Elizabethan England and Renaissance Sites
Prepared for Ms. Fennessy
Print/Catolog:
See the Resource Lists in the MTHS Catalog: Destiny (The MTHS’ Destiny Catalog is
located on the Media Center’s Website). A Resource List called American Literature is
located on the Catalog site. It provides a list of print and ebook titles that you may want
to access.
MLA Format (MTHS Media Center Website) Located under Research & Reference
Resources:
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University and C.W. Post Campus' B. Davis
Schwartz Memorial Library. Two excellent sites to use when working on note
cards, source cards and works cited page.
EDS and/or Individual Databases & Reference eBooks
MTHS Media Center Website : Provides access to online research resources
(To use any of these resources, from Home, you will need the Remote Access Codes)
Recommendations:
ABC-CLIO : Includes: World History (Modern), World History(Ancient &
Medieval), American History, The Latino American Experience: is a full-text digital
resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos, The African American
Experience: is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African
Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.
Ebscohost: Provides more than 23 full-text periodical databases as well as 10 other
separate exclusive databases (i.e. EbscohostWeb (periodicals); Points of View;
Literature Reference Center; Poetry and Short Story Reference Center; Student
Research Center; Novelist, History, etc.).
JSTOR: A Digital Archive that provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of over
one thousand journals, dating back to 1665 for some. Can be searched by discipline,
title or publisher.
AP Images (Photographic Resource)
Facts On File - InfoBase Publishing: Includes databases on: World History-Modern,
World History-Ancient and Medieval, American History, African-American History,
Curriculum Resource Center, American Women's History, American Indian History,
Career Guidance, World Geography and Culture, Bloom's Literary Reference, Health
Reference, Science, Today's Science, Issues and Controversies).
Proquest's SIRS Knowledge Source
Includes Renaissance, Researcher and WebSelect.
Reference Ebooks: ALL Reference eBook Collections are located on the Research
page, of the Media Center’s website. MEDIA CENTER WEBSITE: RESEARCH . They
include:
ABC-CLIO eBooks
Ebsco's eBook Subscription: Includes over 200,000 ebooks.
Gale Virtual Reference E-Library - Includes over 600 multi-volume specialized reference
sources for multidisciplinary research and 24/7 access.
Salem Press eBooks: Salem History, Salem Health, Salem Science, Salem Literature.
InfoBase Learning eBooks
Marshall Cavendish eBooks
**REMEMBER you will need the Remote Access Codes to use the databases & the eBook
Collections from HOME
Websites (if you decide to search on your own, make sure that you use either Webpath Express,
WebSelect, or execute a “Domain Search.”
World History in Context
Daily Life in the Elizabethan Era
Renaissance: The Elizabethan World
http://www.elizabethan.org
Best of History Websites
Search the Database-This link is the result of a search for “Elizabeth”
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/early-modern-europe/reformationdiscovery
The Elizabethan Period
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/rfletcher/bl-rfletcher-history-5elizabethan.htm
History of the United Kingdom: PRIMARY Source Documents
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_United_Kingdom:_Primary_
Documents
Primary Sources
Eyewitness Accounts of People and Events in Tudor England
http://englishhistory.net/tudor/primary.html
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/home.html
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/46.html
The Poor in Elizabethan England
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/poor_in_elizabethan_england.htm
Eyewitness to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mefrm.htm
Shakespeare’s Colors: Race and Culture in Elizabethan England
http://www.odu.edu/ao/instadv/quest/shakespeare.html
Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/elizabeth1.asp
Description of Elizabethan England, 1577 from the Holinshed Chronicles
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.html
History of Costume
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME8_INDEX.HTML#Plate44
Shakespeare Resource Center: Elizabethan England
http://www.bardweb.net/england.html
BBC: British History : The Tudors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml
BBC: Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036rw5q
BBC: Poverty in Elizabethan England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/poverty_01.shtml
Elizabethan Era
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/
PBS In Search of Shakespeare
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/events/list.html
The Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare’s Globe
www.bardweb.net
http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html
Shakespeare’s Life and Times
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLTnoframes/intro/introsubj.html
Folger Shakespeare Library
http://www.folger.edu
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1583
Elizabethan Theater
http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org/education/elizabethantheater
Elizabethan Age
http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org/education/elizabethan-age
Elizabethan Theatre
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-biographyelizabethan-theatre-playhouse-inn-yards.htm
Elizabethan Theatre
http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd130et/elizab.htm#elt
Renaissance English Drama and Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/dramasoc.htm
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/
John Lyly (1554-1606)
An Elizabethan Poet and Playwright
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/jlyly.htm
Famous Elizabethan Pirates
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-elizabethan-pirates.htm
Sea Dogs and the Spanish Armada
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2.asp
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/spanish_armada.htm
Queen Elizabeth I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/elizabeth_i/#itemarticle-06
Elizabeth I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/elizabeth_i_01.shtml
BBC: The Sceptred Isle
Trading, Slavery and Piracy and the Spanish Armada
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/54.shtml
Elizabethan Clothing
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm
Elizabethan Costuming Page
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/
The Renaissance: History
Provides numerous links to the Renaissance
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Renaissance_Sites/History.html
VOS: Voice of the Shuttle
Renaissance and 17th Century
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749
BBC History: Kings and Queens Through Time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/kings_queens/index_embed.
shtml
Royal Navy History
http://www.royal-navy.org/
The Army and Navy in Elizabeth’s Time
http://www.bartleby.com/215/1420.html
Elizabethan Exploration and Foreign Policy
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-19.htm
Ten of the Greatest British Naval Victories
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1255826/Ten-greatest-Britishnaval-victories-A-look-nations-hardest-fought-battles-sea.html
Super Guns of Elizabeth I’s Navy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7899831.stm
Poverty in Elizabethan England (article by Paul Slack)
This is available in FULL TEXT through Ebscohost.
http://www.historytoday.com/paul-slack/poverty-elizabethan-england
Food Timeline: Food History Research
http://www.foodtimeline.org/