European history: Renaissance

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe.

During the late 1980s, a collection of sixteenth-century merchant letters appeared for sale.

In Shakespeare and the Making of America, Kevin J.

The world today is filled with angry voices, voices that often call for isolation and even violence against those who differ from us by race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or lifestyle.

Im Spannungsfeld von Macht, Glauben und Intrigen zeichnet diese packende Biografie das faszinierende Leben von Giulio de' Medici nach, der als Clemens VII.

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Von ihren mythenumwobenen Anfängen bis zu ihrem glanzvollen Höhepunkt – die Farnese waren nicht nur eine Familie, sondern eine Institution, die Italien und Europa nach-haltig prägte.

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance.

Der Westminster Palast, eines der berühmtesten Bauwerke der Welt, steht als Sinnbild für die politische Macht Großbritanniens und die wechselvolle Geschichte der Nation.

This book delves into the consequences of rapid population aging for Mexico and U.

One of the most fiercely debated topics in modern Christianity centers on the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities into the full life of the church.

Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtu.

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined.

An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence.

Das Buch der Bücher über Literatur, Gedankenwelt, Alltag und Geschichte der italienischen RenaissanceNichts war undenkbar, alles erlaubt, alles wurde ausprobiert – die italienische Renaissance steht am Beginn des modernen Europa.

A study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England provides critical insights on representations of women on the scaffold, focusing on how female victims and those writing about them constructed meaning from the ritual.

Obwohl in den meisten Religionen Frieden als anzustrebendes Ziel gilt, wurden Religionen immer wieder zur Legitimation von Gewalt genutzt.

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world.

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music.

The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism.

Born Francoise d'Aubigne, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV.

When we catastrophize, we think the worst.

Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought.

What drives a man, born into the shadows of a medieval worldview, to challenge the heavens themselves?

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions.

Mary, Queen of Scots is one of the great tragic figures of British history.

The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history.

With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy.

This book looks at the life, activities and achievements of William, 1st Baron Sandys, Knight of the Garter.

Catherine of Aragon continues to fascinate readers 500 years after she became Henry VIII's first queen.