Late Medieval & Renaissance Bibliography

 
Reference

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Reference (top)
  1. Atlas of the Renaissance. London: Cassell, 1993.
  2. Bergin, Thomas Goddard. Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1987.
  3. Campbell, Gordon. The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  4. Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance. New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1993.
  5. Nauert, Charles Garfield. Historical Dictionary of the Renaissance. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
  6. Nauert, Charles Garfield. The A to Z of the Renaissance. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2006.
  7. Renaissance Society of America. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Scribner's, 1999.
  8. Ritchie, Robert. Historical Atlas of the Renaissance. New York, NY: Checkmark Books, 2004.
 
General Introductions (top)
  1. Bouwsma, William James. The Waning of the Renaissance, Ca. 1550-1640. The Yale intellectual history of the West. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2000.
  2. Breisach, Ernst. Renaissance Europe, 1300-1517. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
  3. Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  4. Burke, Peter. The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries. The Making of Europe. Oxford, Oxfordshire, England: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
  5. Fletcher, Stella. The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe, 1390-1530. New York: Longman, 2000.
  6. Hale, J. R. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. London: HarperCollins, 1993.
  7. Hale, J. R. Renaissance Europe, 1480-1520. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2000.
  8. Jensen, De Lamar. Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation. Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath, 1981.
  9. Johnson, Paul. The Renaissance. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000.
  10. Kerrigan, William. The Idea of the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
  11. King, Margaret L. The Renaissance in Europe. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2003.
  12. Kirkpatrick, Robin. The European Renaissance, 1400-1600. Arts, culture, and society in the Western world. Harlow, England: Longman, 2002.
  13. Martin, John Jeffries, ed. The Renaissance World. New York: Routledge, 2007.
  14. Rice, Eugene F. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
  15. Ruggiero, Guido, ed. A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
  16. Winks, Robin W. Europe in a Wider World, 1350-1650. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.  
 
Aristocracies / Nobility(top)
  1. Amelang, James. Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986
  2. Coss, Peter. The Origins of the English Gentry (Cambridge, 2003)
  3. Davis, John C. The Decline of the Venetian Nobility as a Ruling Class. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962
  4. Dewald, Jonathan. The Formation of a Provincial Nobility: The Magistrates of the Parliament of Rouen, 1499-1610. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980
  5. Dewald, Jonathan. The European Nobility, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
  6. Eurich, S. Amanda. The Economics of Power: The Private Finances of the House of Foix-Navarre-Albrecht during the Religious Wars. Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Texts and Studies, 1994
  7. Goldthwaite, Richard A. Private Wealth in Renaissance Florence; a Study of Four Families. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1968.
  8. Grubb, James S. Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
  9. James, Mervyn. English Politics and the Concept of Honour 1485-1642. Oxford: The Past and Present Society, 1978
  10. Kent, F.W. Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori, and Rucellai. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977
  11. Major, Russell. From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
  12. Muir, Edward. Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Faction in Friuli during the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
  13. Schalk, Ellery. From Valor to Pedigree: Ideas of Nobility in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986
  14. Nader, Helen. The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350 to 1550. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1979.
  15. Romano, Dennis. Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundation of the VenetianRenaissanceState. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1987
  16. Zmora, Hilaly. State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 1440-1567. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
 
Art / Architecture (top)
  1. Benesch, Otto. The Art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe; Its Relation to the Contemporary Spiritual and Intellectual Movements. London]: Phaidon Publishers, 1965.
  2. Brown, Patricia Fortini. Art and Life in Renaissance Venice. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1997.
  3. Cole, Alison. Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995.
  4. Corley, Brigitte. Painting and Patronage in Cologne 1300-1500. Turnhout, 2000
  5. Edgerton, Samuel Y. The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
  6. Goldthwaite, Richard A. Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
  7. Grafton, Anthony. Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.
  8. Harbison, Craig. The Mirror and the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art in its Historical Context. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc Publishers, 1995
  9. Howard, Deborah. Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100- 1500. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
  10. Humfrey, Peter and Martin Kemp, eds. The Altarpiece in the Renaissance. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  11. Kamerick, Kathleen. Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500. New York, 2002
  12. Kemp, Martin. Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
  13. Kemp, Martin. Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
  14. Kemp, Martin. Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  15. McIver, Katherine. Women, Art and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006
  16. Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries. The Franklin Jasper Walls lectures. New York: G. Braziller, 1974.
  17. Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry; the Boucicaut Master. National Gallery of Art: Kress Foundation studies in the history of European art. London: Phaidon, 1968.
  18. Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry; the Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke. National Gallery of Art: Kress Foundation studies in the history of European art. London: Phaidon, 1967.
  19. Meiss, Millard. Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951.
  20. Norman, Diana. Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1260-1555. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
  21. Nuttall, Paula. From Flanders to Florence: The Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400-1500. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004
  22. Paoletti, John T. Art, Power, and Patronage in Renaissance Italy. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005.
  23. Rodini, Elizabeth and Elissa Weaver, eds. A Well Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1800. Chicago: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 2002
  24. Roston, Murray. Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
  25. Smith, Christine. Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Eloquence, 1400-1470. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  26. Smith, Jeffrey C. The Northern Renaissance. London: Phaidon, 2004
  27. Smith, Kathryn A. Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and their Books of Hours. Toronto, 2003
  28. Snyder, James. Northern Renaissance Art: Paintng, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts, 1350-1575. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentince Hall, 1985
  29. Strong, Roy C. Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals, 1450-1650. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1984.
  30. Welch, Evelyn S. Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  31. Westfall, Carroll William. In This Most Perfect Paradise; Alberti, Nicholas V, and the Invention of Conscious Urban Planning in Rome, 1447-55. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974.
  32. Wittkower, Rudolf. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.
 
