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Translatio or the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance : Modes and Messages
L. H. Hollengreen
Hardcover - $142.95
Volume based on selected, reworked papers from the 10th Annual ACMRS Conference at Tempe (Arizona), on 'Translatio, or the Transmission of Culture' held on 12-14 February 2004. Papers in the volume address, for example, issues surrounding the transla ...
The Invasion Before Normandy : The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands
Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Paperback - $32.95
A chronicle of one of WWII's most dramatic and secret operations.
Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China
Chin-Shing Huang
Paperback - $69.95
This book explains the general intellectual climate of the early Ch'ing period, and the political and cultural characteristics of the Ch'ing regime at the time. Professor Huang brings to life the book's central characters, Li Fu and the three great e ...
Beyond the Palio : Urbanism and Ritual in Renaissance Siena
Philippa Jackson
Paperback - $80.95
Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays documenting the ritual events and ceremonies of Renaissance Siena. In the past, scholarly accounts of the ceremonies that took place during Siena 's early modern history have been overshad ...
Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio : The Obizzi Saga
Irma B. Jaffe
Hardcover - $117.95
A prominent writer, a master painter, and a treasure of art that for centuries were hidden from history come brilliantly to life in this important study of one of the great legacies of Renaissance culture. The immense Castle of Cataio, built in the V ...
The Story of 0 : Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance
Michele Jaffe
Paperback - $46.95
This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Dana' and the shower of gold. Jaffee's philological and pictorial argument links, across several languages, such seemingly disparate concepts as money, coins, mothers (through the mi ...
Global Interests : Renaissance Art Between East and West
Lisa Jardine
Paperback - $86.95
Looking outward for confirmation of who they were and what defined them as "civilized," Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the attention of the powerful Ottoman Empire. "Global Interests explores the ...
Ingenious Pursuits : Building the Scientific Revolution
Lisa Jardine
Paperback - $26.95
In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequent ...