Albrecht Durer's Renaissance

David Hotchkiss Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• David Hotchkiss Price, a specialist in Renaissance cultural and ecclesiastical history, has broken new ground with this comprehensive analysis of Rena... Lees meer

Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence

Philip Gavitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• Alongside the architectural splendor and intellectual brilliance of early Renaissance Florence there existed a second world of poverty, misery, social... Lees meer

Women, Jews and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile

Louise Mirrer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• Through a detailed analysis of medieval Spain's best known literary works, this book examines two common images of woman--the sexually attractive matr... Lees meer

The Rhetorics of Life-Writing in Early Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• Lives as lived and lives as written are never one and the same. To turn the first into the second one must introduce fiction into the fact of the actu... Lees meer

Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence

Thomas Kuehn

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• As far back as Jacob Burckhardt, illegitimate children have been considered advantaged, insofar as they lacked family obligations. Celebrated Renaissa... Lees meer

Songes of Rechelesnesse

Lawrence M Clopper

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• William Langland's Piers Plowman provides a highly charged picture of England near the end of the fourteenth century, a time of political, religious, ... Lees meer

The Philosophers' Game

Ann E Moyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• In The Philosophers' Game, Ann E. Moyer invites us to engage with the forgotten chess-like game Rithmomachia ("The Battle of Numbers"), which combined... Lees meer

The Strozzi of Florence

Ann Morton Crabb

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
• In 1434, the new Medici government exiled Matteo Strozzi as an enemy of the regime. Soon afterwards, Matteo and three of his eight children died of th... Lees meer