European history: Renaissance Books

Book Synopsis3 books of epic historical adventure now in one volume. A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their love, faith and loyalty be strong enough to help them survive war, persecution and a cruel separation?France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV''s soldiers will stop at nothing to convert the country''s Huguenot heretics to the true faith, yet Jeanne and Jacob hold fast to their Protestant principals of liberty of conscience.But will the punishment for their defiance be more than they can bear?If Jeanne and Jacob can''t find a way to evade the soldiers'' clutches, their family will face a fate worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again...As Jacob becomes an indentured servant in the New World and Jeanne earns a meager living in Switzerland, a sudden disruption in European politics leaves their chance of a bittersweet homecoming more doubtful than ever...Will the Delpech family survive the years of war, piracy and persecution to reunite at last?You''ll adore this brilliantly researched historical saga, because everyone loves heart-warming tales of family loyalty and a fight for survival against the odds.Read The Huguenot Chronicles trilogy to start a journey through history today!

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Book SynopsisHow Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity.

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Book SynopsisJoanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA) Introduction, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA) 1. Courtship and Ritual, Debra Kaplan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 2. Religion, Cecilia Cristellon (Max Planck Institute, Germany) 3. State and Law, Elizabeth Marjorie Plummer (University of Arizona, USA) 4. The Ties That Bind, Anna Bellavitis (Rouen University, France) 5. The Family Economy, Jutta Sperling (Hampshire College, USA) 6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Sara F. Matthews-Grieco (Syracuse University in Florence, Italy) 7. Breaking Vows, Martin Ingram (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Representation, Andrea Bayer (Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCompiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern university, the precise circumstances and broader environments that gave rise to it, plus an associated bibliography. 12 high-quality sections, each prefaced by its own short introduction, set forth the Latin (and occasionally Greek) texts and accompanying English translations and notes. Each section provides focused orientation and is arranged in such a way as to ensure the volume''s accessibility to scholars and students at all levels of familiarity with Neo-Latin. Passages are taken from documents that were composed in seats of learning across the British Isles, in Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Andrews, and adduce a wide range of material from orations and disputational theses to collections of occasional verse,Trade ReviewAn excellent introduction to the volume as a whole lucidly describes the development of universities in early modern Britain. The material collected examines these important institutions through the lens of the languages – Latin, and to a lesser extent, Greek – in which they functioned, revealing the vital role universities played in public and political life. -- Elisabeth Dutton, Professor of Medieval English, University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsList of contributors Preface Introduction (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL, UK) Texts 1 Academic Freedom on Trial in Tudor Times Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), letter to John Cheke, 15 May 1542 (Micha Lazarus, University of Cambridge, UK) 2 Why Tudor Cambridge Needs Greek Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae (Aaron Kachuk, University of Cambridge, UK, and Benedick C.F. McDougall) 3 A Professor in Scottish Politics Andrew Melville (1545–1622), Stephaniskion (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 4 A Distinct Mode of Pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1546–1611), Ecloga Daphnis (Sharon van Dijk, University of Birmingham, UK) 5 Greek and Latin poetry from Cambridge on sixteenth-century questions of faith Act and Tripos verses from the 1580s and the 1590s (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria) 6 Happy New Year in Jacobean Oxford: Metamorphosing Ovid into Student Comedy Philip Parsons (1594–1653), Atalanta (Elizabeth Sandis, Institute for English Studies, UK) 7 European Networks and the Reformation of the University of Edinburgh Astronomical disputations from the graduating class of 1612–16. Lecturer: William King (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 8 A Prevaricator Speech from Caroline Cambridge James Duport (1606–1679), Aurum potest produci per artem chymicam (Tommi Alho, University, Finland) 9 An Irish Panegyric on Henry Cromwell Caesar Williamson (c. 1611–1675), Panegyris in Excellentissimum Dominum, Dominum Henricum Cromwellum (Jason Harris, University College Cork, Ireland) 10 Herrings, Linen and Cheese: Celebrating the Treaty of Westminster in 1654 The Musarum Oxoniensium Elaiophoria (Oxford) and the Oliva Pacis (Cambridge) (Caroline Spearing, University of Exeter, UK) 11 Political Poetry from late Stuart Cambridge Cambridge Poems on the Peace of 1697 (David Money, University of Cambridge, UK) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmanda Flather is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Gender and Space in Early Modern England (2006).Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Meaning of Home 2. Family and Household 3. The House 4. Furniture and Furnishings 5. Home and Work 6. Gender and Home 7. Hospitality and Home 8. Religion and Home Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAurora G. Morcillo was Professor of History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Cultural and Social Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion (2014), The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic (2010) and True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (2000). She sadly passed away in 2020.María Asunción Gómez is Professor of Spanish at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of La madre muerta: El mito matricida en la literatura y el cine españoles (2016) and Del escenario a la pantalla: La adaptación cinematográfica del teatro español (2000), and the co-editor, along with Santiago Juan-Navarro and Phyllis Zatlin, of History and Myth of the Mad Queen: Modern Representations of Juana of Castile (2008).Paula De La Cruz-Fernández is instructor in history, research historian, and digital archivist. José Manuel Morcillo-GóTrade ReviewWhat makes this sourcebook stand out is its seamless incorporation of gender history throughout. There is much to like about this book … Its structure is flexible for classroom use, and it does meet the authors’ goals of bringing historical context to cultural studies’ students and cultural works to history students. * European History Quarterly *A key strength of The Modern Spain Sourcebook, for both instructors and students, is its thematic (not chronological) organization of materials, which effectively promotes an interdisciplinary study of Spanish cultural production and historical eras ... Overall, and consistent with the editors’ goals, the sourcebook’s ideal audience would be professors and instructors of interdisciplinary subjects taught in English, such as history, cultural studies, comparative literature, and gender, women’s and sexuality studies. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *An original and enlightening anthology that goes well beyond the traditional scope of most classroom readers. These aptly chosen and well translated documents will stimulate plenty of reflection and fruitful discussions, and they can also serve as an excellent base for written work in a variety of classes. * Geoffrey Jensen, Professor and John Biggs ’30 Chair in Military History, Virginia Military Institute, USA *A well-balanced, much-needed book which historians of modern Spain have been waiting on for decades. They will not be disappointed. * Antonio Cazorla Sánchez, Professor and Chair, Trent University, Canada *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Literature and Art Document 1: Miguel de Cervantes, from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, 1605 Document 2: María de Zayas, from Exemplary Tales of Love and Disillusion, 1637 Document 3: Benito Feijóo y Montenegro, “A Defense or Vindication of Women,” 1726 from Universal Theater of Criticism. First volume. 16th Treaty. 1726- 1740) Document 4: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, etching “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” 1799 Document 5: Xavier Badia-Vilatò, poster “Ambition, Militarism, War. This Is Fascism. Unite to Destroy it”, 1936 Document 6: María Zambrano, from For a History of Mercy, 1989 2. Labor and Business History Document 1: Pedro Rodríguez Campomanes, Excerpts from “Treatise on The Education of Artisans and their Improvement”, 1775 Document 2: Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Decree of Disentailment of the Regular Clergy, 1836 Document 3: Chair Act 1912. Wednesday February 28, 1912 Document 4: “Labor Charter,” 1938 and “Law of Political and Labor Rights of Women,” 1961 Document 5: MATESA Scandal, 1969 Document 6: Table of Workers Salaries by provinces, 1973 3. Feminisms Document 1: Josefa Amar y Borbón, “Prologue” from Discourse abut Women’s Physical and Moral Education, 1790 Document 2: Concepción Arenal, from Women of the Future, 1861 Document 3: Carmen de Burgos, Divorce in Spain, 1904 Document 4: Consuelo Berges, “Republican Women’s Union, Pathways” from Cultura integral femenina, 1933 Document 5: Lidia Falcón, The Feminist Reason, 1981 Document 6: Law against gender violence. Ley Orgánica 1/2004 4. Everyday Life & Material Culture Document 1: Singer sewing machine advertisement, ca. 1890 Document 2: Cover Blanco y Negro, 1936 Document 3: Ricard Terré, photograph Holy Week, 1957 Document 4: Carlos Giménez, comics from Paracuellos, 1975 Document 5: Spain, cover National Geographic, 1965 Document 6: Advertisement, Jabón Lagarto, 1960s 5. Education Document 1: Juan Luis Vives, from The Education of the Christian Woman, 1523 Document 2: Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, from “Guidelines for the Creation of A Plan of Public Instruction to the Junta of this Matter,” 1809 Document 3: Law of Public Instruction, Moyano Law, 1857 Document 4: Constitution 1931 Articles 48-50 & Constitution 1978 Article 27 Document 5: Secondary Education Law 1953 Document 6: Organic Law of Education 2006 6. Political Power and the Law Document 1: Spanish Constitutions, 1812 and 1978 Document 2: Civil Code, 1889 and 1958 Document 3: Spanish Constitution 1931 Document 4: Law of Political Responsibilities 1939 Document 5: Fundamental Principles of the State, 1958 Document 6: Law of Historical Memory (Ley de recuperación de la memoria Histórica, 2007 7. Religion Document 1: Concordat, 1851 Document 2: Spanish Bishops’ from “Collective Letter”, 1937 Document 3: Enrique Tarancón, from Pastoral Letter “Our daily bread,” 1951 Document 4: Franco as Medieval Knight Document 5: “The Socio-religious change in Spain” FOESSA, Estudios socisológicos sobre la situación social de España Document 6: Gay Priest magazine Zero cover (2002) 8. Public Health and Welfare Document 1: Count of Cobarrus, Letter I, On Public Health, 1808 Document 2: Juan Giné Partagás, from Lessons on elementary private and public hygiene, 1871-72 Document 3: Women’s Section of Falange, Photographs of Gymnastics, 1960 Document 4: Tomás Caro Patón, The Fallen Woman. Memoirs and Reflections of a Physician in the Anti Venereal Struggle, 1959 Document 5: Sociology of Health Care. FOESSA, 1975 and Table on Causes of Death 1968-1970 Document 6: Organic Law for the Legalization of abortion 9/1985 9. Gendered Sexualities Document 1: Gregorio Marañon, The Evolution of Sexuality and the Intersexual Conditions, 1930 Document 2: Hildegart Rodríguez, El problema sexual tratado por una mujer española, 1931 Document 3: Dr. Ramón Serrano Vicens, Informe Sexual de la Mujer Española, 1978 Document 4: Esperanza Vaello Esquerdo, The Crime of Adultery and Cohabitation, 1976 Document 5: Pedro Almodovar, movie still The Law of Desire, 1987 Document 6: Gay Marriage Law, 2005 10. Empires across Oceans Document 1: Bartolomé de las Casas, Christopher Columbus Travels, 1566-1600 Document 2: Emilio Castelar, Speech against Slavery, 1870 Document 3: Manifesto of the revolutionary junta of the island of Cuba, addressed to its countrymen and to all nations, 1898 Document 4: Law of Paternal Dissent in Cuba and Puerto Rico 1882 Document 5: Political Cartoons from Gedeón, 1898 Document 6: Gumersindo Azcárate, Speech on the Political and Economic Interests of Spain in Morocco, 1910 Further Reading

