The story is a well-chosen starting point for Noel Malcolm’s Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe, an ambitious history of sexual relations between men from 1400 to 1750 that draws together ...

An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the modern era. Buildings were constructed that were bigger and ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Can the signatories succeed in convincing EU commissioners of the need for a standardised pan-European ‘EU Inc' corporate structure?

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 ...

Stalin killed hundreds of Ukrainian cultural figures in the ‘Executed Renaissance’. Over 100 Ukrainian artists have been ...

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the Financial Times. The collapse of Germany’s deeply unloved and ...

Renaissance close RenaissanceThe revival or rebirth of European art and literature under the influence of classical Roman and Greek culture during the 14th to 16th centuries. is a French word that ...

Titled “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” the show features more than 100 artworks made just before the Italian Renaissance flourished. It’s the first major exhibition in the United ...