Explore medieval and Renaissance literary cultures from Beowulf to Mary and Philip Sidney. Read poetry, drama, and narrative from the 10th to the 16th centuries, by authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Marlowe, and Lanier. Learn about the history of gender and sexuality, race and class, feudalism and capitalism, philosophies of science and the natural world, manuscript and print cultures, religion, piracy, and witchcraft.