Renaissance

ISBN: 9781783273843
Published by : Boydell Press
The castle was an imposing architectural landmark in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Castles were much more than lordly residences: they were accommodation to guests and servants, spaces of interaction between the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780904107289
Published by : Oxford Historical Society
Series: Oxford Historical Society New Series
Volume: Volume 48
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. He intended it to educate students in classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and their literature; Erasmus praised it as a scholarly achievement,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783272624
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles
Volume: Volume 3
The Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland document money spent by the royal treasury and contain numerous references to clothing and textiles. This volume is designed to make the rich material in the Accounts from the reg... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783273768
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: St Andrews Studies in Scottish History
Volume: Volume 8
George Keith, fifth Earl Marischal, is an outstanding example of long-term successful Protestant Lordship in the reign of James VI. The founder of Marischal College in Aberdeen and the towns of Peterhead and Stonehaven, reputed to ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861933488
Published by : Royal Historical Society
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Volume: Volume 101
Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as queens over the glittering sixteenth-century courts of England and Scotland, alongside their husbands Henry VIII of England and James IV o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788822265166
Published by : Ad Ilissum
This book is an annotated edition of the letters of Gomes Eanes, a Portuguese who lived for three decades in Italy and was head of the Badia Fiorentina (Monastery of Santa Maria of Florence) between 1419 and 1439. It includes a tr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861933471
Published by : Royal Historical Society
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Volume: Volume 100
The University of Cambridge has long been heralded as the nursery of the English Reformation: a precociously evangelical and then Puritan Tudor institution. Spanning fifty years and four reigns and based on extensive archival resea... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781783273096
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Volume: Volume 47
In the two centuries preceding the Reformation in England, economic, political and spiritual conditions combined with constructive effect. Endemic plague prompted a demonstrative piety and, in a world enjoying rising disposable inc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783777480619
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Series: Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana
Volume: 34
Central-plan buildings, i.e. churches constructed on a ground plan that is circular, square, polygonal or in the shape of a Greek cross, etc., have been among the central paradigms of the architecture of the period in Renaissance ... .... Learn More