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ISBN: 9780300121247 - Isabella and Leonardo Isabella and Leonardo
Francis Ames-Lewis

ISBN10: 0300121245  ISBN13: 9780300121247
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 18 May 2012
Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters that they... More

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ISBN: 9780753826829 - Sister Queens Bestseller Sister Queens
Julia Fox

ISBN10: 0753826828  ISBN13: 9780753826829
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Apr 2012
The first dual biography of Katherine and Juana, based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of the sources. Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered Queen, the devoted mother, a woman callously... More

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ISBN: 9780007457410 - Edexcel as Unit 2 Option A1: Henry VIIIi: Authority, Nation and Religion, Edexcel as Unit 2 Option A1: Henry VIIIi: Authority, Nation and Religion,
Adam Bloomfield, Sarah Moffatt

ISBN10: 0007457413  ISBN13: 9780007457410
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Collins Educational
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Apr 2012
Enable students to succeed in their exam with Henry VIII: Authority, Nation and Religion. This study aid contains the key information that students need for Edexcel History AS Unit 2 Option A1, clearly laid out with Examiners' and Essential notes. More

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ISBN: 9781107003422 - The Body of the Conquistador The Body of the Conquistador
Rebecca Earle

ISBN10: 1107003423  ISBN13: 9781107003422
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2012
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating. This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the... More

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ISBN: 9780786468065 - Monarchs of the Renaissance Monarchs of the Renaissance
Philip J Potter

ISBN10: 0786468068  ISBN13: 9780786468065
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2012

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ISBN: 9780714128269 - Shakespeare's Britain Shakespeare's Britain
Jonathon Bate, Dora Thornton

ISBN10: 0714128260  ISBN13: 9780714128269
Publisher: British Museum Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Apr 2012
From the common playgoers to the royal patrons, this book explores Britain from the perspective of Shakespeare's audience revealing how the significant issues of the day were explored at the playhouse through objects and quotations from... More

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ISBN: 9781442643482 - The Matter of Mind The Matter of Mind
Christopher Braider

ISBN10: 144264348X  ISBN13: 9781442643482
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 Mar 2012
Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy. What influence did Rene Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? More

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ISBN: 9780674062085 - Scholarship, Commerce, Religion Bestseller Scholarship, Commerce, Religion
Ian Maclean

ISBN10: 0674062086  ISBN13: 9780674062085
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Mar 2012
This study of the learned book trade of the late Renaissance reveals how many features of today's publishing world were in place even then. Beginning in Frankfurt, Maclean surveys the authors, publishers, censors, and sellers who operated in this... More

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ISBN: 9781108046381 - Through the Heart of Asia: Volume 1 Through the Heart of Asia: Volume 1
Gabriel Bonvalot

ISBN10: 110804638X  ISBN13: 9781108046381
Publisher: Cambridge Library Collection Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Feb 2012
This 1889 publication describes a French explorer's attempts to reach India by travelling across Afghanistan, and his eventual success. The French explorer, author and legislator Gabriel Bonvalot (1853-1933) received funding from the French... More

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ISBN: 9788776021290 - Reframing the Danish Renaissance Reframing the Danish Renaissance
Michael Andersen, Birgitte Boggild Johannsen, Hugo Johannsen

ISBN10: 8776021297  ISBN13: 9788776021290
Publisher: Nationalmuseet
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Feb 2012
Presents a collection of essays by 26 Renaissance scholars from Europe and the United States that represents the outcome of an international conference which took place at The National Museum of Denmark and the castles of Kronborg and... More