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The Indies of the Setting Sun Cartographic Humanism
How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East The Making of Early Modern Europe
as the Transpacific West Katharina N. Piechocki
Ricardo Padrón “Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this
“The Indies of the Setting Sun examines the way that major intervention into the histories of cartography
Spanish knowledge about the South Sea—now and literature asks what we mean when we say
known as the Pacific Ocean—was developed. Chal- ‘Europe.’ . . . Drawing from a rich multilingual
lenging the historical idea that Magellan’s circum- archive of humanists from Germany, Poland, France,
navigation had established Europeans’ understand- Italy, and Portugal, Cartographic Humanism shows
ing of the Americas as divided from Asia by the vast that Europe is not a monolith and never was.”
Pacific, Padrón reveals an ‘alternative European —Phillip John Usher, author of The Exterranean
cartography’ that persisted across the sixteenth
“[Piechocki] is a careful critic but also a deeply
century. . . . This is the first book I’ve ever read that
imaginative historian. This is a contribution to the
colors the larger ‘Indies’ so vividly.”
‘darker side’ of cartography and the Renaissance . . .
—Barbara Mundy, author of The Death of Aztec
but its analysis never departs from the measured and
Tenochtitlan
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reflective.”—Times Higher Education
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The Selden Map of China Lost Maps of the Caliphs
A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty
Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
Hongping Annie Nie
Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith
Dating from the seventeenth century, the Selden
“Dazzling. . . . As well as providing a definitive
Map of China is a seafaring chart showing Ming
account of the discovery and significance of The
Dynasty trade routes. It is the earliest surviving
Book of Curiosities to the history of cartography, the
example of Chinese merchant cartography and is
authors offer no less than a complete reappraisal of
evidence that Ming China was outward-looking,
astronomy, astrology, and geography in the first four
capitalistic, and vibrant. Exploring the commercial
centuries of Islam.”—Jerry Brotton, author of A His-
aims of the Ming Dynasty, the port city of Quan-
tory of the World in Twelve Maps
zhou, and its connections with the voyages of the 2018 368 p. 6 x 9 25 color plates, 89 halftones
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long history of China’s relationship with the sea and
with the wider world.
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The Wonder of the New World
Stephen Greenblatt
Medieval Islamic Maps Carpenter Lectures
1991, 2017 224 p. 6 x 9
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Karen C. Pinto
2016 384 p. 7 x 10 162 color plates
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Tudor Power and Glory Elizabeth’s French Wars,
Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold 1562–1598
Keith Dowen and Scot Hurst English Intervention in the French Wars of
The Field of Cloth of Gold tournament was one Religion
of the greatest courtly spectacles of the sixteenth William Heap
century. Both an extravagant sporting competition “Thoughts of war during the reign of Elizabeth
and a political summit, it encapsulated Henry VIII’s I tend to conjure images of the Armada, of ships
imperial ambitions and confirmed the role of the amassing, of the winds changing. William Heap’s
tournament in international diplomacy. This book study of English intervention in the French wars of
depicts the skill of the armorers as they prepared for religion introduces a different perspective, focusing
the tournament, takes readers inside the fighting on military history and providing a thorough analy-
that took place, and reveals the political significance sis of the subject at hand. . . . The narrative is richly
of the Field of Cloth of Gold as England and France supported by images, tables and timelines. This is a
took their places on the world stage. detailed and visual history.”—All About History
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Revolt in the Netherlands The First Prince of Wales?
The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648 Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, 1063-75
Anton van Der Lem Sean Davies
“This fresh, original, and beautifully written book Bleddyn ap Cynfyn was a Welsh king who ruled
offers as fine an introduction as one could wish to over Gwynedd and Powys in the eleventh century.
the revolt in the Netherlands—why it occurred, and He was at the heart of the events that forged Britain
why the Low Countries would eventually be divided before, during, and after the Norman Conquest of
against all expectation into a free north and a Span- 1066, one of its most significant historical periods.
ish south. Elegant and fair-minded, and crammed
with previously unseen visual material, this book “Davies’s book provides a fresh, bold, and
will be recognized as a definitive study of a critical persuasive account of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of
episode in the development of modern European Gwynedd and Powys and with ambitions to rule
society.”—Andrew Pettegree, author of Brand Luther more widely in Wales. In six succinct and clearly
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the turbulent politics of the mid-eleventh century.”
