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Book cover for Marsilio Ficino: Platonic Theology

Platonic Theology : Books XII-XIV

Marsilio Ficino
Hardcover - $56.95

"The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schoo ...

Book cover for Alison Gail Findlay: Theatre and Religion

Theatre and Religion : Lancastrian Shakespeare

Alison Gail Findlay
Paperback - $58.95

This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on the question of whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic. Among the many topics discussed are the nature of El ...

Book cover for Theodore O. Francis: Realism in the Novels of the Harlem Renaissance

Realism in the Novels of the Harlem Renaissance

Theodore O. Francis
Paperback - $24.95

The novelists of the Harlem Renaissance began writing at a point in America's literary history when the romantic tradition was being set aside for the gutsy truth-telling of realist literature. Modern criticism seems to take the flowery, nineteenth c ...

Book cover for Egon Friedell: A Cultural History of the Modern Age

A Cultural History of the Modern Age : Volume I

Egon Friedell
Paperback - $86.95



Book cover for Patricia Fumerton: Renaissance Culture and the Everyday

Renaissance Culture and the Everyday

Patricia Fumerton
Paperback - $51.95

Items as familiar as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food look decidedly less familiar when seen through the eyes of Renaissance men and women. In "Renaissance Culture and the Everyday", such scholars as J ...

Book cover for Mary O. Furner: The State and Economic Knowledge

The State and Economic Knowledge

Mary O. Furner
Paperback - $128.95

This book addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state--the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy making. Over time, governments in moder ...

Book cover for John Andrew Gallagher: The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire

John Andrew Gallagher
Paperback - $71.95

His pupil and colleague Anil Seal has edited for this volume a group of Professor Gallagher??'s major essays.

Book cover for George Hugo Tucker: Forms of the

Forms of the "Medieval" in the "Renaissance" : A Multidisciplinary Exploration of a Cultural Continuum

George Hugo Tucker
Hardcover - $119.95



Book cover for Ronald K. Goodenow: The City and Education in Four Nations

The City and Education in Four Nations

Ronald K. Goodenow
Hardcover - $233.95

This volume offers a powerful response to the long-felt need for a substantial study of urban education that takes full comparative account of both the historical and international contexts. A distinguished international team of contributors has been ...

Book cover for Ronald K. Goodenow: The City and Education in Four Nations

The City and Education in Four Nations

Ronald K. Goodenow
Paperback - $96.95

This volume offers a powerful response to the long-felt need for a substantial study of urban education that takes full comparative account of both the historical and international contexts. A distinguished international team of contributors has been ...

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