This ThoughtCo article provides students with a detailed overview of the key forces that created the Renaissance. It provides detailed descriptions of how this period was shaped and how it influenced the ages that followed. This 1,671-word article by a global referencing site is well written and provides hyperlinks to elaborations within the text. Students are provided with an excellent foundation in understanding of this important historical period. Elements such as politics, rediscovery, art, society, learning and humanism are discussed.
Structure and features
Access 'A Beginner’s guide to the Renaissance' article.
This resource provides:
- clear and concise description of the Renaissance separated into appropriate subheadings.
- images to support understanding.
- hyperlinks within the text to elaborations within related articles.
- links to associated articles and citation support.
For teachers
This article provides a good level of detail to introduce and expand an understanding of this key historical period. Students can use this resource as a springboard into individual research on one particular element of the Renaissance. The article is relatively lengthy but covers many historical elements and teachers could chunk the learning or reading for their students. Teachers can develop a series of questions to check knowledge and allow extension into why particular attributes were present in that particular society at that time. There are also opportunities to generate a class debate on the significance of this period to the contemporary world or the idea around eurocentrism within our historical studies. Students could examine the relationship between wealth and art, which was particularly strong within this period and explore whether this relationship is still present today.
