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Johns Hopkins University Press Renegade Women Gender Identity and Boundaries in
Book SynopsisScholars of the period will find this to be a richly informative and thoroughly engrossing read.Trade Review"A gem. Beautifully written, creatively crafted, and thoroughly researched, this is an erudite book, written with verve. It brings to life the richness and vitality of Mediterranean societies in early modern times." (Judith C. Brown, author of Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy)"Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel2. Elena Civalelli / Suor Deodata and Mihale / Catterina Šatorovic3. Maria Gozzadini and Her Daughters—Aissè, Eminè, CatigèConclusionGeographic EquivalentsAbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Communities of Learned Experience
Book SynopsisThe collections she has selected include essays on general medical topics addressed to colleagues or disciples, some advice for individual patients (usually written at the request of the patient's doctor), and a strong dose of controversy.Trade ReviewSiraisi deftly guides the reader with engaging and descriptive prose toward her modest theses... It is a welcome introduction to the world of medical epistles in the Renaissance. -- Joel A. Klein Early Science and Medicine This book goes a step further in the current critical reassessment of the minor genres of early modern medical literature, traditionally viewed as secondary sources. Mastering Renaissance history and historiography, Siraisi shows how they can be used to access the world of sixteenth-century medical practitioners avoiding artificial distinctions between the social and intellectual motives underpinning their multifold activities. -- Maria Pia Donato American Historical Review These studies will be useful to anyone exploring the development of espistolae midicinales. Siraisi also offers valuable evidence of the establishment of an eraly medical Republic of Letters. -- Niall Hodson Centaurus Communities of Learned Experience puts the theme of networks center stage, making useful connections to current research on communities of knowledge and republics of letters both humanistic and scientific even as it contributes more particularly to the history of medicine... In 87 pages, [Siraisi] offers a distillation of the encyclopedic learning, rigorously forensic analysis, elegant argumentation, and wry humor that are the hallmarks of her career... This book is an expert introduction to the world of early modern medical inquiry... For its wealth of information and important call for more attention to medical epistles, Communities of Learned Experience takes a more than worthy place in Siraisi's oeuvre and should occupy an important space in the history of science section of early modernist's collections. -- Sarah Gwenyth Ross Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science [Communities of Learned Experience] reflects Siraisi's routinely thorough research and engaging prose, and it would be difficult to argue that the book does not accomplish what it sets out to do. -- Fred Gibbs British Journal for the History of Science What trajectory can be charted through physicians' letters? Siraisi's elegant and economical book has give her readers a useful and pleasurable roadmap that helps to explain how learned physicians indeed created a world of their own making in print during the age of Vesalius. -- Paul Findlen Bulletin of the History of Medicine Siraisi's work on epistolary medicine will be of interest not only to those studying Renaissance medicine, but will also provide a useful backdrop to those studying the topic in the early modern period. It will appeal to historians of the Republic of Letters and the humanist movement who may not have given consideration to the correspondence of physicians of the period. -- Robert Weston ParergonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Contexts and Communication2. The Court Physician Johann Lange and His Epistolae Medicinales3. The Medical Networks of Orazio AugenioConclusionNotesIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisThrough the exploration of nine common myths about the history and culture of early modern Europe, roughly 13501700, this book uses common assumptions to introduce newcomers to the period and its key figures, developments, and events.Many myths about early modern Europe originated in the 19th and 20th centuries and continue to appear today across popular media. In recent years, such popular documentaries and television shows as Game of Thrones have tended to reinforce what we think we know about the world during the early modern period.Early modern Europe birthed the modern worldjust not in the way we think it did. This installment in the Facts and Fictions series utilizes primary sources to interrogate popular beliefs about early modern Europe and reveal the true story behind such movements and events as the Scientific Revolution, the Crusades, and the European witch hunts. Focusing on how perceptions of these events have shifted and evolved through historyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Italian Renaissance Ended the Dark Ages and Ushered in the Modern World 2. Christopher Columbus Proved that the Earth Was Round 3. Early Modern Women Were Uneducated and Uninfluential 4. Humanists Introduced Secularism to Early Modern Europe 5. The Pope Was an All-Powerful Ruler in Early Modern Europe 6. The Moral Failures of the Catholic Church Made the Reformation Inevitable 7. Torture and Superstition Drove the Witch Hunts 8. A Few Geniuses Sparked the Scientific Revolution 9. The Crusades Ended in the Middle Ages Bibliography Index
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Amberley Publishing Anne Boleyn
Book SynopsisTHE biography of the most alluring, important and enigmatic of Henry VIII's six wives - Anne Boleyn.