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Book Synopsis'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here' GUARDIAN'This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Dürer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you want to understand how we reinvent ourselves every time we reveal ourselves' PETER POMERANTSEVToday's defining celebrities have crafted public personae that walk the tightrope between authenticity and artificiality. Ordinary people now follow suit: lovingly tending our 'personal brands' for economic gain and self-expression alike.Instagram culture is part of a story that goes back centuries. The vision that we not only can but should 'make' our own selves to shape our own destiny is an inextricable part of the formation of the modern world.As traditional powers of pre-modernity - church and throne - waned, a new myth took their place: that of the 'self-made man', whose unique powers of personality - or canny self-presentation - give him not just the opportunity, but the obligation, to remake reality in the image of what he wants it to be.From the Renaissance genius to the Regency dandy, the American prophets of capitalism to the aspirational übermensch of European fascism, Hollywood's Golden Age to today's Silicon Valley, Self-Made takes us on a dazzling tour of modern history's most prominent self-makers, uncovering both self-making's liberatory power, and the dangers this idea can unleash.'Both revelatory and a warning about the ways that focus on the self distorts our individual lives and the broader society' FRANCIS FUKUYAMATrade ReviewA fun, insightful romp . . . we're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here -- Rachel Aspden * Guardian *A fast-moving train of a book . . . Burton is a confident conductor * New York Times *Throughout her gripping account Burton homes in on the tensions at the heart of all self-making acts: between authenticity and artificiality, and between the self that is given and the self that is desired * Times Literary Supplement *This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Dürer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you want to understand how we reinvent ourselves every time we reveal ourselves -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against RealitySelf-Made takes the reader on an incredible journey that begins in the Renaissance and ends with the Kardashians, Donald Trump, and Silicon Valley's extropians, tracing the peculiarly modern phenomenon of people who make themselves the objects of their life's work. It is both revelatory and a warning about the ways that focus on the self distorts our individual lives and the broader society -- Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political OrderTara Isabella Burton's thoughtful, beautifully written book charts the engrossing history of the self-made man (and woman) from the geniuses of the Renaissance to present-day reality TV stars. Philosophical, ethical and pragmatic by turns, Burton urgently interrogates the culturally dominant myths of individualism and self-realisation, asking what we lose when we gain what we think we really want: when we make ourselves into gods -- Carolyne Larrington, author of The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and HeroesBurton is that rare cultural critic who delivers insight with sass and wears her deep knowledge of history and philosophy with a lightness and grace. A dazzling cast of characters struts across these pages, but Burton is always fully in control; every case study and example accretes to build her argument, for we are not merely self-stylists but shapeshifters, not just makers, but gods -- Marina Benjamin, author of InsomniaRanging from Aristotle to OnlyFans by way of the Marquis de Sade and Frederick Douglass, Tara Isabella Burton delights, infuriates and instructs while offering some of the sharpest and most insightful social commentary being written today. This is a book you will not forget -- Walter Russell Mead, author of The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish PeopleLooking around at the strange terrain of American politics, religion, culture, and media, almost everyone is asking, "What happened?" and "What's next?" This book tells us the story behind those questions. Those who wonder why almost every aspect of life seems to be, at best, a reality television series and, at worst, a dark science fiction drama, will need this important work. This book will shift the conversation, at perhaps just the right time -- Russell Moore, author of Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical AmericaWhat does the Marquis de Sade have to do with David Bowie? Oscar Wilde with Oprah Winfrey? Montaigne with Donald Trump? Learn the fascinating historical and philosophical connections over the past five centuries in this erudite and wildly entertaining study on the fine art of self-creation, one of the modern era's defining cultural traits long before Instagram made it a daily universal habit -- Tony Perrottet, author of The Sinner’s Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of EuropeIn the spirit of Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland and Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright Sided, Tara Isabella Burton delivers a fascinating intellectual and cultural history of our never-ending quest to reinvent ourselves. She masterfully balances high and low culture, ranging from Renaissance sculptors and Parisian Dandies, to American hucksters and Instagram selfies. Self-Made clears through the fog of our current moment and lets us see the methods behind our collective madness. An essential read for our era of Late-Stage Everything -- Jamie Wheal, author of Recapture the RaptureSince the rise of Instagram and Facebook, how we present ourselves to the world has become a contemporary obsession. But as Tara Isabella Burton shows in her new book, Self-Made, it has a long history, from Beau Brummel to the Kardashians. The result is a fascinating, deeply researched and entertaining tour de force -- Simon Worrall, author of Starcrossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s ParisWide-ranging . . . With clarity and authority, Burton sheds light on how the self-made indulge in the profitable "fantasy of selling yourself" and provide an escape from reality for their followers. It's an eye-opener * Publishers Weekly *Burton concludes that our search for self-definition is ultimately a search for what it means to be human: vulnerable and inextricably interconnected. A thoughtful, well-grounded cultural history * Kirkus *It's a remarkable journey we humans have been on . . . The heights of self-aggrandisement Burton encounters are dizzying . . . she does not condemn outright the modern urge for self-expression. Bounding from one historical anecdote to the next, she reveals the human ingenuity that is unleashed when God's plan for us is taken out of the equation -- Rachel Cunliffe * New Statesman *Burton is right and brave to surmise that hollow self-making offers the wrong kind of answers to the modern bourgeois or digital peasant who wants to live a happy or meaningful life * Wall Street Journal *

