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Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans...
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The rebirth of knowledge, art, and philosophy, and a rejuvenation of banking and business, mark the period known as the Renaissance. Follow the important events in this flourishing of Western culture through the words spoken and the works done by the people of this period."--
Author
Series
Hinges of history volume 6
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A popular history focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The stories of fifteen men and women, some familiar, others less so, that demonstrate the profound transformations of society that cut across and remade the realms of human conduct and custom and that are a part of the era with the name meaning "rebirth."
Author
Language
English
Description
The author of the critically acclaimed Worldly Goods presents a thoughtful reassessment of the Renaissance in terms of its influence on the history of science, relating the era's imaginative, artistic endeavors to the creative inspiration behind the scientific discoveries of the period.
9) Renaissance
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An overview of the philosphy, inventions, art, government, religion and daily life of the Renaissance.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinarily rich and engaging book, John Hale has painted, on a grand canvas, what he calls "an investigative impression" of one of the highest points of European civilization: the flourishing, between 1450 and 1620, of the period we have come to call the Renaissance. It was an age that, wrote Marsilio Ficino in 1492, "has like a golden age restored to light the liberal arts which were almost extinct: grammar, poetry, painting, sculpture,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Runestone Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in Europe during the Renaissance, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Renaissance, people were pinned into their clothing, even elaborate gowns. Children often had to work as pin makers, a job that paid only about $1 for each 20,000 pins made! Find out about other horrible jobs of the Renaissance.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The Black Death was the great watershed in medieval history. In this compact book, David Herlihy makes bold yet subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about this disastrous period. As in a finely tuned detective story, he upturns intriguing bits of epidemiological evidence. And, looking beyond the view of the Black Death as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy sees in it the birth of technological advance as societies struggled...
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1986, c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
17) The Black Death
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
This book discusses the pivotal moment in history when one out of three people died and changed the course of world history, the Black Death.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields."--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Separated by 500 years, two women--Anne Guichard, a young archivist at the Louvre, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret--each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
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