FEATURES & DETAILS:
- Copyright: 2004
- Language: English, Spanish
- Color
- MARC records, Catalog Card Kit and Single Main Entry Cards are available
- Features: Chapter Select, Interactive Menu, Discussion Questions
- Technical: Single Layer, Single Sided, Full Screen
- DVD Region: ALL
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PRODUCT SUMMARY
What was it like to live during the Renaissance? Everyday Life in the Renaissance explores typical homes, diets and clothing during this period. Thanks to a surging economy and increased trade, many people had more money to spend on improved lifestyles, which included new household amenities, exotic foods and spices, and extravagant wardrobes. Witness the changing roles of work, education, religion, art and entertainment in family life over three centuries across Europe, and discover the realities of Renaissance city life. Part of the multivolume The Renaissance for Students DVD Series. A Teacher's Guide is included and available online.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
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...illuminates[s] historical, cultural, and social aspects of Renaissance life…Recommended…- Video Librarian (March/April 2004)"...[a] well-produced interesting series...Technical quality is outstanding, with visuals that include European location footage, maps, reenactments (with narrated quotes from Renaissance figures), and still shots of Renaissance art and architecture. Audio is clear, with a background of period music...a very good choice for any library that needs curricular materials on this era."- School Library Journal (Jan 2004)
"These programs make good use of reenactments and art prints, and helpful captions list new vocabulary words. Thoughtfully organized with a modern twist."- Booklist (Jan 1 & 15, 2004)
FULL REVIEWS
Video Librarian (March 2004)
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"Using the concept of a video producer going to Europe to get “the real story” on “this Renaissance thing, ” the five volume The Renaissance for Students series visits various sites to illuminate historical, cultural, and social aspects of Renaissance life. In Everyday Life in the Renaissance, most of the residential examples shown (substantial houses with glass windows, beds with mattresses and sheets) reflect the lives of the new upper-middle class merchants, but the video also discusses how improvements in agriculture and animal husbandry meant a better standard of living for many (the narration also points out the difficulty of illustrating the lives of the common folk due to the scarcity of records they left behind). Also briefly discussing the economy, arts, and dress of the time--with appropriate visual examples for each--this is a well-done overview of “everyday life” with only one relatively minor drawback: the “producer” constantly addresses her narration to “the boss,” jarring the viewer out of the lesson being learned and forcibly returning our focus to the cutesy framing device. The other titles in the series are: A History of the Renaissance; Renaissance Science & Invention; Renaissance Art, Music & Literature and Renaissance Travel, Trade & Exploration. Recommended.