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Book SynopsisKey protagonists in these debates included Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli. Today we might call them intellectuals, yet mostly they did not travel, and direct contact with the Ottoman Empire was scarce or nonexistent. Nor were they well disposed to its predecessor, the Byzantine Empire, whose fall presented them with an intellectual conundrum: how were they to explain the irresistible advance of the Ottomans across the Balkans and the inability of Christian Europe to hold the line? They also felt compelled to incorporate this significant new threat into their vision of a world order, to rationalise it, to unravel its origins. These discussions spawned a common market of ideas in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, as Europeans debated and represented the Ottoman threat. Readers of this book will find many echoes in Pippidi's analysis of today's debates about the relationship of Turkey with Europe and the struggle to accommodate the descendants of the Ottomans in our midst.Trade Review'In this agreeable little book Andrei Pippidi gives an elegant survey of a field that has been much studied in recent years.' * Times Literary Supplement *'This one of the most fascinating scholarly works that I have ever read. The author's cultural knowledge is enormous, based on research into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscript manuscripts as well as sources in ten languages. Pippidi provides a broad and clear analysis of how 'Europe' saw, and was affected by, the long-enduring Ottoman empire.' * Professor Stevan Pavlowitch, author, A History of the Balkans *'This is a fascinating book on a vital area of our cultural history, written by one of the most distinguished historians of south-eastern Europe. Andrei Pippidi writes with elegance and grace, but his account rests on a formidable foundation of scholarly research. A work not only to intrigue and enlighten general readers, but also to stimulate fellow scholars, who will find themselves taking many notes.' * Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford *

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Book SynopsisThe age of Elizabeth I continues to exercise a fascination unmatched by other periods of English history. Yet while the leading figures may seem familiar, many Elizabethan figures, including the queen herself, remain enigmatic. In Elizabethans Patrick Collinson examines the religious beliefs both of Elizabeth and of Shakespeare, as well as redrawing the main features of the political and religious structure of the reign. He understands the characters of the period, whether John Foxe the martyrologist or Andrew Perne, the notorious Cambridge turncoat, as individuals and is also sensitive to the attitudes and beliefs of the day. Social history is not history with the politics left out, nor can religious history be written without an understanding of its political and social context. This is the approach that Patrick Collinson advocates and practises in Elizabethans.

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Book SynopsisVeränderte die Reformation den Umgang mit Seuchen? Vor allem zur Pest gibt es zahlreiche Quellen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, die belegen, dass der frühneuzeitliche Protestantismus einerseits an die spätmittelalterliche Tradition anknüpfte, andererseits aber auch neue Akzente setzte. Die Mark Brandenburg kann als Beispiel dienen, wie das Luthertum in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts mit der Herausforderung durch Epidemien umging und dabei Einsichten der Reformation nutzbar machte. Fast in jedem Jahrzehnt des Reformationsjahrhunderts kam es zu Pestausbrüchen, die die Gemeinschaft und jeden Einzelnen schwer trafen. Beim Umgang mit der Pest war zum einen die Verbindung der medizinischen und politischen Seuchenbekämpfung mit der religiösen Krankheitsbewältigung wichtig; beides gehörte für das frühneuzeitliche Luthertum so eng zusammen, dass man von der "zweierlei Arznei" sprechen kann. Zum anderen war die theologisch überzeugende Deutung von Epidemien wichtig; sie als Gericht Gottes über die eigene Sünde zu begreifen, diese Sünde zu bereuen und sich der Verheißung von Gottes Gnade anzuvertrauen, war für die Menschen damals plausibel. Die Geschichte von Davids Volkszählung (2.Sam. 24, 1.Chron. 21) und Psalm 91 erwiesen sich als wichtige biblische Bezugspunkte für diesen Umgang mit der Pest - ein Umgang, der nicht resignieren ließ, sondern zu Selbstbesinnung und verantwortlichem Handeln anleitete.

