A book of verse, professedly written in the sonnet genre, may appear as restrictive and constraining as to its scope and expanse but like the Urdu ghazal may contain a kaleidoscope of subjects, ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Nuclear power, in particular, has been on the cusp of a renaissance for years, driven by advances in fuel and reactor designs that promise to make a new generation of power plants safer and ...

It’s time to dig the corset and elf ears out of the closet because the Arizona Renaissance Festival is back. You’re being summoned to the vibrant Village of Fairhaven, where the historical and ...

not secular humanism.” He continues, “I’m not sure our democracy can survive without Christianity.” It was during the Renaissance (1300–1600) philosophers like Thomas More, Erasmus, and Petrarch ...

https://doi.org/10.2979/textcult.6.2.1 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/textcult.6.2.1 Abstract One of the most interesting features of Renaissance culture in ...

For Jacob Burckhardt, Leon Battista Alberti was the original ‘Renaissance man ... McLaughlin endeavours to recast him as a pivotal figure in the history of Italian humanism and a writer of quite ...

Likely figures for study include Luther, Calvin, Erasmus, Renaissance and Baroque artists, Machiavelli, Petrarch, and Shakespeare. Prerequisite: GES 145. The final course in the Humanities Program ...

This week, six couples bring legal action against the government over rules that mean Humanist weddings aren’t legally recognised in England and Wales. But, what is a humanist wedding ceremony and ...