Sperring Renaissance & Reformation: Suggested Database Articles

This book focuses on developments in the arts, literature, religion, and philosophy between 1300 and 1600—three centuries that saw the rise of distinctive attitudes toward human creativity and its artistic and philosophical expression which shaped our modern notion of the humanities and the arts.

TOPICS in Architecture and Design during the Renaissance.

TOPICS in Dance
Courtly Dance in the Early Renaissance
High and Late Renaissance Courtly Dance
Theatrical Dance
Folk Dancing in Europe

TOPICS in Fashion
The Regulation of Clothing
Fashion as an Industry
Early Renaissance Styles
High and Late Renaissance Fashion

TOPICS in Literature
Early Renaissance Literature
The Fifteenth Century in Italy
The High and Later Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance
Renaissance Women Writers

TOPICS in Music
Music and the Renaissance
Renaissance Innovation
Sixteenth Century Achievements in Secular Music
Religious Music in the Later Renaissance
Music Theory in the Renaissance

TOPICS in Philosophy
Scholasticism in the Later Middle Ages
Humanism in the Early Renaissance
Renaissance Platonism
Humanism Outside Italy
New Trends in Sixteenth-Century Thought

TOPICS in Religion
The Late-Medieval Church
Renaissance Piety
The Reformation's Origins
The Spread of Protestantism in Northern Europe
The Council of Trent

TOPICS in Theater
Theater in the Later Middle Ages
The Renaissance Theater in Italy
The Renaissance Theater in Northern Europe
The Commercial Theater in England
Renaissance Theater in Spain

TOPICS in Visual Arts
The Early Renaissance in Italy
The Early Renaissance in Northern Europe
The High Renaissance in Italy
The High and Later Renaissance in Venice
Late Renaissance and Mannerist Painting in Italy
The Arts in Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe

Renaissance and Reformation: Almanac presents an overview of the most significant revolution in Western history. Beginning with the Italian Renaissance in the mid-1300s and lasting until the end of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in the early 1600s, this revolution essentially turned the European world upside down. By the close of the seventeenth century, unprecedented changes had taken place in politics, religion, science, economics, education, the arts, and society throughout Europe.

While this period saw huge growth in the quality and style of sacred music, the Renaissance witnessed the Catholic Church's influence wane with the Reformation. The arrival of printed music made it available to people outside the Church and musicians were able to learn from other traditions. The rise of instrumental music inspired composers to write more complex sacred and secular music and demanded new techniques and sounds.

Provides comprehensive coverage of the medieval world, from the fall of Rome to the European Renaissance, including Western and non-Western cultures and civilizations.

A six-volume survey of European history from 1450, the beginning of the print revolution, to 1789 and the French Revolution. Presents over 1,000 alphabetically arranged entries covering the period's most significant personalities and meaningful developments in the arts, religion, politics, exploration, and warfare.