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  • Cultures of Charity

    Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series Book 6 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women’s poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Senses of Space in the Early Modern World

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series series Elements in the Renaissance
    How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social horizons of the period emerge out of those experiences and further shape them This Element takes an approach that is both global expansive and locally rooted by focusing on four cities as key examples: Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila. They relate to distinct parts of European cultural ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World

    An Alternative History of the Reformation

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians were forced from their homes and into temporary or permanent exile. Their migrations across Europe and around the globe shaped the early modern world and profoundly affected literature, art, and culture. Economic and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Lost Girls

    Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 left there alive. Struck by the unusually high mortality rate, Nicholas Terpstra sets out to determine what killed the lost girls of the House of Compassion shelter (Casa ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

    Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series Book 123 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity.Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Luna the Little Unicorn and the Quest for the Fifth Element

    A Magical Journey of Friendship and Discovery

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Join Luna, a bright-eyed baby unicorn, as she embarks on a journey across magical landscapes to find the fifth and most powerful element. Along the way, Luna meets new friends who embody Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and learns the value of balance, kindness, and intuition. A story of wonder, connection, and imagination—perfect for bedtime or classroom story time.Luna the Little Unicorn and the ... Read more

    $2.20 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Luna the Little Unicorn and the Quest for the Fifth Element

    A Magical Journey Through the Five Elements

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Join Luna, a bright-eyed baby unicorn, as she embarks on a journey across magical landscapes to find the fifth and most powerful element. Along the way, Luna meets new friends who embody Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and learns the value of balance, kindness, and intuition. A story of wonder, connection, and imagination-perfect for bedtime or classroom story time.Luna the Little Unicorn and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 35 No. 2, 2025

    by Donna Trembinski, Donna Trembinski, Désirée Rochat, Dorothy W. Williams, Lyns-Virginie Belony, Kelann Currie-Williams, Kessie Theliar-Charles, Samia Dumais, Lyns-Virginie Belony1, Andy Post*0, Claudine Bonner1, Sean Mills2, Brenda Gayle Plummer3, Marie Dejoux4, Ada Kuskowski5, Nicholas Terpstra6, Elisheva Baumgarten7, Rowan Dorin8 ...
    Series Book 35 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Black community members in and of Montreal have always worked to document and transmit their histories. Over the years, constellations of women and men spread histories that anchored Blackness in the city, while anchoring the city in wider Black networks. By circulating historical, methodological, and archival knowledge, they forged a Black Montreal historical tradition that continues to be ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Redreaming the Renaissance

    Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero

    by Douglas G. Biow, Alessandro Arcangeli, Suzanne Magnanini, Joanne M. Ferraro, Paula Findlen, Julia L. Hairston, Konrad Eisenbichler, Meredith K. Ray, Courtney Quaintance, Albert Russell Ascoli, Nicholas Terpstra, Massimo Rospocher ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • The Francis Effect

    by Tania Bruguera, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Saskia Sassen, Nicholas Terpstra ...
    “The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just for one person, the pope. But the more people that participated, the more personal it became.” –Tania BrugueraStemming from a performance that originated at the Guggenheim Museum, The Francis Effect ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives Uncovered

    A Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Curated by acclaimed scholar Nicholas Terpstra, Lives Uncovered is a captivating collection of early modern primary sources organized around the human life cycle. The collection begins with a short essay titled "How to Read a Primary Source," which helps readers recognize different kinds of primary sources and introduces the idea of critical reading. A second brief essay, "Life Cycles in the Early ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence

    Historical GIS and the Early Modern City

    Edited by Nicholas Terpstra, Colin Rose ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Digital Humanities
    Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool to enable researchers and students to uncover the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city.The exploration focuses on new digital research and mapping projects that engage the rich social, cultural, and artistic life of Florence in ... Read more

    $63.99 USD