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The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia"
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9780268208370
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s “Commedia” provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante’s poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features...
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia"
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CA$87.95
ISBN: 9780268208387
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s “Commedia” provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante’s poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features...
Animal Sightings
Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550
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CA$142.95
ISBN: 9780271097633
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781835538425
Pub Date: October 2024
During the period 1000-1700 major transformations took place in material culture. Quite simply, more objects were manufactured and used than ever before and many objects travelled across geographic,...
Science and political economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805
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CA$133.95
ISBN: 9781835534045
Pub Date: October 2024
Focusing on the Habsburg and Napoleonic Duchy of Milan, this book advocates for a shift in perspective from the history of ideas of political economy to the history of scientific practices. It uses this methodological stance to offer a more articulated understanding of how political economic ideas were appropriated in Europe between the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries.
Ambivalent Pleasures
Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781501775468
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, psychotropic drugs...
Disenchanting Albert the Great
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician
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CA$78.95
ISBN: 9780271097442
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Bodies beyond Labels
Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain
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CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781487556891
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Bodies beyond Labels presents an affirmative view of joy and non-labelled expressions of gender, sexuality, and performativity in the Spanish empire.
Redreaming the Renaissance
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero
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CA$79.00
ISBN: 9781644533369
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Redreaming the Renaissance offers twelve essays that build on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero in blending history and literature. Within this volume, contributors take interdisciplinary approaches to examining not only belles lettres but also other forms of artful expression, bringing their fields into conversation and reflecting on the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving
Arte de cocina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería
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CA$150.00
ISBN: 9781487549374
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Taking readers back to the Spanish Habsburg court, this critical edition and translation of Arte de cocina presents a nuanced understanding of what foods were prepared and consumed during a monumental time in Spain’s culinary history.
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781487556440
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
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CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha
Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century
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CA$171.95
ISBN: 9780271095356
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Speculum Lapidum
A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones
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CA$56.95
ISBN: 9780271095394
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain
Volume III: The Huguenots and the Defeat of Louis XIV's France
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781845196202
Pub Date: August 2023
The result of over fifty years? archival research, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of the Huguenot refugees to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, victory in Ireland, the foundation of the Bank of England, and the subsequent defeat of Louis XIV and the rise of British power in the eighteenth century.
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia"
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9780268208370
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante's "Commedia"
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9780268208387
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Animal Sightings
Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550
CA$142.95
ISBN: 9780271097633
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781835538425
Pub Date: October 2024
Science and political economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805
CA$133.95
ISBN: 9781835534045
Pub Date: October 2024
Focusing on the Habsburg and Napoleonic Duchy of Milan, this book advocates for a shift in perspective from the history of ideas of political economy to the history of scientific practices. It uses this methodological stance to offer a more articulated understanding of how political economic ideas were appropriated in Europe between the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries.
Ambivalent Pleasures
Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781501775468
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Disenchanting Albert the Great
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician
CA$78.95
ISBN: 9780271097442
Pub Date: August 2024
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Bodies beyond Labels
Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781487556891
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Redreaming the Renaissance
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero
CA$79.00
ISBN: 9781644533369
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
The Art of Cooking, Pie Making, Pastry Making, and Preserving
Arte de cocina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería
CA$150.00
ISBN: 9781487549374
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Taking readers back to the Spanish Habsburg court, this critical edition and translation of Arte de cocina presents a nuanced understanding of what foods were prepared and consumed during a monumental time in Spain’s culinary history.
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781487556440
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe's "culture of dissection" to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
CA$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha
Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century
CA$171.95
ISBN: 9780271095356
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Speculum Lapidum
A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones
CA$56.95
ISBN: 9780271095394
Pub Date: August 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain
Volume III: The Huguenots and the Defeat of Louis XIV's France
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781845196202
Pub Date: August 2023
The result of over fifty years? archival research, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of the Huguenot refugees to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, victory in Ireland, the foundation of the Bank of England, and the subsequent defeat of Louis XIV and the rise of British power in the eighteenth century.