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	An age of voyages, 1350-1600 Wiesner, Merry E., 1952- "This book provides coverage of the political, cultural, and social history of the world from 1350 to 1600. Contact among regions of the world expanded through trade networks, enabling a transferal of knowledge and culture between western and eastern societies. With a strong focus on the Renaissance, Reformation, and Ming China, the text comes from ordinary people, travelers, bureaucrats, children, housewives, poets, and religious thinkers."--Supplied by publisher.
	Archers, alchemists, and 98 other medieval jobs you might have loved or loathed Galloway, Priscilla, 1930- A fascinating guide to strange-but-true jobs.If you could go back in time to the Middle Ages, what do you think you would be? A bold knight? A Princess? A Cardinal? In reality, most people did jobs we can barely imagine today.
	The church Hinds, Kathryn, 1962- A description of the religious controversies of the Renaissance and Reformation with a focus on what life was like for ordinary people, both Catholic and Protestant.
	The city Hinds, Kathryn, 1962- Describes the social and economic structure of city life during the Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1600, explaining how cities varied in government, commerce, population, and culture, and how they influenced the shaping of European civilization.
	The countryside Hinds, Kathryn, 1962- Describes the social and economic structure of country life during the Renaissance, from about 1400-1600, and the role of the peasants, villagers, and landowners in the shaping of European civilization.
	The court Hinds, Kathryn, 1962- Describes court life during the Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1600, explaining how various rulers governed and help shape European civilization.
	Exploration in the Renaissance Elliott, Lynne, 1968- Learn all about the Age of Exploration, where Europeans sailed around the world in search of sea routes to Asia and India--and found much more than anticipated.
	The king's fool : a book about Medieval and Renaissance fools Fradon, Dana. Examines the role of fools or jesters in medieval and Renaissance society and describes such individuals as Will Sommers of sixteenth-century England and Querno of sixteenth-century Italy.
	Painting in the Renaissance D'Elia, Una Roman, 1973- Learn about the kinds of art and artists, patronage, and famous painters of the Renaissance period.
	The Renaissance Claybourne, Anna. This title unravels the mysteries of life in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, including hot chocolate, helicopters and turnip medicine. Find out what staying in an Italian palace was really like, how to win friends in Renaissance high society, and where you could go to the theatre for only a penny.
	Renaissance Europe Grant, Neil, 1938- "A detailed overview of the history of Europe during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when the cultural movement known as the Renaissance made great advances in intellectual and artistic traditions"--Provided by publisher.
	A Renaissance town Morley, Jacqueline. Surveys the history, culture, politics, and architecture of Florence during the Italian Renaissance.
	Medicine during the Renaissance Dawson, Ian. The title explores the major breakthroughs of this unique period of history.
	Science in the Renaissance Mullins, Lisa, 1981- A time of questions and new ways of thinking marked the scientific world during the Renaissance. Follow along as the greatest minds of the time make enormous leaps and bounds toward enlightened thinking. Learn how the role of a scientist evolved. See the efforts made to increase man's understanding of the natural universe.
	A travel guide to Renaissance Florence Barter, James, 1946- Examines the history, people, educational system, scientific and artistic discoveries, social structure, shopping, festivals, and famous artists of Florence.
	Tycho Brahe : mapping the heavens Boerst, William J. Presents the life and work of the famous sixteenth-century Danish astronomer.
	Warfare in the Renaissance world Brewer, Paul. Describes the widespread changes in the conduct of war that occurred in the 200 years between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century.
	Women of the Renaissance Thomson, Melissa. Describes various women’s roles during the Renaissance, including those of wives, mothers, women at work and in religious life, and the more unconventional roles of political leaders, rebels, and pirates, scholars and scientists, writers and artists.

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	Daughter of Venice Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948- Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.
	Duchessina, a novel of Catherine de Medici Meyer, Carolyn, 1935- While her tyrannical family is out of favor in Italy, young Catherine de Medici is raised in convents, then in 1533, when she is fourteen, her uncle, Pope Clement VII, arranges for her marriage to prince Henri of France, who is destined to become king.
	The falconer's knot : a story of friars, flirtation and foul play Hoffman, Mary, 1945- Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
	Primavera Beaufrand, Mary Jane. Growing up in Renaissance Italy, Flora sees her family's fortunes ebb, but encounters with the artist Botticelli and the guidance of her nurse teach her to look past the material world to the beauty already in her life.

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General

Medieval Castles and Life during the Medieval times
http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlelearningcenter.htm
Descriptions of common professions during the era.

Renaissance: What inspired this age of balance and order?
http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/

Middle Ages/Renaissance Homepage
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/middleages/
Includes information on armor, alchemy, archery and a variety of other Renaissance topics, created by a Canadian 8^th grade class.

Renaissance Connection
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/index2.cfm
Discusses arts an innovations from the Renaissance.


Professions and roles


A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
For the budding Renaissance musician, information on all sorts of Medieval and Renaissance instruments.

Mathematicians (the measurers)
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/measurer/text/mathemat.htm#mathemat

Renaissance Personalities
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/
Basic biographies on musicians, sculptors, explorers, scientists, architects, politicians, scholars, patrons, artists, and the general Renaissance man and woman.


Clothing and Armor

Arms and Armor in Renaissance Europe
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rarm/hd_rarm.htm
Information and pictures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Elizabethan Costume Page
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/
Examples and descriptions of clothing worn by various people in England’s Elizabethan period, with links some other European countries and eras.

Dressing Cecily
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/doll/index.html#
Dress an online “paper” doll in clothing of the era.


Webliographies (online lists of other useful websites)

Just Curious: Renaissance
http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/youth/jcrenaissance.html

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