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- Renaissance literature - Renaissance literature refers to European literature usually considered to be initiated by Petrarch at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, and sometimes taken to continue to the English Renaissance and into the seventeenth century. The impact of the Renaissance varied across the continent: countries where Catholicism and emergent Protestantism were, or became, dominant experienced the Renaissance in a different manner to areas where the Orthodox Church was ...
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien) is a 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his 1878 Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien, it is counted among the classics of Renaissance historiography.
- Macedonian Renaissance - Macedonian Renaissance is a label sometimes used to describe the period of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire (867-1056), especially the 10th century, which some scholars have seen as a time of increased interest in classical scholarship and the assimilation of classical motifs into Christian themes. Other variants of the term sometimes used are: Middle Byzantine Renaissance ot First Byzantine Renaissance (the Palaiologan Renaissance from the 13th century on being the second).
- House of Lords Act 1999 - The House of Lords Act 1999, an Act of Parliament passed by the British Parliament, was a major constitutional enactment as it reformed greatly one of the chambers of Parliament, the House of Lords (see Lords Reform). For centuries, the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats; the Act removed such a right.
- House of Lords - The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords". The Sovereign, the House of Commons (which is the lower house of Parliament and referred to as "the Commons"), and the Lords together comprise the Parliament.