Cartography and the Renaissance: Continuity and Change

The History of Renaissance Cartography: Interpretive Essays

Virtue in Machiavelli’s Political Thought

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

Bryant Creel. The Voice of the Phoenix: Metaphors of Death and Rebirth in Classics of the Iberian Renaissance. Tempe: Arizona

American Policy in Persian Gulf Region: Continuity or Change at the Trump Era

United States power in Persian Gulf has risen since the end of Second World War. Dividing U.S. presence in the Region into the Cold war and post-Cold war era, the principle policy in first period was narrowing the impact of Soviet Union in the Region and in latter, Access to Persian Gulf region’s oil and controlling the major threats which can disrupt the flow of oil to global energy market. Fo...

State, Cartography, and Territory in Renaissance Veneto and Lombardy

874 If one is to explain why the cartographers of Renaissance Italy were the most innovative and prolific in western Europe in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one has to look elsewhere than the usual general cultural explanations that are put forward for the rise of the Renaissance. Instead, one has to look at the role of maps as increasingly complex expressions of mastery over ter...