Herald of Ages explained why the Medieval Period is known as the Middle Ages because it sits between the Roman Empire and the ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

The Renaissance period is usually seen as being from the ... paying a scribe to create a handmade copy of that book. This was time-consuming and very expensive. The printing press meant that ...

A blockbuster exhibition of Italian Renaissance works on paper launching ... He adds: “It is also the chance to reconsider artists of the period as draughtsmen in addition to painters or sculptors.