Article: Democracy: The lessons of history

Article: Building a Creative Hothouse: Strategies of History's Most Creative Groups.
The Futurist;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......creative hothouses, such as ancient Greece, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and...within organizations today. Ancient Athens, Renaissance Florence, and Elizabethan England represent...historical factors that shaped ancient Athens or Renaissance ...

Article: Cradle of capitalism; Renaissance Florence.(The Economy of Renaissance Florence)(Book review)
The Economist (US);  April 18, 2009 ;     696 words ......conventional heroes of popular histories of Renaissance Florence. One could write the history of...certainly knew how to spend. In Renaissance Florence greed was good. The rich lavished...an awesome legacy. The Economy of Renaissance Florence. By Richard A. Goldthwaite.

Article: A Trip to the Agora.(town center of ancient Athens, Greece)
Appleseeds;  December 1, 1999 ;     318 words ......town center, is the heart of ancient Athens. It's where all the important...politics, the favorite pastime of ancient Athens. But nearly all the voices you hear belong to men and boys. In ancient Athens, respectable women never go...

Article: Renaissance Florence: A Social History
The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 2007 ;     639 words ...Renaissance Florence: A Social History. Edited by...essays on the society and art of Renaissance Florence serves as an up-to-date and...structures, and institutions - Renaissance Florence does tackle many of the historical...

Article: Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Connell, ed. Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University...the revised edition of Brucker's Renaissance Florence (first ed. 1969; rev. ed. 1983...historical treatment of the society of Renaissance Florence from an emphasis on individual and...

Article: ANCIENT ATHENS EXPERT TO DELIVER 16TH LEHMANN LECTURE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 11, 2006 ;     324 words ......bone fragments gathered from pyres in ancient Athens led to new conclusions about their...Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens," will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, April...public center, called the agora, in ancient Athens. Unearthed pyres consist of a shallow...

Article: (book reviews)
Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 1998 ;     546 words ......the path-breaking The Society of Renaissance Florence, 1971), he never discusses society...1962) and The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence (1977). Politics and society intermingle...domain of many other historians of Renaissance Florence - who are helping to answer some...

Article: Books: Revealed: the making of a mistresspiece The broadcaster and critic Sarah Dunant has written eight thrillers. Her new novel, `The Birth of Venus', is set in renaissance Florence. Michele Roberts's 12th novel, `The Mistressclass', out in April, is a study of rivalry between two sisters, set in the present, the 1970s and the time of Charlotte Bronte. They talked to Suzi Feay about feminism, female creativity and God
The Independent on Sunday;  March 9, 2003 ;     514 words ......against family concerns are the perils and pleasures of renaissance Florence. New paintings are being unveiled which question the...murders are almost a sideshow in the febrile atmosphere of renaissance Florence), but are we all damned? Theology has rarely looked so...

Article: Getting it off the chest Two Renaissance 'spalliere' tell many fascinating stories
The Sunday Telegraph London;  April 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence Courtauld Gallery, London...Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence. Fashioned by the carpenter...so-called 'Golden Age' of Renaissance Florence - the era of Lorenzo the...

Article: Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes
Rhetoric & Public Affairs;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon...rhetoric of the people and places of ancient Athens. Fredal offers nine interrelated...companions." Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens starts with architecture and...

Article: Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's Founding
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America...epochs in creativity" (p. 543): Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and the era...accordingly, he devotes 100 pages to Renaissance Florence, 120 pages to Elizabethan England...

Article: An Athens adventure
Belfast Telegraph;  April 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ......certainly see the Parthenon - the most famous monument of ancient Athens, perched on top of the Acropolis - we just weren't sure...Athenians and a favourite spot of Socrates. Walking along ancient Athens streets, all around us people were doing pretty much what...

Article: The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence: catalogue of the exhibition magnificenza!, Palazzo Strozzi, June 6 2002.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Renaissance Quarterly;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence: Catalogue of the Exhibition Magnificenza...Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence is the weighty hard-back catalogue...Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence is full of fascination but at the...

Article: Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Martines. Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for Renaissance Florence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 336 pp...Savonarola's philosophical and theological culture, Borgia Rome, Renaissance Florence, and the vicious diplomatic game played by Italian rulers...