Print Resources
REFERENCE BOOKS
Ox ford Chronology of English Literature – R 016.82
Timelines of World History - R 902 TEE
Calendar of Literary Facts – R 809 ROG
Timetables of History – R 902 GRU
Who was when? – R 920 DE
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 – R 809 LIT
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance – R 940.2 ENC
European Renaissance and Reformation – R 940.2 EUR
Renaissance – R 940.2 REN
Renaissance and Reformation – R 940.2 REN
Dewey Decimal Numbers to Browse
940.2, 942.05 – 942.081
Keywords and Phrases for Searching
Use these words to search the card catalog and search engines: Renaissance
England, Tudor, Elizabethan, Victorian, Fifteenth Century, Sixteenth Century,
Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century.
Online Resources – Internet Sites
The Web sites listed have been previewed and selected for this topic. If additional
information is needed, used the suggested Keywords and phrases to search the
internet .
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/fineart.htm#altindex – Renaissance Art
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/renaissance.html - Renaissance Architecture
http://renaissance.dm.net/ - Life in England during the Elizabethan years
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Milton-J.html - Milton’s life and works
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm - Information on Edmund Spenser
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit - Renaissance period in English literature
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm - Electronic texts of English works
between 1477 and 1799
http://www.bartleby.com/101 - The Oxford Book of English Verse has a chronological
index
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/ - English literature 1603-1660
http://ragz-international.com/age_of_enlightenment.htm - Age of Enlightenment
http://mars.vnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/enlightenment.html - Age of the Enlightenment
http://history.evansville.net/enlighte.html - Age of Enlightenment
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/ - 18th century
http://www.newgenevacenter.org/west/enlightenment.htm - Enlightenment
http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture12c.html - Scientific Revolution
1642 – 1730
http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/ - Western Philosophy
http://www.siue.edu/~jvoller/ - go to Gothic
http://www.rc.umd.edu – Romantic literature
http://www.dickinson.edu/~nicholsa/Romnat/romnat1.htm - Romantic Natural History
http://iris.nyit.edu/~dhogsett/romanticsunbound/ - Romantic Literature
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html - Coleridge Archive
http://vos.ucsb.edu/ - go to literature
http://www.blakearchive.org/main.html - William Blake
Also use the timeline on http://www.nettrekker.com