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  • Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World

    An Alternative History of the Reformation

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians were forced from their homes and into temporary or permanent exile. Their migrations across Europe and around the globe shaped the early modern world and profoundly affected literature, art, and culture. Economic and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Luna the Little Unicorn and the Quest for the Fifth Element

    A Magical Journey of Friendship and Discovery

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Join Luna, a bright-eyed baby unicorn, as she embarks on a journey across magical landscapes to find the fifth and most powerful element. Along the way, Luna meets new friends who embody Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and learns the value of balance, kindness, and intuition. A story of wonder, connection, and imagination—perfect for bedtime or classroom story time.Luna the Little Unicorn and the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Luna the Little Unicorn and the Quest for the Fifth Element

    A Magical Journey Through the Five Elements

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Join Luna, a bright-eyed baby unicorn, as she embarks on a journey across magical landscapes to find the fifth and most powerful element. Along the way, Luna meets new friends who embody Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and learns the value of balance, kindness, and intuition. A story of wonder, connection, and imagination-perfect for bedtime or classroom story time.Luna the Little Unicorn and the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance

    Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series Book 123 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity.Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Senses of Space in the Early Modern World

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series series Elements in the Renaissance
    How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social horizons of the period emerge out of those experiences and further shape them This Element takes an approach that is both global expansive and locally rooted by focusing on four cities as key examples: Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila. They relate to distinct parts of European cultural ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Lost Girls

    Sex and Death in Renaissance Florence

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 left there alive. Struck by the unusually high mortality rate, Nicholas Terpstra sets out to determine what killed the lost girls of the House of Compassion shelter (Casa ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Cultures of Charity

    Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

    by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Series Book 6 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women’s poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • The Francis Effect

    by Tania Bruguera, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Saskia Sassen, Nicholas Terpstra ...
    “The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just for one person, the pope. But the more people that participated, the more personal it became.” –Tania BrugueraStemming from a performance that originated at the Guggenheim Museum, The Francis Effect ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

    Edited by Jacqueline Murray, Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and philosophy use a variety of both textual and ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Lives Uncovered

    A Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Curated by acclaimed scholar Nicholas Terpstra, Lives Uncovered is a captivating collection of early modern primary sources organized around the human life cycle. The collection begins with a short essay titled "How to Read a Primary Source," which helps readers recognize different kinds of primary sources and introduces the idea of critical reading. A second brief essay, "Life Cycles in the Early ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Redreaming the Renaissance

    Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero

    by Douglas G. Biow, Alessandro Arcangeli, Suzanne Magnanini, Joanne M. Ferraro, Paula Findlen, Julia L. Hairston, Konrad Eisenbichler, Meredith K. Ray, Courtney Quaintance, Albert Russell Ascoli, Nicholas Terpstra, Massimo Rospocher ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Global Reformations

    Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures

    Edited by Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world.The volume explores global developments and tracks the many ways in which Reformation movements shaped relations of Christians with other Christians, and also with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and aboriginal groups in the Americas. Contributions explore the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD