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Eliezer Eilburg: The Ten Questions and Memoir of a Renaissance Jewish Skeptic by Joseph Davis
RRP: $63.21$58.35Before the Enlightenment, before Spinoza had rejected traditional beliefs about the Bible, came the humanistic sceptics of the Renaissance. Alongside oft-cited Christian thinkers, Eliezer Eilburg now takes his rightful place. Comparable in view to... -
The Shipwreck of Gnalic: A Mirror to the Renaissance World by Irena Radic Rossi
$51.96Unlike official history, which takes long and impersonal strides through the past, The Shipwreck at Gnalic describes individual human destinies that convey the story of the late Renaissance period throughout Europe and the Mediterranean as uncovered at... -
Elite Women as Diplomatic Agents in Italy and Hungary, 1470-1510: Kinship and the Aragonese Dynastic Network by Jessica O'Leary
$121.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641892421Author Jessica O'LearyFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18 by Barry Collett
RRP: $45.15$43.74This edition of the building accounts is put into a wider context with a study of its founder, Richard Fox. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. He intended it to educate students in classical... -
The Roman Inquisition: Trying Galileo by Thomas F. Mayer
RRP: $117.39$102.32Few legal events loom as large in early modern history as the trial of Galileo. Frequently cast as a heroic scientist martyred to religion or as a scapegoat of papal politics, Galileo undoubtedly stood at a watershed moment in the political maneuvering... -
Household Strategies for Survival 1600-2000: Fission, Faction and Cooperation by Lawrence Fontaine
RRP: $29.66$26.65In pre-industrial Europe, as in developing countries today, much of the population had to struggle to survive. The livelihood of all those who lived by the work of their hands was highly insecure. This book considers the 'labouring poor' not simply as... -
Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy by Damian Walford Davies
RRP: $69.65$60.46The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism's revisionary... -
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: People, Things, Forms of Knowledge by Bronwen Wilson
RRP: $118.67$102.94The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" - the active... -
Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Lure of the Other by Claire Norton
RRP: $61.91$53.93The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern... -
Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras by Nancy Bradley Warren
RRP: $45.15$39.65Chaucer 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... -
Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland by Amy Blakeway
RRP: $122.55$109.33A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch. Three monarchs of Scotland (James V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI/I) were crowned during the sixteenth century; each came to the throne... -
Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1627-1628 by Marion E. Allen
RRP: $45.15$43.74Wills of early Stuart England provide fascinating local and domestic details of life at the time. With the publication of this volume the Suffolk Records Society completes the coverage of wills of the 1620s and 1630s, two decades of great interest to... -
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age by Joanne M. Ferraro
$113.57Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic,... -
A Cultural History of Work in the Early Modern Age by Professor Bert De Munck
$38.91Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities In the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant relative to political and social transformations. The size of the workforce and the number of wage dependent people... -
On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa by Ghislaine Lydon
RRP: $39.98$34.61This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders... -
Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings by Mark Jurdjevic
RRP: $45.15$28.87Throughout his life, Niccolo Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and... -
The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide by Michael E. Hobart
RRP: $47.67$38.35In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world... -
An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and Development by Charles H. Feinstein
RRP: $96.75$87.27This book is the first economic history of South Africa in over sixty years. Professor Charles H. Feinstein offers an authoritative survey of five hundred years of South African economic history from the years preceding European settlements in 1652... -
The Renaissance in Europe by Trenchard Cox
$137.53Originally published in 1933 this volume traces the history of the Renaissance in Europe and shows how its artistic manifestations differed in each successive country, drawing reference from the numerous works of art that were in the London Museums and... -
The Women of the Medici by Yvonne Maguire
$137.53When this book was first published in 1927 there was a dearth of material written in English about the leading women of Florence at the time of the Renaissance. This volume, based primarily on their own letters, filled that gap. As well as discussing the... -
Who is Mary?: Three Early Modern Women on the Idea of the Virgin Mary by Vittoria Colonna
RRP: $36.12$35.33For women of the Italian Renaissance, the Virgin Mary was one of the most important role models. "Who Is Mary?" presents devotional works written by three women better known for their secular writings: Vittoria Colonna, famed for her Petrarchan lyric... -
Dressing the Scottish Court, 1543-1553 - Clothing in the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland by Melanie Schuessler Bond
RRP: $122.55$119.04Analysis of accounts disbursed by the royal treasury, alongside text and translation in excerpt, provides richly detailed information on clothing at the time. The Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland document money spent by the royal... -
The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World by Diana Paton
RRP: $135.45$101.21An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, the book results from extensive research on the development and... -
The Third Reign of Louis XIV, c.1682-1715 by Julia Prest
RRP: $56.75$49.59The personal rule of Louis XIV, following on from a long period of royal minority and apprenticeship, lasted 54 years from 1661 to 1715. But the second half of this personal rule has, until recently, received significantly less scholarly attention than... -
The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean by Daniel Hershenzon
RRP: $69.66$60.36In 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... -
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards by Douglas Biow
RRP: $79.98$70.38In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints... -
Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Richard L. Kagan
RRP: $32.25$25.27Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de Leon had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal... -
Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine by Jonathan Sawday
RRP: $174.15$151.81At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Was technology a sign of the fall of humanity from its original... -
The Court of the Medici by George Pottinger
$120.74Originally published in 1978 this book assesses the Medici achievements as they appear to the 21st Century reader. As well as discussing individuals from the Medici clan, Medicean politics, bloodshed and conspiracies are also examined and relations with... -
The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy by Jennifer Nevile
RRP: $39.99$35.29"This book adds an entirely new dimension to the consideration of Humanism and Italian culture. It will make a welcome addition to the field of cultural studies by broadening the subject to consider an important source of information that has been... -
The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression by A. Dirk Moses
RRP: $122.55$97.41Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses... -
Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance Italy by John Henderson
RRP: $49.01$43.06This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations... -
The Venetian Discovery of America: Geographic Imagination and Print Culture in the Age of Encounters by Elizabeth Horodowich
RRP: $39.98$29.99Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers... -
Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World by Benjamin Schmidt
RRP: $45.15$41.72As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process... -
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy by S. C. M. Paine 9780521817141
RRP: $135.45$106.31The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy... -
The Independence of Spanish America by Jaime E. Rodriguez 9780521626736
RRP: $32.24$27.32This book provides a new interpretation of the process of Spanish American independence (1808-26); one which emphasises political processes and cultural continuities, instead of the break with Spain. It is the first book to examine the representative... -
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 by Anthony Grafton 9780674195455
RRP: $45.09$36.37Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader. In a full-scale presentation of the world of scholarship, from the Renaissance to the modern period, Grafton sets before us in... -
Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History by Rod Edmond 9780521123129
RRP: $45.14$37.86An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period... -
The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan by Monica Azzolini
RRP: $69.60$55.82This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective or existing patrons, The Duke and the Stars illustrates... -
Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584 by Ceri Law 9780861933471
RRP: $103.20$79.27The University of Cambridge has long been heralded as the nursery of the English Reformation: a precociously evangelical and then Puritan Tudor institution. Spanning fifty years and four reigns and based on extensive archival research, this book reveals...