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Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature: Background Information
General Introductions to the Renaissance
Overview of the 16th Century - Norton Topics Online
Renaissance - The Annenberg/CPB Project
The Renaissance - Michael S. Seiferth
History, Politics, and Law
Renaissance Backgrounds: A Chronological Outline - Dr. Harriette Andreadis
Millennium Timeline: The 16th Century (1501 - 1600) - Greenwich 2000
Renaissance Humanism - The Annenberg/CPB Project
Humanism - Vatican Expo
Introduction to Politics and War in the 16th century - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox
Loyalty as an Elizabethan Practice - Peter Grubbs
Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England - Dr. Charlie Mitchell
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
Shakespeare's England: Law - Arthur Underhill
Harrison's Description of Elizabethan England
More at Luminarium Encyclopedia Project
Economy, Trade, and Exploration
Renaissance
Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe - Norton Topics Online
Renaissance Exploration and Trade - The Annenberg/CPB Project
The Economy of Europe in the Renaissance - Dr. E. L. Skip Knox
Elizabethan Economy - Christopher W. Taylor
Poverty in Elizabethan England - Alexandra Briscoe
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 - ML North
Bibliography: Redefining the Sacred in Early Modern England - Folger Library
The Puritan movement - UVic
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
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
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": Weyer and "De Praestigiis Daemonum" - Elisa Slattery
Towards a New Demonology - Steven Connor
Witchcraft Craze History - Laren
Witchcraft Trials & the Origins of the Witchcraze in Late 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
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 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 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
16th-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 Costume
The Costumer's Manifesto: 16th century/Northern European Renaissance - Tara Maginnis
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
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Queen Catherine Howard
Queen Katherine Parr
King Edward VI
Lady Jane Grey
Queen Mary I
Queen Elizabeth I
Renaissance English Writers
Bishop John Fisher
William Tyndale
Sir Thomas More
John Heywood
Thomas Sackville
Nicholas Udall
John Skelton
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Henry Howard
Hugh Latimer
Thomas Cranmer
Roger Ascham
Sir Thomas Hoby
John Foxe
George Gascoigne
John Lyly
Thomas Nashe
Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
Richard Hooker
Robert Southwell
Robert Greene
George Peele
Thomas Kyd
Edward de Vere
Christopher Marlowe
Anthony Munday
Sir Walter Ralegh
Thomas Hariot
Thomas Campion
Mary Sidney Herbert
Sir John Davies
Samuel Daniel
Michael Drayton
Fulke Greville
Emilia Lanyer
William Shakespeare
Persons of Interest
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Historical Events
Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520
Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536
The Babington Plot, 1586
The Spanish Armada, 1588
Elizabethan Theatre
See section
English Renaissance Drama
Images of London:
London in the time of Henry VII. MS. Roy. 16 F. ii.
London, 1510, the earliest view in print
Map of England from Saxton's Descriptio Angliae, 1579
Location Map of Elizabethan London
Plan of the Bankside, Southwark, in Shakespeare's time
Detail of Norden's Map of the Bankside, 1593
Bull and Bear Baiting Rings from the Agas Map (1569-1590, pub. 1631)
Sketch of the Swan Theatre, c. 1596
Westminster in the Seventeenth Century, by Hollar
Visscher's Panoramic View of London, 1616. COLOR
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