** Middle Ages & Renaissance **

**NOTE:  Before you print you must either:

1) Highlight what you want on the webpage, go to “File” and “Print,” click the circle next to “Selection,” then “Print.”  OR

2)  Copy and paste to a Word document (to find “Word,” go to “Start” and choose “Programs.”  “MS Office” is where “Word” can be found.)   Once you have the information copied and pasted to the Word Document, you can change the size of the font to a smaller size (On the Word Document go to "Edit" then "Select All."  Click the arrow next to the font size number at the top and change the number to 10 or 8 if you can read text that small.)  OR

3) If you are in a database (Grolier, SIRS, Gale, EBSCO, ABC-CLIO etc.) use the “printer friendly” icon and you don’t have to copy and paste.

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Searching Tips:

1.  Use short phrases or single words, i.e. “holy grail”
2. Use quotation marks around phrases with two or more words, i.e. “black death” or “black plague”
3. Avoid phrases or terms that are too general, i.e. religion or war.  Instead, use Advance Search and type one general term on one line and a more specific term on the second, i.e. religion on the first and “middle ages” on the second.
4. To find the MLA source citation in the databases, look for words like “cite,” or “citation.”  In Gale’s Discovering Collection or Gale’s Virtual Reference Library, see “Source Citation” at the bottom of the screen.
5. When writing citations, if your teacher approves, you only have to write down the citation THROUGH .COM.  You don’t need all the numbers and letters at the end.

The following are links to databases (provide citations for you):

ABC-CLIO Database – Choose the left rectangle titled “World History: The Modern Era":

http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com/UnifiedLogin.aspx?ipaddress=true 

Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale Virtual Reference Library database):

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sain46794

Gale Group Discovering Collection Database -  Once you have an article, look on left side of screen for narrower topics.  Citation is near bottom of screen: “Source Citation":

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC;jsessionid=86B8BD3AA0576E40679BB6F66BBDC15F?locID=mnkspps

Gale Virtual Reference Library Database - A collection of reference e-books. Citation is near bottom of screen: “Source Citation":

http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=stpaulps 

Grolier Database – has 7 encyclopedias:

http://go-passport.grolier.com

The following websites are reliable but are not purchased databases (you need to figure out the citation yourself):

Art History Resources

http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks4.html

Art History Resources on the Web - Prof. L.C.E. Witcombe's site on art.  Select Medieval, Gothic or Renaissance art:

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Best History Sites.net's list of excellent history links.  Choose Middle Ages or Renaissance related links:

http://www.besthistorysites.net/EarlyModernEurope.shtml

Elizabethan England (student site, use for links):

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanengland.html

Food - Past and Present (scroll down to the Middle Ages - Renaissance):

http://www.teacheroz.com/food.htm

Food – Medieval and Renaissance Cookery Webring:

http://www.godecookery.com/mrcookwr/mrcookwr.htm

Gutenberg Bible – views of actual pages – British Museum:

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/homepage.html

Hanover University History Department's Historical Texts Project - Includes several primary source documents from the Middle Ages and Renaissance:

http://history.hanover.edu/project.html

Historyteacher.net's Webpage on the Middle Ages:

http://www.historyteacher.net/EuroCiv/Weblinks/Weblinks-3-MedievalWorld.htm

Historyteacher.net's Webpage on Reformations:

http://historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-Reformations.html

Historyteacher.net's Webpage on the Renaissance:

http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-Renaissance.html

 Learner.org’s site on the Middle Ages.  Click “Enter” on the green flag:

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/

Learner.org’s site on the Renaissance:

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance

The MiddleAges.net site:

http://www.themiddleages.net

Mr. Dowling's Webpage on the Renaissance:

http://www.mrdowling.com/704renaissance.html

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet:

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu

Museum of Science's (Boston) Webpage on Leonardo da Vinci:

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html

Open2.net's Webpage on Renaissance Secrets:

http://www.open2.net/renaissancesecrets/index.html

Printing in the Renaissance and Reformation – University of South Carolina:

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/renprint/renprint.html

Queen Elizabeth I: Life and Times:

http://www.elizabethi.org/

Reformation – Fordham University:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html#Protestant%20Reformation

Reformation – Luther’s 95 Theses – Project Wittenberg:

http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html

Reformation – Washington State University:

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REFORM/LUTHER.HTM

Reformation – Xavier University:

http://cat.xula.edu/tpr

http://cat.xula.edu/tpr/movements/catholic

Renaissance, the Elizabethan World:

http://elizabethan.org

Shakespeare and Renaissance Sites: http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/ShakSites1.html

Shakespeare's Life and Times:

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html

Joyce Valenza's Pathfinders site to the Elizabethan period, Renaissance and Middle Ages includes the above websites and many more.  Skip the list of databases as you need passwords to access them.  Go on to the general links:

http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/stulinde.html

http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/middleagespath.html

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MLA Citation Guideline Sheets:

http://comosr.spps.org/mla