Renaissance Site
	Christine Sharbrough BellaOnline's Renaissance Editor

Cassone - hope chest for a Renaissance Bride
In our culture, it is the bride who usually purchases the hope chest for herself or inherits it from a female member of the family. However, in fifteenth-century Italy, some historians have alleged that it was the groom who not only purchased it, but had it decoratively painted.

Games and Sports in the Renaissance
Organized sports as we know them today did not exist, but people have always enjoyed competition, in whatever ways were available.

Jubilee Celebrations
Life was not all toil and trouble during the Renaissance. The wars did keep people busy, and the infighting from powerful families was on some level entertaining – depending on whose side you were on. But were there any really big celebrations?

Renaissance Dance
Dancing was incredibly popular in the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. Peasants did it, nobles did it (though very differently); adults and children loved to dance.