Classical Influence (top)
  1. Brown, Patricia Fortini. Venice & Antiquity the Venetian Sense of the Past. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
  2. Burke, Peter. The Renaissance Sense of the Past. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970.
  3. Gaisser, Julia Haig. Catullus and His Renaissance Readers. Oxford [ England]: Clarendon Press, 1993.
  4. Grafton, Anthony. Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
  5. Jacks, Philip Joshua. The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  6. Kallendorf, Craig. Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
  7. Kristeller, Paul Oskar. The Classics and Renaissance Thought. Cambridge: Published for Oberlin College by Harvard University Press, 1955.
  8. Marsh, David. Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
  9. McKnight, Stephen A. The Modern Age and the Recovery of Ancient Wisdom: A Reconsideration of Historical Consciousness, 1450-1650. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
  10. Payen, Alina, Anne Kuttner, Rebekah Smick, eds. Antiquity and Its Interpreters. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  11. Reynolds, L. D. Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
  12. Rice, Eugene F. Saint Jerome in the Renaissance. The Johns Hopkins symposia in comparative history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
  13. Rowland, Ingrid D. The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-century Rome. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  14. Schellhase, Kenneth C. Tacitus in Renaissance Political Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
  15. Schevill, Rudolph. Ovid and the Renascence in Spain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913.
  16. Schmitt, Charles B. Aristotle and the Renaissance. Cambridge, Mass: Published for Oberlin College by Harvard University Press, 1983.
  17. Schmitt, Charles B. Cicero Scepticus: A Study of the Influence of the Academica in the Renaissance. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1972.
  18. Trapp, J. B. Essays on the Renaissance and the Classical Tradition. Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain: Variorum, 1990.
  19. Weiss, Robert. The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969
 
Criminality / Violence / Law (top)
  1. Bellamy, J.G. The English Criminal Trial, c. 1300-1600. Toronto, 1998
  2. Bellomo, Manlio. The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000-1800. Washington D.C. Catholic University of America Press, 1991
  3. Brackett, John. Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
  4. Chambers, David S. and Trevor Dean. Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997
  5. Cohen, Thomas V. Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials Before the Papal Magistrates. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
  6. Davis, Robert C. The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
  7. Dean, Trevor. Crime in Medieval Europe. London, 2001
  8. Edgerton, Samuel Y. Pictures and Punishment: Art and Criminal Prosecution During the Florentine Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.
  9. Kagan, Richard L. Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981
  10. Kuehn, Thomas. Law, Family, and Women: Towards a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991
  11. Lockey, Brian. Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  12. Maclean, Ian. Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  13. Martines, Lauro, ed. Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities, 1200-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
  14. Martines, Lauro. Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1968.
  15. McMullan, John L. The Canting Crew: London’s Criminal Underworld, 1500-1700. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1984
  16. Merback, Mitchell. The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
  17. Muir, Edward. Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Faction in Friuli during the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
  18. Musson, Anthony. Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001
  19. Pennington, Kenneth. The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993
  20. Ruggiero, Guido. The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. Studies in the history of sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  21. Ruggiero, Guido. Violence in Early Renaissance Venice. Crime, law, and deviance series. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1980.
 
Death / Disease / Famine / Plague (top)
  1. Aberth, John. From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague and Death in the Later Middle Ages. New York, 2000
  2. Aries, P. The Hour of Our Death. Harmondsworth, 1980
  3. Benedictow, Ole J. The Black Death, 1346-1353: The Complete History. Woodbridge, 2004
  4. Cohn, Samuel. Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
  5. Cohn, Samuel. The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
  6. Cohn, Samuel. The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe. New York, 2002
  7. Herlihy, David. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997.
  8. Jordan, William C. The Great Famine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996
  9. Platt, Colin. King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England. Toronto, 1997
  10. Strocchia, Sharon T. Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence. The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
 
Economy / Commerce (top)
  1. Attman, A. The Bullion Flow between Europe and the East, 1000-1750. Göteborg, 1981
  2. Bennett, Judith M. Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600. New York, 1996
  3. Britnell, R.H. The Commercialization of English Society 1100-1500. Cambridge, 1993
  4. Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  5. Childs, Wendy. Anglo-Castilian Trade in the Later Middle Ages. Manchester, 1978
  6. Cipolla, Carlo M. Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy 1000-1700. New York: Norton, 1994
  7. Duplessis, Robert S. Transition to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
  8. Goldthwaite, Richard A. Banks, Palaces, and Entrepreneurs in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain: Variorum, 1995.
  9. Goldthwaite, Richard A. The Building of RenaissanceFlorence: An Economic and Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
  10. Hamilton, Earl J. Money, Prices, and Wages in Valencia, Aragon, and Navarre, 1351-1500. Perspectives in European history ; no. 6. Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1975.
  11. Hunt, Edwin S. The Medieval Super Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence. Cambridge, 1994
  12. Lane, Frederic Chapin. Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  13. Langdon, John. Mills in the Medieval Economy: England, 1300-1450. Oxford, 2004
  14. Lowry, Martin. The World of Aldus Manutius: Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice. Oxford [ Eng.]: B. Blackwell, 1979.
  15. MacKenney, R. Tradesmen and Traders: The World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, 1250-1650. London, 1987
  16. Miskimin, Harry A. The Economy of Early Renaissance Europe, 1300-1460. The Economic civilization of Europe. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
  17. Miskimin, Harry A. The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe, 1460-1600. Cambridge, [ Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
  18. Molho, Anthony. Florentine Public Finances in the Early Renaissance, 1400-1433. Harvard historical monographs. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1971.
  19. Mueller, Reinhold C. The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Exploration / Expansion / Global Contacts (top)
  1. Braudel, Ferdinand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. New York: Harper Row, 1972
  2. Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972
  3. Elliott, John H. The Old World and the New, 1492-1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970
  4. Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization form the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987
  5. Fiero, Gloria K. The European Renaissance, the Reformation, and Global Encounter. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
  6. Grafton, Anthony. New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.
  7. Greenblatt, Stephen Jay. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  8. Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. New World Encounters. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  9. Holohan, P. Exploration, Renaissance and Reformation. Dublin: Educational Company of Ireland, 1977.
  10. Jardine, Lisa. Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West. Picturing history. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2000.
  11. Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods. London: Macmillan, 1996.
  12. Lach, Donald. Asia in the Making of Europe 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965
  13. Larner, John. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999
  14. Maclean, Gerald, ed. Re-orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East. Basingstoke [ England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  15. McGovern, James, ed. The World of Columbus. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1992.
  16. Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
  17. Pagden, Anthony. European Encounters with the New World from Renaissance to Romanticism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
  18. Pagden, Anthony. Lords of All the Worlds: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France C. 1500-c. 1850. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
  19. Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: Europe, China and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000
  20. Rubieś, Joan-Pau. Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India Through European Eyes, 1250-1625. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  21. Schwoebel, Robert. The Shadow of the Crescent: The Renaissance Image of the Turk (1453-1517). Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1967.
  22. Seed, Patricia. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
  23. Wright, Louis B. Gold, Glory, and the Gospel; the Adventurous Lives and Times of the Renaissance Explorers. New York: Atheneum, 1970.
 
