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Arc Humanities Press Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The
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Arc Humanities Press Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic:
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Arc Humanities Press A Companion to the Cavendishes
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Arc Humanities Press Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The
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University of Delaware Press Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early
Book SynopsisOrdering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis for defining religious and cultural difference in new ways. Taylor draws on a trove of unpublished sources—diplomatic correspondence, court records, diaries, and inventories—to show that the study of customs, rituals, and ways of life not only became central in how Venetians sought to apprehend other peoples, but also had a very real impact at the level of policy, shaping how the Venetian state governed minority populations in the city and its empire. In contrast with the familiar image of ethnography as the product of overseas imperial and missionary encounters, the book points to a more complicated set of origins. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Study of Customs 2 Ambassadors as Ethnographers 3 Ethnography and the Venetian State 4 Reading Ethnography in Early Modern Venice 5 Ethnography, the City, and the Place of Religious Minorities Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Iter Press Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on early modern women from a collection of leading figures in the field.Subject/Object and Beyond brings together essays by established and emerging scholars to honor the exceptionally rich contributions and career of scholar Colette H. Winn. It also celebrates fifty years of sustained scholarship on early modern women, along with the foundation of Women’s Studies as a recognized academic discipline in North America. The collection comprises seventeen articles that explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, and contributions to various fields, including literature, music, politics, religion, and science.Trade Review“These essays give a sense of the really broad and incredibly varied swath of studies in early modern literature and culture that Colette Winn has influenced and helped to cultivate. The field of studying early modern women/writers is an incredibly vibrant, rich, and complex one, with really exciting things happening on many fronts." -- Nora Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln“…une contribution substantielle aux études sur les femmes de la première modernité.” -- Luc Vaillancourt, Université de Quebec à ChicoutimiTable of ContentsIllustrations viiContributors ixPréfaceFrançois Rouget xviiColette H. Winn Publications 1IntroductionNancy M. Frelick, Edith Benkov 15PART ONETranslating “damoiselline facherie”: Claude Scève, Claude Nourry,and Urbain le mescongneu filz de l’Empereur Federic BarberousseEmily E. Thompson 25Hélisenne de Crenne’s “Roman de Dido”Marian Rothstein 49« Car ce te sera honte de quereler avec une femme » :Hélisenne de Crenne, Louise Labé et la satire au fémininBernd Renner 71Lost in the Labérynthe: Mythologizing Louise Labé and the École lyonnaiseNancy M. Frelick 91PART TWOFrom Trickery to Triumph: Female Alliances and the Paths to Powerin Heptaméron 4 and 58Dora E. Polachek 127Femmes, bagues et anneaux dans l’Heptaméron : le labyrintherhétorique du parcours amoureuxBrigitte Roussel 149Cross-Dressed Monks in Saints’ Lives and Their Parodies:A Source for Heptaméron 31Scott Francis 173Chasteté et honneur des veuves de l’Heptaméron de Margueritede NavarreCynthia Skenazi 195Gossip, Commérage, and Caquets: Women’s Words in Early Modern FranceKathleen M. Llewellyn 213PART THREEA Huguenot Noblewoman’s Poetry Collection:The Album Belonging to Louise de Coligny (1555–1620)Jane Couchman 237The Poetics of a Poetry AlbumStephen Murphy 263Music for Women and Fleas: The Example of Catherine Des RochesKendall Tarte 287Souvenir anatomique d’une femme : l’autopsie en vers de Madamede MercoeurHélène Martin 309PART FOURLa tragicomédie du suicide couplé, ou : lien et devoir conjugal selon « De trois bonnes femmes » (Montaigne, Essais, II, 35)Corinne Noirot 337“Le mestier des femmes”: Queens, Nuns, Peacemaking, and theWars of ReligionEdith Benkov 361Reading the Bodies of Witches: The Case of Jeanne des Anges(1632–1637)Cathy Yandell 381“[Dieu] se servit de Jeanne d’Arc”: The Textual Public Identity and Political Agency of Mining Engineer Martine de Bertereau, Baronne de Beausoleil (c. 1584–c. 1643)Anne R. Larsen 403
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Building Accounts of the Savoy Hospital,
Book SynopsisFirst printed edition of the building accounts of one of London's most remarkable edifices. Founded by Henry VII, the Savoy hospital was designed to execute corporal works of mercy and commemorate the king through prayer by housing one hundred poor men every night in palatial surroundings. The building complex, one of the landmarks of early Tudor London, was unique for English hospitals in its adoption of a cross-shaped ward, but its structural details have remained obscure. Published for the first time here, the building accounts record, edited here for the first time, provides detailed evidence of that structure, as well as of the hundreds of craftsmen and laborers who toiled to complete it. In addition to the accounts themselves, this volume contains a thorough contextual introduction, elucidatory notes, and a glossary of building terms. Charlotte A. Stanford is Associate Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University.Trade ReviewThese important accounts [...] throw much valuable light on the appearance of the hospital at its creation.... Of enormous value for historians of the late medieval and the early sixteenth century building trade, and those interested in building materials and economic activity in the London area. * ARCHIVES & RECORDS *An admirable piece of work [that] will be an invaluable source for economic historians. * THE RICARDIAN *Stanford's edition of the building accounts is a welcome addition to the Westminster Abbey Record Series. She has transcribed the complete account, and her introduction provides a variety of contexts for understanding the accounts. The index of last names also means that individual workers can be tracked, which would allow for further analysis of the work habits of skilled and unskilled laborers. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Workers' Wages from 27 September 1512 through 21 July 1515 Materials and Piecework from 22 August 1513 through 29 April 1520 Glossary Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V: The
