wyszukanych pozycji: 9
The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual identity, science and sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England
ISBN: 9781789622218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the time Catterina Vizzani, a young Roman woman, began wooing the woman she was attracted to, she did so dressed as a man. Fleeing Rome to avoid a potential trial for sexual misdeeds, she became Giovanni Bordoni, transitioning and becoming a male in spirit, deed, and body, through what was the most complete physical change possible in the eighteenth century. This volume features Giovanni Bianchi’s 1744 Italian account of Vizzani/Bordoni, published for the first time together with a modern English translation, making available to an English-speaking audience the objective, scientific...
From the time Catterina Vizzani, a young Roman woman, began wooing the woman she was attracted to, she did so dressed as a man. Fleeing Rome to avoid ...
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410,29 zł |
Enlightenment Spain and the 'Encyclopédie Méthodique'
ISBN: 9780729411707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What did Europe owe Spain in the eighteenth century? This infamous question, posed by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers in the Encyclopédie méthodique, caused an international uproar at the height of the Enlightenment. His polemical article ‘Espagne’, with its tabloid-like prose, resonated with a French-reading public that blamed the Spanish Empire for France’s eroding economy. Spain was outraged, and responded by publishing its own translation-rebuttal, the article ‘España’ penned by Julián de Velasco for the Spanish Encyclopedia metódica. In this volume, the original French and...
What did Europe owe Spain in the eighteenth century? This infamous question, posed by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers in the Encyclopédie méthodique, ...
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410,29 zł |
John Fante's Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views
ISBN: 9780823287864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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602,85 zł |
John Fante's Ask the Dust: A Joining of Voices and Views
ISBN: 9780823287857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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181,89 zł |
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830
ISBN: 9781487508906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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285,83 zł |
Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples: The Body of Naples
ISBN: 9781498563987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a visual, literary, and urban metaphor. By examining the works of Giordano Bruno, Caravaggio, Giambattista Basile, Silvio Fiorillo and Raimondo di Sangro, Principe di San Severo, the essays comprising this volume show the contribution of these world renowned figures to the Baroque imagery of Naples, but...
This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces ...
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464,99 zł |
The Secret Child
ISBN: 9780648252153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,84 zł |
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Intercultural Transfers, Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities
ISBN: 9781487549770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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202,68 zł |
Discourses of Tolerance & Intolerance in the European Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780802091789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The principle of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, scholarly works on the topic to date have been primarily limited to traditional studies based on a historical, 'progressive' view or to the critiques of contemporary writers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, and MacIntyre, who believed that the core beliefs of the Enlightenment, including tolerance, could actually be used as vehicles of repression and control rather than as agents promoting individual and group freedom.This collection of original essays by a distinguished international group... The principle of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, scholarly works on the topic to date have been prima... |
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285,83 zł |