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  • Representing Infirmity

    Diseased Bodies in Renaissance Italy

    Edición de John Henderson, Fredrika Jacobs, Jonathan K. Nelson ...
    Series series The Body in the City
    This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts.Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and viewing infirmity in Galenic humoral terms, each ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    de Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Cultures of Plague

    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    de Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. ...
    Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Edición de Richard Lansing ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid proseprovides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looki... ... Leer más

    $106.99 USD

  • Young Michelangelo

    The Path to the Sistine—A Biography

    de John T. Spike ...
    In this biography, the author of the acclaimed Caravaggio examines the relationships that shaped Michelangelo's first thirty years.In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest artists and the places and people—Lorenzo de' Medici, Leonardo, Machiavelli—that inspired and defined his early life and career. Spike's masterful text ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    de Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1100-1600: Medieval to Renaissance

    Edición de Kim W. Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Forbidden Knowledge

    Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

    de Hannah Marcus ...
    "Wonderful . . . offers and provokes meditation on the timeless nature of censorship, its practices, its intentions and . . . its (unintended) outcomes." — Times Higher EducationForbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth ... Leer más

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  • The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

    de Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard, Mary Laven ...
    The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art

    de François Quiviger ...
    The Renaissance often refers to an era when art, philosophy and other profound expressions of human culture underwent a revolutionary rebirth. New ideas, however, grew in the cradle of old modes of thinking: the Renaissance inherited and developed a medieval conception of the mind based on the assumption that there was nothing in the mind that had not reached it via the senses. Nowhere is this ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    de Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD