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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...
Hungary, The Kingdom of
Szabolcs Varga
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The Kingdom of Hungary Introduction The age of the Renaissance and the Reformation brought significant changes in the history of the Kingdom of...
Iconology and Iconography
Paul Taylor
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Iconology and Iconography Introduction The words “iconology” and “iconography” are often confused, and they have never been given definitions ...
Joan of Arc
Larissa Taylor
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Joan of Arc Introduction Joan of Arc was born the daughter of well-off peasants in 1412 in Domremy on the frontier of France, Burgundy, and th...
Julius II
Nelson H. Minnich
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Julius II Introduction Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere, b. 1443–d. 1513, pope 1503–1513) is best known as the “warrior pope” who used warfar...
Kepler, Johannes
Sheila J. Rabin
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Johannes Kepler Introduction The mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (b. 1571–d. 1630) was a leading figure in what is commonly rega...
Last Wills and Testaments
Samuel Kline Cohn
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Last Wills and Testaments Introduction The testament has been an essential source for the study of the late Middle Ages and early modern peri...
Leo X
Nelson H. Minnich
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Leo X Introduction The reign of Pope Leo X (Giovanni Damaso Romolo de’ Medici, b. 1475–d. 1521, pope 1512–1521) was conspicuously important f...
Letter Writing and Epistolary Culture
Deanna Shemek
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Letter Writing and Epistolary Culture Introduction Early modern letter writing spanned literary and nonliterary, public and private, elite and...
Libraries
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Libraries Introduction History records famous libraries as far back as those of Ashurbanipal (in 7th-century bce Assyria) and Alexandria, and ...
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