Book SynopsisShows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. The presentation of Charles V as universal monarch, defender of the faith, magnanimous peacemaker, and reborn Roman Emperor became the mission of artists, poets, and chroniclers, who shaped contemporary perceptions of him and engaged in his political promotion. Music was equally essential to the making of his image, as this book shows. It reconstructs musical life at his court, by examining the compositions which emanated from it, the ordinances prescribing its rituals and ceremonies, and his prestigious chapel, which reflected his power and influence. A major contribution, offering new documentary material and bringing together the widely dispersed information on the music composed to mark the major events of Charles's life. It offers.a very useful insight into music as one of many elements that served to convey the notion of the emperor-monarch in the Renaissance. TESS KNIGHTON Mary Ferer is Associate Professor at the College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University.Trade ReviewThe strongest commendation should be given to the painstaking and thorough research that is collated and presented in this book. This results in a handy volume that is virtually exhaustive in content ... Without a doubt, this book should be in the music libraries of universities, conservatories, and specialists interested in the Renaissance. * NOTES, December 2013 *[A] valuable [...] addition to any music library. * The CONSORT *Ferer has provided a comprehensive, critical overview that collects, evaluates, and summarizes much of the secondary literature and the disparate registers, paylists, and other primary sources. She offers a clear, readable narrative that makes sense out of a wide array of data. * FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE *Table of ContentsCharles V [1500-1558]: Defender of the Faith and Universal Monarch The Genesis of the Chapel The Reconstruction of the Capilla Flamenca The Chapel Ordinances: Ritual and Repertory at the Court Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V Charles V as Crusader and Christian Knight The Presentation of the Emperor Appendix A: Chapel Rosters Appendix B: Chapel Statutes and Ordinances Appendix C: Selected Chapel Personnel Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Fifteenth Century XIII: Exploring the
Book SynopsisThis series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Of necessity, historians of the late Middle Ages have to rely on an eclectic mix of sources, ranging from the few remaining medieval buildings, monuments, illuminated manuscripts and miscellaneous artefacts, to a substantial but often uncatalogued body of documentary material, much of it born of the medieval administrator's penchant for record keeping. Exploring this evidence requires skills in lateral thinking and interpretation - qualities which are manifested in this volume. Employing the copious legal records kept by the English Crown, one essay reveals the thinking behind exceptions to pardons sold by successive kings, while another, using clerical taxation returns, adds colour to contemporary criticism of friars for betraying their vows of poverty. Case studies of the registers of two hospitals, one in London the other in Canterbury, lead to insights into the relations of their administrators with civic and spiritual authorities. A textual dissection of the epilogues in William Caxton's early printed works focuses on the universal desire for commemoration. Other essays about royal livery collars and the English coinage are nourished by material remains, and where contemporary records fail to survive, as in the listing of burials in parish churches, notes kept by sixteenth-century heralds and antiquaries provide clues for novel identifications. The book-ends are exemplars of the historian's craft: the one, taking as its starting point the will of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, explores in forensic detail how his executors coped with their enormous task in a time of civil war; the other,by examining research into the economy of fifteenth-century England undertaken since the 1880s, provides an over-view which scholars of the period will find invaluable. Contributors: Martin Allen, Christopher Dyer, David Harry, Susanne Jenks, Maureen Jurkowski, Simon Payling, Euan Roger, Christian Steer, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Matthew Ward.Table of ContentsThe 'Grete Laboure and the Long and Troublous Tyme': The Execution of the Will of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and the Foundation of Tattershall College - Simon J. Payling A Royal Grave in a Fifteenth-Century London Parish Church - Christian Steer The Livery Collar: Politics and Identity During the Fifteenth Century - Matthew J. Ward William Caxton and Commemorative Culture in Fifteenth-Century England - David Harry Blakberd's Treasure: a Study in Fifteenth-Century Administration at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London - Euan C. Roger Placing the Hospital: The Production of St. Lawrence's Hospital Registers in Fifteenth-Century Canterbury - Sheila Sweetinburgh Were Friars Paid Salaries? Evidence from Clerical Taxation Records - Maureen Jurkowski Exceptions in General Pardons, 1399-1450 - Susanne Jenks The English Crown and the Coinage, 1399-1485 - Martin Allen England's Economy in the Fifteenth Century - Christopher Dyer
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Book SynopsisA study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch. Three monarchs of Scotland (James V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI/I) were crowned during the sixteenth century; each came to the throne before their second birthday. Throughout all three royal minorities, the Scots remained remarkably consistent in their governmental preferences: that an individual should "bear the person" of the infant monarch, with all the power and risks that entailed. Regents could alienate crown lands, call parliament, raise taxes, and negotiate for the monarch's marriage, yet they also faced the potential of a shameful deposition from power and the assassin's gun. In examining the careers of the six men and two women who became regent in context with each other and contemporary expectations, Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland offers the first study of regency as a political office. It provides a major reassessment of both the office of regency itself and of individual regents. The developments in how the Scots thought about regency are charted, and the debates in which they engaged on this subject are exposed for the first time. Drawing on a broad archival base of neglected manuscript materials, ranging from financial accounts, to the justiciary court records, to diplomatic correspondence scattered from Edinburgh to Paris, the book reveals a greater level of continuity between the personal rules of the adult Stewarts and of their regents than has hitherto been appreciated. AMY BLAKEWAY is a Lecturer in Scottish History, University of St Andrews.Trade ReviewWell written and superbly researched, and should encourage further research into minority rule.. This is an impressive monograph from the new generation of Scottish historians. * NORTHERN SCOTLAND *[A] well-structured and engaging book about an aspect of governance of Scotland in the sixteenth century which has been largely neglected. * HISTORY *Amy Blakeway has written an interesting and informative book that makes a valuable contribution to the debate on the nature of sixteenth-century Scottish government, although it is very much a view from the center in what was a highly diffuse political culture. She sits the Scottish case in the wider context, and European historians grappling with the question of how kingdoms without kings were ruled will find Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland a useful comparative resource. