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The first known English cookbook is printed.
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King James IV grants a patent to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar for Scotland's first printing press.
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Erasmus's Latin essay, an attack written in satire on the superstitions and traditions of European society, is printed.
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Virgil's Latin epic poem is translated into the Scots dialect of the English language.
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Thomas More's book on political philosophy is published.
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Martin Luther translates the New Testament into German.
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The first full English translation of the New Testament arrives in England after being printed in Germany.
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William Tyndale's book is published; it is best known for advocating that the head of a nation's church was the king of that nation, not the pope.
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This political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli is published after his death. It is often claimed to be one of the first works of modern political philosophy.
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Luther completes his German translation of the entire Bible.
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This book by John Calvin was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous knowledge of theology.
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Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish/Netherlandish anatomist, physician, and author of this book, one of the most influential books on human anatomy.
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Queen Catherine Parr wrote this devotional book. This was the first book written by an English queen under her own name.
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This Scottish book was printed as propaganda during the war of the Rough Wooing against England.
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This utopian work was written by Franciscus Patricius, who was a philosopher and scientist from the Republic of Venice.
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The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remains in use until the mid-17th century, is published and becomes the first English Prayer Book in America.
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This work, officially known as "Actes and Monuments," was published in English. It was an account by John Foxe of Protestant history and martyrology.
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John Dee wrote this book explaining his esoteric symbol, the Monas Hieroglyphica.
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This book, also known as "Assembly of the Philosophers," one of the oldest European alchemy texts, is translated from Arabic.
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This was the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies.
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This didactic romance, written by John Lyly, was entered in the Stationers' Register on December 2, 1578 and published that same year.
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John Leland, known as "the father of English local history and bibliography" and a firm believer in King Arthur, wrote this book, which was published in English translation after his death.
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"Reulis and Cautelis" (full name: "Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie") was written by the nineteen-year-old James VI of Scotland in order to explain an ideal standard for poets writing in the Scottish tradition.
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Sir Walter Raleigh wrote this account, (full name: "The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana") describing the Venezuelan region of Guayana.
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This play by the English playwright Ben Jonson belongs to the subgenre of the "humours comedy," in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humour or obsession.
