Early Modern – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Olivia Weisser
The Dreaded Pox

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with their inexorable link to sex, were so stigmatizing tha…

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Catherine Richardson,
Shakespeare's Objects

What did Shakespeare's first audiences know about the objects they saw on stage in his plays? How would people have understood them and how many of those things would we still recognise today? In the high…

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P E Easterling
Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 2, Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship

Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, t…

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Shira Brisman
The Goldsmith's Debt

Reveals how art shaped the economy, social order, and legal claims during the rise of capitalism.In the sixteenth century, German goldsmiths played a unique role in articulating property claims and social…

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Fumiko Joo
Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

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Richard Barnfield's Poetics

Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare's sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry.This edited collection situates Barnfield's po…

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Don Friedman (1935-2016)

A Day In The City / Circle Waltz

Product Information After an early period as a sideman in Los Angeles, in early 1960 Don Friedman moved to NYC, where he soon revealed himself as a pianist of extraordinary originality, and a thoroughly…

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Elaine M Fisher
The Meeting of Rivers

The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south India…

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Giulio Pertile
Hexameral Poetics

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Giulio Pertile
Hexameral Poetics

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Irina Sirotkina
Dancing Freedom

For a long time, dance scholars and the public were hardly aware that modern dance existed in Russia. This book, however, delves into its presence, significance and survival in the late Tsarist and Soviet…

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Erin Griffey
Facing Decay

The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to turn back the clock using cosmetic recipes promising beauty and clear, younger-looking skin…

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Andrew Schonebaum
Observing the Unseen

Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Un…

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Jenny C Mann
The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

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Debra Kaplan, Elisheva Carlebach
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything

A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal lifeIn small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly a…

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François Soyer
The 'Catalan Hermaphrodite' and the Inquisition

This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th centu…

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J. P. Park
The Forger's Creed

"The Forger's Creed is the first comprehensive study of forgery practices in early modern China and the underlying cultural, social, and genealogical anxieties that produced this plethora of fabricat…

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Andrew Schonebaum
Observing the Unseen

Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Un…

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Indira Ghose
A Defence of Pretence

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us …

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Ran Segev
Sacred Habitat

Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred Habitat sho…

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