-
Historical Novel
male - A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the...
-
Ibn Battuta
male, deceased - Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: "' was a Berber Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or...
-
John Wycliffe
male, deceased - John Wycliffe (mid-1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th ce...
-
Barbara Tuchman
female, deceased - Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author, and became best known for "The Guns of...
-
Jean Froissart
male, deceased - Jean Froissart (c.1337 - c.1405) was one of the most important of the chroniclers of medieval France. For centuries, "Froissart's Chronicles" have...
-
Carpentras
male, deceased - Carpentras (c.1470-June 14, 1548) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous during his lifetime, and was especially notable for his...
-
Renaissance Humanism
male - Renaissance humanism (often designated simply as "humanism") was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the...
-
Francesco Landini
male, deceased - Francesco Landini or Landino (around 1325 - September 2, 1397) was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker. He was one of...
-
Mansa Musa
male, deceased - Mansa Musa was a 14th century king (or Mansa) who ruled the Mali Empire between 1312 and 1337. He is remembered for his fabled hajj and as a...
-
Rashid Al-Din
male, deceased - Rashid al-Din Tabib also Rashid ad-Din Fadhlullah Hamadani, was a Persian physician, writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history...
