When the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitle...

Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied ...

This is a substantial and valuable study of the intellectual Renaissance background from which Ba...

Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned an...

The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect, and ...

Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal p...

One of the most important books of the 'advice-to-princes' published in the Renaissance.

'I want to use the moment as a springboard for some big ideas. I want to use the past and present...

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterest...

Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned an...

Looking outward for confirmation of who they were and what defined them as 'civilized,' Europeans...

The assassination of Prince William of Orange by a French Catholic in 1584 had immediate politica...