Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature:
Background Information

General Introductions to the Renaissance Overview of the 16th Century - Norton Topics Online The Renaissance - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Renaissance - The Annenberg/CPB Project The Renaissance - Michael S. Seiferth History and Politics Battles and Rebellions - Lara Eakins Renaissance Backgrounds: A Chronological Outline - Dr. Harriette Andreadis Millennium Timeline: The 16th Century (1501 - 1600) - Greenwich 2000 Introduction to the 16th Century - c. t. iannuzzo Humanism - Vatican Expo Renaissance Political Theory - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Warfare and the State - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Loyalty as an Elizabethan Practice - Peter Grubbs Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England - Charlie Mitchell Shakespeare's England: Law - Arthur Underhill Crime and the Law in Elizabethan England - UVic The Technology of Warfare in Elizabethan England - UVic Political and Social Aspects of the Later Elizabethan and Earlier Stewart Period - A. W. Ward Power and Government in Elizabethan England - Heather Thomas The Spanish Armada - Heather Thomas Europe in the Elizabethan Age - Heather Thomas Harrison's Description Of Elizabethan England Renaissance Humanism - The Annenberg/CPB Project Who's Who in Tudor History - Lara Eakins Who was Who in the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I - Heather Thomas Chronology of Politics and War in the Renaissance - Virtual Renaissance Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England - Ashley Beyer and Valerie Passerini Economy, Trade, and Exploration Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe - Norton Topics Online Renaissance Exploration and Trade - The Annenberg/CPB Project Economy and Exploration Timeline - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox The Economy of Europe in the Renaissance - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Chronology of Discovery and Trade in the Renaissance - Virtual Renaissance Royalty Monarchs of England - Britannia Internet Magazine History of the British Monarchy - The British Monarchy Tudor England - Lara Eakins Tudor Chronology - Kelly Crispen Henry VIII and the early Tudors - UVictoria Tudor Succession Problems - Sarah Vallieres The Tudors - Kelly Crispen Kings and Queens of England from 1485 to the Present - Glenn Everett Royal Genealogies - Denis Reid Henry VIII and His Wives - Diana Laulainen-Schein Tudor Women - Diana Laulainen-Schein Tudor Family Tree - Kelly Crispen Letter of Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIII's divorce, 1533 - Medieval Sourcebook Facsimile of Henry VIII's letter to Ann Boleyn Religion & Philosophy Religion in the Renaissance - UVictoria Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation - Norton Topics Online A Whirlwind Tour of the Protestant Reformation - Michael Bryson The Protestant Reformation - Miles Hodges The Core of Elizabethan Religion - John E. Booty Book of Common Prayer Marks 450th Anniversary - Julia Duin Ballads and brags: free speech and recusant culture in Elizabethan England - Phebe Jensen N.D. versus O.E.: anonymity's moral ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic controversy - Marcy L. North Redefining the Sacred in Early Modern England: Bibliography - Folger Library The Puritan movement - UVic English Literature and Religion - William S. Peterson Chronology of Religion in Renaissance society - Virtual Renaissance European Society in the Reformation Era - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox The Reformation in England - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Queen Elizabeth and the Reformation - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox Forms of Early Religious Vernacular Texts in England (c.1475-1570) - David J. Duncan Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation - Janet Clare The Elizabethan Homilies 1623 - UToronto Renaissance Science and Medicine Medieval Cosmology - Luminarium Encyclopedia The Medieval Universe - UVictoria Scientific Revolution - Dr. E.L. Skip Knox Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis - Stephen Jay Gould Paracelsus’Impact on Medicine During the Renaissance Era - Blake, Aronstam, & Buchanan The Galileo Project - Rice University Giambattista della Porta's "Natural Magick", 1584 Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist - Museum of Science, Boston Alchemy Virtual Library Miscellany of Scientific Treatises: manuscript, ca. 1450-1475 - UPenn The Plague The Black Death - Dr. E.L. Skip Knox The Plague - UVictoria Pictures of the Plague - Ed Stephan John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Ed Stephan The Plague in Elizabethan England - Miller, Orr, Bunker, and Rahman Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe - University of Virginia Magic, Witchcraft, and the Supernatural The Supernatural - UVictoria Witchcraft Documents [15th Century] - Medieval Sourcebook Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and America - UVA Demonology - Cosma Shalizi Facsimile excerpts from Harsnett's A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures (1603) - UPenn Two sixteenth-century Latin treatises on witchcraft - UPenn Spirits, Witches, & Science: Why the rise of science encouraged belief in the supernatural in 17th-c. England - Richard Olson To Prevent a "Shipwreck of Souls": Johann Weyer and "De Praestigiis Daemonum." - Elisa Slattery Towards a New Demonology - Steven Connor Witchcraft Craze History - Laren Witchcraft Trials and the Origins of the Witchcraze in Later Medieval England - "Epona Seaborn" Witch-hunts of Scotland: How the trial of Doctor Fian Began a New Craze - "Wolf-Singer" Witches - Eric Schaefges Women in the Renaissance Ale Wives, Old Wives, Widows, and Witches:          The Older Woman in English Renaissance Literature - Patricia Shaw .PDF Renaissance Images of the Virgin Impudent Women: Carnival and gender in early modern culture - Kate Chedgzoy Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women 1558 Gender, Family, Household: 17th C. Norms and Controversies - Norton Topics Online Women's Rights - Norton Topics Online Education of Women - Norton Topics Online Women's