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *Thoroughly researched, deftly written and highly informative. [It] makes a significant contribution to the field, and will be essential reading for future students and scholars interested in this crucial period of Scottish history. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *The meticulously detailed archival study is a major strength of this impressive, energetically-argued book, which is a valuable addition to the field of sixteenth-century Scots studies. * SCOTTISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER *[B]eautifully written, exhaustively documented, and compellingly argued. . . . Blakeway asks and answers a series of penetrating questions about the function of crown institutions during a formative period of the early modern Scottish state, and for this reason alone her book will appeal to a wide readership. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *This fine-grained study makes a significant contribution to an important topic. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Concepts of Regency Concepts of Regency in Practice Regency Finances Households and Courts Justice and Regency Regency Diplomacy Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music in Elizabethan Court Politics
Book SynopsisMusic and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers. Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that music was indispensable to the state. But what roles did music play in Elizabethan court politics? How did a musical image assist the Queen in projecting her royal authority? What influence did her private performances have on her courtships, diplomatic affairs, and relationships with courtiers? To what extent did Elizabeth control court music, or could others appropriate performances to enhance their own status and achieve their ambitions? Could noblemen, civic leaders, or even musicians take advantage of Elizabeth's love of music to present their complaints and petitions in song? This book unravels the connotations surrounding Elizabeth's musical image and traces the political roles of music at the Elizabethan court. It scrutinizes the most intimate performances within the Privy Chamber, analyses the masques and plays performed in the palaces, and explores the grandest musical pageantry of tournaments, civic entries, and royal progresses. This reveals how music served as a valuable means for both the tactful influencing of policies and patronage, and the construction of political identities and relationships. In the late Tudor period music was simultaneously a tool of authority for the monarch and an instrumentof persuasion for the nobility. KATHERINE BUTLER is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle.Trade ReviewA fascinating book. * THE CONSORT *No one who reads this fine study will again treat music as a background to the Elizabethan court. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *[A] major undertaking of importance, a careful and thorough study of numerous examples of secular music that is undergirded by a keen understanding of music's role in the political life of a fascinating era. * EARLY MUSIC *Tightly organized and impeccably researched, this engaging study triangulates the disciplines of musicology, literary history, and iconography to present the political roles music could play within Elizabeth's court, and adds welcome nuance to the preexisting scholarly narratives of monarchial control over the arts. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *[O]ffers a ... detailed and focused look at the application of music to the specific context of the world of the Elizabethan court. * NORTHERN RENAISSANCE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Music, Authority, and the Royal Image The Politics of Intimacy The Royal Household and its Revels Noble Masculinity at the Tournaments Politics, Petition, and Complaint on the Royal Progresses Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
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Bodleian Library John Leland: De uiris illustribus / On Famous Men
Book SynopsisEquipped with a commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 before they were dispersed. His booklists were compiled as the primary resources for his comprehensive dictionary of British writers in four books, entitled De uiris illustribus. This remarkable testament to medieval and early modern habits of book collecting, but also to history and national identity, lay incomplete at Leland’s death. The sole extant witness to the author’s ambitious task is the autograph manuscript, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Top. gen. c. 4. Although antiquaries made use of De uiris illustribus over the next generations it did not see its way into print until 1709 when Anthony Hall produced a careless edition, a significant number of passages omitted, under the title Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis. Hall’s text has formed the basis for subsequent scholarship. This new edition is based on a thorough examination of the autograph, supplemented with readings from John Bale’s epitome, now Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.7.15 (753). True to Leland’s original text, this new edition shows how unreliable and misleading Hall’s was in many respects. It includes a complete English translation, published on facing pages accompanying the Latin text. The translation seeks to capture Leland’s own excitement with his project and also to convey his shifts in interpretation during the process of revision: the text mirrors in miniature the stages of the English reformation under Henry VIII. The extensive introduction provides a full history of the manuscript, examines sources, and shows the relationship of the text to Leland’s booklists and other contemporary documents.Trade Review'A magisterial work of textual scholarship.' -- Matthew Woodcock * Sixteenth Century Journal *
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York Medieval Press Health and the City: Disease, Environment and
