Worldly Goods : A New History of the Renaissance

Lisa Jardine
Paperback - $33.95

Provocative and wholly absorbing, this fascinating work presents a radical interpretation of the Renaissance, arguing that the creation of culture during the time was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth. Illustrations. NPR feature.

Renaissance Europe : Age of Recovery and Reconciliation

De LaMar Jensen
Paperback - $201.95

These popular volumes offer a comprehensive, challenging introduction to the politics, economic development, social life, culture, and thought of early modern Europe. The Renaissance volume includes discussion of political and religious life in the I ...

The Renaissance : A Short History

Paul Johnson
Paperback - $21.95

The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval ...

Lucrecia's Dreams : Politics & Prophecy 16th Century Spain

Richard L. Kagan
Paperback - $48.95

Branded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de Leon had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. ...

Frame, Glass, Verse : The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance

Rayna Kalas
Hardcover - $86.95

Dreaming of What Might Be : The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900

Gregory S. Kealey
Paperback - $159.95

Examines Canada's working-class vision of an alternative to late nineteenth-century industrial-capitalist society.

The Impact of Humanism

Lucille Kekewich
Paperback - $48.95

Jacob Burckhardt published his classic and thought-provoking study, The Civilization of the Renaissance, in 1860. Discussion and controversy over his claims for the Renaissance have fueled debates ever since. Taking Burckhardt's work as a starting po ...

Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500

Catherine Kovesi Killerby
Hardcover - $380.95

Although the luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known, this is the first comprehensive study of the sumptuary laws that attempted to regulate the consumption of luxuries. Catherine Kovesi Killerby provides a chronologic ...

The Renaissance in Europe

Margaret L. King
Paperback - $150.95

This new, compact, up-to-date text presents a comprehensive view of the Renaissance, stressing its roots in Italy--a region that never lost contact with its Roman past. The text demonstrates how the Italian phase of the Renaissance reached into the r ...

Francis I

R. J. Knecht
Paperback - $82.95

The name of Francis I and his emblem, the salamander, are familiar to the many thousands of tourists who visit the chateaux of the Loire each year. But what sort of monarch was he? Whereas in his own day he was acclaimed as 'the great king Francis', ...