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Book SynopsisGreat halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside sheltersthese are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare's dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare's works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter.

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Book SynopsisIn Becoming a New Self, Moshe Sluhovsky examines the diffusion of spiritual practices among lay Catholics in early modern Europe. By offering a close examination of early modern Catholic penitential and meditative techniques, Sluhovsky makes the case that these practices promoted the idea of achieving a new self through the knowing of oneself. Practices such as the examination of conscience, general confession, and spiritual exercises, which until the 1400s had been restricted to monastic elites, breached the walls of monasteries in the period that followed. Thanks in large part to Franciscans and Jesuits, lay urban elitesboth men and womengained access to spiritual practices whose goal was to enhance belief and create new selves. Using Michel Foucault's writing on the hermeneutics of the self, and the French philosopher's intuition that the early modern period was a moment of transition in the configurations of the self, Sluhovsky offers a broad panorama of spiritual and devotional

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Book SynopsisGreat halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside sheltersthese are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare's dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare's works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter.

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Book SynopsisJohn Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light Milton's use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the timenatural versus positive law, for exampleand the differences between them. Surveying Milton's early pamphlets, divorce tracts, late political tracts, and major prose works in comparison with the writings and cases of some of Milton's contemporariesincluding George Herbert, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and John BunyanChapman reveals the variety and nuance in Milton's juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice. Trade Review"Chapman has written an excellent book, a fit companion for her award-winning Legal Epic. Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law is engaging and informative, economically expressed without sacrificing clarity or detail, and everywhere displaying expert knowledge of early modern law and of Milton’s body of work. With her twin studies, Chapman has secured a place at the fore of recent scholarship on early modern literature and law." * Modern Philology *"Alison Chapman’s Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries. . . represents a crucial addition to not only Milton studies but to seventeenth-century legal studies in England." * Comitatus *“[An] outstanding new monograph… Chapman’s book proves beyond reasonable doubt that legal issues played an enduring part in Milton’s thinking, and gives a detailed sense of how they did so. It is clearly written and well-informed on a complex subject. The book will be valuable to Miltonists, and to scholars working at the intersection of early modern law and literature.” * Review of English Studies *“Chapman’s new book, Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries, extends her prior examinations and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how Milton approached the existing patchwork of English legal systems.” * New Rambler Review *"Well suited to an intersectional field of law and literature that places questions of race, gender and religion at its center." * Seventeenth-Century News *“Chapman’s work is both highly original and exceptionally readable, bringing together imaginative engagement with legal language, convincing arguments, and refreshingly forthright responses to other scholars. She presents unfamiliar legal matters in lucid, sometimes witty prose and cautions her readers against importing modern assumptions into early modern English literature. Students and scholars of Milton will benefit enormously from her carefully developed contextualization of Milton’s assumptions regarding jurisprudential fields, specific legal terms, and his own rhetorical practices.” -- Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto“With careful attention to legal language, Chapman pulls at the tensions between libel and defamation, convincingly showing Milton’s continued interest in such questions. These are valuable new readings that explain several apparent tensions, and they show that Milton’s legal orientation can account for many of the most oddly vituperative moments in his prose. This is a very welcome addition to Milton studies.” -- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University"Chapman considers the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light the poet John Milton’s use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time... Chapman highlights the variety and nuance in Milton’s juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice." * Law & Social Inquiry *"[This book] is not only an education in early modern law and in Miltonic rhetoric but also, in its acute exposition of the legalistic, if not authoritarian, bias of the great republican, Puritan, and libertarian, one of the best recent critical studies of Milton." * Milton Quarterly *Table of ContentsA Note on Texts List of Abbreviations Preface: Making Sense of Many Laws Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defending One’s Good Name: Free Speech in the Early Prose Chapter 3: Monstrous Books: Areopagitica and the Problem of Libel Chapter 4: Civil Law and Equity in the Divorce Tracts Chapter 5: Defending Pro Se Defensio Chapter 6: The Tithes of War: Paying God Back in Paradise Lost Chapter 7: “Justice in Thir Own Hands”: Local Courts in the Late Prose Afterword: Justice in the Columbia Manuscript Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chapman has written an excellent book, a fit companion for her award-winning Legal Epic. Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law is engaging and informative, economically expressed without sacrificing clarity or detail, and everywhere displaying expert knowledge of early modern law and of Milton’s body of work. With her twin studies, Chapman has secured a place at the fore of recent scholarship on early modern literature and law." * Modern Philology *"Alison Chapman’s Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries. . . represents a crucial addition to not only Milton studies but to seventeenth-century legal studies in England." * Comitatus *“[An] outstanding new monograph… Chapman’s book proves beyond reasonable doubt that legal issues played an enduring part in Milton’s thinking, and gives a detailed sense of how they did so. It is clearly written and well-informed on a complex subject. The book will be valuable to Miltonists, and to scholars working at the intersection of early modern law and literature.” * Review of English Studies *“Chapman’s new book, Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries, extends her prior examinations and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how Milton approached the existing patchwork of English legal systems.” * New Rambler Review *"Well suited to an intersectional field of law and literature that places questions of race, gender and religion at its center." * Seventeenth-Century News *“Chapman’s work is both highly original and exceptionally readable, bringing together imaginative engagement with legal language, convincing arguments, and refreshingly forthright responses to other scholars. She presents unfamiliar legal matters in lucid, sometimes witty prose and cautions her readers against importing modern assumptions into early modern English literature. Students and scholars of Milton will benefit enormously from her carefully developed contextualization of Milton’s assumptions regarding jurisprudential fields, specific legal terms, and his own rhetorical practices.” -- Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto“With careful attention to legal language, Chapman pulls at the tensions between libel and defamation, convincingly showing Milton’s continued interest in such questions. These are valuable new readings that explain several apparent tensions, and they show that Milton’s legal orientation can account for many of the most oddly vituperative moments in his prose. This is a very welcome addition to Milton studies.” -- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University"Chapman considers the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light the poet John Milton’s use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time... Chapman highlights the variety and nuance in Milton’s juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice." * Law & Social Inquiry *"[This book] is not only an education in early modern law and in Miltonic rhetoric but also, in its acute exposition of the legalistic, if not authoritarian, bias of the great republican, Puritan, and libertarian, one of the best recent critical studies of Milton." * Milton Quarterly *Table of ContentsA Note on Texts List of Abbreviations Preface: Making Sense of Many Laws Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defending One’s Good Name: Free Speech in the Early Prose Chapter 3: Monstrous Books: Areopagitica and the Problem of Libel Chapter 4: Civil Law and Equity in the Divorce Tracts Chapter 5: Defending Pro Se Defensio Chapter 6: The Tithes of War: Paying God Back in Paradise Lost Chapter 7: “Justice in Thir Own Hands”: Local Courts in the Late Prose Afterword: Justice in the Columbia Manuscript Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is a great deal to appreciate and to enjoy in this theory-rich book, which moves as freely as a willful anachronism through material across its four central essays. . . . de Grazia’s work in particular offers so much of promise to scholars as well as lay readers of Shakespeare that it practically ensures that the next generation of Shakespeareans will have plenty in the way of bardological thinking to do.” * Times Literary Supplement *"One takes one’s leave of Four Shakespearean Period Pieces, as I have now done twice, with the feeling of being smarter—more critically sophisticated—than was previously the case." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"This thought-provoking book investigates four interrelated critical axioms that Margreta de Grazia regards as having set the direction of Shakespeare scholarship and criticism since the late eighteenth century." * Modern Philology *"Bold, exciting and illuminating: as energizing as any of {de Grazia's] work. . . . de Grazia picks apart our foundational assumptions about the constituted parameters of Shakespeare studies." * Shakespeare Studies *"The eloquent and lucid analysis in this volume will be of interest to Shakespeare scholars of all stripes. Each essay stands on its own but also connects thematically with the work as a whole, and its arguments are intelligent and learned. Readers familiar with de Grazia's oeuvre will recognize overlaps with themes covered in her earlier work . . . but the questions and concerns here are developed in a new and characteristically sophisticated fashion. Four Shakespearean Period Pieces invites us to sit with the moments in which time in and around Shakespeare feel out of joint, and to think through what these moments might mean for our own practices as literary scholars. In this sense, this work could not be more timely." * Renaissance Quarterly *“Perhaps de Grazia’s most accessible book to date… A brilliant bit of writing with important implications for the practices at the core of Shakespeare studies.” * Come to the Pedlar *“The originality and importance of Four Shakespearean Period Pieces excites my enormous interest and admiration. Teasing out the origin and intention of terms that have been central to discussions of Shakespeare, de Grazia discloses a tangle of problems, misleading assumptions, blind confidence, and distortion. An exercise of scholarly demolition, at once relentless, resourceful, and cunning, this book will shake the grand house of literary criticism.” -- Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University“Four Shakespearean Period Pieces is wonderful. Lucid, original, learned, and readable, it forms a pendant to de Grazia’s foundational work. She returns to the penetratingly smart intellectual and disciplinary history that she has made her own, surveying centuries of scholarship with powerful clarity. The scholarship is deep, authoritative, and approachable, moving from Augustine to Heidegger with brilliant accessibility. Her critical readings are revelatory, zinging with insight and larger intellectual context, and reverberating with ongoing challenges for humanistic scholarship in our own times.” -- Emma Smith, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisThe first critical edition of two musical treatises by an Italian music theorist, mathematician, and physicianTrade Review"Prosdocimo's writings deserve to be better known, not only to music theorists, but to scholars in all of the fields in which he was active. This edition is a valuable contribution to that objective."--Renaissance Quarterly“It is a blessing to find a rich Index verborum in which to look for references to individual terms.”--Plainsong and Medieval Music

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Book SynopsisThis interesting read explores different marginalized populations in medieval and early modern European society, from prostitutes to writers of satire and reveals how the dominant culture needs its margins.Trade Review“This volume contains six strong and diverse essays, each of which individually contributes to the substantial scholarly literature on medieval and early modern marginality.” —Modern Philology“The essays in this volume take the reader on an intellectual voyage of adventure across space and time in pre-modern Europe, stopping off in Germany, the Low Countries, England, Spain, and France. They lucidly explore those messy, contradictory, and fascinating realms of life and thought (marriage, theology, commerce, gender, sexuality, law) where transgression and convention intersect. Thought-provoking. A must-read.” —Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University“This is an excellent collection of essays written and edited by a distinguished group of scholars. Specialists in medieval and Early Modern studies will find much to savour and enjoy here . . . the focus of the essays is not only the underclass identified by Bronislaw Geremek in The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris but also relatively privileged people who lived dangerously.” —Parergon“This collection breaks new ground in its attention to the marginalized and rascalous members of medieval and renaissance society. First, it rightly treats as permeable the artificial boundary between ‘medieval’ and ‘renaissance’ cultures, seeing them synoptically rather than independently. Second, it boldly incorporates as contiguous both European and New World cultures, seeing them as related rather than discontinuous. These interdisciplinary essays are first rate.” —Daniel T. Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage“Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is an engrossing, learned collection of articles by recognized historians and literary scholars. Drawing on legal, archival, and literary evidence, they introduce us to real characters—in both senses—who transgressed boundaries and norms. Whether the lines crossed are social, financial, sexual, or spiritual, we learn that those on the margins are central to our understanding of these eras.” —Marjorie Curry Woods, The University of Texas at Austin“This diversity and interdisciplinary approach is welcome and should be of interest to a wide range of medieval and early modern scholars interested in social history, comparative literature, and the topic of marginality . . . the editors and contributors are to be commended for producing a fascinating and accessible study that moves the topic of marginality beyond the margins of contemporary scholarship and into the center of research on identity, community, law, gender, and sexuality.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“Writings on marginalized groups in medieval and early modern society in and beyond such familiar categories as criminals and gypsies.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Book SynopsisPresents English translations from the works of Michael Psellos, a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. This book contains the works that Psellos wrote about his family, including a funeral oration for his mother that features recollections from a childhood spent in Constantinople.Trade Review"This volume presents in translation all the texts that Psellos wrote concerning his family. They present the reader with the most complete picture we have of any non-imperial family by casting light on the life of Byzantine women outside the circle of hagiography and court history. The volume includes a long funeral oration for his mother, a funeral oration for his daughter Styliane, a legal work regarding the engagement of his second, adopted, daughter, a letter to his very young grandson, six letters regarding Psellos's family, and a brief work on the festival of St. Agathê. In Kaldellis's excellent translation, Michael Psellos's times and family come to life.""Michael Psellos was the 'Cicero of Byzantium,' except that his interests were more wide-ranging than those of his Roman predecessor. In addition to being a politician, poet, and writer of letters, speeches, and treatises on philosophy and rhetoric, he was an innovative historian and a practical educator who interested himself in all aspects of learning from mathematics and medicine to theurgy. Hitherto, owing to a lack of translations, only his 'Chronographia' has been at all well known. Anthony Kaldellis has now done a great service in making accessible a collection of texts bearing upon personal familial relationships of which we know so little in Byzantium. His translations read well, are accurate, and reflect Psellos' literary subtlety. His commentaries are scholarly and give vital information for the better understanding of this facet of Byzantine society." —Antony R. Littlewood, University of Western Ontario“In sum, the discussion in Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters is deft and crisp. The arguments are built up confidently and convincingly. Wearing his scholarship lightly, Kaldellis marshals Psellos on family to excellent effect, and offers clear and perceptive ideas. This very satisfying read has what is required to attract a wider readership to Psellos’ prodigious work.” —Journal of Hellenic Studies"Teachers of survey courses in Byzantine society, as well as scholars within the wider orbit of Byzantine studies, will find these translations useful and revealing of a leading author's intellectual sensibility." —Speculum

