Renaissance category: 1000 books

Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the...

Après le triomphe de Marignan, c’est la défaite de Pavie. Prisonnier de Charles Quint en Espagne, le roi François 1er doit laisser ses deux fils en otage. Le plus âgé se rebelle et le plus jeune prend peur. Aucune alternative n’est possible et les deux enfants sont faits prisonniers. Sollicitée...

La Renaissance flamboie ! C’est l’époque des grands triomphes transposés sur les tentures : les châteaux, les grandes chasses, les invitations à la Cour, les voyages, toutes les scènes qui représentent la grandeur du roi de France. Les tableaux des peintres n’offrent plus les mêmes visages....

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...

Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.

'The Somerley Portrait: A Portrait Of Catherine Carey By Levina Teerlinc' is a non fiction essay exploring the origins of a recently re discovered Tudor portrait owned by the Earls of Normanton in the United Kingdom. Once known as Lady Jane Grey by Luca Penni, the painting in its essence captures...

The division of history into periods may be very misleading if its true purport be not understood. One age can no more be isolated from the universal course of history than one generation from another. The ideas, the principles, the aims of man change indeed, but change slowly, and in their very change...

THE division of history into periods may be very misleading if its true purport be not understood. One age can no more be isolated from the universal course of history than one generation from another. The ideas, the principles, the aims of man change indeed, but change slowly, and in their very change...

This book explains the emergence of the idea of a new world. The collective discoveries of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, John and Sebastian Cabot, and Giovanni da Verrazzano constitute a distinct Italian Era of Discovery which laid the groundwork for all other voyages which followed. The...

Mona Lisa! The most famous portrait in the world, yet we do not know who she is. Leonardo da Vinci! The greatest man of the Renaissance era, yet his life is a mystery. Christopher Columbus! The greatest explorer of all times, yet a vivid portrait is nowhere to be found. Whereas in reality, their lives...

Lorsque nous commencions à étudier l’architecture du moyen âge (il y a de cela vingt-cinq ans), il n’existait pas d’ouvrages qui pussent nous montrer la voie à suivre. Il nous souvient qu’alors un grand nombre de maîtres en architecture admettaient à peine l’existence de ces monuments...

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...

15mn d'Histoire : une nouvelle collection de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes. François Ier reste dans la mémoire collective comme un souverain magnifique, roi chevalier, prince galant, amoureux des lettres et des arts, incarnation d'un temps réputé glorieux...

First published in 1962, Frank Smith Fussner's introduction to the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the period of the renaissance and reformation (1580-1640) is an influential and thoroughly-researched work. It offers an introduction not only to the context of the period...