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Renaissance Book Selections
The Washington Renaissance Fantasy Faire's Performing Arts Department is happy to be able to provide, in association with Amazon.com, a reading list of books that might be of interest to those doing research on particular aspects of their character, or just looking for an interesting book. All proceeds from book sales on this website go into a fund to feed our volunteer actors, so buy a book and feed an actor today.
History
General
Europe Divided, 1559-1598, John Huxtable Elliott
Renaissance Diplomacy, Garrett Mattingly
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, J R Hale
The Culture of the High Renaissance : Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome, Ingrid D Rowland
The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640, William James Bouwsma
England & Elizabeth
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I, Jane Resh Thomas
Early Modern England : A Social History 1550-1760, J A Sharpe
Elizabeth I, Anne Somerset
English Society, 1580-1680, Keith Wrightson
Henry VIII: The King & His Court, Alison Weir
Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir
The First Elizabeth, Carolly Erickson
France
Early Modern France 1560-1715, Robin Briggs
Society and Culture in Early Modern France : Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis, Natalie Zemon Davis
The Great Cat Massacre : And Other Episodes in French Cultural History, Robert Darnton
The Style of Paris : Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment, George Huppert
Germany & The Holy Roman Empire
The German Reformation, R W Scribner
The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806, Peter H Wilson
Ireland
Sixteenth-Century Ireland : The Incomplete Conquest, Colm Lennon
Scotland
Mary Queen of Scots, Susan Watkins
Spain
Philip of Spain, Henry Arthur Francis Kaman
Grand Strategy of Phillip II, Geoffrey Parker
Specific Historical Aspects
A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century, Sir Charles Oman
People & Places
Famous Men of the Renaissance and the Reformation, Robert G. Shearer
The Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation, Rob & Cynthia Shearer
Outrageous Women of the Renaissance, Vicki Leon
Uppity Women of the Renaissance, Vicki Leon
The Burdens of Sister Margaret : Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent, Craig E Harline
The Elizabethan Secret Services : Spies and Spycatchers 1570-1603, Alan Haynes
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Christopher Hibbert
Two Queens in One Isle : The Deadly Relationship of Elizabeth I & Mary Queen of Scots, Alison Plowden
Dissing Elizabeth : Negative Representations of Gloriana (Post-Contemporary Interventions), Julia M. Walker
Costuming
Elizabethan Costuming (For The Years 1550 - 1580), Janet Winter
Patterns of Fashion : The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620, Janet Arnold
The Art of Dress : Clothes and Society, 1500-1914, Jane Ashelford
Tudor Costume and Fashion, Herbert Norris
Society & Culture
Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, David Cressy
Bryght Lanternis : Language and Literature of Mediaeval and Renaissance Scotland, J Derrick McClure
Daily Life in Elizabethan England, Jeffery L Singman & Will McClean
How to Do It : Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians, Rudolph M Bell
Life Cycles in England 1560-1720 : Cradle to Grave, Mary Abbott
Life in the English Country House : A Social and Architectural History, Mark Girouard
Life in the French Country House, Mark Girouard
Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England, Keith Thomas
Shakespear's Bawdy, Eric Partridge
Spain's Men of the Sea : Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century, Pablo E Perez-Mallaina
Spiritual & Demonic Magic : From Ficino to Campanella (Magic in History Series), D P Walker
The Description of England : The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life, William Harrison
The Elizabethan Renaissance, A L Rowse
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England, Kathy Lynn Emerson
What Life Was Like in the Realm of Elizabeth, Time Life Books
Wives and Daughters : The Women of Sixteenth Century England, Kathy L Emerson
Word of Honor : Interpreting Noble Culture in Sixteenth-Century France, Kristen B Neuschel
Fiction
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles, Margaret George
The Game of Kings, Dorothy Dunnett
The Innamorati, Midori Snyder
The Master of All Desires, Judith Merkle Riley
The Princess de Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
Queen's Own Fool : A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots, Jane Yolen
The Stars Dispose, Michaela Roessner
The White Seahorse, Eleanor Fairburn
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