Renaissance
Renaissance courts and workshops
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
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Renaissance
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
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13 place stories active in the same years
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Paris · 1572 CE to 1572 CE
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France and Low Countries
1572 · Paris
Paris becomes the place where confessional politics abandon restraint and court calculation erupts into mass killing.
Catherine keeps the event human because court calculation is forced here through one figure long associated with the fearful management of dynastic survival.
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