Blogs about: 16th Century

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The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman

fuzzyhistory wrote 4 days ago: I picked up this book at the library mostly because of the intriguing cover and because I wanted a … more »

Tags: Book Reviews, Paul Pindar, turkey

Underwater Archaeologists in Training Explore 16th Century Shipwreck

muablog wrote 1 week ago: This week students at West Florida University transitioned their research focus from the 19th centu … more »

Tags: archaeology, Florida, Lake Ontario, Maritime Cultural Landscape, Maritime History, Scuba Diving, shipwrecks, Underwater Archaeology, University of West Florida

New Electronic Resource: Parliament Rolls of Medieval England1 comment

Heath Martin wrote 1 week ago: The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England e-version provides full text of the surviving “offi … more »

Tags: COLLECTIONS, Electronic resources, England, Medieval, Databases, Translations, 13th century, 14th century, 15th century

Shelf Awareness: Historic Fiction2 comments

eleventh stack wrote 2 weeks ago: Ready to do the time-warp again?  Part three of this ongoing series whisks you around the world, b … more »

Tags: 19th Century, 20th Century, america, Ancient Rome, Asia, Emily Dickinson, Europe, Historic fiction, LeighAnne

History of Tenerife Wine

lavictoria wrote 1 month ago: It may have been a Portuguese man called Fernando de Castro who, in 1497, planted the first wine on … more »

Tags: eat & drink, History, TENERIFE, History, Wine, Fernando de Castro, Canarian wine, tacoronte, Winemaking

Speaking of Romanian...

yannatopia wrote 2 months ago: If you haven’t visited OrthodoxPhotos lately, you will have missed the new links in the left-h … more »

Tags: Orthodoxy, Orthodox, fresco, frescoes, frescos, Icons, Romania, Byzantine

16th-century book of the arts

Robin wrote 3 months ago: In the collection of German manuscripts at the Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum (a project of the B … more »

Tags: Online Resources, Craft, Manuscript, Germany

copper plates

sarah917 wrote 3 months ago: minor research, major discovery. apparently, not all was done through woodcuts, which represented a … more »

woodcuts

sarah917 wrote 3 months ago: so one of the challenges of woodcuts–posting about them, looking at them, trying to wrap one … more »

Leonardo da Vinci, the Long-Lost Manuscript and the Game of Chess

europadanica wrote 4 months ago: Here’s a thought-provoking story from BBC News on the discovery of an Italian manuscript app … more »

Tags: News, History, Religion, Literature, Science, Books, Debate, De ludo scacchorum, Luca Pacioli

All you ever wanted to know about 16th century costume (but were afraid to ask)

yourward wrote 4 months ago: It’s Ask The Experts time again, and this month, as promised, we’ve got a brand new expe … more »

Tags: Ask the experts, bess chilver

16th C. Battle Damaged Sword

Magnus wrote 5 months ago: Interesting couple of articles over at Aardvarchaeology on an early 16th century sword found in Swed … more »

Tags: historical fencing, Ye Olde Medieval stuffe, Sword, archaeology, Damage, Sweden

Sixteenth Century Now! An Interview.

eatthelemons wrote 8 months ago: For a review of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, with lots of photos, click here. Sir Lukas and … more »

Tags: Theater, Interview, eatthelemons, knights, Actors, Auditions, equine, elizabethan times, Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

Hernan Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V

Mike wrote 5 years ago: IN ORDER, most potent Sire, to convey to your Majesty a just conception of the great extent of this … more »

Tags: II. Pushing Ideology, Spain, Christian, México, aztec, Montezuma, cortez, 16th Century, Idolatry

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Mike wrote 6 years ago: Speeches of Motecuhzoma and Cortés When Motecuhzoma [Montezuma] had given necklaces to each one, C … more »

Tags: III. The Flip-Side, Spain, Massacre, Christian, Expansion, México, aztec, Montezuma, cortez


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