Renaissance Culture
Cultures of the Renaissance times
Renaissance Art
Renaissance Foods
Peasant Foods
Renaissance Feasts
Renaissance Drinks
Renaissance Clothing
What did the men wear?
Men wore colorful tights or stockings with a shirt and coat. The coat was generally tight fitting and was called a doublet. They often wore hats as well.
What did the women wear?
Women wore long dresses that generally had high waists and puffy sleeves and shoulders. Wealthy women would have elaborate jewelry made of gold and ornamented with expensive jewels such as pearls and sapphires. Sometimes the embroidery on their dresses used gold and silver thread.
Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance Transportation
Renaissance Religion
Renaissance History
Dancing
Fashion changes from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century contributed, in no small measure, to stylistic changes in social dance. The clothing of this era was bulky and the upper bodies were confined by tight lacing for men and corsets for women. Further, head movement was restricted by the wearing of ruffs around the neck. Dance technique, therefore, focused on footwork and was characterized by an emphatic energy.
The extensive step vocabulary, which was designed for music in triple and duple meter, included walking steps, cutting steps, sliding and stamping of the feet, leaping and jumping, including tours en l'air, and hopping . Pirouettes, beats, and entrechats were described, as were various leg gestures.
Jousting
Farming
Farming dominated the lives of most Medieval people. Many peasants in Medieval England worked the land and, as a result, farming was critically important to a peasant family in Medieval England. Most people lived in villages where there was plenty of land for farming. Medieval towns were small but still needed the food produced by surrounding villages.Farming was a way of life for many. Medieval farming, by our standards, was very crude. Medieval farmers/peasants had no access to tractors, combine harvesters etc. Farming tools were very crude. Peasants had specific work they had to do in each month and following this “farming year” was very important.
Renaissance Language
Good morning.=Good morrow.
Good afternoon.=Good day.
I’ll see you later.=I shall see you anon.
How are you?=How now?
Please…=Prithee or Pray…
Thank you.=Grammercy.
Hello, nice to see you!=Hail and well met!
What time is it?=How stands the hour?
Where are the restrooms?=Whither be the privies?
What is your name?=What be thy tide?
Please wait on me!=Prithee, attend me!
I'm thirsty.=I be parched.
Goodbye, I gotta go!=Fare thee well; I must away!
Renaissance History
The word is French for 'rebirth'. Historians first use it (from about 1840) for the period from the 14th to the 16th century, implying a rediscovery of rational civilization (exemplified by Greece and Rome) after the medieval centuries - seen as superstitious and artistically primitive. The term 'Middle Ages', also coined by historians, makes the same point in a different way - defining the medieval period merely as the gap between classical and modern civilization.
Renaissance housing
One of the greatest and most royal kinds of housing was the castle. Castles are some of the greatest buildings ever made. They were originally built to protect inhabitants during wars and sieges (Brown). Eventually castles were turned into homes for royalty and nobility. Castles were the best kinds of houses in that time and they are still very popular today. Castles may sometimes be thought of as a mansion; however a mansion was for royalty and important people to live. Castles were meant for protection and that is what they were built for. They were built with more stability then other buildings, mostly made of brick or stone.