The Renaissance

At school or in a public library, begin by using the Computer Catalog (Lemon Bay's OPAC)
to do a Subject Search using the following

Search Terms -
Renaissance
Fifteenth Century
Renaissance, Architecture
Renaissance, Art
Sixteenth Century
Reformation

Call Numbers for Books on this subject are usually
940.2 OR 709.02 OR 724
See Also: Biographies (ex. Copernicus; Michelangelo; Shakespeare)

General Encyclopedias are a good starting place to get basic, background information about a subject. Use the Index (usually the last volume) to locate your subject.

The following sets of encyclopedias are available in our media center:
The World Book Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica
Compton's Encyclopedia

Print Resources - Circulating Books:
Life During the Renaissance – 940.2 NET
The Renaissance – 940.2 COR
The Renaissance: A History of Civilization in Italy - 940.2 DUR
The Renaissance and the New World – 940.2 CAS
The Renaissance - 709.2 LET
The Italian Renaissance – 945 ITA
The Renaissance - 914.5 HAL
Headlines in History: The 1400’s - 940.2 140 History of Italian Renaissance Art - 709.45 HAR
Seats of Power - 909.07 ROO
Man on the Move - 909.07

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance - REF 940.2 ENC
Renaissance – Volumes 1-10 – REF 940.2 REN
Renaissance - REF 940.2 REN
European Writers - REF 809 EUR

Online Databases -

If you plan on accessing these sites from home,
be sure to ask the media specialists for the password-you'll need it!
Grolier Multimedia Online
eLibrary

Websites -

The Renaissance: What Inspired this Age of Balance and Order? - http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

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

Renaissance Art - http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html

The English Renaissance, in Context – http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.html

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