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 ...

Joachim W. Stieber is a professor of the history of late medieval, Renaissance and Reformation Europe. His research and writing have centered on the conciliar movement and European constitutional ...

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.

Chairman Simon O’Hea said: “Come and join the Renaissance Choir to hear music ... Luther’s campaigning in the sixteenth century, the Reformation led to the majority of German churches ...