Detailed bookshelf period

1400–1500 AD

← Back to All Books 1400–1500 AD From 1400 to 1500 AD, Europe entered a transformative age in which Renaissance humanism, religious renewal, political realism, scientific inquiry, and literary imagination reshaped ideas of human dignity and freedom. Thomas à Kempis and Savonarola called individuals to conscience and spiritual discipline; Leonardo celebrated the creative powers of the human mind; Erasmus used satire t

Of the Imitation of Christ

The Imitation of Christ

The Imitation of Christ

Thoughts on Art and Life

The Triumph of the Cross

The Triumph of the Cross

A Platonic Discourse upon Love

Le Morte Darthur

The Colloquies of Erasmus

The Whole Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

Ten Colloquies

Erasmus and Our Struggle for Peace

The Complaint of Peace

The Praise of Folly

The Education of a Christian Prince

Enchiridion Militis Christiani (The Manual of the Christian Knight)

Mandragola (Mandrake)

The Prince

The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

Tales from Ariosto

Orlando Furioso

Ideal Commonwealths

The Utopia of Sir Thomas More

Famous Utopias of the Renaissance