European history: Renaissance

Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice.

The Henry VIII of popular legend and historical fiction is a bacchanalian figure of gargantuan proportions.

In April 1455, ten-year-old Ippolita Maria Sforza, a daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Milan, was betrothed to the seven-year-old crown prince of the Kingdom of Naples as a symbol of peace and reconciliation between the two rival states.

The story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity and protection of the religious rights of individuals.

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

"e;The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences.

One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome.

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.

Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award A timely study that puts current issues-religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics-in historical context.

This book offers interdisciplinary and cross-national perspectives on the challenges of negotiating the contours of religious tolerance in Europe.

We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time.

Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors.

For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish.

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety.

An illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient RomeGiuliano da Sangallo (1443-1516) was one of the first architects to draw the ruins and artifacts of ancient Rome in a systematic way.

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) gelang das einzigartige Kunststück, vom einfachen Landedelmann zum allmächtigen Lord Protector aufzusteigen.

Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England.

Panaceia's Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe.

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty.

Gampel investigates the anti-Jewish riots in 1391–2 in the lands of Castile and Aragon.

As England's most celebrated royal dynasty, it's often overlooked that the Tudors have their origins in rural Wales, far from the urban centres of English power where they dared to become great.

This volume is devoted to the spheres in which conflict and rivalries unfolded during the Renaissance and how these social, cultural and geographical settings conditioned the polemics themselves.

Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life.

Step into the tumultuous world of Henry VIII, a ruler whose reign reshaped England and left an indelible mark on history.

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.

A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch.

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Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book.

A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions.

Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors.

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua.

Sir Thomas Chaloner achieved much during his short life.

Von den abgelegenen Bergdörfern der Schweiz bis zu den großen Schlachtfeldern Europas – die Geschichte der Schweizer Söldner ist ein faszinierendes Kapitel europäischer Militär- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte.

1618 entzündete der Prager Fenstersturz einen Konflikt, der Europa in einen dreißigjährigen Albtraum stürzte.