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Renaissance
Renaissance
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How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe
Renaissance
What great paintings say
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434
Renaissance
Alternate history: what if the Ottomans had won at Lepanto?
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Renaissance
The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind
General Early Modern
Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories
Renaissance
The Borgias: everything you wanted to know
Renaissance
Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Magnificent: the astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Florence
Renaissance
“They were on a level with today’s billionaires” – your guide to the Medici: bankers to the Pope, rulers of Florence, patrons of the Renaissance
Renaissance
Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine
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Renaissance
Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe
Tudor
Catherine de Medici: the ‘Serpent Queen’ who became one of France’s most powerful 16th-century rulers
Victorian
A brief history of garden gnomes
Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci’s private life
Renaissance
Leonardo
: bringing Da Vinci to the screen
Renaissance
Leonardo
: the real history behind the new Renaissance drama
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