The Medieval Invention of —Ralph Griffiths, Swansea University
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Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf Heroes and Marvels of the
A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective Middle Ages
Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln Jacques Le Goff
“Witch hunts have always been a tool of those in Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history
power. As such, they shed light, primarily, on the like no other: it is a history of the imagination, pre-
needs of the ruling classes. Court proceedings on sented between two celebrated groups of the period.
witchcraft and other devilry, however colorful, rarely One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid,
tell us much about the accused, even when they King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin
show defendants prevailed upon to confess. . . . the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The
Now, with Ginzburg and Lincoln’s Old Thiess, a other is the miraculous, represented here by three
Livonian Werewolf, a glorious corrective has arrived: forms of power that dominated medieval society:
the full testimony, translated for the first time, of a the cathedral, the castle, and the cloister. Roam-
loud, proud, self-described werewolf.”—Harper’s ing between the boundaries of the natural and the
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medieval universe is illustrated by a shared iconogra-
Storyworlds of Robin Hood phy, covering a vast geographical span.
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Lesley Coote
“Coote’s scholarly study of the storyworlds of the
early Robin Hood tradition broadens our under-
Arthur
standing of the interconnectivity of medieval outlaw
God and Hero in Avalon
tales, romance, the fabliau tradition, miracle of the Christopher R. Fee
Virgin stories, trickster tales, and pastourelles.” “Refreshingly accessible and expertly researched. . . .
—Alexander L. Kaufman, Ball State University This is an unparalleled introduction to the legendary
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Dragon The Danger of Romance
Thomas Honegger
Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions
“A pithy introduction to the weird and wonderful Karen Sullivan
world of medieval dragon lore. . . . Ranging from
literature and learned writings to religious art and “A stimulating study of medieval French Arthurian
folklore, the book is as rich and multifaceted as its romance. . . . Convincingly rebuts critical responses
subject.”—Robert Mills, University College London to romance as a dangerous form of self-delusion
Medieval Animals distracting readers from the truths of the world.”
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Dæmons are Forever
Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian
Pandemonium
David Gordon White
A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven stud-
ies spanning some six thousand years of history,
Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic
contacts and transactions between humans and
protean spirit beings—dæmons—and an account of
exchanges, among human populations, of the sci-
ence of spirit beings: dæmonology. In this virtuoso
work of historical sleuthing, David Gordon White
invites his readers to reconsider the potential and
promise of the historical method in religious studies,
suggesting that a “connected histories” approach
to Eurasian dæmonology may serve as a model for
restoring history to its proper place, at the heart of
Acts Against God
the history of religions discipline. A Short History of Blasphemy
Silk Roads David Nash
2020 360 p. 6 x 9 30 color plates, 38 halftones
18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-71490-5 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00 Blasphemy is a phenomenon that spans human ex-
perience, from the ancient world right up to today’s
Habitual Offenders ferocious religious debates. Acts Against God is the
A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers first accessible history of this crime—its prosecu-
in Seventeenth-Century Italy tion, its impact, and its punishment and suppres-
sion. With examples ranging from ancient Greece
Craig A. Monson
2016 344 p. 6 x 9 29 halftones
to the medieval world to the twenty-first century,
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widespread and constant presence in cultural, politi-
St George cal, and religious life.
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A Saint for All 2020 224 p. 61/4 x 91/4
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
Calvin’s Exegesis of Job from Medieval and
Modern Perspectives
Susan E. Schreiner
J.R.R. Tolkien books Through countless retellings, the story of Job has
from the Bodleian Library become a fixture in the cultural imagination of the
West. In this study, Susan E. Schreiner analyzes
Tolkien: interpretations of the Book of Job by Gregory the
Treasures Great, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and particu-
Catherine McIlwaine
larly John Calvin. Reading Calvin’s interpretation of
2018 144 p. 73/4 x 73/4
Job against the background of his most important
100 color plates medieval predecessors, Schreiner shows how central
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Job is to Calvin’s struggles with issues of creation,
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doctrine of providence.
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of Middle-earth The Phoenix Mosque and the
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Catherine McIlwaine
Persians of Medieval Hangzhou
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From the
University of Wales Press
The Economy of Medieval
Wales, 1067-1536
Matthew Frank Stevens
“Matthew Stevens’s new book is a succinct, fresh
and at times challenging review of economic life in
Wales between the eleventh and the sixteenth cen-
tury. It provides a valuable guide to the historiogra-
phy of the past century, places the study of Wales’s
economies in an international frame, and enables
Stevens to bring his own research and judgments to
bear.”—Ralph Griffiths, Swansea University
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Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their
Superiority to Men
Moderata Fonte
Medieval Wales c.1050–1332
Centuries of Ambiguity
Written in the early 1590s by Moderata Fonte,
David Stephenson
pseudonym of the poet and writer Modesta Pozzo,
this literary dialogue interrogates men and men’s “This is an invaluable contribution to the historiog-
treatment of women. Presented with a new introduc- raphy of medieval Wales. Stephenson successfully
tion situating it in historical context, this is a must- challenges the enduring paradigm of the Gwynedd-
read, for anyone who needs a refresher on the merits led evolution of one Wales, and paints a more
of women and their superiority to men. complex, multi-dimensional picture. An essential
read for scholars and students of medieval Welsh
“Literary proof that when it comes to male-female history!”—Emma Cavell, Swansea University
relationships, the more things change, the more they Rethinking the History of Wales
stay the same.”—Kirkus Reviews 2019 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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Engineering the Eternal City The History of Wales
Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of John Graham Jones
Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome In the years since its original publication, John
Pamela Long Graham Jones’s The History of Wales has become the
“In this sparkling scholarly treatise, historian standard concise account of the history of Wales
Pamela Long reveals how tottering infrastructure, and its people. This new edition brings the book
ancient ruins and the flood-prone river Tiber were fully into the present, offering a new chapter on con-
tamed by four successive popes with bold plans for temporary Wales, a new preface, and a thoroughly
the urban fabric. Drawing on a trove of archival updated reading list.
