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Renaissance Period and Reformation Web Guide

World Book Online Resources
Use these direct links to useful articles.
Log on to World Book Online first for the links below to work.
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                Away from school - Username: worldbook Password: eugene4j


Renaissance Research Guide - Get ideas for your presentation
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/researchguide?id=ar464720&st=renaissance&
mt=cs

Renaissance Period and Related Articles
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar464720&st=renaissance
Map of Renaissance Italy
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/media?id=lr004390&st=renaissance
Renaissance Images and Photos
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Search?st1=renaissance&bv=&ht=285,0,1,14,
5,1,24,0,102,6,14,1,0&mt=pc

Reformation Research Guide (if your topic is religion)
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/researchguide?id=ar463180&st=reformation&
mt=cs

Development of the Reformation
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/article?id=ar463180&st=reformation&sc=2

Websites

The Sixteenth Century

Follow the links from the main page for information about specific regions and areas of Renaissance life.
URL: http://www.lepg.org/sixteen.htm
The Nations of Europe link will be helpful to many of you!

The Renaissance Connection, from the Allentown Art Museum
A great site that includes innovations, the life of an artist, a patron of the arts, and Renaissance art and history.
URL: http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/

Renaissance
Click on the links to the left side for information on Florence, exploration and trade, thinking and printing, mathematics,
architecture, the middle class (merchants), and more.
URL: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/middleages.html

Key Innovations and Artists of the Italian Renaissance
This web page is dedicated to the Italian artists of the Renaissance period,including Gioto, Filippo Brunelleschi,
Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Donatello, Andrea Mantegna, and Sandro Botticelli. Many of these paintings are religious in nature.
URL: http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Renaissance/early_ren.htm


Renaissance and Reformation Reference Library eBooks
Use these direct links to
useful articles (scan for your region and specific topic):
Log in first here so that the direct links will work: Renaissance and Reformation Reference Library e-book
                                                                                   Password: calyoung
Italian Renaissance Culture
Daily Life

Biographies:
Password: calyoung
Abrabanel, Isaac

Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages (eBook):
Password: calyoung
Sixteenth Century Clothing (Introduction)
Sixteenth-Century Clothing
Sixteenth-Century Headwear
Sixteenth-Century Body Decorations
Sixteenth-Century Footwear


The World Book Online resources and web sites are adapted from
http://www.wl.k12.ia.us/hs/assets/Renaissance_Reformation_Web_Guide.pdf.