Stories
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
The food diary and the power of unhealth
Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.
- In pictures
Putti of science
Chubby little winged boys known as putti frequently adorn scientific illustrations. Sometimes portrayed as reverent and sometimes cheeky, they guide our pursuit of knowledge.
- Article
The power of unicorns
Discover the unlikely connection between pharmaceuticals and unicorns.
Catalogue
- E-journals
- Online
Renaissance quarterly
Date: 1967-- Journals
Renaissance quarterly.
Date: 1967-- E-journals
- Online
Renaissance news
Date: 1948-1966- Journals
Renaissance news.
Date: 1948-1966- Books
Renaissance curiosa : John Dee's conversations with angels, Girolamo Cardano's horoscope of Christ, Johannes Trithemius and cryptography, George Dalgarno's Universal language / by Wayne Shumaker.
Shumaker, Wayne.Date: 1982