Credit of Truth: Thomas Hariot and the Defense of Raleigh - essay examining how Thomas Hariot's 1588 A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia was written to protect Sir Walter Raleigh's interests in the colonies.
Elizabethan England
Plague, England and Loughborough 1539 - 1640 - by Ian Jessiman.
16th Century people - Yahoo's collection of links.

Spanish Armada
Defeat of the Spanish Armada - King Phillip II, pledged to conquer the Protestant heretics in England and convert them to the Church of Rome. Written by Steven Goldman.
English Mercurie, The - July 23rd, 1588 - account of Sir Francis Drake's confrontation with the Spanish Armada.
Fact File: Spanish Armada - it was the largest fleet ever seen and Philip II of Spain considered it invincible.
Muslim Spain and European Culture - long before the renaissance it was a place of humanistic beauty.
Queen Elizabeth I Speech - Against the Spanish Armada - delivered when she visited her troops in the field as they prepared for battle.
Ships, Masters, Captains and Officers of the English Fleet at the Spanish Armada - includes a list of ships present at the battle with the Spanish Armada.
Spanish Armada - La Armada Grande - intended to invade England and to put an end to the long series of English aggressions against the colonies and possessions of the Spanish Crown.
Spanish Armada, The - by Michael Pintaric - on May 30, 1588, they left the Port of Lisbon confident and assured of victory.
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada - by Jason Wong and Greg Wilken.

Reformation
Background of the Reformation
Council of Trent - canons and decrees of the Council.
Crawford Reformation Guide - guide to web resources on the Reformation.
Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings - intended to make available to a wider audience the writings of the Puritans, Scottish Divines and other Reformed authors.
Reformation and Counter-Reformation - background on the conflict.
Reformation Online - history and resources of the Reformation and related events.
Reformation Study Tour - course taught in English in Wittenberg, Germany (Martin Luther's hometown) January, 1999 by Professor Rom Maczka, Carthage College.
Reformation Theology - guide to the theological underpinnings of the REformation.
Renaissance and Reformation Chronology - from 1260 to 1648.
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes - on October 22, 1685.
Wars of Religion - history of the 16th century French wars between Protestants and Catholics.

Catholic Inquisition
Byzantines in Renaissance Italy
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - by Jacob Burckhardt.
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies - devoted to publishing articles by new scholars, gathering work from across disciplines, with a special interest in articles that have an interdisciplinary scope.
Electrifying the Renaissance: Hypertext, Literature, and the WWW - scholarly examination of the connections between the Renaissance canon and the theories used to understand the web.
European Voyages of Exploration - presented by the Department of History at the University of Calgary.
Explorations in Renaissance Culture - an annual scholarly journal edited by Tita French Baumlin of the English Department of Southwest Missouri State University.
Humanist as Reformer - a seminar funded by the NEH at Duke, for high school history teachers. Papers about Erasmus, Machiavelli, and Petrarch, as well as classroom applications.
Landsknecht - about Landsknechts and the clothing of the era of the high Renaissance.
Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank - provides scholars with an expanding library of information on European history, circa 800-1815 C.E., primarily prices, currency exchanges, and related economic data.
Medieval and Renaissance Games - rules for, and information about, games played before 1700.
Medieval Glossary - dictionary of medieval and Renaissance words, including weapons and armour terminology.
Medieval Synthesis and the Discovery of Man - lecture on the meaning and significance of the historical Renaissance.
Medieval/Renaissance Wedding Information
Native American Conquest - Native American conquest in the "New World" during the Sixteenth Century is investigated from a fresh view point.
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Renaissance - journey back to a time of great discovery.
Renaissance @ Newgrove - basic information source aimed at school-age children.
Renaissance Chronology - from 1260 to 1648.
Renaissance Connection - poetry, art, and information about the Renaissance era.
Renaissance Electronic Texts
Renaissance Mathematics
Renaissance Resource Review
Renaissance, The [James Madison High School] - pictures, information, and even an interactive game!
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) - from More to Lanyer, complete with links, essays, sources.
Study Guide for Elizabethan-Jacobean Studies - built with both undergraduate students and professional scholars in mind.
Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England - specifically in London. Contemporary texts, images, and current articles on the subject.
Virtual Renaissance - Explore a virtual land peopled by many interesting characters waiting to share with you their lives and times.

Black Death
Black Death: Bubonic Plague
Black Plague
Boccaccio: The Decameron - Introduction - onset of the Black Death, was described by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375).
Bubonic Plague - bibliographic resources for the Black Death and Bubonic Plague.
Bubonic Plague: Far From the Deadliest Epidemic - the influenza pandemic of 1918 killed at least 25 million people in one year.
Decameron Web Plague Page
Discovery Channel: The Black Death
History of Western Civilization: The Black Death - from Idaho State University.
Jewish History Sourcebook: The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE - from the Jewish History Sourcebook.
Ordinance of Laborers, 1349 - vain attempt to freeze wages at their pre-plague levels, indicative of the labor shortage caused by the Black Death.
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Plague, England and Loughborough 1539 - 1640 - by Ian Jessiman.
Statute of Laborers, 1351 - representative of the long-term problems of labor shortage caused by the Black Death.

Catholic Inquisition
A Heretic's Final Journey - description of the methods used on those accused of heresy.
Angelo Clareno on Torture - from the Medieval Sourcebook.
Bernard Gui: Inquisitorial Technique (c.1307-1323) - from the Medieval Sourcebook.
Bernard Gui: Inquisitors' Manual - from the Medieval Sourcebook.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Inquisition - the church looks back at its own past.
Galileo and the Inquisition - story of Galileo's conflict with the Catholic Church.
Historical Overview of the Inquisition - brief look at the religious purges or the Middle Ages.
Inquisition - An Introduction - introductory essay by David Burr.
Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru
Modern History Sourcebook: The Crime of Galileo: Indictment of 1630 - text of the indictment against Galileo.
Verbal Processes of the Inquisition
Witchcraft Documents [15th Century] - including Innocent VIII's "Summis desiderantes" papal Bull of 1484.