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  • Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice

    by Daniela Hacke ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Women, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Venice is the first study to investigate systematically the moral policies of both Church and State in the age of Counter-Reformation confessionalisation in Venice. Examining ecclesiastical and civil lawsuits related to illicit sex, broken marriage promises and disrupted marriages of artisan and ordinary women and men, Daniela Hacke can convincingly show ... Read more

    Was $64.99 USD Now $57.99 USD

  • Matters of Engagement

    Emotions, Identity, and Cultural Contact in the Premodern World

    Edited by Daniela Hacke, Claudia Jarzebowski, Hannes Ziegler ...
    By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary expertise, this study addresses the history of emotions in relation to cross-cultural movement, exchange, contact, and changing connections in the later medieval and early modern periods.All essays in this volume focus on the performance and negotiation of identity in situations of cultural contact, with particular emphasis on ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Machiavelli

    A Biography

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    A “superb biography” (USA TODAY) of Italian philosopher and playwright Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince, whose writings have outraged and inspired generations of readers.Niccolò Machiavelli is the most infamous and influential political writer of all time. His name has become synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, critically-acclaimed ... Read more

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

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  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    by David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Cultures of Plague

    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. ...
    Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    by Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Contesting the Renaissance

    by William Caferro ...
    Series series Contesting the Past
    In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.An influential investigation into the nature of the European RenaissanceSummarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the RenaissanceEngages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern ... Read more

    $95.00 USD

  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World That He Made

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    A "serious and thoughtful" interpretation of Machiavelli's life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of Terror and Consent ( The Times, London).Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the sixteenth century political philosopher whose classic text The Prince remains one of the most important and ... Read more

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  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    by John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Read more

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  • Crime in Medieval Europe

    1200-1550

    by Trevor Dean ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative ... Read more

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  • Machiavelli's God

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    How Machiavelli's Christianity shaped his political thoughtTo many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from opposing Christianity, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD