Archive of Renaissance Literature: 1477 to 1799 - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
An online archive of literature printed in English Between the years 1477 and 1799. Includes Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Aphra Behn and others. |
Elizabethan Authors - http://www.elizabethanauthors.com
Offers transcriptions of the works of George Chapman, Richard Edwardes, John Fletcher, Arthur Golding, Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, Thomas Nash and Edward de Vere. |
English Handwriting, 1500-1700: An Online Course - http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
Dedicated to writing by hand (as was done from the 15th to the 17th Century). This site includes lessons where one can practice how to understand old handwriting as well as history of how individual letters were written. |
http://www.itergateway.org - http://www.itergateway.org
A database containing a bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700. |
Luminarium: Essays on Sixteenth-Century English Literature - http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/essays.htm
Links to essays on various sixteenth-century authors. Distinguishes between scholarly articles and student projects. |
Old Spelling Renaissance Texts - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/ret.html
A couple of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts. |
Renaissance History Timeline 1200-1600: Arranged Chronologically - http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/timelines.html
Important events between 1200-1600 listed chronologically. Focuses on events pertaining to Culture, Politics, Economics, Society and Religion. |
Sixteenth Century English Ballads - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ballads/ballads.html
Ballads from before and during 1600 along with sheet music and lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to modern listeners. |
The Courtier During the Renaissance - http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/castiglione.html
Souvik Mukherjee discusses the notion of a courtier by dwelling on Bembo's Discourse on Love in Castiglione's The Courtier. |