Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "16th Century"

The Cardinal
The City of Tears (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #2)
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (Six Tudor Queens, #6)
The Six Loves of James I
The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
Daughter of Fire
Malinalli
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
The Tower
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
The African Samurai
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
The Lion House (International Edition)
City of Vengeance (Cesare Aldo #1)
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
The Burnings
A Tip for the Hangman: A Novel
Antwerp
Boy
Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
Marvelous
In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court
Rose Nicolson
Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
The Queen's Musician
The Colour Storm
Nothing Proved
The Queen's Men (Agents of the Crown, #2)
The Road to Murder: A Tudor espionage thriller packed full of intrigue (Tom Walsingham Mysteries #1)
The Virgins of Venice
All the Queen's Jewels, 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display
Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England

Jonathan     Kennedy
Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later.
Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

John Caviglia
We fought for centuries to wrest our land from Moors, only to free ourselves by turning into the slaves of war. Deprived by victory of combat, we sailed far horizons in search of carnage and found the Indies. Now we must save them from our past.
John Caviglia, Arauco

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