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	The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) - http://www.sca.org/ Organisation dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th century European history.
	Sixteenth Century Society and Conference - http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/ A society with an interest in the early modern era (c. 1450 - c. 1660).
	The Forest of Rhetoric - http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm Provides a guide to the terms of classical and Renaissance rhetoric.
	16th Century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_century Provides a chronology of events, significant people, inventions, discoveries, and introductions.
	Conquistadors - http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/ Illustrated with period maps, drawings, and letters, this site follows the paths of sixteenth century conquistadors Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Cabeza de Vaca, and Francisco de Orellana.

	Early Modern Resources - http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emr/ Extensive links assigned by category.
	The Sixteenth Century Journal - http://escj.truman.edu/journal.html Includes abstracts of recently published articles.
	Wrong Side of the River - London's Disreputable South Bank in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH36/browner1.html An essay by Jessica A. Browner.
	William Harrison (1534-1593): Description Of Elizabethan England - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.html The complete text of Holinshed's Chronicles issued in 1577.
	Wars of Religion - http://www.lepg.org/wars.htm Articles, maps, and bibliography detailing the wars between Protestants and Catholics.

	Internetography on Renaissance Intellectual History - http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/GGRENirDB/default.htm The main focus is on history of philosophy from c. 1348 to c. 1648.
	Elizabeth I - The Spanish Armada 1588 - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1588elizabeth.html The queen's words when she visited her troops in the field.
	The Sixteenth Century - http://www.lepg.org/sixteen.htm Describes society during this time period.
	The Dutch Declaration of Independence - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1581dutch.html The first declaration of modern times in 1581.
	Le Poulet Gauche - http://www.lepg.org/ A guide to the history, culture, and daily life of 16th century France.

	The Massacre of St. Bartholomew - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/barth.htm Recorded by statesman and historian, De Thou, who was a witness as a youth relates the events leading up to the massacre of August 24, 1572 and the orders of the Queen of France.
	16th Century Settlements - http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/facts/history/settlements/ Information on the groups along with a map depicting sites at the time of European discovery.
	Tales Tobacco Told in Sixteenth-Century Europe - http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/9.4/mancall.html An environmental historical article by Peter C. Mancall.
	The Spanish Armada - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.171 A fact file article as published by National Maritime Museum.
	Northern Mannerism in the Early Sixteenth Century - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nman/hd_nman.htm Historical article on art.

	Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada - http://www.exmsft.com/~davidco/History/drake1.htm Scans of the English Mercurie July 23, 1588, containing an original account of the battle.
	Evidence of 16th-Century Spanish Fort in Appalachia - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1122_041122_spanish_fort.html Archaeologists may have unearthed evidence that Spanish soldiers roamed Appalachia with photographs.
	Reformers of the 16th Century - An Online Study - http://www.eldrbarry.net/heidel/heidel.htm A list of links to sites.
	Sixteenth Century Maps - http://historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/blat15dex.htm?terms=ca+map Maps of political boundaries as they stood in the sixteenth century.
	Women as Warriors in the16th Century - http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/women16.html Names and facts of those that participated in war or battle.

	Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh - 1584 - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/16th_century/raleigh.asp The complete text of the document.
	Queen Elizabeth I Against the Spanish Armada - http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/elizabeth.htm The words spoken by the Queen when visiting the troops in the field as they prepared for battle in 1588.
	English Currency - 16th Century - http://www.bignell.uk.com/16th_century.htm Monetary system through use of charts.
	History: The 16th Century - http://www.didyouknow.org/history/16thcentury.htm Innovations, inventions, discoveries and personalities of the 16th century within a comprehensive chronology.
	William Marshall - Draft of a Poor Law (1536) - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/marshall.html Due to inflation and population pressures, England passed a law to solve some of their most pressing problems.

	The Defeat of the Spanish Armada - http://www.historybuff.com/library/refspain.html Articles by Wes Ulm.
	Was There a Reformation in the Sixteenth Century? - http://www.servetus.org/es/news-events/articulos/20030901.htm An article from the Servetus International Society.
	An Early 16th Century Armour Adaptation for the SCA - http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/4213/early16thc.html Armour style and changes as needed.
	A Royal Century in Greenwich - http://wwp.greenwichpast.com/history/time-line/c16th.htm A timeline.
	North Carolina Museum of History - History Highlights - http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/sixteenth.html A chronology of events.

	Wives and Daughters - The Women of Sixteenth Century England - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59429201 The achievements of personal success and personal wealth by Kathy Lynn Emerson, 1984 by subscription.
	The Protestant Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=57073238 The complete book by Salvatore Caponetto, 1999 by subscription.
	The School of the Sixteenth Century - http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/calderonsco/school.html Held yearly to train re-enactors in the various aspects of portraying Spanish explorers and colonists during the Age of Discovery.
	Divulging Utopia - Radical Humanism in Sixteenth-Century England - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11020369 Work that examines the humanist movement in England and traces the reception of a single work, Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516), in relation to that movement by David Weil Baker, 1999 by subscription.
	The Colloquy of Montbeliard - Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59798612 Jill P. Raitt explores the complex array of shifting political alliances and religious tensions which characterized the Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Augsburg, 1993 by subscription.

	History of Dogma in the Period of the Mendicant Orders, till the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century - http://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/dogma6.ii.ii.ii.html Part of the complete text written by Dr. Adolph Harnak.
	Events That Changed the World through the Sixteenth Century - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101366748 Expulsion of the Muslims, flowering of the Renaissance, religious strife, and expansion into the New World, political, religious, and social changes that took place on every continent are examined by John E. Findling, 2001 by subscription.
	The Gospel of John in the Sixteenth Century - The Johannine Exegesis of Wolfgang Musculus - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=64582973 This study of Johannine exegesis covers nearly every important commentator on John from the first half of the century, and examines the medieval and patristic traditions on which they drew by Craig S. Farmer, 1997 by subscription.
	The Audiencia of New Galicia in the Sixteenth Century - A Study in Spanish Colonial Government - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=3939110 A complete text by J. H. Parry, 1948 by subscription.
	Europe and England in the Sixteenth Century - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103003453 Covers political, social, religious, and economic history by T. A. Morris, 1998 by subscription.

	Sixteenth-Century Europe - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14681078 The complete text by Leonard W. Cowie, 1977 by subscription.
	A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=463083 Work that focuses on political theory by J. W. Allen, 1951 by subscription.
	Luther's Legacy - Salvation and English Reformers, 1525-1556 - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=74343285 Carl R. Trueman distinguishes Luther's influence from that of the Catholic Humanists before him on these five reformers, 1994 by subscription.
	Proponents of Limited Monarchy in Sixteenth Century France - Francis Hotman and Jean Bodin - http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98232363 A complete readable book by Beatrice Reynolds, 1931 by subscription.

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