A

Table of Contents

Maps

Volume 1

Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Americas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Asia and the Indian Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Volume 2

City of Florence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Habsburg Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Holy Roman Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Italy, 1500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Volume 3

London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

The Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Ottoman Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

The Papal States in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Volume 4

Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

The Scandinavian Kingdoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Spanish Kingdoms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Venetian Territories in the Eatern

Mediterranean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Genealogical Charts

Volume 2

Tudor Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Habsburg Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Volume 3

House of Medici . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Volume 4

Spanish Monarchs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Valois Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Color Plates

Volume 1

Art and Architecture

Volume 2

Daily Life

Volume 3

The Renaissance City

Volume 4

New Frontiers

Volume 1

Preface
A Timeline of the
Renaissance

A

Academies
Accounting
Africa
Agricola, Rudolf
Agriculture
Agrippa of Nettesheim, Heinrich
Alberti, Leon Battista
Alchemy
Alexander VI (pope)
Americas
Amsterdam
Anatomy
Angelico, Fra
Anguissola, Sofonisba
Anne of Brittany
Anti-Semitism
Antwerp
Architecture
Ariosto, Ludovico
Aristocracy
Aristotle and Aristotelianism
Armada, Spanish
Arms and Armor
Art
Art, Education and Training
Art in Britain
Art in Central Europe
Art in France
Art in Germany
Art in Italy
Art in the Netherlands
Art in Spain and Portugal
Artisans
Asia, East
Astronomy
Augsburg
Augustine of Hippo
Austria

B

Bacon, Francis
Baltic States
Barocci, Federico
Baroque
Bartolommeo della Porta, Fra
Basel
Bavaria
Behn, Aphra
Bellarmine, Robert
Bellini Family
Bible
Biography and Autobiography
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bodin, Jean
Bohemia
Bologna
Books and Manuscripts
Borgia, House of
Bosch, Hieronymus
Botticelli, Sandro
Bourbon Family and Dynasty
Bourgeoisie
Bouts, Dirck
Brahe, Tycho
Bramante, Donato
Brandenburg
Brittany
Brueghel Family
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Bruni, Leonardo
Bruno, Giordano
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Brussels
Burgundy
Burckhardt, Jakob
Byrd, William

C

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Calendars
Calvin, John
Camões, Luíz Vaz de
Campanella, Tommaso
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
Carpaccio, Vittore
Carracci Family
Castiglione, Baldassare
Catherine de Médicis
Catherine of Aragon
Catholic Reformation and Counter-
Reformation
Cavendish, Margaret
Cellini, Benvenuto
Celtis, Conrad
Censorship
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Charles I (king of England)
Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
Châteaus and Villas
Childhood
Chivalry
Christianity
Christina of Sweden
Cicero
Cities and Urban Life
City-States
Classical Antiquity
Classical Scholarship
Clergy
Clocks
Clothing
Coins and Medals
Columbus, Christopher
Commedia dell'Arte
Confraternities
Constantinople, Fall of
Constitutionalism
Conversos
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Correggio
Cortés, Hernán
Councils
Court
Cranach, Lucas
Cranmer, Thomas
Crime and Punishment
Croatia and Dalmatia
Cromwell, Thomas
Index

Volume 2

D

Daily Life
Dance
Death
Decorative Arts
Devotio Moderna
Diplomacy
Donatello
Donne, John
Drake, Francis
Drama
Drama, English
Drama, French
Drama, Spanish
Dubrovnik

Duel
Dürer, Albrecht
Dynastic Rivalry

E

Economy and Trade
Education
Edward VI (king of England)
El Greco
Elizabeth I (queen of England)
England
English Language and Literature
Erasmus, Desiderius
Espionage
Este, House of
Euclid
Europe, Idea of
Exploration
Eyck, Hubert van and Jan van

F

Factions
Fairs and Festivals
Family and Kinship
Farnese, House of
Feminism
Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Emperor)
Ferdinand of Aragon
Ferrara
Ficino, Marsilio
Florence
Food and Drink
Forgeries
Fortifications
France
Francesco di Giorgio Martini
Francis I (king of France)
French Language and Literature
Fugger Family

G

Galen
Galilei, Galileo
Gama, Vasco da
Gardens
Genoa
Gentileschi, Artemisia
Geography and Cartography
German Language and Literature
Ghetto
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
Gilbert, William
Giocondo, Fra
Giorgione da Castelfranco
Giotto di Bondone
Goes, Hugo van der
Góngora y Argote, Luis de
Gonzaga, House of
Government, Forms of
Greek Émigrés
Grey, Jane
Grotius, Hugo
Grünewald, Matthias
Guarini, Guarino
Guicciardini, Francesco
Guilds
Guise-Lorraine Family
Gutenberg, Johann

H

Habsburg Dynasty
Hakluyt, Richard
Harvey, William
Henry VII (king of England)
Henry VIII (king of England)
Henry IV (king of France)
Heraldry
Hippocrates
History, Writing of
Holbeins, The
Holy Roman Empire
Honor
Hospitals and Asylums
Humanism
Humor
Hungary

