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Salutati, Coluccio
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
COLUCCIO SALUTATI IntroductionColuccio Salutati (b. 1331–d. 1406) is primarily known today as the scholar who ensured that the humanist movement estab...
Savonarola, Girolamo
Stella Fletcher
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Girolamo Savonarola Introduction Born in Ferrara, Girolamo Savonarola (b. 1452–d. 1498) entered the Dominican order in Bologna in 1475. After s...
Schooling
Paul Grendler
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Schooling Introduction The study of schooling, defined as preuniversity education, in the Renaissance and Reformation era is old and new. Histo...
Scientific Revolution
Sheila J. Rabin
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Scientific Revolution Introduction The developments in science during the 16th and 17th centuries have traditionally been called the “Scienti...
Shakespeare, William
David Bevington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
William Shakespeare Introduction Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and perhaps in the world, Shakespeare holds end...
Spain
Hilaire Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Spain Introduction The Spanish Renaissance is more typically referred to as the Siglo de Oro, or Golden Age, although the potential political ...
Spanish Inquisition
Sara Nalle
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Spanish Inquisition Introduction Since its papal authorization in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition has been controversial. A religious court esta...
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...
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