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Renaissance

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arts (paintings, sculpture, architecture - music - theatre - military arts - heraldry)
sciences: (general - astronomy and mathematics - alchemy - medicine)
philosophy - religion
language
daily life - calendar - costumes, fashion - education
history, politics - money, economics

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general pages:

Italian Renaissance: [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REN/REN.HTM] (17(06/00)

Renaissance: The Elizabethan World: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603; [http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html] (last visit: 09/03/99)

Norton Topics Online (to accompany the Norton Anthology of Literature) Short articles, contemporary texts and links to other sites [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/welcome.htm]; (last visit: 18/02/00)
16th Century: Faustus, Marlowe and the English stage; Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe; Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation: [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/16thCfrm.htm]

17th Century: Gender, Family, Household: Seventeenth-Century Norms and Controversies; Civil Wars of Ideas: Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/17thcfrm.htm]

Stevens, John Richard.
Renaissance and 17th Century links [http://www.englishdiscourse.org/17.html] (l.v. March 04)

arts, sciences, philosophy etc.

RENAISSANCE ARTS

Renaissance art, sculpture and achitecture (on this site)

Art in Renaissance England. [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/literature/artsubj.html] (Jan. 2002)

Leonardo da Vinci [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/tleon.htm]

architecture:

Castles, palaces, stately homes and other architecture (Tudor) [http://www.tudorhistory.org/castles/] (Jan. 2002)
The virtual Renaissance castle [http://renaissance.district96.k12.il.us/Castles/Castles.html] (Jan. 2002)
The Tower of London [http://renaissance.district96.k12.il.us/TowerofLondon/TowerLondon.html] (Jan. 2002)

Renaissance Architecture collection of links by J. R. Stevens [http://www.englishdiscourse.org/17.britisharchitecture.page.1.html] (M arch 04)

music:

Renaissance Music: general sites on Renaissance music, dance, musical instruments. English composers of the Renaissance and their works, Midi-files (on this site)

Playford, John.
The English Dancing Master [http://www.pryanksters.org/playford.html]

military arts:

Arts of Combat and Chivalry [http://www.sca.org/chivarts.html] (April, 2001)

On Board the Mary Rose (ship) [http://www.maryrose.org/lcity/index.htm] (May 2002)

Primary Resources for the study of
Duelling and Fencing [http://www.musketeer.org/online.html] (May 2002)

Andersson, D. C.
Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story, pp. 278-279, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Sheppard, Philippa.
The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe, pp. 274-276, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Sheppard, Philippa.
Shakespeare's Military Language: A Dictionary, pp. 280-281, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)


heraldry:

Heraldry [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/welcome.html] (April, 2001)

Elisabethan Heraldry [http://renaissance.dm.net/heraldry/] (May 2002)

John Guillim:
A Display of Heraldry (1610) [http://www.btinternet.com/~paul.j.grant/guillim/] (May 2002)

RENAISSANCE SCIENCES

Home Page of the
Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence [http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/] (May 2002)

astronomy and mathematics

Dauben, Joseph W.
The Art of Renaissance science (Galilei and Perspective) [http://www.crs4.it/Ars/arshtml/arstoc.html] also here: [http://www.cuny.edu/multimedia/arsnew/arstoc.html] (May 2002)

Links to Copernicus, Galilei, etc. [http://www.providence.edu/dwc/renphil.htm]

Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe [http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/] (May 2002)

Renaissance Links: Science and Math [http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/GeneralFiles/RenLinksSci.html] (May 2002)
Renaissance Science [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/s3.htm] (May 2002) links to online texts and books about:
Tycho de Brahe [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/brahe.htm] (May 2002)
Giordano Bruno [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/bruno.htm] (May 2002)
Girolamo Cardano [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/cardano.htm]
Nicolaus Copernicus [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/tcopern.htm]
Galileo Galilei [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/tgalileo.htm] (May 2002)
William Gilbert [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/tgilbert.htm] (May 2002)
Johannes Kepler [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/ tkepler.htm] (May 2002)
Andreas Vesalius [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/vesalius.htm]
Leonardo da Vinci [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/tleon.htm]

Mathematicians in Richard S. Westfall's archive 150 Mathematicians of the 16th and 17th century [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/External/Westfall_list.html] (May 2002)

Juan Wang,
Renaissance Mathematics [http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/projects/math.html]

