BERLIN (JTA) — A federal German cultural organization has returned a 16th-century sculpture to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner who faced Nazi persecution. The Berlin-based Prussian ...

images from what historians have called the “first book on fashion”, created and commissioned by 16th-century German accountant Matthäus Schwarz, have inspired a new set of photographs of ...

Not long afterward, Ringmann teamed up with a German cartographer named Martin ... others followed suit as shown in this mid-16th-century map. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library ...

One of the most famous figures in history to carry such a reputation was a 16th-century German farmer named Peter Stumpp, who was accused of killing and consuming more than a dozen victims ...

The debate over confession in 16th-century Germany. In the Presbyterian church of my youth, we were admonished each week to confess our sins silently to God. To an impressionable young mind ...

BERLIN — A federal German cultural organization has returned a 16th-century sculpture to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner who faced Nazi persecution. The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage ...