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  • Florence in the Early Modern World

    New Perspectives

    de Nicholas Scott Baker, Brian J. Maxson ...
    Series series Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
    Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Florence remains unique.By exploring the city’s relationship to its close and distant neighbours, this collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals the transnational history of Florence. The chapters ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic

    de Brian Jeffrey Maxson ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Early Modern Europe

    Facts and Fictions

    de Brian Jeffrey Maxson ...
    Series series Historical Facts and Fictions
    Through the exploration of nine common myths about the history and culture of early modern Europe, roughly 1350–1700, this book uses common assumptions to introduce newcomers to the period and its key figures, developments, and events.Many myths about early modern Europe originated in the 19th and 20th centuries and continue to appear today across popular media. In recent years, such popular ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

    de Brian Jeffrey Maxson ...
    This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Reading Texts, Reading Lives

    Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz

    de Paul Gordon, Ruth Hoberman, Ross Murfin, Brian May, Margot Norris, Ed O'Shea, Steve Sicari, Beth Newman, Joseph Heininger, Holly Stave, Brian W. Shaffer ...
    Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to what he calls “reading texts and reading lives” quite relevant to the current historical moment and ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559

    Edición de Alexander Lee, Brian Jeffrey Maxson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559.Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy – no more so than during the Italian Wars (1494–1559). During those turbulent years, governments rose and fell with dizzying regularity. Some changes of regime were peaceful; others were ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    de Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Leer más

    $29.95 USD

  • The Montefeltro Conspiracy

    A Renaissance Mystery Decoded

    de Marcello Simonetta ...
    A brutal murder, a nefarious plot, a coded letter. After five hundred years, the most notorious mystery of the Renaissance is finally solved.The Italian Renaissance is remembered as much for intrigue as it is for art, with papal politics and infighting among Italy’s many city-states providing the grist for Machiavelli’s classic work on take-no-prisoners politics, The Prince. The attempted ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    de Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edición de Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Giuliano de' Medici

    Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art

    de Josephine Jungic ...
    Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici (1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano’s life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by Medici ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    de Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD