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ISBN: 9781408808801 - Elizabeth's Bedfellows Elizabeth's Bedfellows
Anna Whitelock

ISBN10: 1408808803  ISBN13: 9781408808801
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared... More

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ISBN: 9780226924144 - Egyptian Oedipus Egyptian Oedipus
Daniel Stolzenberg

ISBN10: 0226924149  ISBN13: 9780226924144
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Situating Athanasius Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome, with its scholars, artists, patrons, and censors, teh author shows how Kircher's study of ancient paganism depended on the circulation of texts, artifacts, and people between... More

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ISBN: 9781847922120 - The Faithful Executioner The Faithful Executioner
Joel F Harrington

ISBN10: 1847922120  ISBN13: 9781847922120
Publisher: Vintage The Bodley Head Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
Welcome to the world of Frantz Schmidt: citizen of Nuremberg, executioner of 394 unfortunates, and torturer of many hundreds more. Most unusually for his times, Frantz was also a diarist. This title takes us inside his world and his thinking. More

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ISBN: 9781845951924 - The Spirit of Venice The Spirit of Venice
Paul Strathern

ISBN10: 1845951921  ISBN13: 9781845951924
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
Tells the history of the economic and naval power of the modern western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory - when its trading empire reached as far afield as China, Syria and West Africa - to the beginning of its... More

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ISBN: 9780300186031 - Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance
Sarah Blake McHam

ISBN10: 0300186037  ISBN13: 9780300186031
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 Apr 2013
Pliny's "Natural History" (AD 77-79) served as a guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. This title charts the historiography of Latin and Italian manuscripts and early printed copies of the... More

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ISBN: 9780674066366 - On Exile On Exile
Francesco Filelfo Jeroen de Keyser

ISBN10: 0674066367  ISBN13: 9780674066366
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2013
Francesco Filelfo's On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile--poverty and loss of reputation--and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the... More

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ISBN: 9780674055056 - Notable Men and Women of Our Time Notable Men and Women of Our Time
Paolo Giovio

ISBN10: 0674055055  ISBN13: 9780674055056
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2013
Paolo Giovio's dialogue provides an informed perspective on the sack of Rome in 1527, from a friend of Pope Clement VII. The work discusses literary style and whether the vernacular could surpass Latin as a vehicle for literary expression. More

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ISBN: 9780674072718 - Latin Poetry Latin Poetry
Girolamo Fracastoro

ISBN10: 0674072715  ISBN13: 9780674072718
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2013
A medical authority, Girolamo Fracastoro (1478--1553) was also a prominent Neo-Latin poet. This volume includes his didactic poem Syphilis, which gave the name to the disease and contains the first poetical description of Columbus' discovery of... More

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ISBN: 9780415661096 - Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe
Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph Ward

ISBN10: 0415661099  ISBN13: 9780415661096
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 18 Apr 2013
Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings... More

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ISBN: 9789766376260 - Spanish Trinidad Spanish Trinidad
Francisco Morales Padron Armando Garcia de la Torre

ISBN10: 9766376263  ISBN13: 9789766376260
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Apr 2013