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.
Presents thirty-two primary works that represent Western humanistic thought from the sixth century through the sixteenth, along with introductions on the author and the significance of each; includes pieces by such figures as St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Martin Luther.
how Renassance artists and Reformation priests created our world
Cahill, Thomas
2013
Beginning with the Black Death, this volume of the author's history of Europe discusses how the innovations and explorations of the Renaissance era and the events of the Reformation changed the Western world to an extent that would not occur again until the twentieth century.
Presents ninety color plates depicting the fashions of the medieval and Renaissance eras, featuring the typical dress styles of royalty, servants, knights, pages, religious figures, and commoners.
