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Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic by Peter C. Mancall 9780812224726
RRP: $28.37$22.63In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs,... -
The University in Society, Volume I: Oxford and Cambridge from the 14th to the Early 19th Century by Lawrence Stone 9780691656038
RRP: $193.50$148.57The essays in this book seek to establish a true sociology of education. Their primary concern is the relationship between formal education and other social forces through the ages. Thus, the book combines the history of higher education with social... -
Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War: Religious and Secular Concepts, 1200-1740 by James Turner Johnson 9780691617930
RRP: $58.05$45.56The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolution of just war doctrine; and to investigate just war doctrine as an ideological pattern of thought,... -
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance by Margaret L. King 9780691611006
RRP: $96.75$75.45In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself. Originally published... -
Prophecy and Reason: The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment by Andrew Cooper Fix 9780691604046
RRP: $54.18$42.62During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal... -
A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy by Tamar Herzig 9780674237537
RRP: $60.57$48.34An intimate portrait, based on newly discovered archival sources, of one of the most famous Jewish artists of the Italian Renaissance who, charged with a scandalous crime, renounced his faith and converted to Catholicism.In 1491 the renowned goldsmith... -
Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy by Nicholas Terpstra 9780674067097
RRP: $68.31$54.84Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women's shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity... -
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China by Robert Marks 9780521027762
RRP: $39.98$37.00Challenging the conventional wisdom conveyed by Western environmental historians about China, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi from 1400 to 1850, but... -
Church, Censorship and Reform in the Early Modern Habsburg Netherlands by Violet Soen 9782503567518
RRP: $113.52$107.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503567518Author Violet SoenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 431g -
Biblical Humanism in Bohemia and Moravia in the 16th Century by Robert Dittmann 9782503551814
RRP: $145.77$139.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503551814Author Robert DittmannFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 703g -
Richard Rowlands Verstegan: A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil by Romana Zacchi 9782503535753
$131.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503535753Author Romana ZacchiFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V. -
Studies of Petrarch and His Influence by Joseph Trapp 9781899828715
RRP: $154.80$146.57The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century movement which led to a European revaluation of social, political, ethical, literary, artistic and intellectual experience and which we know as the Renaissance was given its decisive early impetus from Italy in the... -
Reframing The Danish Renaissance: Problems & Prospects in a European Perspective by Michael Andersen 9788776021290
RRP: $43.86$38.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788776021290Author Michael AndersenFormat HardbackPage Count 407Imprint NationalmuseetPublisher NationalmuseetWeight(grams) 1895g -
Renaissance Papers 1998 by T. H. Howard-Hill 9781571131379
RRP: $103.20$90.25Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year for presentation at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Organized and sponsored in the early 1950s by Duke University and the universities of... -
The Standard Bearer of the Roman Church: Lawrence of Brindisi and Capuchin Missions in the Holy Roman Empire (1599-1613) by Andrew J.G. Drenas 9780813230252
RRP: $96.75$85.22The Standard Bearer of the Roman Church examines the missionary work of the early modern Capuchin friar, and doctor of the Church, Lawrence of Brindisi. Renowned in his own day as a preacher, Bible scholar, missionary, chaplain, and diplomat, as well as... -
Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions: The Early Modern Atlantic World by Ann Marie Plane 9780812245042
RRP: $79.98$69.61In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the machinations of demons, visits from the dead, or visions of the future. Interpreting their dreams in much... -
Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World by John M. Headley 9780691655758
RRP: $87.72$68.59Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political concerns of that tumultuous era. John... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: $77.40$60.24Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the... -
Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War: Religious and Secular Concepts, 1200-1740 by James Turner Johnson 9780691645018
RRP: $140.61$109.40The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolution of just war doctrine; and to investigate just war doctrine as an ideological pattern of thought,... -
Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence: The Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori and Rucellai by Francis William Kent 9780691616728
RRP: $61.92$48.50Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic family? Considering three celebrated and... -
Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII by Laurie Nussdorfer 9780691602127
