Renaissance and Reformation - I - Oxford Bibliographies
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 ...
Literature, French
Andrea Frisch
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
French Literature Introduction The French Renaissance, which in literary studies is more or less taken to span the 16th century, is considere...
Literature, Late Medieval German
Albrecht Classen
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Late Medieval German Literature Introduction Despite many lines of traditions running through the late middle ages, 15th-century German writers...
Literature, Spanish
Hilaire Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Spanish Literature Introduction The Renaissance came later to Spain than to any other European country, which led to a certain sense of “bela...
Luther, Martin
Hans Hillerbrand, Wladyslaw Roczniak
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Martin Luther Introduction There is no arguing the centrality of Martin Luther (b. 1483–d. 1546) to the story of the Reformation. Though othe...
Lyric Poetry
William J. Kennedy
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Lyric Poetry Introduction Over the past two decades, critical emphases on social, cultural, and political topics in literary studies have great...
Mannerism
Anne H. Muraoka
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Mannerism Introduction Mannerism or maniera is a name given to a style and period in 16th-century Italian art, chronologically positioned betw...
Manuzio, Aldo
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius) Introduction Aldo Manuzio (c. 1450–1515) was famous in his own day as one of a group of great scholar-printer...
Marlowe, Christopher
David Bevington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Christopher Marlowe Introduction Christopher Marlowe remains a fascinating subject for critical study. His short life of twenty-nine years (b...
Marriage and Dowry
Alexander Cowan
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Marriage and Dowries Introduction The history of marriage is inseparable from the history of the family as an institution and from the histo...
Masculinity
Gerry Milligan
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Masculinity Introduction The question of masculinity lies at the heart of masterpieces of Renaissance art, philosophy, and literature. Proscri...
Maximilian I, Emperor
Paula Fichtner
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Emperor Maximilian I Introduction Ambitious and imaginative to a fault, Maximilian I (1459–1519) was the son of German Emperor Frederick III an...
Medici, Catherine de'
Katherine Crawford
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Catherine De’ Medici Introduction Catherine de’ Medici, wife of Henri II (r. 1547–1559) and mother of François II, Charles IX, and Henri III, ...
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