home4school Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 (edited) What to use not what is to use! Thanks! Edited August 6, 2012 by home4school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 C.S. Lewis has an excellent and scholarly (be warned not an easy book) called The Discarded Image. It might be more of a mom background book than a student book because it was written to a college level audience. I'll never forget going to a special exhibit on the evolution of the Spanish Renaissance and getting this big smile on my face because I knew why Mary was standing on the moon in every piece of art in the exhibit. It will also help you with Paradise Lost when you get there as Milton uses the same world view even though he's not of the time period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboggie Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Have you looked at Veritas Press Omnibus? It is great for literature AND worldview. Also, thegreatbooks.com has a great selection of books and study guides. We used both resources with a group of high school homeschoolers and were very pleased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 We used the following for our study of the renaissance: Renaissance and Reformation Times by Dorothy Mills The Portable Renaissance Reader (for primary sources) A Treasury of the World's Greatest Speeches Literature included: Everyman (morality play) Utopia (Thomas More) Shakespeare (plays +sonnets) Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves selected essays from Francis Bacon poetry (Milton, Donne, Raleigh) Documentaries and TC lectures Dd started this as an 8th grader, and we're still finishing it up now.... She is very interested in this time period in history so we're going to go very deep wtih our study of the medieval time period. Here is a potential list of what we may cover in a year or so... Note: she may read some of this before then and we will probably save some of it for later years Spines: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop The Italian Renaissance by J. H. Plumb Supplement: Geoffrey of Monmouth-The History of the Kings of Britain Alfred the Great-Asser's Life of King Alfred Bede's Ecclesiastical History Rule of St. Benedict Life of Charlemagne A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman How the Irish Saved Civilization (she's already read this one) Anglo-Saxon Chronicles The Prince by Machiavelli Drama: Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Mythology: Nibelungenlied Tain The Saga of the Volsungs Literature: The Song of Taliesin (she's read this one) Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain The Annals of Imperial Rome (Tacitus) +Gemania too Early Christian Writings St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton Confessions by Augustine City of God by Augustine Shorter Summa by Thomas Aquinas Saints and Heroes: To the End of the Middle Ages by George Hodges Saints and Heroes: Since the Middle Ages by George Hodges Poetry: Beowulf Dream of the Rood The Song of Roland Selections from Canterbury Tales The Divine Comedy Paradise Lost Yeats (just for fun) Idylls of the King Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo Free Reading: The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill The New World by Winston Churchill Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey In the Days of Queen Elizabeth by Eva March Tappan (she's read this one) Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man by Catherine Bowen Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson Sir Nigel and The White Company: Two Classic Novels of the 100 Years' War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 And dont' forget SWB's History of the Medieval World for a good overview of what's going on in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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