Family & Daily Life (top)
  1. Alexandre-Bidon, Daniele and Didier Lett. Children in the Middle Ages: Fifth - Fifteenth Centuries. Notre Dame, 2000
  2. Ben-Amos, Ilana Krausman. Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994
  3. Boswell, John. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York, 1988
  4. Cressy David. Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
  5. Dyer, Christopher. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge, 1989
  6. Dyer, Christopher. Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain, 850-1520. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002
  7. Fumerton, Patricia and Simon Hunt, eds. Renaissance Culture and the Everyday. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
  8. Haas, Louis. The Renaissance Man and his Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300-1600. New York, 1998
  9. Jones, Ann Rosalind. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  10. Kent, F. W. Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori, and Rucellai. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1977.
  11. Kuehn, Thomas. Law, Family, and Women: Towards a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991
  12. Nicholas, David. The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children and the Family in 14th Century Ghent . Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1985
  13. Ozment, Steven. When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983
  14. Pullan, Brian S. Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice; the Social Institutions of a CatholicState, to 1620. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1971.
  15. Tomasik, Timothy J. and Juliann M. Vitullo, eds. At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
 
Gender / Love / Sexuality (top)
  1. Bray, Alan. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. Between men--between women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
  2. Brucker, Gene A. Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: With a New Preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
  3. Brown, Judith. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986
  4. Callaghan, Dympna, ed. The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies. Basingstoke [ England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  5. Chojnacki, Stanley. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
  6. Classen, Albrecht. Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Tempe, 2005
  7. Darmon, Pierre. Trial by Impotence: Virility and Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary France. London: Chatto and Windus, 1985
  8. Ferraro, Joanne Marie. Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  9. Finucci, Valeria. The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003
  10. Garber, Rebecca L.R. Feminine Figurae: Representations of Gender in Religious Texts by Medieval German Women Writers 1100-1375. London, 2003
  11. Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Queering the Renaissance. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
  12. Hutson, Lorna, ed. Feminism and Renaissance Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  13. Karras, Ruth M. Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996
  14. Karras, Ruth. From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003
  15. Lawner, Lynne. Lives of the Courtesans: Portraits of the Renaissance. New York: Razzoli, 1987
  16. Long, Kathleen P. Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Pub, 2006.
  17. Martin, A. Lynn. Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. New York, 2001
  18. Maggi, Armando. In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  19. Masson, Georgina. Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975
  20. Moulton, Ian F. Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000
  21. Perry, Mary E. Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990
  22. Rocke, Michael. Forbidden Friendships Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence. Studies in the history of sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  23. Roper, Lyndal. Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 1994
  24. Rosenthal, Margaret. The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth Century Venice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992
  25. Ruggiero, Guido. The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. Studies in the history of sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  26. Ruggiero, Guido. Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  27. Ruggiero, Guido. Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
  28. Salih, Sarah. Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England. Cambridge, 2001
  29. Stewart, Alan. Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1997.
  30. Summers, Claude J., ed. Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context. New York: Haworth Press, 1992.
  31. Talvacchia, Bette. Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999
  32. Waters, Claire M. Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
Heresy / Inquisition (top)
  1. Audisio, Gabriel. The Waldensian Dissent: Persecution and Survival c. 1170-c. 1570. New York, 1999
  2. Bailey, Michael D. Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003
  3. Friedlander, Alan. The Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Delicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France. Boston, 2000
  4. Fudge, Thomas A. The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437. Hampshire, UK, 2002
  5. Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of Sixteenth Century Miller. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980
  6. Ginzburg, Carlo. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983
  7. Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation 3rd ed. Oxford, 2002
  8. Martin, John Jeffries. Venice's Hidden Enemies Italian Heretics in a RenaissanceCity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  9. Rex, Richard. The Lollards. New York, 2002
Humanism (top)
  1. Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1966.
  2. Baron, Hans. In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
  3. D'Amico, John F. Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome: Humanists and Churchmen on the Eve of the Reformation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
  4. D'Amico, John F. Roman and German Humanism, 1450-1550. Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain: Variorum, 1993.
  5. Godman, Peter. From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1998.
  6. Grafton, Anthony. From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Europe. London: Duckworth, 1986.
  7. Grassi, Ernesto. Renaissance Humanism: Studies in Philosophy and Poetics. Binghamton, N.Y: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1988.
  8. Gundersheimer, Werner L. French Humanism, 1470-1600. London: Macmillan, 1969.
  9. Ianziti, Gary. Humanistic Historiography Under the Sforzas: Politics and Propaganda in Fifteenth-century Milan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  10. Joutsivuo, Timo. Scholastic Tradition and Humanist Innovation: The Concept of Neutrum in Renaissance Medicine. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1999.
  11. Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  12. Kekewich, Lucille, ed. The Impact of Humanism. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 2000.
  13. Kelley, Donald R. Renaissance Humanism. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.
  14. King, Margaret. Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986
  15. Kraye, Jill, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  16. Kristeller, Paul O. Renaissance thought: the classic, scholastic, and humanistic strains. New York: Harper, 1961
  17. -----. Renaissance Thought and the Arts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980
  18. Levi, A.H.T., ed. Humanism in France at the End of the Middle Ages and in the Early Renaissance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970.
  19. Mandrou, Robert. From Humanism to Science 1480 to 1700. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
  20. Martines, Lauro. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1963.
  21. Mazzocco, Angelo, ed. Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2006.
  22. Nauert, Charles Garfield. Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  23. Remer, Gary. Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
  24. Saygin, Susanne. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humanists. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
  25. Southern, R. W. Medieval Humanism and Other Studies. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1970.
  26. Stewart, Alan. Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1997.
  27. Trinkaus, Charles Edward. The Scope of Renaissance Humanism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983.
  28. Ullmann, Walter. Medieval Foundations of Renaissance Humanism. London: Elek, 1977.
  29. Wittkower, Rudolf. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.
  30. Wolfe, Jessica. Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
 
