title: The Renaissance and Reformation: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
author: Merry Wiesner-Hanks
description: <br /><strong>Merry Wiesner-Hanks </strong>is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the Journal of Global History, the author or editor of twenty books, including <em>Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe</em> (2008) and <em>Early Modern</em> <em>Europe 1450-1789</em> (2006).<br />
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  > > KAREN ARMSTRONG on Islam
  
  > > DAVID BERLINSKI on mathematics
  
  > > RICHARD BESSEL on Nazi Germany
  
  > > IAN BURUMA on modern Japan
  
  > > PATRICK COLLINSON on the Reformation
  
  > > FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO on the Americas
  
  > > LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN on law in America
  
  > > PAUL FUSSELL on World War II in Europe
  
  > > F. GONZÁLEZ-CRUSSI on the history of medicine
  
  > > PETER GREEN on the Hellenistic Age
  
  > > ALISTAIR HORNE on the age of Napoleon
  
  > > PAUL JOHNSON on the Renaissance
  
  > > FRANK KERMODE on the age of Shakespeare
  
  > > JOEL KOTKIN on the city
  
  > > HANS KÜNG on the Catholic Church
  
  > > MARK KURLANSKY on nonviolence
  
  > > EDWARD J. LARSON on the theory of evolution
  
  > > MARTIN MARTY on the history of Christianity
  
  > > MARK MAZOWER on the Balkans
  
  > > JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE on the company
  
  > > ANTHONY PAGDEN on peoples and empires
  
  > > RICHARD PIPES on Communism
  
  > > COLIN RENFREW on prehistory
  
  > > KEVIN STARR on Ca