EUROPEAN HISTORY - THE RENAISSANCE

After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800

by Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson.  Cambridge : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001. 50 p. [pdf file]  One of the very few quantitative studies of early international trade; a professional economics paper with excellent data

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 

Not literature, but everyday life.

EuroDocs - Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe

The Medieval Synthesis and the Secularization of Human Knowledge: the Scientific Revolution, 1642-1750-(Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History, no. 7) - from The History Guide

The Reformation Guide

Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order? Annenberg/CPB Project; contents: Introduction--Out of the Middle Ages--Exploration and Trade-- Printing & Thinking--Symmetry, Shape, Size--Focus on Florence--Related Resources

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature:Renaissance & 17th Century -Use the Index to go to Renaissance and 17th century literature.

October, 2008