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Hernan Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V
IN ORDER, most potent Sire, to convey to your Majesty a just conception of the great extent of this noble city of Temixtitlan, and of the many rare and wonderful objects it contains; of the government… more »
Distance and Religous "Others"
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 »
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 »
New Electronic Resource: Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
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Heath Martin wrote 1 week ago: The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England e-version provides full text of the surviving “offi … more »
Shelf Awareness: Historic Fiction
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
