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Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I : The Structure of Everyday Life
Fernand Braudel
Paperback - $90.95
'This is the most remarkable picture of human life in the centuries before the human condition was radically changed by the growth of industry that has yet been presented. A book of great originality, a masterpiece.' -J.H. Plumb, Washington Post Book ...
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. II : The Wheels of Commerce
Fernand Braudel
Paperback - $96.95
'The intricacy of detail and boldness of hypothesis in this book are indisputable, and if one is to do more than skim it, it demands and repays enormous attention...The lavish illustrations are superbly well chosen. The pictures show the endless vari ...
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III : The Perspective of the World
Fernand Braudel
Paperback - $96.95
The reader will find in it plenty of descriptions, narratives, images, developments, regular patterns and breaks in those patterns-but from start to finish I have tried to refrain from the urge to describe everything, for the mere pleasure of drawing ...
Homosexuality in Renaissance England
Alan Bray
Paperback - $51.95
Bray explores how men who engaged in sodomy reconciled this behavior with their society's violent loathing for the sodomite, and shows how a social more that had remained stable for centuries changed dramatically toward the end of the seventeenth cen ...
The Renaissance Bazaar : From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Jerry Brotton
Paperback - $65.95
A brilliant account of the great flowering of the Renaissance explores the pivotal role played by Europe's fertile contacts with the East. 25 halftones. 8 color plates.
The Renaissance : A Very Short Introduction
Jerry Brotton
Paperback - $20.95
More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Eur ...
Private Lives in Renaissance Venice : Art, Architecture, and the Family
Patricia Fortini Brown
Hardcover - $109.95
This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of patrician families in sixteenth-century Venice. Distinguished art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant faades of grand palaces ...
Society of Renaissance Florenc
Gene Adam Brucker
Paperback - $49.95
First Published in 1971, "The Society of Renaissance Florence" is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.