Renaissance and Reformation - I - Oxford Bibliographies
Guarino da Verona
Craig Kallendorf
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Guarino da VeronaIntroductionGuarino da Verona (b. 1374–d. 1460, also known as Guarino Guarini) is one of the better known of the early Italian humani...
Guicciardini, Francesco
Stella Fletcher
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Francesco GuicciardiniIntroductionFrancesco Guicciardini (b. 1483–d. 1540) was a Florentine patrician and papal administrator who wrote numerous works...
Guilds and Manufacturing
Andrea Caracausi
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Guilds and ManufacturingIntroductionGuilds were one of the most important and widespread associations that organized trade and manufactures from the M...
Hamburg, 1350–1815
Frank Hatje
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2020-05-27
Hamburg, 1350–1815IntroductionOriginally, Hamburg was a borough around the cathedral of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen and a mercantile port city f...
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...
Henry VII
Stella Fletcher
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Henry VIIIntroductionOn his father’s side Henry VII (1457–1509), king of England and lord of Ireland, was a great-grandson of Charles VI of France. On...
Henry VIII, King of England
Sarah Covington
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Henry VIII, King of EnglandIntroductionHenry VIII bestrode his era with the kind of imposing confidence that he projected in his famous wide-legged po...
Herbert, George
Cristina Malcolmson
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
George Herbert Introduction For George Herbert (b. 1593–d. 1633), the Renaissance and Reformation coincided in his career, but they were frequ...
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...
Historiography
Ann Moyer
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Historiography Introduction History was one of the main disciplines identified with the humanist movement; Renaissance humanists wrote many wo...
Hobbes, Thomas
Jeffrey Collins
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Thomas HobbesIntroductionIt is indicative of the immense influence of Thomas Hobbes that he has spawned three separate bibliographies in the Oxford bi...
Holy Roman Empire 1300–1650
Duncan Hardy
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Holy Roman Empire 1300–1650IntroductionBetween the High Middle Ages and 1806, much of Central Europe was encompassed by an entity called the Holy Roma...
Homes, Foundling
Nicholas Terpstra
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Foundling Homes Introduction Institutional foundling homes first emerged in late-14th-century Italy as distinct charitable initiatives of civi...
Huguenots
David van der Linden
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
HuguenotsIntroductionThe Huguenots were French Reformed Protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin. The term Huguenots was first coined as ...
Humanism
Paul Grendler
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
HumanismIntroductionHumanism was the major intellectual movement of the Renaissance. In the opinion of the majority of scholars, it began in late-14th...
Humanism, The Origins of
Ronald G. Witt
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
The Origins of Humanism Introduction Italian humanism began in the northern third of the Italian peninsula, which constituted the southern kin...
Hundred Years War, The
Clifford J. Rogers
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Hundred Years War Introduction “The Hundred Years War” is a term invented in the 18th century and popularized by Chrysanthe-Ovide Des M...
Hungary, The Kingdom of
Szabolcs Varga
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The Kingdom of Hungary Introduction The age of the Renaissance and the Reformation brought significant changes in the history of the Kingdom of...
Hus, Jan
Craig D. Atwood
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Jan HusIntroductionJan Hus is the most famous leader of the Czech Reformation of the 15th century and one of the most prominent figures executed as a ...
Hutchinson, Lucy
David Norbrook
Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Lucy HutchinsonIntroductionLucy Hutchinson (b. 1620–d. 1681) is best known as the author of Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, a classic biogr...