Jews / Muslims / Ottomans (top)
  1. Assis, Yom Tov. The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry. Portland, Or: Vallentine Mitchell, 1997.
  2. Babinger, Franz. Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978
  3. Boswell, John. The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities under the Crown of Aragon in the 14th Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977 [e-book at LIBRO]
  4. Burns, Robert I. Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996 [e-book at the Univ. Of California Digital Library]
  5. Brummett, Palmira. Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994
  6. Edwards, J.H. The Jews in Christian Europe, 1400-1700. London, 1988
  7. Hsia R. Po-chia. The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988
  8. Meyerson, Mark. The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 [e-book at the Univ. of California Digital Library]
  9. Meyerson, Mark. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth Century Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004
  10. Netanyahu, Benjamin. Toward the Inquisition: Essays on Jewish and Converso History in Late Medieval Spain. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997
  11. Nirenberg, David. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996
  12. Rubin, Miri. Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999
  13. Schwoebel, Robert. The Shadow of the Crescent: The Renaissance Image of the Turk (1453-1517). Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1967.
  14. Shapiro, James S. Shakespeare and the Jews. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996
  15. Strickland, Debra Higgs. Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003
 
Literacy / Education / Print Culture (top)
  1. Amtower, Laurel. Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages. New York, 2000
  2. Black, Robert. Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge, 2001
  3. Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987.
  4. Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1994.
  5. Chrisman, Miriam Usher. Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
  6. Cobban, Alan B. The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to c. 1500. 1988
  7. Coleman, Joyce. Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France. Cambridge, 1996
  8. Crick, Julia and Alexandra Walsham, eds. The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  9. Davies, Martin. Aldus Manutius: Printer and Publisher of Renaissance Venice. London: British Library, 1995.
  10. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press As an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge [ Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
  11. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  12. Elsky, Martin. Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1989.
  13. Gehl, Paul F. A Moral Art: Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
  14. Grafton, Anthony. From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Europe. London: Duckworth, 1986.
  15. Grendler, Paul F. Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics. Aldershot [ England]: Ashgate/Variorum, 2006.
  16. Jardine, Lisa. Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  17. Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998
  18. Justice, Steven. Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994
  19. Kallendorf, Craig. Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
  20. Lepschy, Anna Laura, John Took, Dennis E. Rhodes, eds. Book Production and Letters in the Western European Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Conor Fahy. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1986.
  21. Lesser, Zachary. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  22. Lowry, Martin. Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1991.
  23. Lynn, Caro. A College Professor of the Renaissance; Lucio Marineo Sículo Among the Spanish Humanists. Chicago, Ill: The University of Chicago Press, 1937.
  24. Martines, Lauro. Strong Words: Writing & Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  25. Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066 - 1530 . London, 1984
  26. Rhodes, Neil and Jonathan Sawday, eds. The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. London: Routledge, 2000.
  27. Scholderer, Victor. Printers and Readers in Italy in the Fifteenth Century. London: G. Cumberlege, 1949.
  28. Skalnik, James Veazie. Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance. Kirksville, Mo: Truman State University Press, 2002.
  29. Ullman, B. L. The Public Library of Renaissance Florence. Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo De' Medici and the Library of San Marco. Medioevo e umanesimo. Padova: Antenore, 1972.
  30. Yates, Frances Amelia. The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century. London: Routledge, 1988.
 
