Profiles fifty people who played a significant role during the Renaissance and Reformation periods in Europe, including John Calvin, Peter Paul Rubens, Catherine de Medici, and Johannes Kepler.
This guide provides the best practices and reference resources, both print and electronic, that can be used in conducting research on literature of the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period. This volume seeks to address specific research characteristics integral to studying the period, including a more inclusive canon and the predominance of Shakespeare.
This latest addition to the Undergraduate Companion Series confirms that the literature of Renaissance England is alive and well in the new millennium, presenting undergraduate students with an abundance of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research. The most authoritative, informative, and useful Web sites and print resources have been carefully selected to represent important writers of the English Renaissance, including figures in religion, philosophy, and political history who are not strictly literary, such as Thomas Hobbes and Queen Elizabeth I.
In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture.
During the Renaissance, sailors set off into uncharted waters around the globe in search of new trade routes and lucrative luxury goods. Advancements and innovations in navigational tools, including lateen sails and the astrolabe, as well as improvements in shipbuilding aided explorers such as Columbus, Magellan and da Gama on their amazing journeys. Renaissance Travel, Trade & Exploration delves into the struggle for trade dominance in the Mediterranean between the Ottoman Empire and Europeans
