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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 893 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Zero Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Printed in Utopia examines the bloody era of the Renaissance in all of its contradictions and moments of utopian possibility. From the dissenting religious anarchists of the 17th century, to the feminist verse of Amelia Lanyer and Richard Barnfield's poetics of gay rights. From an analysis of the rhetoric of feces in Martin Luther, to the spiritual liberation of Anna Trapnell. What is presented is the radical Renaissance too often hidden away, an...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
64) Dave at night
Author
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.
Author
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
364 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of Botticelli, Michelangelo and Galileo, benefactors who turned Florence into a global power center, and then lost it all.
The House of Medici picks up where Barbara Tuchman's Hibbert...
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry tyrants. The power of these images is second only to those derived from Christianity in constructing our modern culture. Few modern readers are aware of how indebted we are to the Roman model of our political...
68) Well played
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Another laugh-out-loud romantic comedy featuring kilted musicians, Renaissance Faire tavern wenches, and an unlikely love story. Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it's been years now, and even though Stacey loves spending her summers pouring drinks and flirting with patrons at the local Renaissance Faire, she wants...
69) Well met
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him? The faire...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count--and soon learned why that man was known as the Beast. Danio's fate changed the moment he saw and recognized Adria Ripoli as she entered the count's chambers one...
Author
Series
Arts of mankind volume 7
Pub. Date
1965
Physical Desc
xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"During the sweltering Roman summer of 1492, Rodrigo Borgia has risen to power as pope. Rodrigo's eldest son Cesare, forced to follow his father into the church and newly made the Archbishop of Valencia, chafes at his ecclesiastical role and fumes with jealousy and resentment at the way that his foolish brother has been chosen for the military greatness he desired. Maddalena Moretti comes from the countryside, where she has seen how the whims of powerful...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 444 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ingenious Pursuits focuses on a series of virtuoso advancements - among them the discovery of the circulation of blood, the perfection of the mechanical clock, enhanced astronomical observation, fundamental developments in mathematics, selective animal and plant breeding, and the development of chemical substance analysis ... Revisiting the largely unsung herãis of the Scientific Revolution ..., Jardine brilliantly illuminates the practice of science,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. He follows the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists and scientists with whom the Medici had dealings, and traces the fortunes of those members of the Medici family who achieved success...