Music / Theater (top)
  1. Brooks, Jeanice. Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-century France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
  2. Brown, Howard Mayer. Music in the Renaissance. Prentice Hall history of music series. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1999.
  3. Cartwright, Kent. Theatre and Humanism: English Drama in the Sixteenth Century. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  4. Cox, John D. and David Scott Kastan, eds. A New History of Early English Drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
  5. Davidson, Clifford. History, Religion, and Violence: Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English Drama. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate/Variorum, 2002.
  6. Goldron, Romain. Music of the Renaissance. n.p.: H. S. Stuttman Co.; distributed by Doubleday, 1968.
  7. Happé, Peter. English Drama Before Shakespeare. London: Longman, 1999.
  8. Harman, Alec. Late Renaissance and Baroque Music. Man and his music. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
  9. Kreitner, Kenneth. The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain. Woodbridge, 2004
  10. Lesser, Zachary. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  11. Long, John H. Music in English Renaissance Drama. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1968.
  12. Nevile, Jennifer. The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Bloomington, 2004
  13. Newton, Stella Mary. Renaissance Theatre Costume and the Sense of the Historic Past. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1975.
  14. Nisse, Ruth. Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2005)
  15. Pattison, Bruce. Music and Poetry of the English Renaissance. London: Methuen, 1970.
  16. Reynolds, Christopher. Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 [e-book at the Univ. of California Digital Library]
  17. Walker, D. P. Music, Spirit and Language in the Renaissance. London: Variorum Reprints, 1985.
  18. West, William N. Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Nature (top)
  1. Comito, Terry. The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1978.
  2. Daston, Lorraine and Katharine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 1998
  3. Debus, Allen G. Man and Nature in the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
  4. Eamon, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994
  5. Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  6. Kemp, Martin. Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  7. Maclean, Ian. Logic, Signs, and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  8. Watson, Robert N. Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
 
Papacy / Institutional Church (top)
  1. Dannenfeldt, Karl H. The Church of the Renaissance and Reformation; Decline and Reform from 1300 to 1600. Church in history series. Saint Louis: Concordia Pub. House, 1970.
  2. Gilbert, Felix. The Pope, His Banker, and Venice. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1980.
  3. Homza, Lu Ann. Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
  4. Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju. Worldly Saints: Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy, 1200-1500. Helsinki, 1999
  5. Logan, F. Donald. Runaway Religious in England, c. 1240-1540. New York, 1996
  6. Lowe, K. J. P. Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524). Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  7. Moorman, J.R.H. A History of the Franciscan Order from its Origins to 1517. 1968
  8. Murphy, Caroline. The Pope's Daughter: [the Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  9. Oakley, F. The Western Church in the Late Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979
  10. Partner, P. The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance. London, 1972
  11. Roest, Bert. Franciscan Literature of Religious Instruction Before the Council of Trent. Leiden, 2004
  12. Skalnik, James Veazie. Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance. Kirksville, Mo: Truman State University Press, 2002.
  13. Trexler, Richard C. The Spiritual Power. Republican Florence Under Interdict. Studies in medieval and reformation thought. Leiden: Brill, 1974.
  14. Warren, Nancy Bradley. Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
 
Philosophy / Theology / Intellectual (top)
  1. Colish, Marcia. Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997
  2. Grafton, Anthony. Bring Out Your Dead: The Past As Revelation. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001.
  3. Grafton, Anthony. What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  4. Grassi, Ernesto. Renaissance Humanism: Studies in Philosophy and Poetics. Binghamton, N.Y: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1988.
  5. Kent, F.W. and Charles Zika, eds. Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.
  6. Koenigsberger, Dorothy. Renaissance Man and Creative Thinking: A History of Concepts of Harmony, 1400-1700. Hassocks, England: Harvester Press, 1979.
  7. Kretzmann, Norman Anthony Kenny and Jan Pinborg, eds. The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988
  8. Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Renaissance Thought: The Classic, Scholastic, and Humanistic Stains. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
  9. Kristeller, Paul Oskar. The Classics and Renaissance Thought. Cambridge: Published for Oberlin College by Harvard University Press, 1955.
  10. Langer, Ullrich. Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance: Nominalist Theology and Literature in France and Italy. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1990.
  11. Levao, Ronald. Renaissance Minds and Their Fictions: Cusanus, Sidney, Shakespeare. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
  12. Long, Pamela O. Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  13. Merkel, Ingrid and Allen G. Debus, eds. Hermeticism and the Renaissance: Intellectual History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe. Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1988.
  14. Noreña, Carlos G. Studies in Spanish Renaissance Thought. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1975.
  15. Reiss, Timothy J. Knowledge, Discovery, and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  16. Rice, Eugene F. The Renaissance Idea of Wisdom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
  17. Rossi, Paolo. Philosophy, Technology and the Arts in the Early Modern Era. New York: Harper & Row, 1970
  18. Yates, Frances Amelia. Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1984.
  19. Yates, Frances Amelia. The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century. London: Routledge, 1988.
  20. Yates, Frances Amelia. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 2002.
 
Reformation (top)
  1. Hoffmeister, Gerhart, ed. The Renaissance and Reformation in Germany: An Introduction. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1977.
  2. Holt, Mack P. Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  3. Levi, Anthony. Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
  4. Major, J. Russell. The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation, a Short History. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970.
  5. McGrath, Alister E. Reformation Thought: An Introduction. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1993.
  6. Nebelsick, Harold P. The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Science. Edinburgh [ Scotland]: T & T Clark, 1992.
 
