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- California Independent Renaissance Guilds Association - Coordinates and represents independent Renaissance guilds and Renaissance Faire acting groups in California with open forum discussions regarding festival recreation activities. The purpose of this site is to further CIRGA's communication with its members and to educate non members as to CIRGA, its members and in general Renaissance Faire. CIRGA does accept guilds, events, and informational subscriptions from outside California.
- All-About-Renaissance-Faires.com - Information about Renaissance Faires and the Renaissance period. Costumes, Faire dates and locations, artists and their works, movies that take place in the period, as well as clothing and other items for sale.
- International Renaissance Festivals, Ltd. - Entrance to the Maryland Renaissance Festival Website and the Ontario Renaissance Festival Website.
- Renaissance Personalities - Grade eight project about the Renaissance. Includes information on architects, artists, explorers, musicians, patrons, politicians, scientists, scholars, sculptors, and renaissance men and women.
- The Renaissance Faire Junkie - Join Liz (The Renaissance Faire Junkie) on a virtual tour of North American Renaissance Faires.
- Renaissance Faire - Everyting you ever wanted to know about the renaissance faire.
- Renaissance Magazine - Renaissance Magazine features articles on costuming, history, castles, heraldry. culinary and herbal arts, and in-depth interviews with the movers and shakers of the re-enactment and Renaissance faire communities.
- Morsels of Information Regarding Historical Attire - Articles reprinted from the Renaissance Herald covering hosiery, codpieces, dyes and fabric, shoes, corsets, and sumptuary laws. Hosted by Renaissance Dancewear.
- VirtualFaire.Com - Renaissance Merchant Directory - Directory of merchants and vendors which cater to the enthusiasts of renaissance faires and medieval history.
- Renaissance Architecture - Images and information on Renaissance buildings and their architects, provided by Great Buildings Online.
Wikipedia Articles
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien) is a 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his 1878 Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien, it is counted among the classics of Renaissance historiography.
- Renaissance literature - Renaissance literature refers to European literature usually considered to be initiated by Petrarch at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, and sometimes taken to continue to the English Renaissance and into the seventeenth century. The impact of the Renaissance varied across the continent: countries where Catholicism and emergent Protestantism were, or became, dominant experienced the Renaissance in a different manner to areas where the Orthodox Church was ...
- Macedonian Renaissance - Macedonian Renaissance is a label sometimes used to describe the period of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire (867-1056), especially the 10th century, which some scholars have seen as a time of increased interest in classical scholarship and the assimilation of classical motifs into Christian themes. Other variants of the term sometimes used are: Middle Byzantine Renaissance ot First Byzantine Renaissance (the Palaiologan Renaissance from the 13th century on being the second).
- Renaissance fair - A Renaissance fair, Renaissance faire, or Renaissance festival is an outdoor weekend gathering, open to the public and generally commercial in nature, which emulates an historic period for the amusement of its guests. Some are permanent theme parks, others are short-term events in fairgrounds or the like"State fairgrounds could ...
- Association for Renaissance Martial Arts - The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts (ARMA), is an international educational non-profit organization dedicated to the study and practice of Historical European martial arts of the 14th to 17th centuries. The ARMA's stated aims are to advance the quality of skill demonstrated with Medieval and Renaissance weaponry, offer authoritative information (through historical manuals and study), and improve the relationship between practitioners and academics in order to improve understanding of Medieval and Renaissance martial skills.