Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Cristian Baitg Schreiweis/Getty Images From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa ...

Connecting the past to the present, the documentary ‘We Were Here’ sparks conversations about representation, belonging, and historical memory. (Courtesy UCSB MCC) The Renaissance is often imagined as ...

From the ancient charm of Ptuj in Slovenia to the cobbled streets of Bruges in Belgium, the medieval towers of San Gimignano in Italy, and the baroque beauty of Zamość in Poland, there are countless ...

European Renaissance artists represented multiple images of Africans, and these were strikingly positive images. What little Medieval Europe knew of Christian Ethiopia, or of Mansa Musa, nevertheless, ...

The idea of a renaissance -- Montpellier and medicine in Europe -- Religion and the secular -- Rebirth in Islam (with S. Fennell) -- Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism -- Cultural continuity in ...