Deschutes Public Library

Biography in Context: information on historical figures like Cervantes and Spanish royalty

Student Resources in Context: learn about the Spanish Inquisition, Christopher Columbus’s travels, and more. Try a keyword search using a word or two from your project idea.

The World Book Encyclopedia: an electronic version of the classic reference tool

Historical and Regional Information


History of the Spanish Empire
  www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab49

Cervantes’s Golden Age, Harper’s Magazine
  harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001382

La Mancha-Castile: Britannica Online
  www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/98577/Castile-La-Mancha

A History of The Crusades (digital book)
  digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?id=History.CrusOne

The Middle Ages and Renaissance: Eyewitness to History
  www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mefrm.htm

The Spanish Armada, BBC
  www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/adams_armada_01.shtml

The Spanish Armada and Elizabeth I
  www.elizabethi.org/us/armada/

History of Moorish Spain
  www.spanish-fiestas.com/history/moorish-spain.htm

A Brief History of Moorish Spain (book excerpt)
  www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/MoorSpan.html



People


Isabella and Ferdinand, PBS
  www.pbs.org/kcet/when-worlds-collide/people/queen-isabella-and-king-ferdinand-i.html

Don Quixote Digital Exhibition, John Hopkins University
  quixote.mse.jhu.edu/index.html

Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal, Fordham University
  www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.asp

Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Empire, University of Calgary
  www.ucalgary.edu/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/columbus.html

Alexander the Great
  www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander00.html

Philip II of Spain
  www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/456081/Philip-II

Philip II
  www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUSphilip2.htm



Culture and Society


Amadis de Gaul, the book that “drove Cervantes mad”
  www.spainthenandnow.com/spanish-literature/amadis-de-gaula-summary/default_69.aspx

Feudal Life: What was it really like to live in the Middle Ages?
  www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/feudal.html

The Medieval Page: Sources for medieval studies on the Web (portal site)
  members.efn.org/~acd/medievalpage.html

Mostly Medieval: Exploring the Middle Ages
  www.mostly-medieval.com/explore/index.htm

Medieval Medicine
  www.maggietron.com/med/

Falconry: PBS
  www.pbs.org/falconer/falconry/index.htm

International Association for Falconry
  www.i-a-f.org/history.html

Spanish Arts (fine art, writing, etc)
  www.spanisharts.com/

Last modified on Wednesday, February 29, 2012