Text, maps, and illustrations reveal the art, architecture, trade, agriculture, religion, geographical discoveries, and other aspects of the Renaissance period throughout Europe.
Presents volume two of a two-volume set that contains a number of alphabetically-arranged biographies of major world and religious figures of the Renaissance Period as well as key persons from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas from 1454 to 1600, and provides background information on each person and significant achievements they made.
Contains entries that provide information about various aspects of the history and culture of the Renaissance, covering a period that ranges from 1350 through the seventeenth century; arranged alphabetically from Abrabanel-to-civility.
Lengthy articles and brief entries, supplemented by bibliographical references, explores the people, events, art, and social, political, and cultural developments of the Renaissance.
