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  • Collective Yearning

    Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum

    par Amber N. Wiley, Heather Hart, Kyle b. co., Desiree Morales, Jasmine Daria Cannon, Grace Lynne Haynes, Emily Hu, Michael Randall, Helen Gao0, Grace Kim1, Audrey Roclore2 ...
    When Rutgers professor Amber N. Wiley began teaching her African American Art class in 2018, she and her students made a shocking discovery. While the university’s Zimmerli Art Museum had over seventy thousand artworks in its collection, only one of the pieces on display was by a Black American woman. The students, who came from a variety of majors and reflected the ethnic diversity of New Jersey ... En savoir plus

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Gargantuan Polity

    On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance

    par Michael Randall ...
    Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects. Noting how the relationship between ... En savoir plus

    $84.99 CAD

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  • Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love

    par R. Howard Bloch ...
    Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    par Jacob Soll ...
    Collections series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    par Jacob Soll ...
    Collections series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Montaigne

    A Life

    par Philippe Desan ...
    Traduit par Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • The History Of Scepticism From Erasmus To Descartes

    par Richard Popkin ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Virtues of Abandon

    An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment

    par Charly Coleman ...
    France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership—of property, of position, even of personhood. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Artisans of Glory

    Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France

    par Orest Ranum ...
    Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers. He examines the manner in which these writers described and, in some sense, created the glory that surrounded the lives of the nobility, hoping by so doing to enhance their own glory. Through studying the careers of these men, the author demonstrates how rhetorical, ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

    Modifié par Philippe Desan ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and ... En savoir plus

    $150.39 CAD

  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    par Allison Stedman ...
    Collections series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • French Books of Hours

    Making an Archive of Prayer, c.1400–1600

    par Virginia Reinburg ...
    The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary study explores its increasing popularity and prestige, offering a full account of the Book of Hours as a book - how it was acquired, how it was read to guide prayer and teach literacy and what it meant to its owners as a personal possession. Based on ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD