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  • Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England

    by Sophie Read ...
    Series Book 104 - Ideas in Context
    The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a literal to a figurative understanding of the phrase 'this is my body' exerted a powerful imaginative pull on successive ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • The Book of the Courtier

    by Baldesar Castiglione ...
    Translated by George Bull ...
    In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness - as well as wider questions such ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R. B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

    Enriched edition. A Victorian Romantic Biography of a Renaissance Genius—Art, Inner Turmoil, and Masterpieces

    by John Addington Symonds ...
    In "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti," John Addington Symonds offers a meticulously researched and richly detailed biographical account of one of the Renaissance's most illustrious figures. Blending narrative with critical analysis, Symonds employs a literary style characterized by vivid imagery and eloquent prose, effectively capturing the emotional and intellectual fervor of Michelangelo's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venice: Lion City

    The Religion of Empire

    by Garry Wills ...
    Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The British Execution

    1500–1964

    by Dr Stephen Banks ...
    Series Book 744 - Shire Library
    Executions have played a crucial – if grisly and controversial – part in British history and provided the bloody climax to many a life, from Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I and Dick Turpin to untold thousands of anonymous wretches whose names are now forgotten. With the help of numerous illustrations, Stephen Banks details the history of formal execution in Britain, examining the fates of the ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

    by Christopher W. Brooks ...
    Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Brethren in Christ

    A Calvinist Network in Reformation Europe

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Europe during the Reformation, across a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. Ole Peter Grell follows the fortunes of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families, forced to flee from the Tuscan city of Lucca during the 1560s, through their journey to France during the Wars of Religion to the St Bartholomew ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Locus Amoenus

    Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance

    Edited by Alexander Samson ...
    Series Book 10 - Renaissance Studies Special Issues
    Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment.A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden historyEssays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504

    by P.R. Cavill ...
    Series series Oxford Historical Monographs
    P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand 'Whig' tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament; its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • The Material Culture of the Jacobites

    by Neil Guthrie ...
    The Jacobites, adherents of the exiled King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his descendants, continue to command attention long after the end of realistic Jacobite hopes down to the present. Extraordinarily, the promotion of the Jacobite cause and adherence to it were recorded in a rich and highly miscellaneous store of objects, including medals, portraits, pin-cushions, glassware and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England

    by Darren Oldridge ...
    The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book places supernatural beliefs and events in the context of the English Reformation to show how early modern people reacted to the world of unseen spirits and magical influences. It sets out the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD