Renaissance Man ("Blister in the Sun" by the Violent Femmes)

[olivec500]

Lol my history teacher showed us this today!! XD

[michelle20124]

stuck in my head just liek a bubonic plauge

[Luvmusic1299]

I love this. I watched the first little bit in humanities class, and the entire class was watching! A girl started dancing to the song! If only we could learn everything like this!

[14325477]

This is a really fun way to learn :-)

[SerPiladeGrimaldi]

Dante non è uomo del Rinascimento!

[tilltheroofcomesdown]

why the fuck am i watching this?

[BosoxMLB]

i watched this in social studies

[johnl805]

My college professor recommended this for our class haha

[Christina20918]

@historyteachers

Amazing voice you go there :) Great song. stuck in my head o.o

[cheyX0babii]

Thanks for helping me study for my tesst! :D

[VLaddict21]

thanks for creating such songs because my students enjoyed it a lot, they even asking for more of it!

[Jen41997]

this song is helping me with my essay which i need 4 history... and yes we watched this in class...lol

[ladylemonae]

Soooo watched this in History!!!! at the end of the lesson everyone was singing(shouting)

RENEISSANCE MAAAN!!!! Cool song, its helping me with my homework!!!

[Flanntheman1]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've used this as the finale to my lessons on The Renaissance and my students love it, love it!

Well done.

CF (Thailand)

[TheDoctorwho96]

dont do history but this is quite catchy really lol :D

[Thevampirechick99]

watched this today in class..so funny xD OMG

[catchiipod]

yeah in history class hahaha

[Maria62064]

great form to study for history!

[infectedisme]

im downloading this so i can rember stuff for history :P

[clement63L3]

not a word about Michel de Montaigne, Etienne de la Boétie or even François 1er ? I'm disppointed

[pokemonlover2354]

What editing software did you guys use? I have to know.

[hellokttie21]

heyyyy i watched this in history (mr. wildanger carnegie middle school 4th period

[HongoKanata1]

Ohhh watched this in class

[Crafter6450]

love this song, my class is singing this at validictory XD

[marquis27ful]

im only listenin to this cuz i saw it in scool to day

[Skrocklove]

Where do I find the texts of these videos - is there an Internet Site from where I Download the Text?

[snowboarder1019]

I dunno bout u but i watched this in Etudes Social = Social Studies

[PunkPandaXxx]

we watched this in history hahahaha i love the violet femmes! and i made the mistake of telling my teacher i can play this on guitar (wich i CAN but she wants me to SING 2)

[FaLlEnWiShEs123]

I want to be a renassiance man. That would be beast.

[championchimpzrecord]

We watched this and the black death video in my class

[Snowbird5779]

Thank you guys sooo much. These songs are so helpful that I got mad when this some of these things weren't on my test.

[kevynoooo]

OMG history is every where

[Slimyy98]

stuck in my head . o.o

[xxmegxxmegxx]

Haha brittanyy.

[poopingllama]

Omg we watched tht in history class today

[poppypuspa]

that's cool!!!

I want to be a renaissance man

[hoeksteen69]

I love your History Channel.!!!!

[dp01281]

playing this in history class with loud speakers and singing so loud people across the whole school can hear u...

[dp01281]

hahahaha like if you watched this in HISTORY!!!!!!

[fedelede2]

@historyteachers Oh, okay. :P

[fedelede2]

1:03

Extremely minor question: You say Dante Aligheri wrote in "Tuscan". However, I always thought Tuscany was basically the only province which has ever had Italian as it's main language and that there never were any regional Romance languages in the MIddle Ages or the Rennaisance. Is this right, or did I get my facts wrong and there was a local Tuscan language in the Renaissance?

[qbzzt]

@fedelede2 The Romance languages developed in the Middle Ages, when people no longer traveled as much as during the empire and therefore language changed in different areas in different ways. I think all the previously Latin-speaking regions developed different dialects. However, they were primarily oral, with writing reserved to the "real" Latin.

