Renaissance History List

1 The Art of Renaissance Science

www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstitle.html‎

"Joseph W. Dauben of the City University of New York reveals that the interplay of science and art has a history stretching back centuries with his work, The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective, which presents a detailed look at the influence Italian renaissance artists had on Galileo, his view of nature, and the observations and mathematical principles he elucidated.

2 Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/introduction .html

This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530.

3 Rome Renaissance History

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/toc.html

The exhibition from the Librarian of Congress has period cultural information on archaeology, humanism, mathematics, music, medicine, nature, from the Orient to Rome and from Rome to China written by leading specialists, of the intellectual, social, and cultural environments.

4 Works of Shakespeare

http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

This site has offers Shakespeares plays and poetry from the Complete Works of William Shakespeare which are in the public domain.

5 Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html

Site is an essay translated 19-century Italian work which has sections on The State as a Work of Art, The Development of the Individual, The Revival of Antiquity, The Discovery of the World and of Man, Society and Festivals, Morality and Religion.

6 Explorations in Renaissance Culture

http://www.smsu.edu/contrib/English/eirc/eirc.html

An annual scholarly journal from Southwest Missouri State University with information and articles from past volumes.

7 Renaissance Texts

http://www.towson.edu/~tinkler/bookmark/rentext.html

This site has a collection of links to Renaissance texts with a special emphasis on the English literature of the period.

8 Renaissance and Baroque Images

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102

Images of designs from 15th century Italy and Florence, as well as articles about the French experience of New Classicism.

9 Medieval and Renaissance Instruments

http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html

Pictures and guide to ancient musical instruments.

10 Weber Alfred History of Philosophy

http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/ToC/Weber ToC.htm

Overviews the major figures and developments in early modern philosophy from Bruno to Hegel.