16th Century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century lasted from 1501 to 1600. It is regarded by historians as the century in which the rise of the West occurred.

In England, this roughly coincides with the Tudor Period. In much of Europe the Renaissance was taking place at this time. In the Americas, it marks the era when the first European colonies were established.
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Isola
The Cardinal
The Six Loves of James I
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Daughter of Fire
The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
City of Vengeance (Cesare Aldo #1)
The Tower
Malinalli
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Prince
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
Utopia
The Taming of the Shrew
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
Dr. Faustus
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Richard III
As You Like It
Hamnet

[Don Carlos] will always remain open-ended, asking to be fleshed out by the imagination of others, silently demanding a finale of his authors, no matter how fantastical.
Maria-Cristina Necula Ph.D., The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions

Matthew Restall
Do we prejudice our discussion and privilege traditional answers by styling the invaders as "explorers", th einvaded as "Indians", and their war as "the Conquest of Mexico" ? ...more
Matthew Restall, When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

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