RRP: $64.50$50.46In this colorful depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that the lay persons managed to sustain a civic government under the increased papal absolutism of Urban VIII (1623-1644), who oversaw both sacred and secular... -
Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice by Sarah Gwyneth Ross 9780674659834
RRP: $61.86$49.33The world of wealth and patronage that we associate with sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy can make the Renaissance seem the exclusive domain of artists and aristocrats. Revealing a Renaissance beyond Michelangelo and the Medici, Sarah... -
The Enlightenment against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century by Remy G. Saisselin 9780520302235
RRP: $43.86$34.79How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Remy G... -
Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras by Nancy Bradley Warren 9780268105815
RRP: $107.07$93.02Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. The idea that Chaucer is an international writer... -
Vernacular Translators in Quattrocento Italy: Scribal Culture, Authority, and Agency by Andrea Rizzi 9782503567853
$132.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503567853Author Andrea RizziFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 590g -
Invention: Northern Renaissance Studies in Honor of Molly Faries by Julien Chapuis 9782503527680
$130.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503527680Author Julien ChapuisFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm) 302mm * 213mm *... -
Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers by Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby 9782503511634
$73.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503511634Author Nirit Ben-Aryeh DebbyFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 759g -
Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present: The Art and Ethics of Gaining Favor by Jeff Diamond 9781498548892
RRP: $127.71$111.66Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present explores a common ethical problem for intellectuals of the Renaissance: How does one win the favor and patronage of the wealthy and powerful and yet maintain one's dignity, independence, or principles?... -
Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture by Rachel Rubin 9781479859726
RRP: $32.24$27.95The Renaissance Faire-a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring-receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development... -
Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain: Conjugal Doctrine in Lope, Cervantes, and Calderon by Gabriela Carrión 9781611480528
$122.01Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain examines selected dramatic works where the vicissitudes of matrimony play center stage. Various aspects of conjugal relations including courtship, divorce, and widowhood take on particular relevance in the Spanish... -
The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels: Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries) by Emily Thelen 9782503553337
RRP: $90.30$87.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503553337Author Emily ThelenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 499g -
Antoine Bruhier: Life and Works of a Renaissance Papal Composer by Richard Wexler 9782503553290
RRP: $145.77$142.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503553290Author Richard WexlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1297g -
Early Modern Urbanism and the Grid: Town Planning in the Low Countries in International Context : Exchanges in Theory and Practice, 1550-1800 by Piet Lombaerde 9782503540733
$121.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503540733Author Piet LombaerdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V. -
Urban History Writing in Northwest Europe (15th-16th Centuries) by Bram Caers 9782503583761
RRP: $145.77$138.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503583761Author Bram CaersFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 658g -
Oeuvres Completes. Documents I. Le Proces by Giordano Bruno 9782251344522
RRP: $138.03$124.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251344522Author Giordano BrunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 892Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 907g -
Philipp Melanchthon in Der Briefkultur Des 16. Jahrhunderts by Matthias Dall'asta 9783825364878
RRP: $60.63$54.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825364878Author Matthias Dall'astaFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 798g -
The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean by Daniel Hershenzon 9781512825527
RRP: $30.95$26.88In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Morocco—in the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption... -
The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror by Jacob Rogozinski 9781531505363
RRP: $36.11$31.14This book works to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror apparatuses. More than a historical genealogy of persecution, The Logic of Hatred shows what phenomenology can offer to... -
The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror by Jacob Rogozinski 9781531505356
RRP: $144.48$114.99This book works to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror apparatuses. More than a historical genealogy of persecution, The Logic of Hatred shows what phenomenology can offer to... -
Antiquity Renewed: Late Classical and Early Modern Themes by Zweder R. W. M. von Martels 9789042913080
$71.10This volume deals with similarities and correspondences between Late Antiquity (c. 300-600 AD) and the Renaissance (roughly after c. 1350). In both periods, the presence of two competing forces, the ancient classical and the Christian traditions, led to...