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Amberley Publishing Anne Boleyn
Book SynopsisTHE biography of the most alluring, important and enigmatic of Henry VIII's six wives - Anne Boleyn.
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Weiser Books The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance
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Medieval Institute Publications Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word
Book SynopsisAn innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Playing the Field by Allison Levy Performing Pictures: Parlor Games and Visual Engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole by Kelli Wood "Mixt" and Matched: Dance Games in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Europe by Emily F. Winerock Ludic Intermingling/Ludic Discrimination: Women's Card Playing and Visual Proscriptions in Early Modern Europe by Antonella Fenech Kroke Leonardo da Vinci, Parody, and Pictorial Magic by Chriscinda Henry Letter Games: Machiavelli and Guicciardini in Carnivalesque Correspondence by Sergius Kodera The Rules of Passion and Pastime: The Game of Lurch in a Late Renaissance Poem by Manfred Zollinger "Sportes and Pastimes, done by Number": Mathematical Games in Early Modern England by Jessica Marie Otis Predictive Play: Wheels of Fortune in the Early Modern Lottery Book by Jessen Kelly Virtuous Vices: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Gambling Prints and the Social Mapping of Leisure and Gender in Post-Tridentine Bologna by Patricia Rocco Trading and Trick Taking in the Dutch Republic: Pasquin's Wind Cards and the South Sea Bubble by Joyce Goggin The Problem of Excessive Play: Renaissance Strategies of Ludic Governmentality by Andreas Hermann Fischer Imaginary Cartographies and Commercial Commodities: Geography and Playing Cards in Early Modern England by Serina Patterson Land of Elusion: Portuguese Perceptions and the Matter of Play and Gaming in Vijayanagara by Elke Rogersdotter Visual Frames and Breaking the Rules of the Reconquista: Chess and Alfonso X, el Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas by Nhora Lucía Serrano The Prisoners' Dilemma: Strategies and Ruses in the Inquisitorial Jails of Early Modern Cuenca by Patrick J. O'Banion
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WW Norton & Co How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A
Book SynopsisEvery age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting “thee,” to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul. Mischievous readers will delight in learning how to time your impressions for the biggest laugh, why quoting Shakespeare was poor form, and why curses hurled at women were almost always about sex (and why we shouldn’t be surprised). Bringing her signature “exhilarating and contagious” enthusiasm (Boston Globe), this is a celebration of one of history’s naughtiest periods, when derision was an art form.Trade Review"Oh, how I wish Ruth Goodman could be my tutor. But settling in for one of her history lessons is better than second best... Although 21st-century Americans aren’t likely to be hauled into court, as some 16th-century Britons were, for deploying a pungent epithet like ‘a turd in your teeth’ or engaging in the criminal offense of ‘scolding,’ Goodman need hardly remind us that ‘manners, power and insult are intricately linked.’" -- Alida Becker, New York Times Book Review"Gleeful and illuminating.... Goodman deftly combines anecdotes and examples that illustrate each topic and clear explanations of why certain behavior matters socially and philosophically in that time and place. Both a highly readable and very funny treatment of a popular historical period and an invitation for readers to think about their own understandings of social etiquette." -- Sara Jorgensen, Booklist [starred review]"This entertaining, excellent book from Goodman (How to Be a Tudor) provides a window into the nitty-gritty of daily life for merchants, street sellers, and others listed in the subtitle in 1550–1660 England.... As in her previous work, Goodman’s scholarship is exemplary, and she sets the record straight on modern misperceptions of 16th- and 17th-century life... Accessible, fun, and historically accurate, this etiquette guide will yield chuckles, surprises, and a greater understanding of everyday life in Renaissance England." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"With exhaustive research and in gleeful detail, Goodman (How to Be a Tudor, 2016, etc.) explores the gamut of misconduct in Stuart and Tudor England, including offensive speech and gestures, the perverse delights of mockery and ridicule, the ripostes of physical violence, and a gallery of repellent habits and repulsive displays of bodily functions. The author has a wicked taste for the objectionable and the wit to deliver it in a wholly enjoyable, even educational way.... The book overflows with historical curiosities, interesting asides, and eyebrow-raising aha moments.... Etiquette, it seems, is a complex and involved business, but Goodman helps us navigate the shoals of another era's sensibilities in a way that is also illuminating of our own." -- Kirkus Reviews
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini,
Book SynopsisA warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless evocation of the sensations, personalities, and everyday struggles of Italian life more than half a millennium in the past.“For God and Profit” is how the medieval merchant Francesco di Marco Datini headed a notebook in which he kept track of his business dealings, and these were certainly his guiding lights. Born in the 1330s in the Tuscan town of Prato, the son of a poor taverner, Datini set out at the age of fifteen for Avignon, where, over the course of the next thirty-five years, he made a fortune trading in arms, armor, artworks, wool, saffron, leather, silk, and much more. Returning home, he expanded his operations, setting up offices all across the Mediterranean, which he oversaw through an unceasing flow of correspondence. When he died, Datini asked that all his papers be preserved in his house, and in 1870 they were found, a little worm-eaten and mouse-nibbled but largely intact, in a sack under the stairs. They are one of the great records not only of medieval life but of the emergence of the modern commercial world.Drawing on this rich archive, Iris Origo offers a wonderfully vivid account of Datini’s public and private worlds. The Merchant of Prato is a masterpiece of modern narrative history.