Religion / Popular Beliefs (top)
  1. Allen, Don Cameron. Doubt's Boundless Sea; Skepticism and Faith in the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1964.
  2. -----. Mysteriously Meant; the Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970.
  3. Birch, Debra J. Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages: Continuity and Change. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 1998.
  4. Camporesi, Piero. Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
  5. Delumeau, Jean. Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture, 13th-18th Centuries. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
  6. Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992
  7. Dyas, Dee. Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500. Cambridge, 2001
  8. Gregory, Brad S. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999
  9. Herwaarden, Jan van, Shaffer, Wendie and Donald Gardner, trans. Between Saint James and Erasmus. Studies in Late-Medieval Religious Life: Devotion and Pilgrimage in the Netherlands. Leiden, 2003
  10. Kieckhefer, Richard. Unquiet Souls: 14th Century Saints and their Religious Milieu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984
  11. Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, 1989
  12. Larner, Christina. Witchcraft and Religion: The Politics of Popular Belief. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984
  13. Levack, Brian. Renaissance Magic. New York: Garland Publishers, 1992
  14. Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju. Worldly Saints: Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy, 1200-1500. Helsinki, 1999
  15. Maggi, Armando. In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  16. Peters, Christine. Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England. Cambridge, 2003
  17. Platt, Peter, ed. Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
  18. Price, Merral L. Consuming Passions: The Uses of Canibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. New York, 2003
  19. Rosenthal, Joel. The Purchase of Paradise. London, 1972
  20. Spivey Ellington, Donna. From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul: Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Washington, D.C., 2001
  21. Stephens, Walter. Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002
  22. Swanson, R.N. Religion and Devotion in Europe, c. 1215-1515 (Cambridge, 1995)
  23. Weinstein, Donald. Savonarola and Florence; Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1970.
  24. Weinstein, D. Bell, R. Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982
  25. Williams, Wes. Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: The Undiscovered Country. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
  26. Zambelli, Paola. White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance: [from Ficino, Pico, Della Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno]. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
 
Science / Medicine / Technology (top)
  1. Beitchman, Philip. Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance. SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
  2. Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
  3. Brockliss, Lawrence and Colin Jones. The Medical World of Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997
  4. Carlino, Andrea. Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  5. Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  6. Debus, Allen G. The Chemical Philosophy: Paraselcian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 2 vols. New York: Science History Publications, 1977
  7. Eamon, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994
  8. Feingold, Aaron J. Three Jewish Physicians of the Renaissance: The Marriage of Science and Ethics. New York, NY: American Friends of Beth Hatefutsoth, 1994.
  9. French, R. K. Dissection and Vivisection in the European Renaissance. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999.
  10. French, Roger. Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Cambridge, 2003
  11. Friel, Ian. The Good Ships: Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England, 1200-1520. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
  12. Galluzzi, Paolo. Renaissance Engineers from Brunelleschi to Leonardo da Vinci. Florence: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 1996
  13. Garin, Eugenio. Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
  14. Gatti, Hilary. Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999
  15. Grafton, Anthony. Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.
  16. Grafton, Anthony. Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1999.
  17. Grant, Edward. Planets, Stars and Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996
  18. Hamby, Wallace B. Ambroise Paré, Surgeon of the Renaissance. St. Louis: W.H. Green, 1967.
  19. Henderson, John. The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2006.
  20. Heninger, S. K. The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe. San Marino, Calif: Huntington Library, 1977.
  21. Joutsivuo, Timo. Scholastic Tradition and Humanist Innovation: The Concept of Neutrum in Renaissance Medicine. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1999.
  22. Langford, Jerome J. Galileo, Science and the Church. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1966
  23. Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious and Institutional Context, 800 BC to AD 1450. Chicago, 1992
  24. Maclean, Ian. Logic, Signs, and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  25. Mandrou, Robert. From Humanism to Science 1480 to 1700. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
  26. Moran, Bruce. The Alchemical World of the German Court: Occult Philosophy and Chemical Medicine in the Circle of Moritz of Hessen, 1572-1632. Stuttgart: Franx Steiner, 1991
  27. Moran, Bruce T. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, 2005
  28. Nebelsick, Harold P. The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Science. Edinburgh [ Scotland]: T & T Clark, 1992.
  29. Park, Catherine. Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985
  30. Parsons, William Barclay. Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, 1968.
  31. Rawcliffe, Carole. Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England. Stroud, UK, 1995
  32. Rhodes, Neil and Jonathan Sawday, eds. The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. London: Routledge, 2000.
  33. Rose, Paul L. The Italian Renaissance and Mathematics: Studies on Humanists and Mathematicians from Petrarch to Galileo. Geneva: Librarie Droz, 1975
  34. Rossi, Paolo. Philosophy, Technology and the Arts in the Early Modern Era. New York: Harper & Row, 1970
  35. Sawday, Jonathan. The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture. London: Routledge, 1995.
  36. Siraisi, Nancy G. Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990
  37. Siraisi, Nancy G. History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.
  38. Thornton, Dora. The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
  39. Westman, Robert, ed. The Copernican Achievement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
  40. Waters, David Watkin. Science and the Techniques of Navigation in the Renaissance. London: National Maritime Museum, 1976.
  41. Wolfe, Jessica. Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
 
Social and Cultural Life (top)
  1. Arcangeli, Alessandro. Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, C. 1425-1675. Houndmills [ England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
  2. Becker, Marvin B. Civility and Society in Western Europe, 1300-1600. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
  3. Burke, Peter. Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540. London: Batsford, 1972.
  4. Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
  5. Burke, Peter. The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1999.
  6. Burke, Peter and R. Po-chia Hsia, eds. Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  7. Davis, Natalie Z. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975
  8. Crum, Roger J. and John T. Paoletti, eds. Renaissance Florence: A Social History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  9. Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process. Oxford [ England]: Blackwell, 1993.
  10. Fumerton, Patricia and Simon Hunt, eds. Renaissance Culture and the Everyday. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
  11. Helfers, James P. ed. Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.
  12. Hofele, Andreas and Werner von Koppenfels, eds. Renaissance Go-betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2005.
  13. Kent, F.W. and Charles Zika, eds. Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.
  14. Larner, John. Culture and Society in Italy, 1290-1420. Studies in cultural history. New York: Scribner, 1971.
  15. Mulryne, J.R. and Margaret Shewring, eds. Italian Renaissance Festivals and Their European Influence. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
  16. Mulryne, J.R. and Elizabeth Goldring, eds. Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics, and Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
  17. Rowland, Ingrid D. The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-century Rome. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  18. Salter, Elisabeth. Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance: Popular Culture in Town and Country. Basingstoke [ England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  19. Shumaker, Wayne. The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance; a Study in Intellectual Patterns. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
  20. Strong, Roy C. Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals, 1450-1650. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1984.
  21. Trexler, Richard C. Public Life in Renaissance Florence. Studies in social discontinuity. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
 
