16th Century
Sixteenth-century English: Tudor prose, Reformation instruction, demonology, travel, drama, and balladry in a rapidly changing language.
Tudor ballads and popular songs, where older legendary matter meets early modern print, performance, and political memory.
Sixteenth-century devotional and instructional prose, from spiritual practice to education, archery, and disciplined conduct.
Tudor literary prose and drama, including courtly authorship, jest, picaresque travel, and the Faust legend in English print.
Sixteenth-century English travel and discovery writing, where exploration, ambition, and empire begin to reshape English prose.
Tudor and early Stuart witchcraft writing, including demonology, skepticism, trial news, spirits, and the printed debate over unseen powers.