The Conquistadors is a four-part series airing on PBS in Spring 2001. The Conquistadors website explores the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Fracisco de Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca in the New World as Michael Wood retraces their journeys in modern-day South America and the southern United States. ...

A database guide to about 400 manuscript compilations of sixteenth and seventeenth century women writers in collections around the world ...

De Bello Belgico De Tachtigjarige Oorlog La Revolte aux Pays-Bas The Dutch Revolt La Guerra de Flandes Der Aufstand in den Niederlanden A nemetalfoldi szabadsagharc Leiden 2001 Last updated 14 VIII 2002 ...

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Spanish, born in Salamanca, ca. 1510, died in Mexico City, 1554. Coronado was governor of New Galicia (contemporary Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico). As such he had already sent out Fray Marcos de Niza on a voyage to the north, to New Mexico. When Marcos returned he told about a wealthy, golden city, called Cibola. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he ...

Fabritio Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581) Introduction Project Status Images Facsimile Transcription Translation Music Articles about 16th century Italian Dance from The Letter of Dance Caroso's Nobilta di dame (1600, Library of Congress) Return to the SCA Dance Homepage. Gregory Blount of Isenfir (lindahl@pbm.com) ...

The Credit of Truth: Thomas Hariot and the Defense of Ralegh In 1590, Flemish engraver and publisher Theodor de Bry produced an elaborate and popular folio edition of Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Hariot's Report had two years before been printed in quarto; for the 1590 folio some thirty of De Bry's engravings were included, all adapted from the ...

District 186 || District School Sites || Teacher Resources || Site Map Elizabethan England Prepared by first and third period English 435 students Springfield High School Springfield, Illinois November-December 1996 November-December 1997 Search the Elizabethan England Site ...