The Renaissance

World History: K-12 TLC Guide

Art, Architecture, Education, Entertainment, Food, Literature
Mercantilism, Music, Science, Society
Fads and Fashion

The Renaissance

Britain Express.
Emergence of a Global Age, Quaboag Regional High School.
The Enchanted Gardens Of The Renaissance, Foundation Jacques-Edouard Berger.
The Florence Art Guide.
Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.
Medieval & Renaissance Europe -- Primary Documents, Brigham Young University.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, Palomar College.
Restoration & Eighteenth Century Prose & Poetry, St. Thomas University.
Shakespeare and the Renaissance, University of Victoria:
- History.
- Pre-Renaissance Materials.
- Research Resources.

The Renaissance

Artists

Arcimboldo, Giuseppe: K-12 TLC Guide.
Donatello: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ghiberti, Lorenzo: K-12 TLC Guide.
Michelangelo: K-12 TLC Guide.
Nanni di Banco: K-12 TLC Guide.
Raphael: K-12 TLC Guide.
da Vinci, Leonardo: K-12 TLC Guide.

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture.
Deutsche Welle:

Nuances of the Human Face in Renaissance Art.

Shakespeare and the Renaissance, University of Victoria.
Smithsonian Magazine:

The Anatomy of Renaissance Art.

The Renaissance

Authors

Bacon, Francis: K-12 TLC Guide.
Shakespeare, William: K-12 TLC Guide.

16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485 - 1603), Luminarium.
Shakespeare and the Renaissance, University of Victoria:

The Renaissance

Education

The Renaissance

Entertainment

A Compendium of Common Knowledge:

Games.
Pastimes.

Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria:

National Public Radio:

Living the Life of the 'American Jouster'.

The Renaissance

Food

Carnegie Mellon University.
A Compendium of Common Knowledge.
A Description of Elizabethan England, Bartleby.com:

Of the Food and Diet of the English.

Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria:

Society for Creative Anachronism.

The
Renaissance

Mercantilism
and
Trade

Economics: K-12 TLC Guide.
Age of Exploration: K-12 TLC Guide.

A Description of Elizabethan England, Bartleby.com:

Of Fairs and Markets.

The Renaissance

Music

Sacred Vocal Music:

Byrd, William: K-12 TLC Guide.
Dunstable, John: K-12 TLC Guide.
Du Fay, Guillaume: K-12 TLC Guide.
Gibbons, Orlando: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ockeghem, Johannes: K-12 TLC Guide.
des Prez, Josquin: K-12 TLC Guide.
Tallis, Thomas: K-12 TLC Guide.
Taverner, John: K-12 TLC Guide.

Renaissance Sacred Polyphony, Medieval Music & Arts Foundation.
Masses:

Long Island University.
Renaissance Masses, Princeton University.
Tudor History.
Virginia Tech.

Secular Vocal Music:

Byrd, William: K-12 TLC Guide.
Dowland, John: K-12 TLC Guide.
Gibbons, Orlando: K-12 TLC Guide.
Morley, Thomas: K-12 TLC Guide.

Here of a Sunday Morning.
The Lute in Scotland, Standing Stones.
Lute Music in Tablature, Richard Yates' Classical Guitar Transcriptions.
Lute Society of America.
Medieval Music & Arts Foundation.
Stainer and Bell.
Wikipedia:

Lute Song.
English Madrigal School.

Instrumental Music:

Renaissance Instrumental Polyphony, Medieval Music & Arts Foundation.
Thinkquest.

Concise History of Western Music, W.W. Norton & Company.
Here of a Sunday Morning.
Internet Public Library.
Medieval Music & Arts Foundation.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
National Public Radio:

Renaissance Music with a Serious Groove.

Thinkquest.
University of Oregon.

The
Renaissance

Science
in the
Renaissance

K-12 TLC Guide to Botany.
K-12 TLC Guide to The History of Science.
K-12 TLC Guide to Science.

Copernicus, Nicolaus: K-12 TLC Guide.
daVinci, Leonardo: K-12 TLC Guide
Paracelsus: K-12 TLC Guide.

The Art of Renaissance Science:
- McMurry University.
Leonardo and Science in the Renaissance, American Museum of Natural History.

Science Italian Style, PBS.

The Renaissance

Society

Britain Express.
A Compendium of Common Knowledge:

Household Management:

A Description of Elizabethan England, Bartleby.com:

Escapism in Elizabethan England, Duke University:

Theatre as Social Unifier.
The Fair as Social Unifier.
Jonson's Bartholomew Fair as Social Unifier .

Internet Shakespeare Editions:

London Society:

The Great Fire of London: K-12 TLC Guide.

The Renaissance


Bacon, Francis Borgia, Lucretia Copernicus, Nicolaus Michelandeglo Shakespeare, William

Other:
- Moors in Renaissance Popular Literature,
  Sean Cavazos-Kottke, Tomball, TX,
  Teaching Shakespeare, The Folger Shakespeare Library:
- The Renaissance, John C. Griffin,
  Miami Country Day School, FL.
- Renaissance & Reformation, Mr. Donn's.

If you find links that are either unsuitable or no longer current, please contact the TLC.

This guide last edited 08/26/2011
This guide last revised 08/29/2008