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Confraternities
Nicholas Terpstra
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Confraternities Introduction Confraternities were the lay face of the Renaissance and early modern Catholic Church. Present in every city, vil...
Convent Culture
Sharon Strocchia
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Convent Culture Introduction The study of women living in organized religious communities in late medieval and early modern Europe has rece...
Costume
Susan Mosher Stuard
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Costume Introduction Costume is a relatively new field of study, and its literature is interdisciplinary. Currently, the field draws from lite...
Crime and Punishment
Trevor Dean
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Crime and Punishment Introduction The study of crime and criminal justice has been one of the most lively areas of the historiography of late ...
Cromwell, Oliver
Sarah Covington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Oliver Cromwell Introduction More than any other figure of 17th-century England, Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) leaves behind a complex and debate...
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 ...
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