In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

DiFuria and Ian Verstegen The essays in the volume build on Marcia Hall's seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality ... begun to achieve ...

Concepts of the World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period This volume offers Ingrid Baumgärtner's central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time ...

Herald of Ages explained why the Medieval Period is known as the Middle Ages because it sits between the Roman Empire and the ...

Laurence works on literature of the 16th and 17th century, with a particular interest in English Renaissance drama (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster) and in tragedy and theories of tragedy.

This is frequently found in Renaissance music. A false relation is a type of dissonance that occurs in Renaissance music. It is a harmonic clash that happens when a note in one part is played or ...

The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses of the term, a period ... In the early 1500s, as explorers probed the New World, some of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance ...

Explore the history and culture of the early modern period. What was life like in the age of da Vinci? What is the basis of our understanding of concepts such as nature, romance, freedom, and ...

This was the Italian Renaissance — a time period when art flourished and great thinkers ... Though not as grand of a scale as the revolutions of old, the coming months could prove Madison may be ...

can be found in a lot of sacred choral music from the Renaissance period. A melody would often be sung in one voice - eg soprano - and then copied by another voice shortly afterwards.