Ca. 1400 - ca. 1499 (Italiaanse renaissance)

Liefde, instemming en genot: we hebben het er dagelijks over. Ook tijdens de Renaissance raakte men niet uitgepraat over seksualiteit. Sommige ideeën

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It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in no

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy – and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to be

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Weinig namen uit de Italiaanse Renaissance spreken zo tot de verbeelding als die van Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): secretaris van de Florentijnse R

This book contains over a hundred selections of primary sources—the historian’s raw material in the form of memoirs, letters, treatises, sermons, stor

Central to Niccolò Machiavelli’s writing is the argument that a successful state is one that prefers to lose with its own arms (arma propriis) than to

De orgasmekloof, consent en gender: we hebben het er dagelijks over. Maar ook tijdens de Renaissance raakte men niet uitgepraat over seksualiteit. In

Explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Focusing on the e

The contributors to A View of Venice draw on a high-resolution digital scan of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s woodcut View of Venice printed in the year 1500 to

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Rena

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy explores the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cult

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power

This book contains over a hundred selections of primary sources—the historian’s raw material in the form of memoirs, letters, treatises, sermons, stor

The role played by images in the education of the young in past cultures is still a little-explored subject. This book contributes to filling the gap

Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with th

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.