A good place to start gathering information about Europe during the Renaissance and the Reformation
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (4 vol.) REF BR 302.8.O93 1996
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (6 vol.) REF CB 361.E52 1999
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and Reformation REF CB 359.B47 2004
The Renaissance and Reformation: A Biographical Dictionary REF CT 759.R46 2001
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, vol 3 - the 15th & 16th Centuries REF GT 31.G74 2004
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The Center for Reformation & Renaissance Studies http://crrs.ca
Best of HISTORY Websites - EARLY MODERN EUROPE http://besthistorysites.net/early-modern-europe/renaissance/
Renaissance & Elizabethan Web Resurces http://elizabethan.org/sites.html
Internet Texts on the Protestant Reformation http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html
Reformation Europe - Web Resources http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html