The Renaissance (1350-1575)

 

 

GENERAL HISTORY:

 

 

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance   REF CB 361 / E52 1999

 

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and Reformation   REF CB 359 / B47 2004

 

Renaissance and Reformation   REF CB 359 / R455 2007

 

Everyday Life in Renaissance Times   CB 361 / C43

 

Great Lives from History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600   REF CT 115 / G74

 

The Renaissance: A Short History   D 203 / J64

 

A History of Everyday Things in England (see Vols. 1 & 2)   REF DA 110 / Q43

 

The New Arthurian Encyclopedia  REF DA 152.5/ A7/ N48 1991

 

 

ART & ARCHITECTURE:

 

Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art   N 6350 / H813

 

Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance   REF N 6370 / C84 1993

 

The Great Ages of Architecture (see chapter IX)   REF NA 200 / C533

 

Italian Pictures of the Renaissance   REF ND 621 / F7 / B55

 

 

LITERATURE:

 

European Authors 1000 – 1900: A Biographical Dictionary   REF PN 451 / K8

 

European Writers (see Vols. 1 & 2)   REF PN 501 / E9 1983

 

The New Moulton’s Library of Literary Criticism (see Vols. 1 & 2)   REF PR 85 / N39

 

The Renaissance: English Literature in its Historical, Cultural and Social Contexts   PR 411 / L37    

 

 

MEDICINE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

 

Renaissance Medicine   R 146 / D39 2005

 

The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science   R 147 / P2 / B35 2006

 

Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance   TA 18 / P3

 

 

WEBSITES:

 

Renaissance, The Elizabethan World   http://www.elizabethan.org/ 

 

Tudor History   http://www.tudorhistory.org 

 

Museum of Science: Leonardo da Vinci   http://www.mos.org/leonardo/                                                           

 

Medicine from the Renaissance History of Western Biomedicine   http://www.mic.ki.se/West.html#West3

 

Luminarium: 16^th Century Renaissance English Literature   http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/ 

 

The Renaissance in The Engines of Our Ingenuity   http://www.uh.edu/engines/ren.htm

 

The Galileo Project   http://galileo.rice.edu/

 

Renaissance Art in Italy   http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html

 

Scientific Revolution   http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/science

 

Michelangelo Buonarroti   http://michelangelo.com/buon/bio-main.html

 

Renaissance Forum   http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/

 

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture   http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html

 

Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order   http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html

 

DATABASES

 

Use your WPL library card number to access the following databases from home:

Discovering Collection

Encyclopedia of European Social History, 2001

Europe 1450 - 1789; Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World

Expanded Academic ASAP

New York Times

World Book (from Home)

 

 

 

September 2007