I

Ideas, Spread of
Ignatius Loyola
Illumination
Index of Prohibited Books
Individualism
Industry
Inns of Court
Inquisition
Ireland
Isabella of Castile
Islam
Italian Language and Literature
Italy

J

James I (king of England)
Jeanne d'Albret
Jewelry
Jewish Languages and Literature
Jews
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben
Josquin des Prez
Julius II (pope)
Index

Volume 3

K

Kepler, Johannes
Knox, John

L

Las Casas, Bartolomé de
Laski Family
Lasso, Orlando di
Latin Language and Literature
Law
Leiden
Leo X (pope)
Leonardo da Vinci
Libraries
Lisbon
Literacy
Literature
Logic
London
Love and Marriage
Luther, Martin
Luxury
Lyon

M

Machiavelli, Niccolò
Madrid
Magellan, Ferdinand
Magic and Astrology
Man, Dignity of
Mantegna, Andrea
Mantua
Margaret of Austria
Margaret of Navarre
Marie de Médicis
Marlowe, Christopher
Mary I (queen of England)
Mary Stuart
Masaccio
Mathematics

Maximilian I (Holy Roman Emperor)
Maximilian II (Holy Roman Emperor)
Medici, House of
Medici, Cosimo de'
Medici, Lorenzo de'
Medicine
Mediterranean Sea
Mehmed II (sultan of Ottoman Empire)
Melanchthon, Philipp
Memling, Hans
Mercantilism
Mercenaries
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Middle Ages
Milan
Milton, John
Mining and Metallurgy
Missions, Christian
Monarchy
Money and Banking
Montaigne, Michel de
Montefeltro Family
Monteverdi, Claudio
Montmorency Family
More, Thomas
Moriscos
Motherhood
Museums
Music
Music, Instrumental
Music, Vocal
Musical Instruments
Myth

N

Naples
Nation-state
Nepotism
Netherlands
Netherlands, Language and Literature
of
Nicholas V (pope)
Nicholas of Cusa
Notaries
Numerology
Nürnberg
Nürnberg Chronicle

O

Opera
Orphans and Foundlings
Ottoman Empire

P

Paganism
Palaces and Townhouses
Palatinate
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palladio, Andrea
Paracelsus
Parades and Pageants
Paré, Ambroise
Paris
Parmigianino
Pastoral
Patronage
Peasantry
Peasants' War
Perugino
Peruzzi, Baldassare
Petrarch
Philip II (king of Spain)
Philosophy
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Piedmont-Savoy
Piero della Francesca
Pilgrimage
Piracy
Pirckheimer Family
Pisa
Pisanello, Antonio Pisano, il
Pius II (pope)
Pius IV (pope)
Pizan, Christine de
Plague
Plato, Platonism, and Neoplatonism
Poetry
Poetry, English
Poland
Political Thought
Poliziano, Angelo
Pomponazzi, Pietro
Popes and Papacy
Popular Culture
Population
Portugal
Portuguese Language and Literature
Poverty and Charity
Prague
Preaching and Sermons
Princes and Princedoms
Index

Volume 4

Printing and Publishing
Professions
Protestant Reformation
Ptolemy
Puritanism

Q

Queens and Queenship
Querelle des Femmes

R

Rabelais, François
Ramus, Petrus
Raphael
Religious Literature
Religious Orders
Religious Thought
Renaissance: Influence and
Interpretations
Representative Institutions
Revolts
Rhetoric
Ricci, Matteo
Rome
Ronsard, Pierre de
Rouen
Rubens, Peter Paul
Rudolf II (Holy Roman Emperor)
Russia

S

Salons
Salutati, Coluccio
Sannazaro, Jacopo
Savonarola, Girolamo
Saxony
Scandinavian Kingdoms
Science
Scientific Instruments
Scientific Method
Scotland
Sculpture
Servants
Seville
Sexuality and Gender
Shakespeare, William
Ships and Shipbuilding
Sicily
Sickness and Disease
Sidney, Philip
Siena
Slavery

Social Status
Spain
Spanish Language and Literature
Spenser, Edmund
Sports
Strozzi, Alessandra Macinghi
Stuart Dynasty
Süleyman I
Switzerland

T

Tasso, Torquato
Taxation and Public Finance
Technology
Teresa of Ávila
Theaters
Thirty Years' War
Tintoretto
Titian
Toledo
Tombs
Tournaments
Translation
Transportation and Communication
Travel and Tourism
Trent, Council of

U

Universities
Urbino
Utopias

V

Valla, Lorenzo
Valois Dynasty
Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de
Venice
Vergerio, Pier Paolo
Veronese, Paolo
Verrocchio, Andrea del
Vesalius, Andreas
Vienna
Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da
Villon, François
Violence
Virgil
Vittorino da Feltre
Vives, Juan Luis

W

Warfare
Wars of Italy
Wars of Religion
Weights and Measures
Weyden, Rogier van der
Witchcraft
Wolsey, Thomas
Women
Writing
Suggested Resources
Acknowledgments
Index