The authors Arlette Jouanna, Philippe Hamon, Dominique Biloghi and Guy Le Thiec are four renowned specialists in European Renaissance. They have published in the same collection The History and Dictionary of the Wars of Religion (1999).
The European Renaissance is an era of artistic and literary opulence. But this creative euphoria only concerns a minority of people throughout Europe, and heralds very unsettled times.The Renaissance appeared to many contemporaries as a new Golden Age, succeeding the dark Middle Ages marked by...
The European Renaissance is an era of artistic and literary opulence. But this creative euphoria only concerns a minority of people throughout Europe, and heralds very unsettled times.The Renaissance appeared to many contemporaries as a new Golden Age, succeeding the dark Middle Ages marked by the Great Plague and the Hundred Years War. From Absolutism to Plague, from Censure to Magic, from Thomas More to Du Bellay, this dictionary provides more than 400 articles about many themes and characters who gave the Renaissance its magnificence.
The authors Arlette Jouanna, Philippe Hamon, Dominique Biloghi and Guy Le Thiec are four renowned specialists in European Renaissance. They have published in the same collection The History and Dictionary of the Wars of Religion (1999).