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A 2001 article by Paul Richard Blum, from the journal Minerva. Considers the problems which the Renaissance philosophers of nature attempted to solve.
http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol5/principles.html

Essays and assorted resources on the intellectual history of this period.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REN/

An encyclopedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_philosophy

A listing of the most important woman thinkers of the period. From Historical Women of Philosophy.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9974/ren.html

Erasmus, Thomas More and their historical context.
http://east_west_dialogue.tripod.com/europe/id5.html

A short summary of the era and the central questions.
http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/3t.htm

Discusses many aspects of the Renaissance thought, from Platonism to Galileo. From the Radical Academy.
http://radicalacademy.com/adiphilhumanism.htm

A few of the most important thinkers of the period.
http://www.candleinthedark.com/renaissance.html

Humanism, reformation, politics, science, and skepticism. From Patrick Distante's History of Western Philosophy Summary Outline.
http://home.earthlink.net/~pdistan/howp_5.html

A discussion of the core idea in humanistic philosophy, by Charles Trinkaus. From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cg...al/DHI/dhicontrib2.cgi?id=dv4-20