The Measurers (Flemish painting) [http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/measurer/text/title.htm]

Home Page of the
Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence [http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/] (May 2002)

alchemy

Alchemy [http://www.levity.com/alchemy/index.html]
Shakespeare and Alchemy: [http://www.levity.com/alchemy/h_shake.html]

medicine:

History of Medicine Home Page [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/hmd.html] (Jan. 2002)

Alternatives to Medicine, Women doctors, witches. BBC. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/medicine/nonint/menus/reammenu.shtml] (Jan. 2002)

Renaissance Medicine. links. C. S. Marszalek and B. Panagakis. [http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/GeneralFiles/RenLinksMed.html] (Jan. 2002)
Andrew Boorde (c.1490-1549), physician to Henry VIII: [http://www.bartleby.com/213/0517.html] and also here [http://www.yeoldesussexpages.co.uk/stories/people/andrew.htm]
Excerpts from his Traveller's Guide through Europe,
An Introduction to Knowledge [http://www.saradouglass.com/primdocs/boorde.html] (Jan. 2002)

Andreas Vesalius [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/vesalius.htm]


RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

philosophy

Renaissance philosophy [http://www.kb.nl/dutchess/08/23/] (May 2002)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/r/renaiss.htm]

Thomas Morus.
Utopia [http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/more/utopia/]

Giordano Bruno [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/bruno.htm] (May 2002)

Francis Bacon [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/bacon.htm] (May 2002)

Niccolo Machiavelli
Il Principe (Italian) [http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/m/machiavelli/principe/html/sommario.htm]
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince (translated by W. K. Marriott) [http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm]

religion

English and Scottish Reformation, links to primary texts [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook1.html#English and Scottish Reformation] (May 2002)
Life in Elizabethan England: Religion [http://www.renaissance.dm.net/compendium/7.html] (May 2002)

Life in Elizabethan England: The Church of England [http://www.renaissance.dm.net/compendium/12.html] (May 2002)

Life in Elizabethan England: Calvinists [http://www.renaissance.dm.net/compendium/28.html] (May 2002)

Life in Elizabethan England: Catholics [http://www.renaissance.dm.net/compendium/11.html] (May 2002)

The Jesuits and Elizabethan England, by Tim Anaya [http://home.earthlink.net/~gotimgo/essays/jesuit.htm] (May 2002)


RENAISSANCE DAILY LIFE

language

Elizabethan
Accents: Tips for acting at a Renaissance fair [http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html] (May 2002)

Powell, Jason.
Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland, p. 274 , in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Sheppard, Philippa.
Shakespeare's Military Language: A Dictionary, pp. 280-281, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

daily life

Renaissance: The Elizabethan World: A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603; [http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/home.html] (last visit: 09/03/99)

Elizabethan Life in England, David Ross [http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Elizabethan_life.htm] (May 2002)

Medieval Technology Pages: Population Estimations [http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/population.html] (May 2002)

Thomas Platter (Basel), A Swiss Tourist in London 1599 [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/16thC/wider/tplatterfrm.htm]

Renaissance Food homepage: primary sources, recipes, bibliographies [http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html]

Elizabethan food and cooking [http://www.elizabethi.org/links/cooking.htm] (May 2002)

Elizabethan Homebrewing. Tofi Kerthjalfadsson [http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/liz_brewing.html] (May 2002)

Educating Shakespeare - school life in Elizabethan England. [http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome-es.htm] (22 Jan 2001)

Harrison, William.
Harrison's Description of England in Shakespeare's Youth (1575) ed. Furnivall, Frederick (1877). [http://leehrsn.50megs.com/index.html] (Nov. 2001)

Renaissance Life, country life, city life, court life etc. [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/society/societysubj.html]

Streete, Adrian.
Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study, pp. 281-282, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Andrew Boorde (c.1490-1549), physician to Henry VIII: excerpts from his Traveller's Guide through Europe,
An Introduction to Knowledge [http://www.saradouglass.com/primdocs/boorde.html] (Jan. 2002)

Shakespeare's Life and Times: Ten books (stage, society, history and politics, background of ideas etc.) divided into chapters; searchable. [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html] (April 2001)

The Shakespeare Resource Center Links to Life in Elizabethan and Medieval England, Tudor England, Elizabeth I., the Stuarts [http://www.bardweb.net/england.html] (April 2001)

