Friends of Renaissance and Early Modern History

„In August 1617 a small group of Saxon nobles gathered in Castle Hornstein near Weimar to establish a type of institution previously unknown on German soil ‚the learned society'. It was based on the Italian model of the previous century and specifically on the Academia della Crusca of Florence, to whose ranks one of its founding members, Prince Ludwig of Anhalt-Köthen, had been elected in 1600. Ludwig was the chief benefactor and the head of this new German society until his death in 1650, and he and its other founding members sought inspiration in their pursuit of learning from the many Italian literary societies which had contributed so much to the purification and normalization of Italian letters in the sixteenth century. The new German society was called the ‚Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft', the Fruitbearing Society, and its motto was „Alles zum Nutzen" - ‚Everything for a purpose'".

"Bürgermeister Johann Heinrich Waser war eine prägende Gestalt der Zürcher und eidgenössischen Politik in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Kaum bekannt ist dagegen Wasers umfangreiche publizistische Tätigkeit. Sie gibt reichen Aufschluss über die Laufbahn dieses Zürcher Staatsmannes und bietet zugleich faszinierende Einblicke in die Alltagsgeschichte der Zürcher Elite jener Zeit."

"Francesco Petrarca was born on July 20, 1304. Commemorations of the 700th anniversary of his birth are taking place this year (2004), primarily in Italy but also around the world and in the United States. At Yale University, the celebration includes an international conference on Petrarch, September 23 - 25, and an exhibition at the Beinecke Library, as well as this web exhibition. The Beinecke Library is the leading institution in the United States in collecting Petrarch manuscripts (codices or fragments that contain works by or about Francesco Petrarca), from popular copies of the Canzoniere and Trionfi to the lesser-known De remediis utruisque fortune and Nota de Laura, as well as the memoirs and drawings of the English clergyman and literary editor John Mitford (1781-1859). "

"Aside from information about the history, the objectives and the workings of our organisation, this site offers a comprehensive overview of the research projects and activities carried out since the start of the Alamire Foundation in 1991. Short summaries and practical information concerning the scientific publications are provided. If you want to stay informed of our oncoming activities, please take a look at the calendar."

"Vergesst Aeneas nicht! Enea Silvio Piccolomini - Humanist, Poet, Gelehrter, Diplomat und Papst. Vor 600 Jahren wurde Enea Silvio Piccolomini geboren, der als Papst Pius II. in die Kirchengeschichte eingegangen ist, mit seinem literarischen Werk und seinen biografischen und historischen Schriften aber wohl mehr in die Waagschale gelegt hat."

"Slides / Photo Cds Illustrating Maps from the Renaissance Period 1500-1700."

"But it is now the quadricentennial of Milton's birth in 1608, and it is startling that this work, once central to the literary and religious experience of the English-speaking world, is so much a curiosity, sentenced to the margins by its preoccupations with biblical interpretation, condemned by the density of its prosody, which does not instantly seduce but, instead, commands the reader to give way before it, persisting until no resistance is possible. So perhaps the most we can expect is the library's modest, one-room exhibition "John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life."

"Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek nimmt das Jubiläum ihres 450-jährigen Bestehens zum Anlass für eine archäologische Grabung in eigener Sache: Eine Ausstellung zeigt grossartige Handschriften und Drucke aus dem reichen Gründungsbestand am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts."

"Renaissance Forum is an interdisciplinary refereed journal. It specialises in early-modern English literary and historical scholarship and in the critical methodologies of these fields. The journal is published biannually by an editorial board based in the Departments of English and History at the University of Hull."

"Examine every page of rare historic works; compare different editions side-by-side; choose standard or magnified view; read supporting material by our curators and other experts: Shakespeare in Quarto, Caxton's Chaucer, Gutenberg Bible, Magna Carta, Renaissance Festival Books, Sample: Malory's Arthurian manuscript."

"Created in Utrecht, The Netherlands, around 1440, the manuscript was taken apart sometime before 1856. Its leaves were shuffled and then rebound into two volumes to make each look more or less complete."

Au lendemain de la paix de Nimègue qui met fin à la guerre de Hollande, Louis XIV vient de faire de la France la plus florissante monarchie du monde. Il est aussi le protecteur des sciences et des arts et les deux globes que Coronelli lui dédie magnifient l'image d'un monde pacifié qui lui offre, grâce au commerce et à la navigation, toutes les ressources des contrées les plus lointaines.\nLes Globes de Louis XIV devaient présenter les connaissances scientifiques de l'époque, mais aussi célébrer la gloire du Roi, témoigner de sa mission "terrestre" comme de son origine "céleste".