States / Administration / Politics (top)
  1. Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1966.
  2. Barnes, Thomas Garden. Renaissance, Reformation, and Absolutism, 1400-1660. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
  3. Bentley, Jerry H. Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
  4. Black, Anthony. Political Thought in Europe, 1250-1450. Cambridge, 1992
  5. Bothwell, J.S. Edward III and the English Peerage: Royal Patronage, Social Mobility and Political Control in Fourteenth-Century England. Woodbridge, 2004
  6. Bouwsma, William James. Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
  7. Brown, Alison. Bartolomeo Scala, 1430-1497, Chancellor of Florence: The Humanist As Bureaucrat. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1979.
  8. Burns, J.H. and M. Goldie, eds. Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1470. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991
  9. Calabria, Antonio. The Cost of Empire the Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in the Time of Spanish Rule. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  10. Earenfight, Theresa, ed. Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Aldershot, 2005
  11. Fernández-Santamaría, J. A. The State, War and Peace: Spanish Political Thought in the Renaissance, 1516-1559. Cambridge [ Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
  12. Guicciardini, Francesco. Dialogue on the Government of Florence. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  13. Hedeman, Anne. The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274–1422. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991 [e-book at the Univ. of California Digital Library]
  14. King, Margaret. Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986
  15. Lubkin, Gregory. A Renaissance Court: Milan Under Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  16. Major, Russell. From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
  17. Marcus, E.D. Sixteenth Century Nationalism. New York: Abaris, 1976
  18. Martines, Lauro. Power and Imagination: City-states in Renaissance Italy. New York: Vintage Books, 1980.
  19. Mattingly, Garrett. Renaissance Diplomacy. New York: Russell & Russell, 1970.
  20. Murray, James. Notarial Instruments in Flanders between 1280 and 1452. Brussels, 1995
  21. Najemy, John M. Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982
  22. Pagden, Anthony, ed. Languages of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987
  23. Pocock, J.G.A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975
  24. Romano, Dennis. Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundation of the Venetian RenaissanceState. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1987
  25. Rubinstein, Nicolai. The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494). Oxford-Warburg studies. Oxford [ England]: Clarendon Press, 1997.
  26. Strong, Roy C. Splendour at Court; Renaissance Spectacle and Illusion. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.
  27. Skinner, Quentin. The Foundation of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978
  28. Staley, Lynn. Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II. University Park, PA, 2005
  29. Tierney, Brian. Religion, Law, and the Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982
  30. Vale, Malcolm. The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North-West Europe, 1270-1380. Oxford, 2001
  31. VanLandingham, Marta. Transforming the State: King, Court, and Political Culture in the Realms of Aragon, 1213-1387. Leiden [ Netherlands]: Brill, 2002.
  32. Wolfthal, Diane, ed. Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Coexistence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000.
 
War / Chivalry (top)
  1. Allmand, Christopher. The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, c. 1300-c.1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
  2. Anglo, Sydney, ed. Chivalry in the Renaissance. Woodbridge [ England]: Boydell Press, 1990.
  3. Anglo, Sydney. The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe. New Haven [ Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2000.
  4. Bornstein, Diane. Mirrors of Courtesy. Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1975.
  5. Boulton, D'A.J.D. The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchial Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325-1520. Woodbridge, 1982
  6. Curry, Anne. The Hundred Years War, 2nd edition. New York, 2003
  7. Davis, Alex. Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance. Woodbridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2003.
  8. Gush, George. Renaissance Armies, 1480-1650. Cambridge: Stephens, 1975.
  9. Hale, J. R. Renaissance War Studies. London: Hambledon Press, 1983.
  10. Hale, J. R. War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
  11. Hall, Bert S. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics. Baltimore, [ Md.]: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
  12. Healy, Thomas and Jonathan SawdayLiterature and the English Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  13. Hooper, N & Bennett, M. Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: the Middle Ages, 768-1487. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  14. Johnson, Matthew. Behind the Castle Gate: From Medieval to Renaissance. London, 2002
  15. Lane, Frederic Chapin. Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  16. Mallet, Michael. Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1974
  17. Mallet, Michael and John R. Hale. The Military Organization of a RenaissanceState: Venice c. 1400-1617. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984
  18. Parker, Geoffrey. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988
  19. Rickard, John. The Castle Community: The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422. Woodbridge, 2002
  20. Stevenson, Katie. Chivalry and Knighthood in Scotland, 1424-1513. Woodbridge, 2006
  21. Vernier, Richard. The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge, 2003
 
Witchcraft (top)
  1. Ankarloo, Bengt and Gustav Hennington, eds. Early Modern Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990
  2. Briggs, Robin. Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft. New York: Viking Press, 1996
  3. Clark, Stuart. Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997
  4. Gentilcore, David. From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra d’Otranto. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992
  5. Ginzburg, Carlo. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983
  6. Hsia R. Po-chia. The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988
  7. Kieckhefer, Richard. European Witch Trials: Their Foundation in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1976
  8. Larner, Christina. Witchcraft and Religion: The Politics of Popular Belief. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984
  9. Levack, Brian. Renaissance Magic. New York: Garland Publishers, 1992
  10. Levack, Brian. The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe. London: Longman, 1994
  11. Macfarlane, Alan. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Routledge, 1974
  12. Midelfort, H.C. Eric. Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971
  13. Roper, Lyndal. Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 1994
  14. Ruggiero, Guido. The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. Studies in the history of sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  15. Stephens, Walter. Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002
  16. Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic. New York: Macmillan, 1971
  17. Waite, Gary K. Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. New York: Palgrave, 2003
 