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the health, sanitation, and cleanliness of one of England's most important medieval and early modern cities. In 1559, William Cuningham MD published an image of a quintessentially healthy city. The source of his inspiration was Norwich, one of England's largest and wealthiest provincial boroughs. Though idealized, Cuningham's "map" fairly represented the municipalities' attempts to rebuild and improve the infrastructure. But his image also covered up many problems: Norwich in reality was pocked by decayed housing, deteriorating streets and polluted waterways, andwas home to significant numbers of sick and impoverished residents. This book brings both viewpoints to life. Cuningham's particular brand of "environmental health" imitated ancient ideas (in particular the Hippocratic textAirs, Waters, Places), and drew upon astrology, the study of the weather, and local topography. The book shows that amongst the citizens, a complementary form of medical culture existed that put individuals under the spotlight. It included neighbourhood reactions to illness and disability; the responsibilities of the governing elite for sanitation; and judgments about the lifestyles of different members of the community. Hygiene from this perspective was not only about cleanliness, but also about behaviour, hierarchy, and property. The study draws together a wide range of source materials (including images, medical notebooks and objects, human remains, the corporation's archives, and civic ritual and drama), considering both high and low culture.Trade ReviewDemonstrates the vitality of local history and the merits of interdisciplinarity. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Wide-ranging, well-researched and thoroughly engaging [...] Health and the City will remain an important and indeed essential contribution to the history of urban health. * SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A 'Healthfull and Pleasant' City Air and smell: hygiene and networks of authority in an urban context An epitome of hygiene: William Cuningham's prospect plan Placing disease in the urban landscape: the osteoarchaeological evidence Placing health in the urban landscape: the gardens of Norwich Cleaning up: reforming the urban environment 1300-1570 Housing, self-management and healing in the Tudor city Epilogue Appendices Bibliography
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De Gruyter Verzeichnis Der in Den Supplikenregistern Der
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Pegasus Crime Execution: A Giordano Bruno Thriller
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Taylor & Francis From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe 20 Routledge Library Editions The Medieval World
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Taylor & Francis The World of the Italian Renaissance Routledge Library Editions the Renaissance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unions and Divisions
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview.In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the premodern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand, the entry of two countries into a union did not constitute a military annexation even though claims to the throne were all too often imposed by force; on the other hand, the new unitarian constellation retained, at least de jure, the independence of its respectTable of ContentsPreface PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS 1. Introduction: Medieval and Renaissance Personal Unions – Main Debates, New Approaches 2. Unions as a Structural Element: Preconditions, Intentions, and Realisations 3. Dynasties and Dynastic Rule between Elite Reproduction and State Building in Europe, 1300–1600 PART II: BETWEEN COERCION AND POLITICAL REASON 4. Dynastic Unions and the Development of Solid and Widespread Christian Polities in Iberia, 1100–1300 5. Angevin Empire: Between Dynastic Construct and Imperial Government 6. On the Genesis of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 7. For the Rescue of the Eastern Policy? The Union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the King-dom of Poland and Relations with their Eastern Neighbours 8. Bishop, Administrator, Guardian: Albert of Hoya († 1473) and His Reign in Minden, Osnabrück and Hoya PART III: BETWEEN ASPIRATION AND REALITY 9. The Title rex Galiciae between Ambitions and Reality 10. The Union between Hungary and Croatia: Facts and Legends 11. The Lusatias in Personal Union with Brandenburg and Bohemia 12. The Foreign Policy of the Last Přemyslids: A First Attempt at Unifying Central Europe? 13. How Did the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order Interpret their Dependence on the Polish Crown (1466–1497)? 14. An Autonomous Dependency? The Unstable Relationship between the Elites in Royal Prussia and the Polish Crown 1466–1569 15. Feoffment as a Tool in the Safeguarding of Power? Dithmarschen between Holsatian and Archi-episcopal Power Claims (1500–1559) PART IV: BETWEEN COINCIDENCE AND INTENTION 16. Wenceslaus II Přemyslid and Louis I of Hungary: Two Personal Unions in the History of the Polish Kingdom in the Fourteenth Century 17. Mary and Maximilian I – Burgundy and Habsburg: Rise of an Empire 18. Albert II of Habsburg’s Composite Monarchy and its Significance for Central Europe 19. The Rulers of Poland-Lithuania and the Issue of Church Union from the Late Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries 20. The Unions between Sleswick, Holsatia and Denmark in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and their Nordic Precursors PART V: BETWEEN DYNASTIC EXTENSION AND OVERSTRETCHING 21. The Union Wars within the Nordic Kalmar Union, 1448–1523 22. The Policies for and from the Dynastic Union: The Crowns of Castile and Aragon in the Fifteenth Century 23. Corona regni Bohemiae: An Idea of the Luxemburgers and Their Successors for the Integration of Central Europe 24. Towards ‘the Danube Monarchy’? The Political Legacy of Emperor Sigismund and its Executors in the Fifteenth Century 25. Jagiellonian Attempts at Creating a Dynastic Great Power between the Baltic and the Black Seas and the Adriatic around 1500
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Taylor & Francis Ltd French Renaissance Monarchy
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1984, Professor Knecht''s study quickly established itself as the best short account of the period. The reigns of Francis I and Henry II, spanning the first half of the sixteenth century, are one of the most colourful and formative periods of French history. In addition to examining the nature and effectiveness of their reigns, Professor Knecht also examines their foreign policies which brought them into conflict with other major powers. For this new edition the author has added a new chapter on patronage and the arts.Table of ContentsPart One: The Background. Part Two: Analysis. Part Three: Assessment. Part Four: Documents.
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Cambridge University Press Machiavellis Effectual Truth
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lady Brewer of London
Book SynopsisAn unforgettable historical tale set in fifteenth-century England of a brilliant woman’s defiance, courage, and ingenuity—from the author of The Locksmith’s Daughter and The Chocolate Maker’s Wife.Trade Review“Richly atmospheric, romantic, and chock-full of period details, this fast-paced tale and its many plot twists and turns are likely to keep historical fiction fans riveted.” — Booklist “The daughter of a merchant flouts 15th-century English convention to start a brewery in Brooks’s illuminating epic (after The Chocolate Maker’s Wife). Brooks’s attention to historical detail instills the novel with authenticity by including many historical figures and events, while Anneke’s lively voice keeps a strong grip on the reader as she works to overcome societal prohibitions against women in business and find happiness and contentment. Brooks’s immersive page-turner does not disappoint.” — Publishers Weekly
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University of Chicago Press The Indies of the Setting Sun How Early Modern
Book SynopsisPadrón reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe's westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as new ground ripe for transatlantic colonialism. But this geographic vision of the Americas was not shared by all Europeans. While some imperialists imagined North and Central America as undiscovered land, the Spanish pushed to define the New World as part of a larger and eminently flexible geography that they called las Indias, and that by right, belonged to the Crown of Castile and León. Las Indias included all of the New World as well as East and Southeast Asia, although Spain's understanding of the relationship between the two areas changed as the realities of the Pacific Rim came into sharper focus. At first, the Spanish insisted that North and Central America were an extension of the continent of Asia. Eventually, they came to understand East and Southeast Asia as a transpacific extension of their empire in America called las Indias del poniente, or the Indies of the Setting Sun. The Indies of the Setting Sun charts the Spanish vision of a transpacific imperial expanse, beginning with Balboa's discovery of the South Sea and ending almost a hundred years later with Spain's final push for control of the Pacific. Padrón traces a series of attemptsboth cartographic and discursiveto map the space from Mexico to Malacca, revealing the geopolitical imaginations at play in the quest for control of the New World and Asia.Trade Review"It should be essential reading for anyone seeking a fresh approach to understanding Spain’s imperial ambitions during the Age of Discovery." * The Portolan *"Columbus thought that Cuba was an appendage of Asia, and, though it may surprise readers, it would be more than a century before more accurate accounts of the Pacific Ocean and the distinctions between the landforms of Asia and North America emerged. Padrón relays this story with comprehensive knowledge and a skillful interpretation of cartographic and narrative sources, which often rationalized Spanish imperial aims to show that the Spanish Empire had Asian components thanks to the world-encompassing meridian line that divided Spanish and Portuguese zones for exploitation. . . . This highly recommended book clarifies the history of seemingly naïve but at times politically useful sets of flawed assumptions." * CHOICE *"This is a salutary book. . . . it is immensely valuable in making us see how sixteenth-century Spaniards conceptually framed the Americas, the Pacific and beyond; it literally takes us into another world." * The Globe: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society *"Historian Ricardo Padrón’s The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West attempts to understand how, in discursive and visual terms, the Spanish crown sought to project its geopolitical and historical influence in the world from the sixteenth century forward. . . . The book is a valuable contribution not only because of its rigorous and intelligent interpretations, but also because it invites us to think about two major issues. First, it shows that territories such as the Americas were not 'invented' once and for all but were revised and reinvented over time and from different places and communities. Second, the book reminds us that we must decenter our gaze from the battles of conquest and pay attention instead to the voyages and ways of understanding vast spaces such as the oceans that were key in politically configuring our modern experience of the globe." * Terrae Incognitae *"In The Indies of the Setting Sun, Ricardo Padrón explores the spatial imaginaries of elite Spaniards in the period bookended by Balboa’s “discovery” of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 in present- day Panama and the 1606 Spanish conquest of the Moluccas. " * Early American Literature *"With this work, Padrón demonstrates that the Pacific has been a fundamental issue in the invention of America, a process that, as he firmly asserts, 'has been repeatedly revised and reinvented over the course of the years, and has meant different things at different times in different discursive communities.' Padrón encourages readers to view the geopolitical imagination of Habsburg Spain in a different light and to rethink the possibilities offered by new approaches to consider the Pacific not as marginal, but as a central location of the Spanish empire." * Bulletin of the Comediantes *"The Indies of the Setting Sun is an original and thoughtful study of the ‘invention’ and subsequent reinventions of the Pacific Ocean as part of the Spanish empire. Padrón brings to this project the same lucid, elegant prose and methodology that characterized his earlier monograph, and again he provides an argument supported by a careful study of sources employing the best historical approaches, closely contextualized reading, and an expansive definition of cartography. This is a much needed intervention, highlighting the importance of Spanish Asia in the history of Spanish imperial expansion." -- María M. Portuondo, author of The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano"The Indies of the Setting Sun examines the way that Spanish knowledge about the South Sea—now known as the Pacific Ocean—was developed. Challenging the historical