between 500 B.C. and 1700 A.D. In your paper you should discuss the significance of
this person and the historical context in which they lived (both the time and the
place).
Below is a list of possible topics for your research, but you can also suggest a person
not on the list – just make sure you can find enough sources.
28 Shakespeare (English playwright) 9 - 10 - 9
26 Snorri Sturluson (Icelandic, wrote Norse mythology, sagas, history) 8 - 9 - 9
20 Geoffery Chaucer (England) 5 - 7 - 8
18 Bruegel the Elder (Northern Renaissance) 7 - 6 - 5
17 Michelangelo (Italian Renaissance) 8 - 1 - 8
16 Dürer (Northern Renaissance) 7 - 4 - 5
16 Bosch (Northern Renaissance) 6 - 3 - 7
15 Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Renaissance) 7 - 1 - 715 Cicero (Roman) 3 - 4 - 8
15 Ovid (Roman) 4 - 4 - 7
14 Virgil (Roman) 3 - 5 - 6
14 Emperor Augustus (Roman) 5 - 4 - 5
13 Jan van Eyck (Northern Renaissance) 4 - 6 - 3
13 John Calvin (Protestant Reformation) 3 - 6 - 412 Chrétien de Troyes (French, medieval romance literature) 3 - 5 - 4
12 Raphael (Italian Renaissance) 6 - 1 - 5
12 Martin Luther (Protestant Reformation) 3 - 5 - 4
9 Botticelli (Italian Renaissance) 4 - 1 - 4
8 Thomas More (wrote Utopia) 1 - 3 - 4
7 Hildegard of Bingen (female mystic) 1 - 5 - 1
6 Julius Caesar (Roman) 2 - 2 - 23 Christine de Pizan (late medieval, advice for women) 1 - 1 - 1
3 Giotto (Italian Renaissance) 1 - 1 - 1
3 St. Augustine of Hippo (author of City of God) 1 - 1 - 1
3 Pope Gregory the Great (Gregory I) 1 - 1 - 1
3 Pope Innocent III (Crusades) 1 - 1 - 1
3 Saint Teresa of Avila (Spanish female mystic) 1 - 1 - 1
3 Margery Kempe (medieval female mystic, pilgrimage) 1 - 1 - 1
3 Francis of Assisi (Francisian monks) 1 - 1 - 1
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