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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, ...
Medici, Lorenzo de'
Stella Fletcher
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Lorenzo de’ Medici Introducton Following his grandfather Cosimo (b. 1389–d. 1464) and father Piero (b. 1416–d. 1469), Lorenzo (b. 1449–d. 1...
Medicine
Alisha Rankin
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Medicine Introduction Medicine in Renaissance and Reformation Europe was a study in both continuity and change. Overall, the medical landscape...
Mediterranean
Eric R Dursteler
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Mediterranean Introduction The field of Renaissance Mediterranean studies for the period 1300–1700 has produced several of the great works o...
Merici, Angela
Querciolo Mazzonis
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Angela Merici Introduction St. Angela Merici (b. c. 1474, Desenzano del Garda–d. 27 January 1540, Brescia) is the founder of the Company of St...
Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della
M.V. Dougherty
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Introduction The Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (b. 1463–d. 1494) is best known today for...
Mission
Luke Clossey
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Mission Introduction The Christian mission in the Renaissance period (1350–1650) witnessed the completion of the nominal Christianization of E...
Montaigne, Michel de
George Hoffmann
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Michel de Montaigne Introduction No other early modern European author except Shakespeare has attracted so much scholarship or lent himself or ...
Music
Ann Moyer
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Music Introduction Scholarship on Renaissance music has developed enormously from the mid-20th century onward. Still important is the tradi...
Navarre, Marguerite de
Catharine Randall
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Marguerite De Navarre Introduction The highly cultured, erudite, and learned Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) was the daughter of Charles d’An...
Netherlands (Dutch Revolt/ Dutch Republic), The
Henk van Nierop
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
The Netherlands (Dutch Revolt/ Dutch Republic) Introduction By the middle of the 16th century the Netherlands consisted of some twenty princip...
Nettesheim, Agrippa von
Charles G. Nauert
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Agrippa von Nettesheim Introduction Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (b. 14 September 1486 in Cologne—d. 1535 in Grenoble) was famous...
Niccoli, Niccolò
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Niccolò Niccoli Introduction Niccolò Niccoli (b. c. 1364–d. 1437) is one of the more intriguing figures of early Italian humanism. One of the ...
Opera
Beth L. Glixon, Jonathan E. Glixon
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Opera Introduction The early decades of the 17th century saw a number of musical innovations, of which opera—that is, a play set entirely to m...
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