It is about 8am, on the morning of the 23rd of January 1483. Anselm Adornes, a member of that famous family from Bruges, is ...

Woodlawn Cemetery is an unmissable landmark. Located at the end of the four-train, the Bronx cemetery, which began as a small plot in 1868.

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Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe ...

Petrarch (1304-1374), one of the founding fathers of humanism in Italian language and renaissance, could perhaps be described as the originator of the poetic genre 'sonnet' signified as a composition ...

His feast day is celebrated on January 24. “Francis de Sales reconciles Renaissance humanism with the mystical traditions of figures like Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross,” explained ...

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

Edward Wilson-Lee’s The Grammar of Angels offers a propulsive new account of Renaissance controversies about language, knowledge and the occult. Tracing Pico’s career up to his explosive ...

This lecture revisits the emergence of a humanist ideal of the body through the lens of disability material culture. I investigate the double role of plate armor in shaping a normative body while at ...

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 ...

Although most leaders recognize the importance of organizational culture in driving business performance, many struggle to truly understand their culture and implement effective change when needed.

Residents in Renaissance Park held a gathering Sunday night for a Raleigh police officer in critical condition after a shooting days earlier that killed two men in the neighborhood. Neighbors and ...