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• History -- 16th century

• Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries, by Rufus M. Jones (Gutenberg text)

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• Studies in Mystical Religion (London: Macmillan and Co., 1909), by Rufus M. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries, by Rufus M. Jones (Gutenberg text)

• Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-Century England (Germanic Literature and Culture series; New York et al.: Oxford University Press, 1914), by Margaret Lewis Bailey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Following of Christ (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910), by Johannes Tauler, trans. by J. R. Morell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom, by Heinrich Seuse (HTML at CCEL)
• Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expression (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938), by Vincent F. Hopper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mediaeval Mystic: A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael, A. D. 1293-1381 (London: Thomas Baker, 1910), by Vincent Scully (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan van Ruusbroec and Evelyn Underhill, trans. by C. A. Wynschenck
  • HTML at CCEL
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• Traces of a Hidden Tradition in Masonry and Mediaeval Mysticism: Five Essays (1900), by Isabel Cooper-Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus (London: Printed by T. Spilsbury, 1786), by Richard Payne Knight (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connection With the Mystic Theology of the Ancients, by Richard Payne Knight, Esq. (A New Edition); To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe (reprinted with a new preface, 1894), by Richard Payne Knight and Thomas Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • with some front matter missing (or a reprint of the 1894 limited edition): page images at HathiTrust

• The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe, ed. by Lynn Staley (HTML at Rochester)

• Revelations of Divine Love (language somewhat modernized), by Julian of Norwich, ed. by G. Warrack (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, by Julian of Norwich, ed. by Georgia Ronan Crampton (frame-dependent HTML at Rochester)

• The Cabala: Its Influence on Judaism and Christianity (1913), by Bernhard Pick (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Kabbalah: or, The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews, by Adolphe Franck, trans. by Isaac Sossnitz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History (New York and London: New York University Press, 1987), by Joseph Dan (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jews and Their Lies (based on 1948 translation of portions of "Von dem Juden und Iren Lugen" with commentary; Boring, OR: CPA Book Publisher, n.d.), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Von den Jüden und Iren Lügen (in German; Wittenberg: H. Lufft, 1543), by Martin Luther (page images in Germany)
• The Jews and Their Lies (Los Angeles: Christian Nationalist Crusade, 1948), by Martin Luther (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon (c2002), by Mary Hoyt Halavais (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Mexican Architecture of the Sixteenth Century (2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1948), by George Kubler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Archivo Mexicano: Documentos para la Historia de México (2 volumes, in Spanish; Mexico City: V. García Torres, 1852-1853) (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500-1700, ed. by Theo Hermans and R. Salverda (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Book-Trade, 1557-1625 (reprinted from the Cambridge History of English Literature v4; 1909), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Thomas Berthelet, Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England; With Special Reference to His Bookbindings (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1901), by Cyril Davenport, illust. by William Griggs (Gutenberg text)

• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and America in the Sixteenth Century, by Ida Altman (PDF files at Libro)

• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Philip M. Soergel (HTML at UC Press)

• Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Philip M. Soergel (HTML at UC Press)

• Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation, 1489-1556 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), by A. F. Pollard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), ed. by Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham (PDF with commentary at bill.com)

• The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo: Assimilating a Minority (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Linda Martz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, As It Was Generally Held During the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; With Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works (1880), by Thomas Alfred Spalding (Gutenberg text)

• Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Shakspere's Petty School (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1943), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greeke (2 volumes; Urbana: University of Illinois press, 1944), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), ed. by Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham (PDF with commentary at bill.com)

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