In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces ...

The Renaissance was a period in history that saw a burst of innovation in science, medicine, and the arts across Europe. The Renaissance period is usually seen as being from the 14th to 17th Century.

Archaeological remains from the 16th century have revealed some secrets about the activities that a European Renaissance alchemist conducted in his laboratory. Among the remains was a "mysterious ...

During the Renaissance, this ancient practice began ... who were the vast majority of the European population. In 1702, the French traveler Jouvin de Rochefort recalled eating with a family ...

Amid the general intellectual ferment of Northern Europe in the early 1500s ... seen by the churchmen and scholars of the ...

This book, first published in 2005, opens up the much neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, ...

Founders of some of Europe's largest technology unicorns on Monday backed an open letter calling for a "tech renaissance" fueled by the creation of a single pan-European entity to promote ...