From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
ISBN: 9780060928834 / Angielski / Miękka / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The... Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one c... |
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Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice
ISBN: 9780195144963 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangements that did not fit normative models of marriage.
Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age ...
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Age of Voyages, 1350-1600
ISBN: 9780195176728 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In accessible language supported by prolific illustrations and primary sources, Wiesner-Hanks covers the age of exploration from Europe into Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Quotes from leaders, philosophers, merchants, and voyagers draw readers into the time period. Told through the words and experiences of the people who lived it- kings, queens, and commoners, priests and lay people, explorers, scientists, artists, and world travelers- this is a world history for a new generation.
In accessible language supported by prolific illustrations and primary sources, Wiesner-Hanks covers the age of exploration from Europe into Asia, Afr...
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239,58 zł |
Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe
ISBN: 9780195330847 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminated in England in the early 17th century. Emphasis on the dignity of man (though not of woman) and on human potential distinguished the Renaissance from the previous Middle Ages. In poetry and literature, individual thought and action were prevalent, while depictions of the human form became a touchstone of Renaissance art. In science and medicine the macrocosm and microcosm of...
The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Rena...
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114,36 zł |
Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 9780197261590 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Our modern conception of the Renaissance has been changed substantially by the scholarship of the last fifty years, and the British contribution to this research has been enormous. An essential part of this scholarship is contained within this lavishly illustrated selection of lectures delivered by distinguished historians to the British Academy. The lectures cover the period circa 1400 to 1520 and illustrate two aspects of Italy in this period, the political background to the great cultural flowering, and the art of Florence and Rome.
Our modern conception of the Renaissance has been changed substantially by the scholarship of the last fifty years, and the British contribution to th...
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202,86 zł |
Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500
ISBN: 9780199247936 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Although the luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known, this is the first comprehensive study of the sumptuary laws that attempted to regulate the consumption of luxuries. Catherine Kovesi Killerby provides a chronological, geographical, and thematic survey of more than three hundred laws enacted in over forty cities throughout Italy, and sets them in their social context.
Although the luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known, this is the first comprehensive study of the sumptuary laws that...
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841,68 zł |
How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
ISBN: 9780226042008 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Or should you want to goad female desires, throw 90 grubs in a liter of olive oil, let steep in the sun for a week and apply liberally on the male anatomy. Bell's journey through booklets long dismissed by scholars as being of little literary value...
How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middleb...
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125,58 zł |
How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
ISBN: 9780226042107 / Angielski / Twarda / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Or should you want to goad female desires, throw 90 grubs in a liter of olive oil, let steep in the sun for a week and apply liberally on the male anatomy. Bell's journey through booklets long dismissed by scholars as being of little literary value...
How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middleb...
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Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
ISBN: 9780226100135 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469 1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of...
Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469 1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue the humanist autobiography in the form of personal ...
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180,18 zł |
Renaissance Characters
ISBN: 9780226283562 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Compared to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance is brief-little more than two centuries, extending roughly from the mid-fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century-and largely confined to a few Italian city states. Nevertheless, the epoch marked a great cultural shift in sensibilities, the dawn of a new age in which classical Greek and Roman values were "reborn" and human values in all fields, from the arts to civic life, were reaffirmed.
With this volume, Eugenio Garin, a leading Renaissance scholar, has gathered the work of an international team of scholars into an accessible... Compared to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance is brief-little more than two centuries, extending roughly from the mid-fourteenth century to the end of ...
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163,80 zł |
Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century: Private Grief and Public Salvation
ISBN: 9780226302959 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) As war, pestilence, and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaster. These "rescue miracles," recorded by over one hundred fourteenth-century cults, are the basis of Michael Goodich's account of the miraculous in everyday medieval life.
Rescue miracles offer a wide range of voices rarely heard in medieval history, from women and children to peasants and urban artisans. They tell of salvation not just from the ravages of nature and war, but from the vagaries of a violent society-crime, unfair judicial... As war, pestilence, and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaste...
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Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 9780226457642 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative
influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling image of the social processes that affected the shape and function of the law. The numerous law courts of Italian city-states constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the permutations of these laws, then examines their use by Florentines to arbitrate conflict and... Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative
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The Preacher's Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy
ISBN: 9780226538549 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in Siena, Italy, in 1427. The speaker, the friar Bernardino (1380-1444), was one of the most important public figures of the time, and he spent forty years combing the towns of Italy, instructing, admonishing, and entertaining the crowds that gathered in...
"When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediatel...
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245,70 zł |
Renaissance Essays
ISBN: 9780226812274 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together pieces on British and European history from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, ending with the Thirty Years War, which Trevor-Roper views as the great historical and intellectual watershed that marked the end of the Renaissance.
Covering a wide range of topics, these writings reflect the many facets of Trevor-Roper's interest in intellectual and cultural history. Included are discussions of Renaissance Venice; the arts as... Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together piec...
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174,72 zł |
Baroque Personae
ISBN: 9780226856377 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Baroque, which stretched from the end of the sixteenth to the second half of the seventeenth century, is one of the most enigmatic eras in history. In this book, thirteen distinguished scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes, and social structures as they are reflected in Baroque personae, or characteristic social roles.
Studying the statesman, soldier, financier, secretary, rebel, preacher, missionary, nun, witch, scientist, artist, and bourgeois, the essays depart dramatically from traditional accounts of this era. The statesman, for example, is... The Baroque, which stretched from the end of the sixteenth to the second half of the seventeenth century, is one of the most enigmatic eras in history...
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
ISBN: 9780226950075 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Placing Bruno-both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake-in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay-and conflict-with magic and occult practices.
"Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. Now she has looked on Bruno. This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. Historians of ideas, of religion, and of science will study it. Some of them,... Placing Bruno-both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake-in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only...
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Myths of Renaissance Individualism
ISBN: 9780230006409 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. Myths of Renaissance Individualism, in short, will interest students not only of history but also of...
The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the...
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211,53 zł |
Homosexuality in Renaissance England
ISBN: 9780231102896 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Alan Bray's Homosexuality in Renaissance England is a milestone work, one of those rare books that can be said to have virtually milestone work, one of those rare books that can be said to have virtually inaugurated a field of study--and one which remains a standard, comprehensive introduction to the subject. Since it was first published in England in 1982, however, it has been difficult to find in America. Examining the image of the sodomite in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century literature and polemic, Bray demonstrates how widely that image differed from the everyday occurrences...
Alan Bray's Homosexuality in Renaissance England is a milestone work, one of those rare books that can be said to have virtually milestone work...
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215,70 zł |
The Renaissance in Rome
ISBN: 9780253212085 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) ..". comprehensive, readable, beautifully documented... I cannot imagine a library or a person seriously interested in Renaissance Rome without it." Manuscripta "Brilliant synthesis. A must." Bibliotheque L Humanisme et Renaissance ..". no book in English or otherwise covers the breadth of Renaissance Rome as this one does. It will be definitive for a long time." Church History ..". attractively presented... stimulating... " Renaissance Studies "In lively prose... the author paints a complex multilayered image of compelling vividness." History of European... ..". comprehensive, readable, beautifully documented... I cannot imagine a library or a person seriously interested in Renaissance Rome without it.... |
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The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant
ISBN: 9780271018799 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant named Benedetto del Massarizia. Benedetto knew how to read but not how to write. Infected by the urban habit of detailed personal record keeping, he asked various of his literate acquaintances to put into writing the details of his daily affairs. The resulting account books offer an unparalleled glimpse into the economic and social world of late medieval peasants. In Renaissance in the Fields, Balestracci uses these account books and a host of... In the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant named Benedetto... |
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161,55 zł |