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  • The Astronomer and the Witch

    Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

    by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Reformation Europe

    by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Series Book 54 - New Approaches to European History
    How could the Protestant Reformation take off from Wittenberg, a tiny town in Saxony, which contemporaries regarded as a mud hole? And how could a man of humble origins, deeply scared by the devil, become a charismatic leader and convince others that the Pope was the living Antichrist? Martin Luther founded a religion which to this day determines many people's lives, as did Jean Calvin in Geneva ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Dürer's Lost Masterpiece

    Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World

    by Prof Ulinka Rublack ...
    Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to Dürer´s life, it brings us closer to the creation and meaning of his paintings than ever before. Dürer's Lost Masterpiece considers the celebrated ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Protestant Empires

    Globalizing the Reformations

    Edited by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Protestantism during the early modern period is still predominantly presented as a European story. Advancing a novel framework to understand the nature and impact of the Protestant Reformations, this volume brings together leading scholars to substantially integrate global Protestant experiences into accounts of the early modern world created by the Reformations, to compare Protestant ideas and ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations

    Edited by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions focus on key themes, such as Martin Luther or the Swiss ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Right to Dress

    Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800

    Edited by Giorgio Riello, Ulinka Rublack ...
    This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Dance of Death

    by Hans Holbein ...
    A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the greatest of all Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabreOne of Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride, with each image packed with drama, wit and horror as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The First Book of Fashion

    The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg

    Edited by Ulinka Rublack, Dr Maria Hayward, Jenny Tiramani ...
    This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • A Revolution in Colour

    Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800

    Edited by Prof. Giorgio Riello, Dr Maria Hayward, Ulinka Rublack ...
    This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet their story has been side-lined by a focus on visual experiences shaped by the high arts. Meanwhile, theatrical productions and period films still abound with broad assumptions about the growing dominance of black clothing for elites during ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750

    Objects, Affects, Effects

    Edited by Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler, Ulinka Rublack ...
    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and exploring ... Read more

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  • Jan van Eyck

    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Craig Harbison ...
    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Read more

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  • Images of Change

    Visual Representations of Papal Power in Rome Following the Council of Trent

    by Teresa Delgado-Jermann ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery, in response to Protestant criticism. This volume examines how different sixteenth-century popes dealt with church reform by looking at the variety of artworks that were commissioned ... Read more

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