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“In our scholarly rush to classify early modern thinkers and writers according to religious confessions, we have unwittingly overlooked thinkers who regretted the fragmentation that confessionalism imposed, those who longed for a united Christianity however impractical its realization may have been. Stillman’s argument is fresh, persuasive, and important.” —Susannah Monta, author of Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England“Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England is brilliant. The writing is always distinguished and occasionally more than that. Such a pleasure.” —Roger Kuin, editor of The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney“This broad, energetic, important study deserves to be widely assimilated . . . Stillman's book has the potential both to refine future Reformation-era taxonomies, and to show where those taxonomies cannot reach.” —British Catholic History“The most significant engagement with the confessionalization thesis in early modern literary studies to date....an indispensable guide for future work.” —ReformationTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Peace-Wars on the Continent and in Britain 1. John Harington and the Confessional Beyond 2. Neuters and the Politics of Language in Early Modern Polemic, Or How to Trouble the Confessional Divide 3. Imagining Christendom in Britain. Political Romance in 1589 and Disenchantment 4. Enacting the Politics of Christendom. After the Scottish Mission (1590), James VI and I 5. Poetic Energy and Poetic Economy in the Post-Reformation 6. Examining Constable’s Sonnets, Or the Pleasures of Pious Miscegenation 7. Reading the Critical Conversation about Aemilia Lanyer: Performing Presence in the Confessional Beyond Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wisdom’s Journey crosses the medieval/early modern divide in an accomplished fashion [and] makes a very convincing case for the importance of recognizing the European context of medieval English devotional literature and culture.” —Annie Sutherland, author of English Psalms in the Middle Ages, 1300–1450“A major contribution to our knowledge of the transmission and transformation of crucial medieval devotional writings in later centuries.” —Alastair Minnis, author of Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature"Steven Rozenski explores devotional and mystical literature in his focused study of English translations and adaptations of the works of Henry Suso, Catherine of Siena, and Thomas à Kempis, and the common devotional culture manifested in the work of Richard Rolle. Written primarily for scholars in medieval mysticism, Reformation studies, and translation studies, Wisdom's Journey will also appeal to readers interested in medieval studies and English literature more broadly." —Church History"Rozenski is to be commended for his extensive research and refreshing insight into the literary function of these well-known religious texts." —Anglican Theological Review"[T]he most powerful aspect of this book is its insistence on seeing translation itself as an act of creation and meaning-making, rather than regarding a translated text simply as an altered or, worse, reductive form of its source." —The Review of English Studies"Rozenski's fine book fulfills its claim that focusing on 'aurality, gender, and translation across regions and across time periods' provides new insight into many aspects of Late Medieval and Early Modern mysticism." —Church History"Rozenski offers an illuminating account of the long life of Continental devotional theologies translated in Middle and early modern English, one that invites further consideration of other existing Continental translations circulating in medieval England. It also decompartmentalizes insular England from the continent by showing the extent to which continental literature found its way into Middle English devotional treatises through the work of theologically and textually sophisticated translators. Wisdom’s Journey’s departitioning of the medieval from the early modern is also a boon that proves to be extremely productive. Rozenski’s insightful reflections are well supported by his detailed close readings and multiple references to a vast number of secondary sources."—The Journal of Medieval Religious CulturesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Devotional Theology and Devotional Mobility Chapter 1: Devotional Mobility in Fourteenth-Century England and Germany Chapter 2: Henry Suso in England: Rhineland Mysticism and Middle English Literature Chapter 3: Catherine of Siena in Trans-Reformation England: Translations of Female Visionary Chapter 4: Thomas à Kempis and The Imitation of Christ: The Devotion of the Fifteenth- Century Low Countries and the Birth of Confessional Textual Criticism Conclusion: Authorship, Canon, and Popularity

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Book SynopsisA fascinating study of the strategies of cultural survival in the Roman Ghetto, by a leading authority on Italian Jews.Trade Review"This is an illuminating and compelling story, told with insight and subtlety. It is highly recommended for students of religion, history, cultural studies, and a host of other disciplines." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Jews of Rome and the Rhythms of Roman Jewish Life The Jew in a Traumatized Society What Is in a Name? or, The Matrices of Acculturation Social Reconciliation, from Within and Without Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plagueTrade Review“John Henderson's analysis of the context and quality of local government in an early modern Italian city stands out as a major work of historical scholarship”—Anne Hardy, Times Literary SupplementLonglisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University Special commendation in the 2021 Social History Society Book Prize“Henderson offers a holistic account of plague in seventeenth-century Florence and reaches important new conclusions about the impact and effectiveness of public health measures. The fine detail of the story makes for a brilliant realisation of devastation, resistance and survival.”—Vanessa Harding, author of The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670“In this vivid account, Henderson brings to life the fearful experiences of Florentines as they prepared, dealt with, and lived through an early modern public health crisis … Essential reading.”—Brian Maxson, author of The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence“With a keen attention to gender, power and social networks, Henderson traces a vivid picture of resilience and survival through the complex interplay of plague and piety.”—Giulia Calvi, author of Histories of a Plague Year“Henderson draws on a striking range of sources to present a human-scale fresco. He shows how townspeople, eager to save their souls as much as their skin, strove to cope and survive each in their own way … Re-sets our understanding of what plague meant at every level of early modern society to those caught up in it.”—Colin Jones, author of The Medical World of Early Modern France

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