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Reaktion Books John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity
Book SynopsisThe work of English writer, gardener and diarist John Evelyn is of great historical value. His most famous work, his Diary, which he kept throughout his life, is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultural, religious and political life in seventeenth-century England. But Evelyn's work is often overshadowed by the literary contributions of his contemporary and friend Samuel Pepys. John Dixon Hunt's biography takes a fresh look at the life and work of one of England's greatest diarists, focusing particularly on the seventeenth-century notion of 'domesticity'. He explores Evelyn's domestic life and, more importantly, the domestication of foreign ideas and practices in England. From his early, extensive European travels, Evelyn imbibed ideas above all on the management of estate design and developed an understanding of how to explore English topography. The book puts Evelyn's great accomplishment - making European garden art available in the UK - into context alongside a range of social and ethical ideas. Illustrated with visual material from Evelyn's time and often from his own pen, this is an ideal introduction to a seventeenth-century figure of huge importance in early modern Britain.Trade Review"Hunt's richly textured and highly readable account sheds new light on Evelyn. . . . This is more than a biography. It is an invaluable insight into a world in intellectual ferment, on the brink of the modern age."--Tom Williamson, University of East Anglia
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Bodleian Library John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning
Book SynopsisJohn Aubrey (1626–97) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in the intellectual fervour of the era, he is best remembered today for his Brief Lives, a collection of compelling portraits of a generation of eminent thinkers. While Aubrey gained a reputation in his own time as a pioneer antiquary and archaeologist, his full intellectual range was much broader. Sociable by nature, he was one of the Founding Fellows of the Royal Society of London and acquainted with all the leading scientists of the generation of Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton. Aubrey championed Hooke’s radical ideas on geology and the origin of fossils, and with Hooke he also worked on the construction of a workable artificial language. A pioneer archaeologist too, Aubrey produced the most profound analysis of ancient megaliths undertaken at that time. In addition, Aubrey was an early donor of books, manuscripts, and many other items to both the Bodleian Library and the recently opened Ashmolean Museum. John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning presents all of Aubrey’s varied interests and pursuits within the intellectual context of his times. Published to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, this is the first accessible and illustrated guide to Aubrey’s many diverse achievements as a biographer, antiquary, mathematician, ‘natural philosopher’ and all-round virtuoso.Trade Review'A model introduction not only to Aubrey's ideas and ideals but to the mental landscape to which he belonged.' Blair Worden, Literary Review
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Pindar Press Studies of Petrarch and His Influence
Book SynopsisProfessor Joseph Trapp has been Director of the Warburg Institute, and is an authority on Renaissance humanism and the classical tradition. The present volume brings "together twenty-one of Professor Trapp's more recent papers on the illuminated manuscripts of Petrarch, and his lasting "influence. The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century movement which led to a European revaluation of social, political, ethical, literary, artistic and intellectual experience and which we know as the Renaissance was given its decisive early impetus from Italy in the fourteenth by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374). Petrarch is present, sometimes visibly, sometimes all but invisibly, within all the manifestations of the Renaissance imagination covered by these essays. His presence is most obvious in the first division of this book, Petrarch Illustrated, where a comprehensive survey and a number of specialized studies bring up to date and in other ways augment the great work of the prince d'Essling and Eugène Muntz, published in 1902 and now in need of revision in many respects. In the second section, Petrarch is present by reputation and implication, and through the homage paid to him, directly in pilgrimage to and adornment of places where he lived and the search for personal mementos, or indirectly in the search by generations succeeding him for the authentic image of the classical authors whom he studied, imitated, revered and loved as friends, or in the permeation into Northern Europe of the study of the classics which he saw as the guide to letters and to life and its modification by humanists and Biblical scholars. Erasmus, Thomas More and William Tyndale, widely different in both their Christian faith and their views