What we call Italian was the Tuscan language until Dante popularized it in all Italy.

[mrsronw]

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

[sanjurodog]

Why does this remind me of School House Rock? :)

[samrocks1999]

are the songs against copyright?

[KamriGee]

This is a really good video to me because it would get a class room engaged in learning the song because its really catchy & it also talks about the Renaissance. I would recommend this video to teachers to show to their students before the lesson so they can sort of have background knowledge(maybe when you they get into the people that was i the Renaissance(had something to do in.)

[NJMerlin]

@evildevilgirl02 Shakespeare wasn’t from Italy, but he came really late, when the Renaissance had grown out of Italy and spread all over Western Europe. And a lot of his plays are based on Italian stories.

But Dante was certainly Italian. Heck, he personally nailed down the brand-new Italian language. Some people say he belongs in the Middle Ages, not the Renaissance, but others say that’s just because the Black Death interrupted the Renaissance, so that it had to start over.

[visslevitt]

lol listen to it while studying!!! asm!

[cmc10598]

I love this song! My 7 grade history class has watched this so many times and now we all walk around singing it! Thank you for making all these videos they're great!

[cmc10598]

I love this song! My 7 grade history class has watched this so many times and now we all walk around singing it! Thank you for making all these videos they're great!

[happysingerperson]

thi is so cetchy! i watched it in history class!

[happysingerperson]

thi is so cetchy!

[PierreaSweedieCat]

Why study history?

Here is one answer:

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. George Lucas

So you see kids, Mrs B & Mr H are NOT crazy. Well, ok.... They're crazy. But they are "smart crazy". So listen up and learn! Someday when you are over 50, like me, these years will be the good old days.

[MultiWakalaka]

where can i download this :) no,really where can i download this?

[pratik959]

@MultiWakalaka just search in google youtube to mp3 converter or youtube downloader something like that

[lightnessss]

well seems you love the violent femmes band ^^

[MrFharenheit]

I know that with this song I'll pass my exam ^^

PD: Amazing voice

[smitty1937]

Yea, this won't help me on the test at all (Sarcastically speaking) ;) Thanks it helped a lot.

[danitzaabigailxd]

está bueno el video____----m gusta

[LivexLaughxLoveJuicy]

OMG this is hilarious... My history teacher showed it to us :) You guys should do a parody of "Friday" by Rebecca Black. Pleeeeeeease?

[mittfh]

Is it my imagination or are there a few renaissance women in the team line-up (approx 2:30 to 2:50)?

[pratik959]

do you actually sing the song or something

[historyteachers]

@pratik959 not sure what you mean but yes I am actually singing the lyrics I wrote :)

[arklalaful]

@historyteachers

Great work folks. Inspired. Would love to try this with my kids.

[MrTherandomguy234]

@historyteachers My teacher shows us your songs like, Charlemange, William the Conquerer, Black Death, I am a knight and others! YOUR AWESOME!!!

[MrTherandomguy234]

@historyteachers historyteachers? Do you know why Europeans started called Italy 'Italy'?

[theosanerxaino]

hola, me encanto el video, haces un muy buen trabajo, me darias permiso para publicar tu video con subtitulos español?... es que sinceramente es un gran trabajo y creo que merece ser difundido =)

saludos desde Chile

[pratik959]

i watched this in history class, but i wanted to ask what do you use to create this video

please tell me I want to know

[historyteachers]

@pratik959 Adobe Flash and Premiere

[pratik959]

@historyteachers thats how you create all this videos

[cjm450]

@historyteachers : and a major dose of AWESOME.

Love the series.

Thanks for your hard work. :)

[GrifNY18]

@pratik959 I watched it in history class too. i cant get it out of my head

[pratik959]

i watched this in history class, but i wanted to ask what do you use to create this video

[pratik959]

@pratik959 ohk nice it is really good

[superrlisaa21]

if u watched this in school like this

[fedelede2]

When's the Medici video going out?

