With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith. John O'Malley, a distinguished scholar of the Renaissance and Reformation, has decisively challenged this ...

The new ideas of science, the arts and philosophy which emerged in the awakening of the Renaissance encouraged English thinkers to consider much wider interaction with the rest of the world.