Renaissance Women Online offers Topic Essays written by renowned scholars. Topics include Radical Sects (Hilary Hinds), Education (Kim Walker), Women in the Booktrade (Maureen Bell) and Petrarchism (Gary Waller).

EMLS offers a large list of WWW-accessible resources including literary and other resource materials.

Annina Jokinen’s Luminarium is a beautiful source for Early Seventeenth Century Literature and Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature.

For an earlier course I listed Internet resources on Metaphysical Poetry.

Prof. Hermann Arsanov very detailed "image-oriented introduction to backgrounds of English Renaissance Literature" includes introductions to Renaissance Cosmology and Renaissance conceptions of Science (because of the great number of illustrations, maps and other images the files are all rather large).

A short overview of the English Civil War from E.L. Skip Knox.

Historical Information on the Stuarts from Welford and Wickham Primary School.

The Gunpowder Plot Pages produced by the Center for Fawkesian Pursuits. Follow the footsteps of the conspirators, learn what Gunpowder Plotters eat while plotting and how they did it...

Kirsti S. Thomas’ Medieval and Renaissance Wedding Information informs about marriage customs, traditions and ceremonies.

Hungry? Go to the Medieval/Renaissance Food Page..

The Emory Women Writers Resource Project provides extensive information about 17th century women prophets: Visit their sites on two Quaker Women in late 17th century Yorkshire, Judith Boulbie and Mary Waite, as well as the English prophetic writer Anne Wentworth. Both sites include detailed biographical introductions, complete online-texts, and bibliographies.

Sequences of music from the Renaissance and Baroque period can be accessed (with the appropriate soft- and hardware) at the Classical Midi Connection.

The Women Artists Archive offers biographies of Women Artists in the Renaissance to Baroque Periods.

A large collection of links to Renaissance and Baroque painters and paintings is offered by Art History Resources on the Web.

Hugh Lester’s page Period & Style for Designers includes two pages on English Renaissance and English Baroque (architecture, interiors, furniture).

The Portrait Gallery at the University of Texas Library provides pictures of several 17th century V.I.P’s albeit no female poets...

See also Further Resources.