Humanism, like so many other good things, is sometimes looked at askance by pious people because of the associations or the expressions it has wrongly or at least accidentally acquired. The ...

The academic defends the legacy of the Spanish empire on both sides of the Atlantic and is very critical of the false myths ...

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This ancient city in Italy is often skipped over for Venice, but seasoned travelers will want to take time to visit Padua.

Every year, large numbers of Chinese students follow Luo's example to leave their academic footprints at foreign institutions. And the enthusiasm has extended beyond campus, with general reading ...

In Greek, it means “no place,” though to many scholars, it’s a pun for “happy place.” Did Saint Thomas More, the Renaissance humanist and theologian, imagine it as a happy place in his book Utopia in ...

I want my child to have those — without all the stuff I don’t believe in. Sigal Samuel is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect and co-host of the Future Perfect podcast. She writes primarily ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...