 1500 map of Venice, Benedetto Bordon's map of 1534 as well as Paolo Forlani's Venetia from 1566.
