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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, ...
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...
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