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Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton by Hilary Gatti 9780691176116
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.88Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious... -
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga 9780691640204
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $175.70Johan Huizinga had a special sympathy for the complex, withdrawn personality of Erasmus and for his advocacy of intellectual and spiritual balance in a quarrelsome age. This biography is a classic... -
Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton by Hilary Gatti 9780691163833
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $75.74Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious... -
Emigres: French Words That Turned English by Richard Scholar
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.15The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has... -
Emigres: French Words That Turned English by Richard Scholar 9780691234007
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.91The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has... -
The Georgic Revolution by Anthony Low 9780691611532
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $86.78Low discusses the courtly or aristocratic ideal as the great enemy of the georgic spirit, and shows that georgic powerfully invaded English poetry in the years from 1590 to 1700. Originally... -
The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1: The Hebrew Bible to John Milton by Margaret L. King
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.61This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes excerpts from seventy texts composed in eight ancient... -
Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts by Murray Roston 9780691602981
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $91.24Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and... -
Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance by Elaine V. Beilin 9780691608037
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $98.34An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches; shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by... -
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV: 1893-1896 by William Morris 9780691608181
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $138.16These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 7: March 1784 to February 1785 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045399
RRP: $284.70Booksplease Price: $227.19The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 7: March 1784 to February 1785, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045399Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage... -
Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron by Ernest J. Lovell 9780691624136
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $76.15One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created a furor among Byron's many friends and enemies, especially those who appear in it. In... -
Epigram in the English Renaissance by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson 9780691653556
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $134.39Favorite Renaissance condiment at "the great feast of language," the epigram is here presented full-flavored and various in a brilliant study by the late Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. He considers its... -
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part B: 1885-1888 by William Morris 9780691607641
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $146.31These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and... -
The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 by Gerald Eades Bentley 9780691612669
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $86.39This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular... -
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148459
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.23The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection,... -
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation Peter Ackroyd 9781836390947
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836390947Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher... -
Ideal Commonwealths by More 9780946626267
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946626267Author Saint Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher... -
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt 9780573012600
Booksplease Price: $25.86A play that charts the dramatic events leading to the execution of Sir Thomas More in 1535.Book InformationISBN 9780573012600Author Robert BoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French... -
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"A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.07A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual... -
Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch Caitriona Dhuill 9780367603311
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51This book provides the reader with a representative picture of modern utopian imagination in its negotiations with questions of sex and gender, discussing the utopian philosophy of Thomas More and... -
Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch by Caitriona Dhuill 9781906540418
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $163.37This book provides the reader with a representative picture of modern utopian imagination in its negotiations with questions of sex and gender, discussing the utopian philosophy of Thomas More and... -
Man For All Seasons Bolt Hereford by Robert Bolt
Booksplease Price: $28.08This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment suggestions for GCSE. This play portrays Sir Thomas More as a... -
Urban Fiction: Urban Utopias from the Antiquity until Today Gunther Feuerstein 9783930698264
RRP: $21.26Booksplease Price: $20.73Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing topoi: the peaceful garden -- a carefree paradise -- the New City -- a harmonious community. Utopia... -
The Meaning of More's Utopia by George M. Logan 9780691613710
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $86.39Examining its relation to ancient and Renaissance political thought, George M. Logan sees Thomas More's Utopia whole, in all its ironic complexity. He finds that the book is not primarily a... -
The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) by Mike Pincombe
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $48.09This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as "Tudor literature"? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the... -
A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773526945
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $101.07Examines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarExamines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarAbout the AuthorBohdan S. Kordan is professor of international... -
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Booksplease Price: $41.40When Henry VIII set up his own Church of England with himself at its head, one of the few men who opposed him was Sir Thomas More. The play contrasts More's virtue of 'selfhood' with the cynical... -
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A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773527331 [USED COPY]
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $15.95Examines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarExamines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarAbout the AuthorBohdan S. Kordan is professor of international... -
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.92Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential... -
John Henry Newman: Theology & by 9781138873339
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $58.71This collection of papers grew out of a concern of several at Creighton University for the perduring nature of the thought of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Although Cardinal Newman died some one... -
The Female Tudor Scholar and Writer: The Life and Times of Margaret More Roper Aimee Fleming 9781399047753
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.41Margaret More Roper may be remembered as the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, but she was much, much more. Well-educated, loyal, passionately pious, and a skilled writer and translator, Margaret... -
Time and Myth: A Meditation on Storytelling as an Exploration of Life and Death by John S. Dunne 9780268063320
Booksplease Price: $216.72Based on the Thomas More Lectures John Dunne delivered at Yale University in 1971, Time and Myth analyzes man's confrontation with the inevitability of death in the cultural, personal, and religious... -
Utopian Discourses Across Cultures: Scenarios in Effective Communication to Citizens and Corporations by Marina Brambilla 9783631666838
RRP: $100.72Booksplease Price: $90.66The term Utopia, coined by Thomas More in 1516, contains an inherent semantic ambiguity: it could be read as eu topos (good place) or ou topos (no place). The authors of this volume analyze this... -
Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present: The Art and Ethics of Gaining Favor by Jeff Diamond 9781498548892
Booksplease Price: $201.06Ingratiation 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... -
Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature: Stylistic Explorations Israel A. C. Noletto 9781032688930
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary... -
Alexander Pope at Twickenham by Alan Wall 9781905700998
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $20.26Accompanying Alan Wall's Gilgamesh is his new collection of shorter poems and sequences, the centrepiece of which is the London section, in which the author inhabits the clothes of a number of old... -
Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought by Joanne Paul
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $45.38While it has often been recognised that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it occupied in the development of political thinking... -
Selected Writings: William Tyndale by William Tyndale
Booksplease Price: $27.92William Tyndale (c.1494-1536) gave the English people their first printed New Testament which he translated from the orginal Greek, and half of the Old Testament, which he translated from the orginal... -
The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus 9780300097344
Booksplease Price: $34.46First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly hasenjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day.It hasno rival, except perhaps Thomas More's...