The Italian Reformation outside Italy: Francesco Pucci’s Heresy in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Habsburg Monarchy in the Sixteenth Century

Facing the Nuclear Heresy: A Call to Reformation

The Vesalian movement in sixteenth-century Spain.

In the middle o f the s ix teenth-century under the direct inf luence o f Vesalius's works there arose in Spain a m o v e m e n t devoted to the renewal o f anatomical knowledge. It was one o f the initial forces in the spread o f the Vesalian reform, bu t in spite o f that it has been almost comple te ly ignored by specialized historical research. 1 The purpose o f this article is to provide a...

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...

The medical Renaissance of the sixteenth century

A. WEAR, R. K. FRENCH, and I. M. LONIE (editors), The medical Renaissance of the sixteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 350, £35.00. When planning their 1983 conference on renaissance medicine, the editors of this volume had in mind not so much to repeat the traditional picture, which portrays the achievements of a few great figures, as to investigate the typical the...