idea that Magellan's circumnavigation had established Europeans' understanding of the Americas as divided from Asia by the vast Pacific, Padrón reveals an 'alternative European cartography' that persisted across the sixteenth century. In this odd parallel universe, America was merely the forecourt to Asia, and the South Sea was a small basin within the larger Indies, then Spain's overseas empire. This is the first book I've ever read that colors the larger 'Indies' so vividly." -- Barbara Mundy, author of The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City"The author’s aim. . . is ambitious but the reader will not be disappointed. Padrón, in fact, leads his audience on a real journey through time, dismantling many commonplaces and prejudices about the modern perception of the way the world has been thought of and represented on maps at the dawn of modernity. The author breaks the patterns in the way we think about historical cartography between rigid categories of ‘right and wrong’, ‘precise and approximate’. Instead, Padrón highlights a complex historical process in which different cultural and political theories competed with each other in a dialectic that shaped our way of understanding geography. . . . Ricardo Padrón’s book: The Indies of the Setting Sun should be welcomed as a useful and much needed book. . . . I believe that today, in an era of redefinition of the balance between global powers with enormous interests in the Pacific area, this book is of great usefulness and relevance." * Rutter Project *"A nuanced reading of Spanish cartographic literature about the Pacific region in the sixteenth century. . . . The book’s central strength is in its analytical acuity, which dredges up tensions, contradictions, ironies and ambivalence from multivalent cartographic and written texts." * Imago Mundi *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction 1 The Map behind the Curtain 2 South Sea Dreams 3 Pacific Nightmares 4 Shipwrecked Ambitions 5 Pacific Conquests 6 The Location of China 7 The Kingdom of the Setting Sun 8 The Anxieties of a Paper Empire Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Both from the Ears and Mind
Book SynopsisTrade Review“If anyone in England from 1500 to 1700 has written about music, Austern has read it. Both from the Ears and Mind is a magnum opus that draws together twenty-five years of research and publication. No existing scholarship on ideas about music in early modern England has the range and the depth of Austern’s. Musicology scholars will find in Austern a resource that will challenge and complicate received ideas about early modern tonality, harmony, rhythm, and performance.” -- Bruce Smith, University of Southern California“Having undertaken a comprehensive survey of many and often little-known sources in manuscript and print, Austern has created an unequaled storehouse of ideas about music that circulated in early modern England. Her fascinating book practically overflows its covers with discourses of music’s powers and effects, notably on the self and society, that reveal how this elusive topic lay virtually at the heart of the early modern English intellectual enterprise. Austern vividly portrays how, at a time of rapid religious and social change, urgent debates about music’s role in worship were conducted even while music itself served as both a civilizing and disrupting influence on society. This book makes a major contribution to the expanding field of sound studies and to sensory history more generally.” -- Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester“Both from the Ears and Mind is a marvelously valuable and stimulating guide to the many ways in which early modern thinkers contemplated music. It traces the importance of music through all areas of intellectual endeavor and draws upon an immense range of contemporary writings. No other analysis of this material is so encyclopedic, sophisticated, and deeply learned. Austern’s book deserves to be read by everyone with an interest in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.” -- Christopher Marsh, Queens University Belfast"The mental, experiential and musical landscapes of human beings in the 16th and 17th centuries were different from ours. Austern’s latest book is an ambitious attempt to map out that territory in detail." * BBC Music Magazine *“The impact of Linda Phyllis Austern's Both from the Ears and Mind: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England will be felt well beyond the field of musicology. Both from the Ears and Mind is perhaps the most explicit and thorough monograph-length analysis of early modern English thought about music to date. . . . Austern shows us not only why music is absolutely indispensable to an understanding of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century intellectual life, but also why the discourse about music at this time is more meaningful than often assumed.” * Journal of British Studies *"Linda Phyllis Austern’s latest contribution to early modern studies is wide-ranging, extremely learned, and illuminating to those interested in the history of ideas in general and the history of ideas about music in particular... Austern’s book is filled with knowledge distilled and clarified. She has digested and made comprehensible many of the most important ideas from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from humoral theory to cosmology, and shown how music is at the heart of them." * Seventeenth-Century News *"Austern’s densely packed, highly learned study is an excellent guide to the various ways that our predecessors grappled with music’s slippery and mysterious powers on body and soul. . . . Both from the Ears and Mind provides a rich array of material that will undoubtedly foster much new research on early modern English musical culture." * Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music *"With its wide-ranging scope and multidisciplinary approach, this book should become essential reading for musicologists, historians, and indeed anyone who wants to further their understanding of the complex relationship between 'actual' music as performed and listened to and ideas about music that are held in a given society, including, but not limited to, early modern England." * Revue de Musicologie *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Praise, Blame, and Persuasion: “Of Musicke by Way of Disputation” Praise and Dispraise (of Music): Discourse, Dialectic, Disputation Knowledge of Music “by Witt and Understanding” Reading