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  • Onesimus Our Brother

    Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon

    Edited by Matthew V. Johnson, Demetrius K. Williams, James Gerard Noel ...
    Series series Paul in Critical Contexts
    Noel and Johnson make the point that Philemon is as important a letter from an African-American perspective as Romans or Galatians have proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here they gather critical essays by a constellation of African-American scholars, highlighting the latest in interpretive methods and troubling scholarly waters, interacting with the legacies of Hegel, Freud, Habermas, ... Read more

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  • The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth

    by Gerard Noel ...
    Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the worlds largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new ... Read more

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  • Safe Space Rhetoric and Race in the Academy

    A Reckoning

    by James Gerard Noel ...
    On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was brutally killed at the hands of the police. Amplified by Donald Trump's handling of the incident, Floyd's death caused what some would term as a “racial reckoning”-a reckoning that pervaded different parts of American and even international life. As Floyd was killed during an arrest, the matter of public safety did not escape this reckoning, prompting some to call ... Read more

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  • Absolute Monarchs

    A History of the Papacy

    by John Julius Norwich ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as Innocent I, who in the fifth century successfully negotiated with Alaric the Goth, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Borgias

    The Hidden History

    by G. J. Meyer ...
    An unprecedented portrait of the Renaissance-era Borgia family and their storied milieu, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tudors“A vivid and at times startling reappraisal of one of the most notorious dynasties in history . . . If you thought you knew the Borgias, this book will surprise you.”—Tracy Borman, author of Queen of the Conqueror and Elizabeth’s Women“Fascinating . . . a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Mistress of the Vatican

    The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

    by Eleanor Herman ...
    Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition. For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Garden of God

    A True Story of Renaissance Ambition, Betrayal and Revenge

    by Eleanor Herman ...
    On April 17, 1581, shots ring out in a Roman garden and a young man falls dead in an ambush. Within days, a powerful baron weds the lovely widow. Everyone knows the baron ordered the hit. But how much did the victim’s wife know? Vittoria Accoramboni, the most beautiful girl in Rome, chafed under the financial limitations of her husband’s family. She waited eight years for Pope Gregory XIII to die ... Read more

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  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    **'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics**As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, ... Read more

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  • Dark History of the Popes

    by Brenda Ralph Lewis ...
    Series series Dark Histories
    In the 10th century, being head of the Catholic Church didnt stop Pope John XII from allegedly committing incest with his sisters, calling on pagan gods and goddesses, being an alcoholic and putting his mistress in charge of his brothel. Of course, being pope didnt make popes popular either: in 896AD, Pope Formosus died, but that was no obstacle to Lambert of Spoleto, who bore something of a ... Read more

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  • Prisoner of the Vatican

    The Popes, the Kings, and Garibaldi's Rebels in the Struggle to Rule Modern Italy

    by David I. Kertzer ...
    A Pulitzer Prize winner's "fascinating" account of the political battles that led to the end of the Papal States ( Entertainment Weekly).From a National Book Award–nominated author, this absorbing history chronicles the birth of modern Italy and the clandestine politics behind the Vatican's last stand in the battle between the church and the newly created Italian state.When Italy's armies seized ... Read more

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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior

    The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man’s perceptions—and the course of Western history.In 1502, ... Read more

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  • The Medici

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Series series Italian Histories
    A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did ... Read more

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