Renaissance

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904597148Author Joseph TrappFormat PaperbackImprint Pindar PressPublisher Pindar Press

Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684803524Author John HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 972g

In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance Summarizes scholarly...

Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873864824Author Rebecca StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint January Productions, IncorporatedPublisher January Productions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802128096Author John Julius NorwichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

This 1976 book consists of the public and private letters of merchants which present a lively panorama of early life in Spanish-American society.The public and private letters of merchants which present a lively panorama of early life in Spanish-American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975566008Author Darrius Jerome GourdineFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Artisan HousePublisher Artisan HouseWeight(grams) 286g

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This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature...

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102955Author Coriolano CippicoFormat HardbackImprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 327g

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By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure,...

In a provocative attempt to outline a history of communication during the Spanish Golden Age, Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain examines how speech, visual images, and written texts all interact as manifestations of the human...

In the Modern Age, the encounter and conflict between competing religious identities produced a renewed emphasis on the concept of peace, which was invested with religious, political and ideological connotations that still need to be investigated. This...

In the Modern Age, the encounter and conflict between competing religious identities produced a renewed emphasis on the concept of peace, which was invested with religious, political and ideological connotations that still need to be investigated. This...

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscapeStarting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon...

The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of...

The question of what it means to be human has preoccupied thinkers since antiquity. The classical humanism of the Italian Renaissance saw humanity as hierarchical, with elite European males at the apex while women, lower class or foreign men, and animals...

This volume presents thirteen contributions relating to various aspects of the relationship between news and politics in early modern Europe. A growing range of printed news media started interacting during this period, affecting the political culture of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847104094Author David A. LinesFormat HardbackPage Count 281Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 538g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857283337Author Aaron M. ShatzmanFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783465041856Author Daniel DornhoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Verlag Vittorio KlostermannPublisher Verlag Vittorio KlostermannWeight(grams) 268g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503518923Author Laura H HollengreenFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909400368Author Marta CaroscioFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1179gDimensions(mm) 284mm...

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Set within the context of the struggles in the Florentine Republic over the distribution of political power and the search for stability, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464--1498: A Short History with Documents illuminates a key...

"A superb anthology of primary sources relating most directly to sixteenth-century Reformation movements. The initial selection is from the late fourteenth century and the final two from the mid-eighteenth century. The fifty texts here are wide and...

"A superb anthology of primary sources relating most directly to sixteenth-century Reformation movements. The initial selection is from the late fourteenth century and the final two from the mid-eighteenth century. The fifty texts here are wide and...

The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth century. She secured a steady stream of elite patrons – including popes, queens, grand dukes, and...

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History...

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to...

In the spring of 1576, the Health Office of Venice, fearful of a growing outbreak of plague, imposed a quarantine upon the city. The move was controversial, with some in power questioning the precise nature of the disease and concerned about the economic...