Shakespeare's Will [http://fly.hiwaay.net/~paul/shakspere/shakwill.html] (July 2002)

History of Printing [http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/booktext.html] (May 2002)

History of
tobacco [http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html]

"War Shakespeare ein Kokser?" Spiegel on-line, 2001 [http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,120319,00.html] (May 2002)

16th Century: Faustus, Marlowe and the English stage; Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe; Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation: [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/16thCfrm.htm]

Norton, Rictor.
Homosexuality in 18th Century England [http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/eighteen.htm]

Tyburn Tree: Executions in Early Modern England [http://www.unc.edu/~charliem/] (May 2002)
Pictures of Executions [http://www.unc.edu/~charliem/pics.htm] (May 2002)


calendar

Chronology [http://www.bdl.fr/Granpub/calendriers_eng.html#Chronology] (May 2001)

create
calendars for any period any country (Julian or Gregorian) [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/] (May 2001)

Perpetual Calendar Danish page [http://www.norbyhus.dk/calendar.html] (May 2001)

find
holy days and learn about the calender [http://www.kencollins.com/holydays.htm] (May, 2001)

costumes, fashion

The Costumer's Manifesto: Costume History, the history of fashion and dress. [http://www.costumes.org/pages/costhistpage.htm]

Costumes in late 16th Century Europe: [http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/1570to1600a.htm] (05/04/00)

Elizabethan
Costumes page [http://www.dnaco.net./~aleed/corsets/general.html] (17/06/00)

Links to Elizabethan Clothes and Fashion [http://www.elizabethi.org/links/fashion.htm] (May 2002)
Brennan, Michael G.
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory, pp. 276-277, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

education

Educating Shakespeare - school life in Elizabethan England. [http://www.likesnail.org.uk/welcome-es.htm] (22 Jan 2001)

History of Printing [http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/booktext.html] (May 2002)

Brennan, Michael G.
Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England , pp. 293-294, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)


RENAISSANCE HISTORY AND POLITICS

history, politics

Early modern chronology [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/chronology.html] (last visit: 02/09/99)

Elizabethan History links [http://www.bardweb.net/england.html] (May 2002)

Stevens, John Richard.
17th Century Links: History. [http://www.englishdiscourse.org/17.britishhistory.page.1.html] (March 04)

17th century Political texts database from University College London [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3624&inst_id=13] (March 04)

British History 1100-1800 Internet Resources [http://bubl.ac.uk/link/b/britishhistory1100-1800.htm]

Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland [http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/] (Dec. 2009)

Tudor History links [http://www.elizabethi.org/links/] (May 2002)

Elizabethan England: Teacher Resources [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/england.htm] (May 2002)

British History at about.com [http://britishhistory.about.com/] (May 2002)

Medieval Technology Pages: Population Estimations [http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/population.html] (May 2002)

17th Century: Gender, Family, Household: Seventeenth-Century Norms and Controversies; Civil Wars of Ideas: Seventeenth-Century Politics, Religion, and Culture [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/17thcfrm.htm]

The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I [http://www.elizabethi.org] (last visit: June 2002)

History of
tobacco [http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html]

Andersson, D. C.
Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story, pp. 278-279, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

Brennan, Michael G.
Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England , pp. 293-294, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

money, economics

Current Value of Old Money Roy Davis [http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html] (last visit 22/02/00)

John J. McCusker, "Comparing the Purchasing Power of Money in Great Britain from 1264 to Any Other Year Including the Present"
Economic History Services, 2001, [http://www.eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/] (July 2002)

Medieval Economics [http://historymedren.about.com/cs/medievaleconomics/] (May 2002)

Money and coinage in Elizabethan England [http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/6.html] (May 2002)

Trade Products in Early Modern History [http://www.bell.lib.umn.edu/Products/Products.html] (May 2002)

Williams, William Proctor.
The Shakespeare "First Folio": The History of the Book, vol. 1, An Account of the First Folio Based on its Sales and Prices, 1623-2000, pp. 289-290, in: Notes and Queries, vol. 49, issue 2002, pdf-file. [http://www3.oup.co.uk/notesj/hdb/Volume_49/Issue_02/] (June 2002)

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arts (paintings, sculpture, architecture - music - theatre - military arts - heraldry)
sciences: (general - astronomy and mathematics - alchemy - medicine)
philosophy - religion
language - daily life - calendar - costumes, fashion - education
history, politics - money, economics

 

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