Jacob Burckhardt's Renaissance
Alison Brown evaluates the life and scholarship of the great German historian of Renaissance Italy and his seminal influence on Western cultural history.
Renaissance
Pox and Paranoia in Renaissance Europe
J.S. Cummins considers the impact of syphilis on the 16th-century world – a tale of rapid spread, guilt, scapegoats and wonder-cures, with an uncomfortable modern resonance.
The Renaissance in National Context
Three texts dealing with the transition from the Renaissance to the Modern Age
The Renaissance in Northern Europe
Peter Burke considers the various works dealing with the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance
In Reading History, Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance.
'In Place of Strife' - The Guilds and the Law in Renaissance Venice
The trade guilds of Venice, explains Richard Mackenney, were organisations with a surprising amount of political and economic power in the patrician Renaissance city.
Witch-Hunting and Women in the Art of the Renaissance
The artistic images of women depicted as witches were varied and constitute unusual 'pieces of history' by preserving a visual record of the intellectual origins of the witchcraze, as Dale Hoak discusses here.
The Devil in Renaissance France
David Nicholls examines the central position of Satan in early modern French popular culture.
The Hindu Renaissance of the Late 19th Century
Hinduism in the late nineteenth century, explains Lenah Leneman, experienced a revival that was to reawaken its devotees to their ancient faith, expose them to Christian and Muslim ideas, and finally to make its influence felt as far afield as America.
The 17th Century 'Renaissance' in Russia: Western Influences on Art and Architecture
According to Lindsey A.J. Hughes, Peter the Great's programme of Westernisation was neither as unheralded nor such a break with the past as has sometimes been suggested.