16th century

Provides an overview of the lives of Suleyman I and his subjects in the Ottoman Empire of the late sixteenth century, and includes excerpts from poems, letters, and stories of the time.

Eleven-year-old Jill, estranged from her older brother since their parents' divorce, finds their relationship renewed when she shares a strange adventure with him back in sixteenth-century Scotland.

In a travel guide format, presents a look at the sites and society that existed in London during the time of William Shakespeare.

Presents the life and works of Shakespeare. Includes activities to introduce Elizabethan times, including making costumes, making and using a quill pen, and binding a book by hand.

A graphic novel that explores the mystery surrounding the lost colony of Roanoke, a settlement established in Virginia in 1585 whose people disappeared while awaiting supplies from England.

Explains the evangelical and Lutheran origins of the Huguenot Church in France, challenges simplistic interpretations of the religious conflict as purely a cloak for political rebellion, provides concise analyses of the wars themselves, and evaluates the extent of France's recovery under Henry IV.

When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress, Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. Mary is certain Anne will one day become Queen. Then she discovers that she is a pawn in a carefully orchestrated plot devised by her father, the Duke of Norfolk, and Mary dare not disobey him. When she becomes betrothed to Harry Fitzroy, the Duke of Richmond and son to King Henry VIII, Mary finally finds the love and approval she's been seeking but just when she thinks she is finally free of her father, the tides turn. Now Mary must learn to play her part well in a dangerous chess game that could change her life - and the course of history.

As maid to the Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, and daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, the future seems bright for Elizabeth Stafford. But when her father gives her hand to Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, the spirited young woman must sacrifice all for duty. For years, Elizabeth and Bess Holland, Norfolk's mistress, compete for his affections. But they are mere spectators to an obsession neither can rival: Norfolk's quest to weave the Howard name into the royal bloodline. The women's loyalties are tested as his schemes unfold--among them the litigious marriage of his niece, Anne Boleyn, to King Henry the VIII. But in an age of ruthless beheadings, both women discover there are other things to fight besides each other.

While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.