of the Biblical text in Latin, Greek or English, without consciously being aware of it, owed their preoccupation with the texts ultimately to the example of Petrarch and his Italian successors, particularly the schoolmaster Guarino of Verona and the great philologists Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano.Table of ContentsPreface Petrarch Illustrated: The Iconography of Petrarch in the Age of Humanism Illustrated Manuscripts of Petrarch's De remediis Petrarch's Triumph of Death in Tapestry Illustrations of Petrarch's Trionfi from Manuscript to Print and from Print to Manuscript The Illustration of Petrarch's Secretum The Illustration of Petrarch's Letters Petrarch's Long Legacy: Europe: The Cult of Petrarch: 1. Petrarch's Inkstand and his Cat; 2. Homage to Petrarch as Humanist Saint The Image of Livy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Portraits of Ovid in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Archimedes' Tomb and the Artists; England: The Humanist Book in Italy and England in the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries (unpublished) From Guarino of Verona to John Colet Erasmus and his English Friends The Miller's Tale Desiderius Erasmus, William Grocyn and the ps-Dionysius: a Re-evaluation The Fall of the Chancellor Midwinter Thomas More's Debellation of Salem and Bizance The Greatness of William Tyndale The Likeness of William Tyndale Additional Notes Index
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Brepols N.V. The Grand Ducal Medici and Their Archive
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Skybound Books The Residence
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Les Belles Lettres Le Sens Reel de Seigneur Du Ciel
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Les Belles Lettres de Re Anatomica Libri XV: Anatomia
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Les Belles Lettres Oeuvres Completes: Tome I:
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres Familieres. Tome I: Livres
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres Familieres. Tome II: Livres
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Oeuvres: I.: La Correspondance.
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres de la Vieillesse. Tome II,
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Les Belles Lettres Per Una Bibliografia Di Giordano Bruno
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres de la Vieillesse. Tome III,
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Les Belles Lettres Lettres Des Hommes Obscurs
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres Familieres. Tome V: Livres
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Les Belles Lettres Les Conjectures: de Coniecturis
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Les Belles Lettres La Verole Et Le Remede Du Gaiac
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Les Belles Lettres Trois Couronnes Pour Un Roi: La Devise d'Henri
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Les Belles Lettres de Byzance a l'Italie: L'Enseignement Du Grec a
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque
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Les Belles Lettres de Arte Magna -Libri Quatuor
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Les Belles Lettres Novelle / Nouvelles III - 2e Partie VI-XXXVIII
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Les Belles Lettres Boccace: Ninfale Fiesolano / Les Nymphes de
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Les Belles Lettres L'Aretin, Il Marescalco/Le Marechal-Il
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Les Belles Lettres Petrarque, Lettres Familieres. Tome VI: Livres
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Les Belles Lettres Epigrammes / Epigrammata
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Classiques Garnier Medecine Et Rhetorique a la Renaissance: Le Cas
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Classiques Garnier Architecture Harmonique, Ou Application de la
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Classiques Garnier Diplomatie Et Espionnage: Du Traite Du
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Classiques Garnier Correspondance (1569-1614)
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Classiques Garnier La Danse Ecartelee: Moeurs, Esthetiques Et
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Classiques Garnier La Place Du Prince: Perspective Et Pouvoir Dans
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Classiques Garnier Philippe de Gueldre: Royne de Sicile Et Povre Ver
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Classiques Garnier Entre La Lumiere Et Les Tenebres: Aspects Du
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Classiques Garnier Ambroise Pare (1510-1590): Pratique Et Ecriture
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Classiques Garnier Jeanne d'Albret Et Sa Cour
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Classiques Garnier Pontus de Tyard: Errances Et Enracinement
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Classiques Garnier Les Arts Du Spectacle Dans La Ville
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