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• Digital Librarian: Medieval & Renaissance Studies

  http://www.digital-librarian.com/medieval.html

  Digital Librarianis a librarian's choice of the best of the Web. This site provides links to Medieval and Renaissance resources:

  keywords: links, medieval, resources

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• English Monarchs

  http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/

  The site is a comprehensive history of the monarchs of England from Saxon times to the present day:

  keywords: king, monarch, queen, plantagenet, royalty, tudor

  valid as of 2008-03-07

• Essay on Dramatic Poetry

  http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist1/LangContact/html/online_texts.html

  Dryden, John.Essay on Dramatic Poetry. (1672). This link also includes other useful selections from Renaissance texts on language dating between 1531 and 1672:

  keywords: john, dryden, online, poetry, language

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Folger Shakespeare Library

  http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm

  TheFolger Shakespeare Librarymaintains some excellent pages on the exhibitions they have mounted. There are some superb resources available here on the social history of the Renaissance:

  keywords: history, library, renaissance, social

  valid as of 2005-08-02

• Given Names in England Before 1800

  http://www.galbithink.org/names/engb1800.htm

  Douglas Gabi's personal website offers a great section on given names in England before 1880. The information stems from a number of legal documents such as parish and guild registars. This site is interesting, since it makes note of religious trends and common names during Shakespeare's era:

  keywords: census, history, names, culture, religion, england, church

  valid as of 2005-10-07

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook1.html

  TheInternet Modern History Sourcebook, created by Paul Halsall, hosts a page on "The Early Modern West" which provides links and primary sources on many subjects, including extensive materials on the Reformation and early science. Visit this page at:

  keywords: early, modern, science, reformation, sourcebook

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge

  http://compendium.elizabethan.org/

  Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledgeis a collection of information about daily life from 1558 to 1603 for "writers, actors, and re-enactors." Includes well-researched anecdotes, often with attractive and authentic graphics:

  keywords: elizabethan, collection, england, graphics, life

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Medieval & Renaissance Europe

  http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu/

  EuroDocshosts this site on primary historical documents from Medieval and Renaissance Europe. This site includes selected transcriptions, facsimiles and some translations by Richard Hacken:

  keywords: facsimiles, historical, medieval, translations

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Proclamation of Jane Grey as Queen of England

  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/jane.html

  An online text of the royal proclamation which made Jane Grey the Queen of England is available atRenascence Editions:

  keywords: jane, grey, england, queen, royal, proclamation

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Renaissance, The Elizabethan World

  http://elizabethan.org

  Renaissance: The Elizabethan Worldcontains links to information on everyday life, the sumptuary laws which dictated what one was allowed to wear, heraldry, and other topics connected to Renaissance England. View this site at:

  keywords: elizabethan, life, law, sumptuary

• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture

  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/humanism.html

  Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Cultureis an essay on the Humanists in the Renaissance, from the Library of Congress. This site includes images of original manuscripts:

  keywords: vatican, culture, library, manuscripts

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire

  http://www.shrewfaire.com/

  Shrewsbury Renaissance Faireis an "interactive living history village" in Kings Valley, Oregon. The site includes a number of links to Renaissance and Medieval sites, as well as a history portion that offers lessons and tutorials:

  keywords: renaissance

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

  http://www.sca.org/

  TheSociety for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA)is an international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history. They maintain several useful pages on social history of Medieval and Renaissance life. You will have to sort out the sites that offer information from those that encourage membership. View this information at:

  keywords: anachronism, history, international, life, medieval, social

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• The Age of King Charles V

  http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm

  The Bibliotheque Nationale de Francepresents "The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380)"; access over 1,000 illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts at this site:

  keywords: king, charles

  valid as of 2005-09-14