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  • Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England

    par Sophie Read ...
    Collections Livre 104 - Ideas in Context
    The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a literal to a figurative understanding of the phrase 'this is my body' exerted a powerful imaginative pull on successive ... En savoir plus

    $43.19 CAD

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  • Da Vinci's Ghost: The untold story of Vitruvian Man

    The untold story of Vitruvian Man

    par Toby Lester ...
    Vitruvian Man is the world's most famous drawing, by one of the world's most famous artists. The image - named after a Roman architect and engineer, Vitruvius - has become visual shorthand for artistic genius and scientific inquiry, and yet nobody knows anything about it. In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester examines the forces that converged in 1490 to turn an idea that ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Book of the Courtier

    par Baldesar Castiglione ...
    Traduit par George Bull ...
    In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness - as well as wider questions such ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    par R. B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Life of Michelangelo

    par John Symonds ...
    One the most important figures in the history of art, his monumental paintings in the Sistine Chapel, his sculpture David in Florence, and his Pietà at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are among the greatest human achievements of all time and remain the most visited and admired works of art in the world. Michelangelo's life has been the subject of many biographies over the centuries, but it was not ... En savoir plus

    $4.11 CAD

  • Venice: Lion City

    The Religion of Empire

    par Garry Wills ...
    Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with a shrewd commercial base, like ancient Athens, which ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The British Execution

    1500–1964

    par Dr Stephen Banks ...
    Collections Livre 744 - Shire Library
    An illustrated introduction to the death penalty and the means of capital punishment in England since Tudor times.Executions have played a crucial – if grisly and controversial – part in British history and provided the bloody climax to many a life, from Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles I and Dick Turpin to untold thousands of anonymous wretches whose names are now forgotten.With the help of numerous ... En savoir plus

    $9.89 CAD

  • Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

    par Christopher W. Brooks ...
    Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD

  • Brethren in Christ

    A Calvinist Network in Reformation Europe

    par Ole Peter Grell ...
    This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Europe during the Reformation, across a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. Ole Peter Grell follows the fortunes of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families, forced to flee from the Tuscan city of Lucca during the 1560s, through their journey to France during the Wars of Religion to the St Bartholomew ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Locus Amoenus

    Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance

    Modifié par Alexander Samson ...
    Collections Livre 10 - Renaissance Studies Special Issues
    Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment.A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden historyEssays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504

    par P.R. Cavill ...
    Collections series Oxford Historical Monographs
    P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand 'Whig' tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament; its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested ... En savoir plus

    $128.79 CAD

  • The Material Culture of the Jacobites

    par Neil Guthrie ...
    The Jacobites, adherents of the exiled King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his descendants, continue to command attention long after the end of realistic Jacobite hopes down to the present. Extraordinarily, the promotion of the Jacobite cause and adherence to it were recorded in a rich and highly miscellaneous store of objects, including medals, portraits, pin-cushions, glassware and ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD