Renaissance category: 1000 books
The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society
Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec...
by Enrique Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain brings the study of Europe’s “culture of dissection” to the Iberian peninsula, presenting a neglected episode in the development of the modern concept of the self. Enrique Fernandez explores the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century...
Heroic Forms
Cervantes and the Literature of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility...
by Laura Cremonini
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 22, 2019
La storia di due donne dei Gonzaga: Cecilia e Giulia Gonzaga. I Gonzaga. Bibliografia e alcuni film sulla casata.
Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part of the Jewish Encounter series**
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect...
Seventeenth-Century Fiction
Text and Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In the past few years, discussion of fiction in all sorts of media has intensified. The prominence of literary critics has increased, the awarding of lucrative book prizes has become more publicized, and reports of the formation of reading groups have proliferated. Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text...
A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers
Cryptography and the History of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical...
Holocaust Rescuers: True Holocaust Survivor Stories Of The Liberators Of Auschwitz: Accounts Of The Holocaust Rescuers
Holocaust Rescuers, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Every so often, an event happens that yanks the reigns of the ever-churning machinery of time and stops the world in its tracks. The repercussions of such an event may send shock waves that can be felt in every nook and corner of our sphere.
These events and happenings will vary in the actual...
by Joseph Hone
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously...
Reinterpreting Exploration
The West in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and...
Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France
Global Economic Crisis and the Racialization of French Citizenship, 1870–1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
This is an innovative study of how race and empire transformed French republican citizenship in the early Third Republic. Elizabeth Heath integrates the histories of the wine-producing department of Aude and the sugar-producing colony of Guadeloupe to reveal the ways in which empire was integral to...
by John F. Pound
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Lauro Martines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Lauro Martines' exhaustive search of manuscript material in the state archives of Florence is the basis for a fascinating portrayal of representative humanists of the period. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists explores the wealth, family tradition, civic prominence, and intellectual achievements...
Evening's Empire
A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion,...