Best Ressources to learn about Atmosphere of Renaissance and Medieval

[Lordkaiser]

I am working on a project and want to create an atmosphere that feels like being
in the Renaissance/(late) medieval times.

What are the best Ressources you know (books, videos, documentaries etc.) for learning about
daily life and more
in medieval times and the Renaissance in

Northern Europe/Germany (nobles ruling the people, life as a noble, everyday life and worldview of the peasants)
Italy (rivaling city states, Renaissance artists and polymaths like Leonardo DaVinci etc.)
Venice/Genoa ((Everyday) Life in a merchant republic, maybe even as a merchant, trade practices)
Life of mercenaries, being a mercenary, opinion of other people about mercenaries

such topics.

Who can recommend good ressources?

 

[Lordkaiser]

Ok, i guess I was asking for too much at once. Let me reduce it to one topic at first.

Does anybody know a really good book (or really good documentary) to learn about everyday life in a city of the Hanse (Hamburg Lübeck etc.) in the eu4 timeframe, best the earlier times of that?

 

[Lotad02]

Ok, i guess I was asking for too much at once. Let me reduce it to one topic at first.

Does anybody know a really good book (or really good documentary) to learn about everyday life in a city of the Hanse (Hamburg Lübeck etc.) in the eu4 timeframe, best the earlier times of that?

I saw a Jacques de Goffe's book in a bookshop about medieval life as a warrior, a priest and a merchant, but I can't remember its title...

 

[Barsoom]

Classics:
Jacques Le Goff. Already mentioned, many books among which Time, Work, & Culture in the Middle Ages and The Medieval Imagination seem best suited for your purpose.
Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages. About the sense of life of medieval people in France and the Low Countries, focused on the Burgundian court.
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou. Life in a smalltown in the south of France.
Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe. How different regions and cultures became part of an overarching civilization.

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Classics:
Jacques Le Goff. Already mentioned, many books among which Time, Work, & Culture in the Middle Ages and The Medieval Imagination seem best suited for your purpose.
Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages. About the sense of life of medieval people in France and the Low Countries, focused on the Burgundian court.
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou. Life in a smalltown in the south of France.
Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe. How different regions and cultures became part of an overarching civilization.

These are all good. Another classic relevant to the OP would be volumes 2 & 3 of A History of Private Life: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/collection.php?cpk=1094

 

[Abdul Goatherd]

I am working on a project and want to create an atmosphere that feels like being
in the Renaissance/(late) medieval times.

Fernand Braudel's Civilization & Capitalism is chock full of stuff of that kind, although it only comes in at the tail end and stretches into 18th C.

 

[Dave Consiglio]

Another classic relevant to Feast and Daily Life in the Middle Ages: https://docsbay.net/feast-and-daily-life-in-the-middle-ages