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Death and Dying

Sarah Covington

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2012-06-26

Death and Dying Introduction Beliefs and practices relating to death underwent profound transformations in the early modern period and continu...

Dentière, Marie

Mary McKinley

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Marie Dentière Introduction Marie Dentière (b. 1495–d. c. 1561) was the daughter of a noble family (d’Ennetières) and an advocate of religio...

Dialogue

David Marsh

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2012-06-26

Dialogue Introduction By dramatically representing its cultural context, the dialogue has provided a timely and lively portrait of philosophic...

Drama, English Renaissance

David Bevington

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

English Renaissance Drama Introduction The drama of Renaissance England was truly remarkable and not just because William Shakespeare wrote...

Dürer, Albrecht

Jeffrey Chipps Smith

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-06-29

Albrecht Dürer Introduction Albrecht Dürer (b. 1471–d. 1528), of Nuremberg, enjoyed great fame in his lifetime and, occasionally, a cultlike st...

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...

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