2015 168 p. 5 x 71/2 13 halftones
maps and plans, Long charts the making and 31 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78316-168-3 $15.00 NSA/AU/NZ
remaking of squares, aqueducts, sewers, streets and Your Price: $12.00
bridges.”—Nature
2018 368 p. 7 x 10 73 halftones War and Society in Medieval
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Wales 633-1283
Welsh Military Institutions
The World of the Newport Sean Davies
Medieval Ship This book traces the development of the Welsh state
Trade, Politics and Shipping in the Mid- in the years after the Roman empire, setting Welsh
Fifteenth Century society in the context of larger European develop-
Evan T. Jones and Richard Stone ments while also offering a close look at the military
2018 320 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones, 8 color plates structures and tactics of the period.
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Arms and Armor from the Royal Armouries
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Arms and Armour of the Chinese Arms and Armour
Renaissance Joust Natasha Bennett
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Arms and Armour of the
Leather in Warfare Elizabethan Court
Attack, Defence and the Unexpected Thom Richardson
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Islamic Arms and Armour
Arms and Armour of Late Thom Richardson
Medieval Europe 2018 128 p. 61/2 x 9 100 color plates
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Arms and Armour of the Joust
Tobias Capwell
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Keith Dowen
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Japanese Arms and Armour
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The Art of Fencing Torture and Punishment
The Forgotten Discourse of Camillo Palladini Royal Armouries
Edited by Piermarco Terminiello and The Royal Armouries is Britain’s oldest museum,
Joshua Pendragon still partly housed in its original buildings in the
Hitherto unpublished and largely unknown, Tower of London. The core of the collection is the
Camillo Palladini’s manuscript for his discourse medieval arsenal that was restocked by Henry VIII
on fencing is of central importance to a modern and on show to privileged visitors as early as the
understanding of Italian rapier play in the sixteenth reign of Elizabeth I. After 1660, the general public
century. This stunning book reproduces the forty-six was admitted and a series of spectacular exhibits
red chalk illustrations in the manuscript together was set up, one of which included instruments of
with a transcription and translation of the original torture and punishment. Since that time, they have
Italian text. Perfect for students of fencing, lovers been one of the Tower’s prime attractions, enhanced
of Italian art, sixteenth-century researchers, and by the macabre stories that surround them. This
historical reenactors and interpreters, The Art of fascinating book sets these instruments of torture
Fencing showcases a striking example of Renaissance and punishment in their proper context and explores
swordsmanship. whether the Tower deserves its grim reputation.
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The Medieval Art of Now in Paperback
Swordsmanship Laughing Shall I Die
Royal Armouries MS I.33 Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings
Edited by Jeffrey L. Forgeng Tom Shippey
Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33 is the oldest “Magnificent. . . . Lively, friendly and occasionally
known manual of swordsmanship in the Western barbed. . . . Shippey’s magnum opus provides not
canon. This new edition includes a critical introduc- only an exhilarating, mind-expanding appraisal and
tion, transcription and translation by Jeffrey L. retelling of Viking history but also an invitation
Forgeng, the foremost authority on I.33. to discover the cold-iron poetry and prose of the
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“[Shippey] shows us that both literary and ar-
chaeological evidence can help to bring us closer to
Dangerous Arts the Old Norse mindset, providing fascinating proof
Royal Armouries of the Vikings’ own intellectual examination of their
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Thinking in the Past Tense The Young Descartes
Eight Conversations Nobility, Rumor, and War
Alexander Bevilacqua and Frederic Clark Harold J. Cook
“In an age dominated by the sound bite and the “Anyone who starts reading will quickly be drawn
tweet, it can be hard to resist the melancholy into the life of a young and intriguing French noble
conclusion that the humanities are in crisis and who only gradually found his way to becoming the
that scholarship no longer beckons as a spiritual Descartes later generations know, love, or sometimes
vocation. Thinking in the Past Tense offers reason for hate. This is a fascinating study of the personal,
hope. In this intimate gallery of portraits we come social, and political complications of living in early
face to face with eight distinguished practitioners seventeenth-century Europe, just as the modern
of early modern intellectual history, and we are nation-state was starting to form.”
