Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior : Sources, Methodologies, Debates

Marta Ajmar-Wollheim
Paperback - $64.95

The Renaissance interior is increasingly becoming a focus of historical debate. This volume brings together recent research drawing on the perspectives of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and meth ...

Eating Right in the Renaissance

Ken Albala
Hardcover - $82.95

"Albala 's engaging tour through the host of Renaissance dietary theories reminds us that our preoccupations with food and susceptibility to cranky advice about nutrition are nothing new. This is superior scholarship delivered with a light touch."--R ...

Peripheral Labour : Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization

Shahid Amin
Paperback - $68.95

Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time

Franz Babinger
Paperback - $76.95

From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, the events in the life of the emperor Mehmed II are the subject of this classic biography. One of the most important fi ...

The Renaissance in the Fields : Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant

Duccio Balestracci
Paperback - $36.95

In the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant named Benedetto del Massarizia. Benedetto knew how to read but not how to write. Infected by the urban habit of detail ...

Renaissance Armor : 24 Full-Color Cards

John Batchelor
Novelty - $9.95

A dazzling collection of postcards depicts a splendid assortment of European armor dating from the 16th and early 17th centuries. Lovingly detailed reproductions portray finely gilded and etched full- and half-suits, including a 1625 cuirassier from ...

New Light on the Renaissance

Harold Bayley
Paperback - $42.95

Displayed in contemporary. The author's aim in presenting this book was to lay before the general reader certain remarkable facts relating especially to medieval papermaking and printing, but possessing an interest to the world at large. The history ...

How to Do It : Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians

Rudolph M. Bell
Paperback - $38.95

"How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals that were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing various challenges such as how to conceive a bo ...

Renaissance and the Reformation, Encyclopedia of The, Revised Edition

Thomas Goddard Bergin
Hardcover - $174.95

Exploring the period of transition from medieval to modern times

China and Historical Capitalism

Gregory Blue
Paperback - $98.95

Until recently, capitalism has been regarded as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of Western civilization. By examining China in these Eurocentric terms, China has been perceived, by Westerners and Asians alike, to be a failed version of t ...