Renaissance 32

Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues a……続きを見る

From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came ……続きを見る

Colonial Roots: Settlement to 1783, the first volume in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, liter……続きを見る

Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But whatーor whoーmust be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Do……続きを見る

**NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part of the Jewish Encounter series** One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick J……続きを見る

The untold story of a fascinating Renaissance man on an adventurous hunt for a lost civilizationーan epic quest through castles, courts, mythologies, and the spectacular world of the imagination. Wh……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sweeping portrait of Mary Boleyn, sister to Queen Anne and mistress to Henry VIIIーand one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age, from the renowned author hailed……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor ……続きを見る

A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and more Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth ……続きを見る

No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The account……続きを見る

The Royal Stuarts ruled for over 300 years in Scotland and for a century as the Royal Family of Britain and Ireland. They were leading actors in the foremost political dramas of British history - th……続きを見る

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most succe……続きを見る

Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the six……続きを見る

In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peter's Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious ……続きを見る

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and c……続きを見る

Half a millennium of European warfare brilliantly retold by masterly historian Brendan Simms At the heart of Europe's history lies a puzzle. In most of the world humankind has created enormous polit……続きを見る

Beatrice Cenci was executed in Rome in September 1599: she was said to be sixteen, and was hauntingly beautiful. Her crime was the murder of her father, a member of one of the greatest Roman familie……続きを見る

Michael Servetus, Heartfelt is a tribute to this unique man and his legacy as a humanist, Renaissance scholar, and standard-bearer of freedom of conscience. The Servetus International Congress (2006……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women-and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, "Ma……続きを見る

In this important and revelatory book, David Young Kim examines how mobility and travel affected the identities and artistic styles of artists such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lotto, Michela……続きを見る

Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventeenth century a quarter of a million men, women, and ch……続きを見る

Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Württemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the r……続きを見る

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Ep……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Henry Hudson et l’exploration de la côte Est des Amériques en moins d’une heure ! Au début du mois de mai 1607, Henry Hudson, jeune capitaine anglais, l……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Magellan et le premier tour du monde en moins d’une heure ! Trois ans après avoir mis les voiles depuis Sanlúcar, en Espagne, l’expédition de Fernand de……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Vasco de Gama et l’ouverture de la route des Indes en moins d’une heure ! En 1497, cinq ans seulement après la découverte de l’Amérique par Christophe C……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Francisco Pizarro en moins d’une heure ! Dans l’Espagne du XVe siècle, en pleine expansion coloniale, Francisco Pizarro quitte Panamá en 1524, chargé pa……続きを見る

Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England is an original examination of cultural meanings of dearth and famine in England at the turn of the sixteenth century. I……続きを見る

As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for man……続きを見る


 This intriguing book highlights and illustrates nearly 100 notable lives from between 1400 and 1600. Through these very readable short biographies, patterns in the history and art of the Renaissan……続きを見る