[JivanCamoirano]

funny !

[1baseballboy1]

i love it!!!

[ParamoreROX4va]

you're a natural at video editing

[badboysRhawt22]

Michelangelo's David wasn't always the pride of the town - once when Florentines got so mad at the Medicis, they threw stones at the statue and its arm got knocked off! Obviously, since then it has been reattached.

[chickinchainmail]

Whne watching this just started think how we have 'renaissance men', but women were relegated to 2nd class citizens. But I loved that the "band " members in the vid are all women.

[Fionnuala1969]

You are the filking QUEEN!! I love it!! As you've been told in another video, prepare for more hits. I'm posting a few on facebook and have many many SCA friends (medieval recreation). :-D

[mrcholas]

"I WANT TO MARRY ANNE BOLEYN."

"NO."

"I'M BETTER THAN THE POPE."

"NOPE."

such gold!!!!

[mandscat]

Bravo!

[MissFailCookie]

very well done! our history teacher showed us this :)

[PierreaSweedieCat]

Incredible, a list of many of the greatest and most inventive men in history, all summed up in a 3 minute song. Voice, looks, creativity, dance, teaching ability.... is there anything Mrs B cannot do?

[haixu1234]

My teacher showed us this video and some others too!! They are amazing and very entertaining!!:D:D

[kirstennemd0828]

Watched this in our History Class!! We all got a real kick out of it :DDD It was so fun and awesome! :D

[badboysRhawt22]

Are you going to do a Northern Renaissance? I myself prefer it to the Italian.

[historyteachers]

@badboysRhawt22 If you mean artists I'd love to do BOSCH

[historyteachers]

@badboysRhawt22 or Van Eyck

[badboysRhawt22]

@historyteachers And of course there's everyone in the Delft School, like Vermeer and all the still life painters. But I myself am a fan of the French renaissance, with all the chateaux. And there were the Wars of Religion between the Catholics and Huguenots.

[chisdenha]

you have a good singing voice

[1994Donaldson]

Loved it!!! As an English teacher who paused at semester's end with the Renaissance and will return to it in the new year, I can't wait to share this as a quircky review with my senior Brit Lit students!

[badboysRhawt22]

Are you going to make a Medici video?

[historyteachers]

@badboysRhawt22 yes- we shot it and it's in the editing process

[tonywinn08]

@historyteachers cant wit, i love the Medici

[wakapatchu]

You don't even know how much I love this.... i have to get my AP Euro teacher to play this during class...

[badboysRhawt22]

You skipped a lot of the Northern Renaissance - like all the Delft painters and German scientists.

[showjumpergurl3132]

we just watched some of these in history, and they are so helpful!

[historyteachers]

@notlitotes1 Yes, I have that in my Da Vinci video- the fact he was illegitimate and could not take the last name of his father or go to formal schooling - hence "from Vinci"

[notlitotes1]

Well done! I'm still iffy on "Da Vinci." I hate to point out what you already know, but "da Vinci" just means "from Vinci." Arguably he had no last name. Eh. Minors.

[historyteachers]

Yes, he is quite early but I use his use of the vernacular and the classicism (Virgil) as a sort of bridge to the Renaissance...being a Florentine, he sort of fit in with all the other Tuscan greats. It is definitely something to point out to students, though. Also, the Renaissance itself is a much debated term and time-frame.

[pergliamicidudu]

@historyteachers yes but in Italian schools you should be more accurate about our divine poet Dante! ;) bye

[pergliamicidudu]

I love your works but saying that Dante was a renaissance man is a big mistake! He is totally Medieval: 1265-1321, his thoughts, his philosophy are medieval! We start renaissance in the XV century with the works of Brunelleschi

[barbaratorok]

@pergliamicidudu stupid song but very educational!!!

[DonnaRN222]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!! cute rewrite tho!!!!

[Vballdude023]

Yep ^

[Simbi0tica]

Hilarious