In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

The Renaissance was a period in history that saw a burst of innovation in science, medicine, and the arts across Europe. The Renaissance period is usually seen as being from the 14th to 17th Century.

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

IT is something of an achievement to have written a book, even a small one, about the Renaissance without a ... is much of interest here for the man of science, psychologist and historian, not ...