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Renaissance and Reformation Collection includes:

 * ====Almanac provides extensive background information and includes exploration of both the Italian and Northern Renaissance, the Protestant, Catholic, and Counter Reformations, and much more. ====
 * ====Biographies introduces students to 50 people of the era, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Gutenberg, Ben Jonson, and others. ====
 * ====Primary Sources //**allows students to study 18 full or excerpted speeches, diary entries, poems and documents. Also included in this reference library are photographs, maps, sidebars, further reading section, a "Words to Know" section, timeline and index.**// ====



 The Spanish Armada Elizabethan Dictionary
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[]  These linkspages will direct you to information on a [|diverse array of topics] relating to the material culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance – not merely things, but occupations, clothing, animals, tools, eating-utensils … even suggestions for books which may help you learn more about such matters. (The blue widget on the right-hand side of this page will help you keep track of the latest linkspages added to this site.)

[]  Excellent resource for all things related to life in16th Century England under the Tudors including food, games, clothing, transport, etc. Check it out!

[] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> All blacksmith, all the time! Duties, daily life, working inside the castle, etc.

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://elizabethan.org/compendium/index.html

@http://elizabethanenglandlife.com/

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] (really break down potential topics even further with more resources)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm] (very comprehensive)

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It's all here, Tudor Era and details on housing, meals, theatre, merchant class, nobility, and medieval towns.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (BBC history site--good stuff)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (Interesting occupation and mobility statistics)

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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] (Art)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xLondon.html#Glossary] (Everyday Life in England--Occupation Glossary)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/societysubj.html <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (from [|University of Victoria] and the [|Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada])

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Musopen--free public domain classical music <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Directories
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Use a directory when your topic is broad versus specific. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> For example, use a directory for “Renaissance England” and search engine for “daily life elizabethan england”.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">General Directories
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Open Directory Project <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.dmoz.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Librarian’s Internet Index <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.lii.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Internet Public Library <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.ipl.org]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Specialized Directories--gateways to the Invisible Web
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> WWW Virtual Library <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.vlib.org]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Refdesk <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.refdesk.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> IPL Ready Reference <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.ipi.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Infomine <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.infomine.ucr.edu]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> BubL Link <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Bubl.ac.uk]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">MLA Citation Sources

 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Bibme]: Free citation generator that anticipates sources and pulls reference content from a database of resources.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|EasyBib]: Automatic bibliography and citation maker covers a large variety of source types and is updated for MLA, seventh edition.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Son of Citation Maker]: David Warlick’s interactive tool does MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. (Just moved to seventh MLA edition too.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|OttoBib]: For books only; enter the ISBN and the tool will complete the citation.