Music from England’s Golden Age: Sublime sacred music soaring above intrigues of church and state, and intimate lute songs full of love and longing. This Air is from Royall Consort — Sett No. 2. This ...

Language during the English Renaissance displayed the wealth, stature, power, and class of the speaker. And it may sounds a little strange if you listen closely during the Michigan Renaissance ...

Here is a characteristic sentence from David Norbrook’s introduction to “The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse,” published in 1992: Like More, Wyatt found it impossible to find a public discourse ...

The term “Renaissance” means “rebirth.” But rebirth of what? In this class, we’ll look at the new ways in which English writers began to explore familiar questions about the nature of desire, the ...