How many renaissances have there been? It is not a straightforward question. “Renaissance” means rebirth, and the word itself has undergone a sequence of births. In “The World at First Light,” Bernd ...

Though it might not seem so at first consideration, the worlds of the theater and a Renaissance fair go together, kind of like a meat pie and a tankard of mead. “The Venn diagram between a Renaissance ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...