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Renaissance Quarterly

Magellan’s voyage in search of the “Spice Islands” was marked by storms, sharks, and scurvy—plus multiple attempts at mutiny.

If thieves’ cant—a language known only to criminals—was the Devil’s cabinet, bourgeois society couldn’t help but peep inside.

Renaissance-era anatomists taught people to “knowe thyself” by reading the books of bodies.

In 1588, Pope Sixtus V issued a papal bull officially classifying abortion, regardless of the stage of fetal development, as homicide.

The role beards played in defining masculinity during the Renaissance.

Earthworms are often portrayed as beneficial to the environment, but in North America's temperate forests, they are a disaster in action.

How do scammers use language to trick their victims?

Plagues capture the public imagination in ways that other less terrifying--but more deadly--diseases don't.

In our final security studies column, our columnist posits that security as a permanent mode of government is actually making Americans less secure.

Got impeachment? Not much. In American history, there have only been a total of 19 impeachment trials in the U.S. Senate.

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