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 ...

Before Elizabeth I ascended to the British throne, theatre was broadly seen as sinful and crude. The Renaissance, accompanied ...

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.