In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces ...

This book, first published in 2005, opens up the much neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, ...

Founders of some of Europe's largest technology unicorns on Monday backed an open letter calling for a "tech renaissance" ...

The Renaissance was a period in history that saw a burst of innovation in science, medicine, and the arts across Europe. The Renaissance period is usually seen as being from the 14th to 17th Century.

During the Renaissance, this ancient practice began ... who were the vast majority of the European population. In 1702, the French traveler Jouvin de Rochefort recalled eating with a family ...

Amid the general intellectual ferment of Northern Europe in the early 1500s ... seen by the churchmen and scholars of the ...

“The coal renaissance in Europe was only a dream,” the International Energy Agency said in its Medium-Term Coal Report 2014. Demand dropped because of “moderate “economic growth, better ...

HAMMOND, La. ( WGNO) — With a hood over his head, everyone in old-world Europe knew who the executioner was. His likeness ...

This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...

Nothing exemplifies the stereotype of the European travel experience better than the 20th-century version of the 19th-century Grand Tour. Mid-century international travelers would typically head ...