Public Speech - Norton Topics Online Education of Girls - UVic Elizabethan Women Writers - UVictoria Women as Translators - UVictoria Huswifery - UVictoria Women: loved and loathed - UVictoria Order in the sexes - UVictoria Literature for women - UVictoria The Housewife's Rich Cabinet: Remedies, Recipes, and Helpful Hints - Folger Library Shakespeare's Unruly Women - Folger Library The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Life of Women in Tudor England - Kelly Crispen Bibliography: The Education of Upper-Class Englishwomen - Sharon Deborah Michalove Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation - Janet Clare Images Renaissance Art Posters Renaissance Images of the Virgin An Image-Oriented Introduction to Backgrounds for English Renaissance Literature - Professor Herman Asarnow Renaissance Image Gallery - Professor Rebecca Bushnell Seeing What Shakespeare Means - Folger Library Renaissance Maps - Lara Eakins Early Modern Cartographic Resources on the WWW - Rhonda Lemke Sanford Tudor Dress: A portfolio of images - Hope Greenberg Electronic Renaissance: Images - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox University of Michigan Image Catalog Bodleian Library Image Catalog Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669 - UVA Facsimile of Henry VIII's letter to Ann Boleyn Pictures of the Plague - Ed Stephan Renaissance Music Music History 102: The Renaissance - IPL Renaissance Consort Music in England - UVictoria Music in Tudor England - Lara Eakins Early Music Midi Files - Curtis Clark Guitar and Lute MIDI Library - Allan Alexander Classical MIDI Archive: Composers born before the 17th century - Pierre R. Schwob Classical MIDI Connection: Renaissance - Raborn and Winters Mulliner Book MIDI files - David Cooke English Baroque MIDI files - David Cooke Renaissance MIDIs - Conrad Bladey Medieval and Renaissance Music Research Page - Mulcheng A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Musica Antiqua Renaissance Musical Instruments - Megan Haynes and Brian Hart Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Vihuela, Guitar, and Cittern - Dr. Gary R. Boye Sixteenth Century Ballads - Greg Lindahl Renaissance Theatre Ancient Rome and The English Renaissance Theatre - John Price The Sixteenth Century Court Audience: performers and spectators - Sarah Carpenter Shakespeare's Stage - UVictoria The Drama and Shakespeare - UVictoria Renaissance Drama Home Page - Dr. Christy Desmet London's disreputable South Bank in the 16th and 17th century. - Jessica A. Browner Centre for Research in Early English Drama (REED)  - University of Toronto Renaissance Dance Renaissance Dance - Andrew Draskóy Renaissance Dance Sources - Joseph Casazza Renaissance Music and Dance Homepage - Greg Lindahl 'Les Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche' Music and Dance of the Period - Center for Fawkesian Pursuits Renaissance Art Free Renaissance Fonts Renaissance Art Posters Renaissance Images of the Virgin National Portrait Gallery Art in Renaissance England - UVictoria The Arts in Tudor England - Kelly Crispen Italian Painting of the 15th century - National Gallery of Art Italian Painting of the 16th century - National Gallery of Art Northern European Painting of the 15th-16th centuries - National Gallery of Art Renaissance Tapestry - Sara Stone Chronology of Art and Science in the Renaissance - Virtual Renaissance Renaissance Architecture Renaissance Architecture in England - UVictoria Tudor Architecture - Lara Eakins Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - UVA Elizabethan Architecture - Valerie Kamhi Renaissance Costume The Costumer's Manifesto: 16th century/Northern European Renaissance - Tara Maginnis, Ph.D Tudor Dress: A Portfolio of Images - Hope Greenberg Arador Armour Library - David Clemons The Renaissance Tailor: 16th and 17th Century Clothing Modesty to Majesty: The Development of the Codpiece - Beth Marie Kosir Decorative Armor - LaDaryl Hale and Zak Manes Hairstyles of the Elizabethan Period - Barfield and Fuller Men's Fashion during the Elizabethan Period - Matt Doering Women's Fashions of the Elizabethan Period - Bridges and Granger Renaissance Printing and Publishing Martin Marprelate Controversy - Luminarium Encyclopedia Publishing in the Renaissance - UVictoria The World of the Renaissance Print Shop - Merry Wiesner-Hanks The Infancy of Printing - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Printing: Renaissance & Reformation - University of South Carolina Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799 - R. S. Bear The Book-Trade, 1557–1625 - H. G. Aldis Tudor Aristocrats and the Mythical "Stigma of Print" - Steven W. May Renaissance Printing and Thinking - The Annenberg/CPB Project Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World - Bruce Jones Printing in the Renaissance and Reformation - University of South Carolina Renaissance Food and Drink Elizabethan Alehouses - Heather Thomas Food in Tudor England - Lara Eakins Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage - Greg Lindahl Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage - Greg Lindahl Miscellaneous Renaissance Society - UVictoria Tudor Heraldry - Kelly Crispen London and the Development of Popular Literature - Harold V. Routh Childhood in Elizabethan England - Heather Thomas Outlaws and Highwaymen - Gillian Spraggs Education during the European Renaissance - UMN History of Prose Style - John F. Tinkler Elizabethan Sports - Gretchen Maxwell and Alan Carey Currency Values In Elizabethan England - Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire Journals Renaissance Forum - Andrew M. Butler, Technical Editor Early Modern Literary Studies - Lisa Hopkins, Editor Metapages VoS: Renaissance and 17th Century - Alan Liu Renascence and Reformation - Cambridge History of English and American Literature Internet Modern History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall English Literature on the Web - Mitsuharu Matsuoka Literary Resources -- Renaissance - Jack Lynch Sonnet Central - Eric Blomquist Imagining Early Modern Worlds - Dr. Grant Williams San Antonio College LitWeb - Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D Elizabethan England - Springfield High School, IL Shakespeare and the Renaissance - Terry A. Gray