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Papacy
Frederick McGinness
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Papacy Introduction A study of the papacy or the Holy See (the episcopal office of the bishop of Rome) between the years 1350 and 1650 must ta...
Papal Rome
Frederick McGinness
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Papal Rome Introduction No other city in Europe matches Rome in its traditions, history, legacies, and influence in the Western world. Rome in...
Paris
Barbara B. Diefendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Paris Introduction With a population of two hundred to three hundred thousand people, Paris was the largest city in northern Europe during th...
Parr, Katherine
Susan E. James
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Katherine Parr Introduction Once characterized as the marginally memorable sixth wife of Henry VIII, Katherine (Kateryn, Catherine) Parr (b. 15...
Persecution and Martyrdom
Sarah Covington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Persecution and Martyrdom Introduction The fragmentation of western Christianity in the wake of the reformation ended the monolithic power of t...
Petrarch
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Petrarch Introduction Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, b. 1304–d. 1374) occupies a unique position in Renaissance studies. While modern scholars...
Plague and its Consequences
Samuel Kline Cohn
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Plague and Its Consequences Introduction Although the character of the disease has recently stirred much controversy, the consequences of the...
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, The
Wladyslaw Roczniak
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Introduction The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—also called the Commonwealth of Both Nations, Poland-Lithuania,...
Political Thought
Mark Jurdjevic
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Political Thought Introduction Early modern European political thought is notable for its considerable variety and complexity. The broad range...
Poliziano, Angelo
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
ANGELO POLIZIANO Introduction Angelo Ambrogini (b. 1454–d. 1494), called Poliziano after his home town (Lat. Mons Politianus, Ital. Montepu...
Printing and the Book
Erika Rummel, Mark Wilson, Milton Kooistra
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Printing and the Book Introduction Until the 1980s, when periodization fell out of favor among historians, the development of printing was us...
Rabelais, François
Bernd Renner
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
François Rabelais Introduction Few writers in world literature have had as considerable an influence on letters and later authors or have garn...
Reformation and Wars of Religion in France, The
Barbara B. Diefendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Reformation and Wars of Religion in France Introduction The 16th century began in France as a time of relative peace, prosperity, and o...
Reformation, English
Stella Fletcher
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
English Reformation Introduction Fifteenth-century England was solidly Catholic, 17th-century England predominantly Protestant: the differe...
Reformation, German
Hans Hillerbrand, Wladyslaw Roczniak
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
German Reformation Introduction In the 16th century, “Germany” existed only as a kind of shorthand term to designate the German-speaking land...
Reformation, The
Hans Hillerbrand, Wladyslaw Roczniak
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Reformation Introduction The Reformation of the 16th century, sometimes known as “Protestant Reformation” in order to distinguish it from...
Rembrandt
Christopher Atkins
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Rembrandt Introduction The son of a miller in Leiden, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn turned to art as a profession relatively late. While many ...
Renaissance, The
Margaret L. King
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The Renaissance Introduction The whole of the Oxford Bibliographies Renaissance and Reformation module is devoted to the period 1350–1650, one ...
Reuchlin, Johann
Mark Wilson
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Johann Reuchlin Introduction Johann Reuchlin (b. 1455–d. 1522) studied Roman law and Greek in Freiburg, Paris, Basel, Orleans, and Tübingen, wh...
Revolutionary England, 1642-1702
Sarah Covington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Revolutionary England, 1642–1702 Introduction The 17th century is one of the most important periods in England’s history, eliciting highly ...
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