renaissance

Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Michelangelo to Portugal.

Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Humanism and Learning to the Medicis.

Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Ren? Decartes to Households.

Contains approximately twelve hundred alphabetically arranged 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; and includes maps, genealogical tables, and a chronology.

Tuckman reavels the Crusades, cathedrals, domistic life, religion and politics of the fourteenth century.

In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.

Contains 158, alphabetically arranged, illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism.

A description of life in Europe during the Renaissance written in the form of a travel guide, providing facts about the civilization, and including tips on travel, food, shelter, attractions, shopping, and health and safety.

Presents an overview of the history of European society during the time known as the Renaissance, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.

The period of history known as the Renaissance helped Europe break away from the dismal medieval era. The conditions that led to the Renaissance as well as the work of the writers artists dramatists and scientists who emerged during the era will be examined in this social history.