These juicy tidbits concern just a few of the better-known “personalities” Thomas Cahill uses to illuminate the religious, political and social dynamics of the Renaissance and Reformation.

Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, bilingual quarterly. The journal publishes articles and book reviews on all aspects of the ...

Renaissance gave no relief. Even the coming of the Renaissance did not alter the status of the common man. The principal social change was the loss of supremacy by the clergy, whose position now ...

In Renaissance Florence, 4,000-5,000 of the city’s 120,000 inhabitants attended accounting schools at any one time, studying the new device of double-entry accounting with its delicate balance ...

What is less well known is that the Roman Catholic Church too made smart use of print both before and after the Reformation. It adopted the new technology early after its invention in the 1450s.