as Creative Process: Toward “Places of Invention” Constructing Arguments Materials for Discourse 2. Debating Godly Music: Sober and Lawful Christian Use “Musica, serva Dei”: (Textual) Places for God’s Handmaid Music to the Praise and Glory of God: “A Methodicall Gathering Together of Authorities” Anxieties of Aurality and Homonymies of Love Codetta: The Prosecution Rests 3. Harmony, Number, and Proportion Art and Science Abstracted from Bodies Between Sense and Intellect: Music as Conceptual Tool “The Worlds Musicke” “A Simbolisme between the Elements”: (Re)appropriation across Domains “Profound Contemplation of Secret Things”: Magic, Occult Doctrines, and Music Hidden Harmonies of Earth and Heaven: Alchemy and Astrology “Divine Consent”: Holy Matrimony as Harmony 4. To Please the Ear and Satisfy the Mind Explaining Musical Experience Sound, Soul, and Sense To Captivate the Mind: Music and Interior Process 5. “Comfortable . . . in Sicknes and in Health”: Music to Temper Self and Surroundings Music and Medicine Music “to Preserve the Health” Music and the Humors: Balancing the Self Beyond Black Bile: Sorrow, Grief, and Musical Remediation Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Mulholland Books Tombland
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Alfred A. Knopf The Marriage Portrait
Book SynopsisWOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you know what’s coming, but don’t be so sure. —The Washington PostFlorence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observ
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Random House USA Inc The Last White Rose
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Diversified Publishing The Marriage Portrait
Book SynopsisWOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick)O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you know what’s coming, but don’t be so sure. —The Washington PostFlorence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observ
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Johns Hopkins University Press Power and Imagination
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] brilliant study... of the extraordinary explosion of expression in art and scholarship which made Italy the model for Europe. Los Angeles TimesTable of ContentsPreface to The Johns Hopkins EditionPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I: The Ascent of CommunesChapter 1. BackgroundChapter 2. Communes EmergePart II: The Early Commune and its NobilityChapter 3. Communes and EmpireChapter 4. Consular Institutions Chapter 5. The NobilityPart III: The Commune Around 1200Chapter 6. Urban Crisis and Neighborhood ContextChapter 7. Podestaral GovernmentPart IV: Popolo and Popular CommuneChapter 8. The Divisive IssuesChapter 9. Popular OrganizationChapter 10. Discipline and TakeoverChapter 11. The Changing PopoloPart V: The End of the Popular CommuneChapter 12. AchievementChapter 13. FailurePart VI: The Course of Urban ValuesChapter 14. Urban Space and PersonalityChapter 15. Florins: The Best of KinChapter 16. Experience and Religious Feeling: An Anonymous MoralistPart VII: Despotism: SignoriesChapter 17. The Seizures of PowerChapter 18. Signorial GovernmentPart VIII: The Course of Political FeelingChapter 19. The Matrix: Local FeelingChapter 20. The Example of Brunetto LatiniChapter 21. The Vanguard of FeelingPart IX: Oligarchy: Renaissance RepublicsChapter 22. The Republican EnvironmentChapter 23. The Lessons of the Ambrosian RepublicChapter 24. The Workings of OligarchyPart X: Economic Trends and AttitudesChapter 25. The Land Chapter 26. Population and TradeChapter 27. Public FinanceChapter 28. A Unity of AttitudesPart XI: Humanism: A Program for Ruling ClassesChapter 29. The ProgramChapter 30. The Origins of HumanismChapter 31. The Problem of ObjectivityChapter 32. Class and Group ConscienceChapter 33. Ideological ThemesPart XII: The Princely CourtsChapter 34. PerimetersChapter 35. The Courtly EstablishmentChapter 36. A Paradise for StructuralistsPart XIII: Art: An Alliance with PowerChapter 37. Patronage and PropagandaChapter 38. Social Positions and MobilityChapter 39. Social Identity into Artistic StyleChapter 40. Manner and StyleChapter 41. Space Real and ImaginaryPart XIV: Invasion: City-States in Lighting and TwilightChapter 42. The Main Line of EventsChapter 43. The Main Line of FailurePart XV: The High Renaissance: A Divided ConsciousnessChapter 44. The Key Experience: ContradictionChapter 45. Patronage in DangerChapter 46. Religion and LeadershipChapter 47. Political Thinking: Man Against UnreasonChapter 48. The Language QuestionChapter 49. The Lure of UtopiaPart XVI: The End of the RenaissanceNotesBibliographySupplementary BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Machiavelli in Love Sex Self and Society in the
Book SynopsisRuggiero's challenging reinterpretation of this canonical figure, as well as his unique treatment of other major works of the period, offer new approaches for reading Renaissance literature and new understandings of the way life was lived and perceived during this time.Trade ReviewThis provocative and complicated work about sex and self-fashioning sits at the nexus of historical and literary studies... It challenges readers to rethink both traditional literary interpretations and historical understanding. Choice 2008 Ruggiero's intent in Machiavelli in Love is much more than a recasting of Machiavelli: it is to examine self and identity in the Renaissance... One can applaud his insertion of the playful into our sense of the Renaissance. -- Thomas Kuehn Renaissance Quarterly 2008 Add to your reading list Johns Hopkins' study of sex, self, and society. