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Elizabeth I
Sarah Covington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Elizabeth I Introduction The historiographic house of Gloriana is an enormous edifice of many rooms and wings—even if its foundations have be...
England, 1485-1642
Sarah Covington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
England, 1485–1642 Introduction The scholarship on Tudor and Stuart England constitutes a parallel universe in its own right, with its ...
Epic and Romance
Dennis Looney
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Epic and Romance Introduction Epic and romance are distinct literary genres that poets combine in some of the most effective narrative poems of...
Erasmus
Erika Rummel, Mark Wilson
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Erasmus Introduction Desiderius Erasmus was the leading Northern humanist in the 16th century. Born circa 1466 as the illegitimate son of a p...
Family and Childhood
Margaret L. King
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Family and Childhood Introduction The history of the family was largely neglected by scholars until after World War II, when theoretical perspe...
Ficino, Marsilio
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Marsilio Ficino Introduction Marsilio Ficino (b. 1433–d. 1499) is probably best known today for his translation of the works of Plato, which ga...
Florence
Sharon Strocchia
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Florence Introduction Florence has long been considered the epicenter of the Italian Renaissance because of the early and conspicuous develop...
France
Barbara B. Diefendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
France Introduction Traditionally envisioned as the dawning of a new age characterized by the rebirth of classical learning and the arts,...
Francis I
Robert Knecht
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Francis I Introduction Francis I, king of France from 1515 to 1547, has not always been treated by posterity with the seriousness he deserves. ...
Galilei, Galileo
Ian S. Glass
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Galileo Galilei Introduction Galileo Galilei (c. 15 February 1564–8 January 1642) or Galileo, as he is usually referred to, is often regarded ...
General Church Councils, 1409-1517
Nelson H. Minnich
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
General Church Councils, 1409–1517 Introduction During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Catholic Church celebrated more general counc...
Ghetto
Benjamin Ravid
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Ghetto Introduction From the beginning of their residence in medieval Christian Europe, Jews usually tended to dwell in proximity to each othe...
Hanseatic League
Alexander Cowan
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Hanseatic League Introduction The Hanseatic League (or Hansa), the collective association of ports along the southern Baltic and North Sea c...
Henri IV
Eric Nelson
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Henri IV Introduction Since his death in 1610, interpreters of Henri IV have reinvented him on numerous occasions. Early chroniclers of his rei...
Hispanic Mysticism
Hilaire Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Hispanic Mysticism Introduction For some time now, the “canon” of Spanish mysticism has been expanding. No longer is our picture of this sp...
Historiography
Ann Moyer
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Historiography Introduction History was one of the main disciplines identified with the humanist movement; Renaissance humanists wrote many w...
Homes, Foundling
Nicholas Terpstra
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Foundling Homes Introduction Institutional foundling homes first emerged in late-14th-century Italy as distinct charitable initiatives of civi...
Humanism
Paul Grendler
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Humanism Introduction Humanism was the major intellectual movement of the Renaissance. In the opinion of the majority of scholars, it began in ...
Humanism, The Origins of
Ronald G. Witt
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
The Origins of Humanism Introduction Italian humanism began in the northern third of the Italian peninsula, which constituted the southern kin...
Hundred Years War, The
Clifford J. Rogers
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Hundred Years War Introduction “The Hundred Years War” is a term invented in the 18th century and popularized by Chrysanthe-Ovide Des M...
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