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  • The World at First Light

    A New History of the Renaissance

    by Bernd Roeck ...
    Translated by Patrick Baker ...
    A magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern worldThe cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? In The World at First Light, historian Bernd Roeck explores the cultural and historical preconditions that enabled the European Renaissance. Roeck shows that the rediscovery ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Renaissance

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jerry Brotton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Reopening of the Western Mind

    The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of theEnlightenment

    by Charles Freeman ...
    A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment—500 to 1700 AD—tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved, setting the stage for the modern era. With more than 140 illustrations; 90 in full-color.Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind (“A triumph”—The Times [London ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy

    A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6

    by Peter Adamson ...
    Series series A History of Philosophy
    Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he traces the development of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from such early figures as John of Damascus in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Before the Normans

    Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

    by Barbara M. Kreutz ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Other Renaissance

    From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World

    by Paul Strathern ...
    An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart.It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy.However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Idea of a Town

    The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World

    by Joseph Rykwert ...
    Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. In this famous, unusual and radical book which touches on such disparate themes as psychology and urban architecture, Joseph Rykwert has considered them as works of art. His starting point is the mythical, historical and ritual texts in which their foundation is recounted ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Europe

    A Cultural History

    by Peter Rietbergen ...
    Fully revised, updated and extended to include the momentous developments of 2020, this fourth edition of Peter Rietbergen's highly acclaimed Europe: A Cultural History is a major and original contribution to the study of Europe.The book examines the structures of culture in this part of Eurasia from the beginnings of human settlement on to the genesis of agricultural society, of greater polities, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Pantheon

    A New History of Roman Religion

    Translated by David M. B. Richardson ...
    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial ... Read more

    $26.99 USD