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The Radical Reformation
Wladyslaw Roczniak
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
The Radical Reformation Introduction The reformation of the 16th century challenged the core of traditional Christian theological concepts. Wit...
Thirty Years War, The
Wladyslaw Roczniak
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The Thirty Years War Introduction The Thirty Years War, a multifaceted and multinational political and military conflict that raged over centra...
Titian
Tom Nichols
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Titian Introduction Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, b. c. 1488–d. 1576) was born in the remote mountain village of Pieve di Cadore but worked in Ven...
Tornabuoni, Lucrezia
Gerry Milligan
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Lucrezia Tornabuoni Introduction In Florence, a city where there was no princely court to provide titles of authority to women and at a time w...
Trade Networks
Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Trade Networks Introduction The discovery of America and, more broadly, the European expansion to other continents are the major events charac...
Transylvania, The Principality of
Teréz Oborni
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
The Principality of Transylvania Introduction The state called the Principality of Transylvania was formed in the eastern part of the medieval...
Universities
Paul Grendler
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Universities Introduction Princes and towns valued universities so highly that they founded more universities during the Renaissance than e...
Valla, Lorenzo
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Lorenzo Valla Introduction Lorenzo Valla 1407–1457 was the great provocateur among the early Italian humanists, a dazzlingly original intellectu...
Velázquez
Xanthe Brooke
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Velázquez Introduction The 400th anniversary in 1999 of the birth of the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez (b. 1599–d. 1660), the leading artist...
Venice
Margaret L. King
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Venice Introduction The city of Venice was unique in European history: an independent republic that endured for more than one thousand years,...
Vernacular Languages and Dialects
Ann Moyer
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Vernacular Languages and Dialects Introduction Written vernaculars increased enormously in use during the Renaissance. They also became objects...
Visitors, Italian
Stella Fletcher
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Italian Visitors Introduction It is impossible to know how many non-Italians paid visits to Italy between the 14th and the 17th century or how ...
Vives, Juan Luis
Charles Fantazzi, Enrique González González, Víctor Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Juan Luis Vives Introduction Juan Luis Vives (or Joan Lluís Vives in Catalan) was born into a Jewish converso family in Valencia in 1492, accord...
Ward, Mary
Victoria Mondelli
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Mary Ward Introduction Mary Ward (b. 1585–d. 1645), founder of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary [IBVM], one of the first institutions ...
Warfare and Military Organizations
Clifford J. Rogers
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Warfare and Military Organizations Introduction Throughout the period c. 1350–1650, warfare was endemic in European society, and most rulers ...
Widowhood
Ann Crabb
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Widowhood Introduction The history of widows is part of the history of women. It was also a distinctive phase of female experience in the Rena...
Witch Hunt
Gary K. Waite, Karim Baccouche, Cheryl Petreman
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Witch Hunt Introduction The subject of the late medieval and early modern witch persecution has grown incredibly since the advent of social hi...
Women and Learning
Margaret L. King
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Women and Learning Introduction In 1977, Renaissance scholar and pioneering feminist Joan Kelly posed the disturbing question: “Did women hav...
Women and the Visual Arts
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Women and the Visual Arts Introduction The relationship between women and art in the Renaissance and Reformation across Europe is still a relat...
Women Writing in Early Modern Spain
Lisa Vollendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Women Writing in Early Modern Spain Introduction Women gained access to the written word in unprecedented numbers during the early modern peri...
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