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This volume brings together contributions by specialists from a variety of disciplines discussing the epistemological history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and the transmission of knowledge in th…

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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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A History of the Harlem Renaissance

This book presents original essays that provide comprehensive analysis of the dynamism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the peri…

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Paul Kidby,
Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld

Go behind the scenes of the iconic Discworld series with this beautiful, illustrated hardback, the perfect gift book for any fantasy fan this holiday season. 'It's still magic, even if you know how it's d…

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Andrea Di Robilant
This Earthly Globe

From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing" ---The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introd…

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Ed Simon
Devil's Contract

"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." --- James Wood, The New Yorker A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blue…

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Caitlin Schneiderhan
Medici Heist

Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue and opulence, murder and betrayal. Sharp-witted conwoman Rosa Cellini arrives in the city the same day that the Medici Pope, Leo X, returns to take up the re…

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Laura Ashe
Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy

Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer's fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political and moral philosophy. Close analysis of Troilus and Criseyde, the Canterbury Tales, an…

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Niccolo Machiavelli,
Discorsi

In diesem zentralen Werk über die Handhabung und Verwaltung politischer Herrschaft kommt hinter dem als skrupellosen Machtpolitiker verschrieenen Verfasser der verantwortungsbewußte Republikaner zum Vorsc…

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Daniel Defoe
The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana)

Oxford World's Classics

'I liv'd indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen of Whores.'Left destitute by her husband, the heroine of…

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Anne Andenmatten, Kevin Bovier
Josias Simler, Vallesiae Descriptio - Description du Valais

En 1574, l'humaniste zurichois Josias Simler (1530-1576) publie la première œuvre en latin spécifiquement consacrée à la géographie et à l'histoire du Valais : la Vallesiae Descriptio. Dédiée à l'évêque d…

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A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

With its epicenter in New York City's Harlem neighborhood, the Harlem Renaissance was a singularly influential period of African American history. A cultural revolution that combined artistic expression w…

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Douglas Clark
The Will in English Renaissance Drama

Douglas Clark reveals how moments of willing and will-making pervade English Renaissance drama and play a crucial role in the depiction of selfhood, sin, sociality, and succession. This wide-ranging study…

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Timothy Kircher
Theogenius

Leon Battista Alberti (1404--1472) was a fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance polymath, whose creative, humanist energies in art, literature, and science remain influential today. This first English tran…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

This collection of essays by leading scholars of death and memory studies outlines the cultural, religious, epistemological, and political contexts for understanding how people in Renaissance England enga…

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Guylian Nemegeer
Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance

Italian and Italian American Studies

This book examines how Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863--1938) reimagined the Renaissance as a metaphor for Italy's national rebirth. Rather than a nostalgic revival, the Renaissance became, in his hands, a futu…

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Raphaële Garrod
François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostl…

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Mary I. Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Heidi Craig
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

"Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the "death" of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renai…

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