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 2008 Innovative in its technique, subtle and revealing in its arguments, and whenever it turns to the theme of sodomy, throws off brilliant light. -- Randolph Trumbach American Historical Review 2009 Readers of Machiavelli in Love will certainly come away with a feeling for the playfulness of Renaissance sexuality. One of the book's achievements is that it shows the extent to which the literature of high culture had deep roots in everyday experience. Few will ever again doubt the importance of sex in creating Renaissance identity. -- William J. Connell Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2008 Ruggiero provides challenging accounts of public ethics and private morality by analysing a selection of literary and archival material. Armed with humour and determination, he deciphers the subtle codes of Renaissance narratives, and comments on the various ways in which identity and sexuality were constructed, understood and politicised. -- Stamatoula Panagakou Political Studies Review 2009 This is a veteran historian's book of literary speculation... It is also, I suspect, a teacher's book. It favors texts that enliven an English-speaking classroom on Italian history both because they support good lessons and because they bring students into engagement with the Italian past. How better to stir up Anglo-Saxon students, after all, than with tales, tragic or comical, that touch on passion, tenderness, deception, loss, or ribaldry! -- Thomas Cohen H-Italy, H-Net Reviews 2009 Written in the accessible narrative style that Ruggiero's readers will recognize, the study is a lively investigation that raises a central question about how the construction of self was dependent on sexual reputation. -- Gerry Milligan Annali d' Italianistica Ultimately makes a remarkable case for the integration of individual and societal identity within an understanding of the Italian Renaissance. -- Jason Hardgrave European History Quarterly 2010 Having to think creatively and act daringly under changing circumstances, this diaspora presents scholars with a fascinating and complex challenge of probing a spectrum of hybrid, fluid, and shifting identities. -- Louis Haas Sixteenth Century Journal 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Of Birds, Figs, and Sexual Identity in the Renaissance, or The Marescalco's Boy Bride2. Playing with the Devil: The Pleasures and Dangers of Sex and Play3. The Abbot's Concubine: Renaissance Lies, Literature, and Power4. Brunelleschi's First Masterpiece, or Mean Streets, Familiar Streets, Masculine Spaces, and Identity in Renaissance Florence5. Machiavelli in Love: The Self-Presentation of an Aging Lover6. Death and Resurrection and the Regime of Virtù, or Of Princes, Lovers, and Prickly PearsAfterword: How Machiavelli Put the Devil Back in HellNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Cinematic Illuminations
Book SynopsisCinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how popular culture interprets and makes use of the past through the medium of film.Trade ReviewOne of the most refreshing aspects of this book is that Finke and Shichtman combine encyclopedic knowledge of and masterful control over their material-including but not limited to film studies, medieval literature and history, and popular culture-with nuanced analysis, deft prose, and a palpable enjoyment of the topic. The authors are clearly having a grand time and invite readers to join in. -- Mary K. Ramsey Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 2010 Through Finke and Shichtman's use of film theory and cinema criticism, along with their sensitive deployment of medieval historical and literary details, the Middle Ages emerges as a period production in this excellent and innovative study. -- Holly A. Crocker Speculum 2011Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Theory and Methods of Cinematic Medievalism1. Traversing the Fantasy: Screening the Middle Ages2. Signs of the Medieval: A Sociological Stylistics of Film3. Celluloid History: Cinematic Fidelity and InfidelityPart 2: The Politics of Cinematic Medievalism4. Mirror of Princes: Representations of Political Authority in Medieval Films5. The Politics of Hagiography: Joan of Arc on the Screen6. The Hagiography of Politics: Mourning in America7. The Crusades: War of the Cross or God's Own Bloodbath?Part 3: Cinematic Medievalism and the Anxieties of Modernity8. Looking Awry at the Grail: Mourning Becomes Modernity9. Apocalyptic Medievalism: Rape and Disease as Figures of Social Anomie10. Forever Young: The Teen Middle AgesNotesBibliographyIndex
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Sublunar
Book SynopsisIn the sixteenth century, on the island of Uranienborg, the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is undertaking an elaborate study of the night skyTrade Review"Original, piercing, and richly exhilarating. Voetmann’s text is a sharp reminder of how powerfully and succinctly well-chosen words can create a world, render experiences, and express thoughts—in short, transport us, to places and in ways we could not have imagined." -- Claire Messud - Harper's"Reading Voetmann’s books makes me feel so alive. His voice is like no other, his hold on his material masterful." -- Olga Ravn"Arresting and memorable." -- Kirkus Reviews"Voetmann’s saturnine imagery touches both ends of the optic nerve, intermingling what is seen with what is known… Marvelous." -- Trevor Quirk - The Baffler"Voetmann seems to work from the ground up. Although Awake and Sublunar might be called novels of ideas, Voetmann's intellectual concerns are not forcefully imposed upon fictional dramas arbitrarily designed to illustrate them, but rather arise from particulars that are irreducible. Each page of the books contains a richness of detail and a depth of attention that has all but vanished from the contemporary novel—or, for that matter, any other mass-produced object. The novels themselves—each scarcely more than a hundred pages— are miniatures that appear to have been less written than chiseled. Images glow in stark relief against the somber backdrops and recur with slight variations, as though guided by a Fibonacci sequence. Amid the guts and gore, there are moments of quiet splendour." -- Meghan O’Gieblyn - The New York Review of Books
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Random House USA Inc Orlando
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Random House USA Inc Jane Seymour the Haunted Queen
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Random House USA Inc Katheryn Howard the Scandalous Queen Six Tudor
Book SynopsisBestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series.“A vivid re-creation of a Tudor tragedy.”—Kirkus Reviews In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, Katheryn is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, England’s premier Catholic peer, who is scheming to replace Anna of Kleve with a good Catholic queen. A flirtatious, eager participant in the life of the royal court, Katheryn readily succumbs to the king’s attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his path by her ambitious family. Henry quickly becomes bes
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Random House USA Inc Katharine Parr The Sixth Wife
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