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  • Diary from the quarantine

    by Daniele Lucchini ...
    Series Book 52 - Finisterrae
    During the last week of February 2020, a COVID-19 focus was discovered in a few small municipalities in Northern Italy. After locking soon those villages, the night between 7 and 8 March 2020 the Italian government put in lock down the entire Lombardy, which is the region of Milan and the most populated of the country. One day later it was the turn of the whole nation.Not only Lombardy is known ... Read more

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  • Rise and fall of a capital. The history of Mantua in the words of who wrote about it

    by Daniele Lucchini ...
    Series Book 36 - Finisterrae
    Following the historical documents with a scholar accuracy, the author of this booklet tells an original history of Mantua, a small town which was the capital of a tiny state and one of the most significant cultural centres in Europe during the Renaissance, and which rise and fall could be a paradigm of any human power. ... Read more

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  • Children in Street Situations

    A Concept in Search of an Object

    by Riccardo Lucchini, Daniel Stoecklin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood. It proposes some insightful perspectives on the current discussion about the rights of children in street situations. It includes a unique selection of texts, which were initially published in French, written by the authors of this volume ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Complete Essays

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He ... Read more

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  • Latin America in Colonial Times

    by Matthew Restall, Kris Lane ...
    Few milestones in human history are as momentous as the meeting of three great civilizations on American soil in the sixteenth century. The fully revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region - Latin America - emerged from that encounter. The authors give equal attention to the Spanish ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Redeeming The Prince

    The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    A fresh introduction to—and bold new interpretation of—Machiavelli's PrinceIn Redeeming "The Prince, " one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus, Maurizio Viroli also provides a ... Read more

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  • Defending Royal Supremacy and Discerning God's Will in Tudor England

    by Daniel Eppley ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Early modern governments constantly faced the challenge of reconciling their own authority with the will of God. Most acknowledged that an individual's first loyalty must be to God's law, but were understandably reluctant to allow this as an excuse to challenge their own powers where interpretations differed. As such, contemporaries gave much thought to how this potentially destabilising situation ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Race of Time

    Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography

    by Hershel Baker ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    Professor Baker recounts and analyses the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics and their colleagues, The Race of Time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi

    The Making of a Counter-Reformation Saint

    by Dr Clare Copeland ...
    Series series Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
    This work offers a detailed reconstruction of the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification (in 1626) and subsequent canonization in 1169 of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). Clare Copeland places her findings in the wide context of the politics of saint-making at a time of particular significance for the history of Roman Catholic canonization. The ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

    by Ruth Ahnert ...
    Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. In the previous centuries we find only isolated examples of prison writings, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD