As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
With the exception of the roman numeral in the background, its appearance remains mostly the same with each installment. Hellsing: Ultimate is an Original Video Animation (OVA) series. The series was created after the Hellsing anime had finished, and was intended to be more true to the manga than the anime was. Over the course of the years, they have changed animation studios at multiple occasions.