Women (top)
  1. Allen, Prudence, R.S.M. The Concept of Woman: Volume 2: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500. Grand Rapids, MI, 2002
  2. Brucker, Gene A. Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: With a New Preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
  3. Callaghan, Dympna, ed. The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies. Basingstoke [ England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  4. Chojnacki, Stanley. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
  5. Ferraro, Joanne Marie. Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  6. Hagedorn, Suzanne. Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
  7. Hutson, Lorna, ed. Feminism and Renaissance Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  8. Kuehn, Thomas. Law, Family, and Women: Towards a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991
  9. Klapish-Zuber, Christiane. Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Florence. Chicago, 1985
  10. Lawler, Jennifer. Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages. Jefferson, NC, 2001
  11. Leyser, Henrietta. A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500. London, 1995
  12. León, Vicki. Uppity Women of the Renaissance. Berkeley, Calif: Conari Press, 1999.
  13. MacDonald, Joyce Green. Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  14. Maclean, Ian. The Renaissance Notion of Women: a study in the fortunes of scholasticism and medical science in European intellectual life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980
  15. Masson, Georgina. Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance. London: Secker & Warburg, 1975.
  16. McAvoy, Liz Herbert. Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe Cambridge, 2004
  17. McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. Working Women in English Society 1300-1620. Cambridge, 2005
  18. Murphy, Caroline. The Pope's Daughter: [the Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  19. Phillips, Kim. Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1270-1540. Manchester, 2003
  20. Warren, Nancy B. Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Polical Conflict, 1380-1600. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
  21. Yalom, Marilyn. Birth of the Chess Queen. New York, 2004
 
Miscellaneous (top)
  1. Berger, Harry. Second World and Green World: Studies in Renaissance Fiction-making. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
  2. Brotton, Jerry. Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World. London: Reaktion Books, 1997.
  3. Grendler, Paul F. The European Renaissance in American Life. Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
  4. Kaplan, M. Linsay. The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  5. Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony. Renaissance and Revolution; the Remaking of European Thought. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.
  6. Rabb, Theodore K. Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
  7. Rabb, Theodore K. The Last Days of the Renaissance & the March to Modernity. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
 
Regional Studies (top)
  1. Baumgartner, Frederic J. France in the Sixteenth Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
  2. Bisson, Thomas N. Medieval Crown of Aragon a Short History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.
  3. Brown, Alison. The Medici in Florence: The Exercise of Language and Power. Italian medieval and renaissance studies. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1992.
  4. Brucker, Gene A. Florence, the Golden Age, 1138-1737. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.
  5. Brucker, Gene A. Florentine Politics and Society, 1343-1378. Princeton studies in history. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1962.
  6. Brucker, Gene A. Renaissance Florence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
  7. Brucker, Gene A. The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1977.
  8. Chastel, André. The Golden Age of the Renaissance; Italy 1460-1500. London: Thames and Hudson, 1965.
  9. Crum, Roger J. and John T. Paoletti, eds. Renaissance Florence: A Social History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  10. Dandelet, Thomas James. Spanish Rome, 1500-1700. New Haven [ Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2001.
  11. Epstein, Steven. Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996
  12. Febvre, Lucien Paul Victor. Life in Renaissance France. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1977.
  13. Garrisson, Janine. A History of Sixteenth-century France, 1483-1598: Renaissance, Reformation, and Rebellion. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.
  14. Geanakoplos, Deno John. Byzantine East and Latin West: Two Worlds of Christendom in Middle Ages and Renaissance; Studies in Ecclesiastical and Cultural History. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966.
  15. Gregorovius, Ferdinand. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages. New York: AMS Press, 1967.
  16. Hale, J. R. Renaissance Venice. Totowa, N.J: Rowman and Littlefield, 1973.
  17. Holt, Mack P. Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  18. Jones, P. J. The Italian City-state: From Commune to Signoria. Oxford: New York, 1997.
  19. Larner, John. Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380. London: Longman, 1980.
  20. Lubkin, Gregory. A Renaissance Court: Milan Under Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  21. Maas, Clifford W. The German Community in Renaissance Rome, 1378-1523. Rome: Herder, 1981.
  22. Martines, Lauro. April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  23. Martines, Lauro. Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  24. Mitchell, Bonner. Rome in the High Renaissance: The Age of Leo X. The Centers of civilization series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.
  25. Partner, Peter. Renaissance Rome, 1500-1559: A Portrait of a Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
  26. Porter, Roy and Mikuláš Teich, eds. The Renaissance in National Context. Cambridge [ England]: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  27. Rubinstein, Nicolai. The Government of Florence Under the Medici (1434 to 1494). Oxford-Warburg studies. Oxford [ England]: Clarendon Press, 1997.
  28. Ryder, A. F. C. Alfonso the Magnanimous: King of Aragon, Naples, and Sicily, 1396-1458. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
  29. Ryder, A. F. C. The Kingdom of Naples Under Alfonso the Magnanimous: The Making of a ModernState. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
  30. Simone, Franco. The French Renaissance: Medieval Tradition and Italian Influence in Shaping the Renaissance in France. London: Macmillan, 1969.
  31. Stinger, Charles L. The Renaissance in Rome. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
  32. Stone, Gregory B. The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  33. Trexler, Richard C. Power and Dependence in Renaissance Florence. Binghamton, N.Y: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993.
  34. Villari, Rosario. The Revolt of Naples. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1993.
  35. Waley, Daniel Philip. The Italian City-republics. London: Longman, 1988.
  36. Weinstein, Donald. Savonarola and Florence; Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1970.
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