Internationally renowned scholars will gather at Princeton Thursday and Friday, Feb. 10-11, for a conference on "Renaissance Magic: Performance, Technology, Theater." The event, sponsored by the ...

Peeking inside a Southern Californian's closet, drawers, armoire, or bureau? You might find classic board shorts, and swimsuits, and sun hats, and light-as-air frocks made for strolling in the ...

One has to admire Philip Ball's courageous undertaking in writing a biography of Paracelsus, arguably the most controversial medical writer in the Renaissance. Not only are the works of Paracelsus' ...

From "Romeo and Juliet" to "Love Story," the tale of youngsters who fall in love, only to see death and a search for meaning in it all is so often told that it seems to have become almost a cliche of ...

The first and only politically motivated killing of an academic in the United States may have taken place at the University of Chicago less than a quarter of a century ago. Ioan Culianu was a ...

Jac Clement, Sturgeon Bay, plays quite the trick each year — trading in his white doctor's coat for a tunic as he transforms into "Jaco" for the Door County Renaissance Fantasy Faire. By day, Clement ...