reminded once again of the traditional virtues of —Dennis L. Sepper, University of Dallas
erudition and philological precision that continue to “Cook wants to shake up our image of Descartes,
sustain this field even at a time when historical un- to turn our attention from the familiar and to get us
derstanding seems under siege.”—Peter E. Gordon, to think more deeply about just who this Frenchman
Harvard University who spent most of his adult life in the Netherlands
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did. . . . As a skilled historian, Cook brings a good
Maimonides’ Guide of the deal of archival and other material to bear on the
matter.”—Times Literary Supplement
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Twentieth
Edited by Josef Stern, James T. Robinson, and Spinoza and the Cunning of
Yonatan Shemesh Imagination
Moses Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is the Eugene Garver
greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish “Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination offers
thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. This a compelling, thought provoking, and original
volume is the first to tell the story of the translations argument that challenges readers of Spinoza to
and translators of Maimonides’ Guide and its impact reexamine many of their well-received tropes and
on philosophy. habits. . . . [Garver’s] book constitutes . . . a rather
2019 464 p. 6 x 9 14 tables
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Spinozistic philosophical enterprise as such and
Neo-Aristotelianism and the from a critical but sympathetic view of what is
undeniably one of the most important philosophical
Medieval Renaissance systems of the Western philosophical tradition.”
On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart —Elhanan Yakira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Courts, Jurisdictions, and Now in Paperback
Law in John Milton and His Five Words
Contemporaries Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and
Cervantes
Alison A. Chapman
Roland Greene
John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty
and freedom. But his commitment to justice has “There is nothing like Five Words in current criti-
been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman cism. Grounded upon deep erudition, it represents
shows, Milton’s many prose works are saturated in a genuine breakthrough in critical methodology,
legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts be- conceptual history, and the social and cultural task
tween citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law of locating literature among the other discourses.”
to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book —William Kennedy, Cornell University
2013 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in
conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings Shakespeare’s Lyric Stage
to light Milton’s use of the various legal systems and Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays
vocabularies of the time.
Seth Lerer
2020 216 p. 6 x 9
52 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72929-9 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00 “Lerer brings to these rich and strange plays, with
their contradictory impulses towards topicality,
Practical Cues and Social towards the past and towards the beyond, not only a
Spectacle in the Chester Plays deep knowledge of Jacobean history and culture, but
Matthew Sergi
a fine ear. . . . Lerer is alert above all to the cadences
of the last plays’ dialogue and to the time-stopping,
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Chester time confounding moments when their action gives
plays employed flamboyant live performance to way to song.”—London Review of Books
adapt biblical narratives. But the original format of 2018 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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surviving records of these plays are sparse, and the
manuscripts were only written down a generation Shakespeare Dwelling
after they stopped. Revealing a vibrant set of social Designs for the Theater of Life
practices encoded in the Chester plays, Matthew Sergi Julia Reinhard Lupton
provides a new methodology for reading them and a “[This book] generously affords us new ways of
transformative look at medieval English drama. imagining Shakespeare’s astonishingly syncretic dra-
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with Shakespeare; here she helps us co-habit the gen-
Petrarch erative locales of his work, bringing together threads
Everywhere a Wanderer of phenomenology, architecture, house-keeping,
Christopher S. Celenza
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Coming To Arts of Dying
Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern Literature and Finitude in Medieval England
England D. Vance Smith
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Catastrophizing Cartesian Poetics
Materialism and the Making of Disaster The Art of Thinking
Gerard Passannante Andrea Gadberry
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Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, “slashed poetry’s throat” instead enlisted poetic form
Verse, and Drama to contain thought’s frustrations.
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Diagramming Devotion Now in Paperback
Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of
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fifteenth century France and the Low Countries.
“Extraordinary . . . . This is clearly a book that
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The Subject of Crusade Both from the Ears and Mind
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Typographic Firsts Designing English
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The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame Magnificence of Marble
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emotions of France’s most visited cathedral.” blossom into one of the most important European
—Barry Bergdoll, Museum of Modern Art centers of marble sculpture. This book presents an
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Shadows of Time
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overview, a guide to prominent figures of the time, most important European sculptor between Michel-
and a variety of illustrations, Fucíková’s book is angelo and Bernini. Although we know a great deal
an enlightening tour through the Renaissance about his success, we know little of Giambologna’s
metropolis of the Bohemian Kingdom. formative years in Italy, before he rose to promi-
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The Treasures and the Collectors his study of Michelangelo to shed fresh light on the
Amelia Smith development of a genius.
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Renaissance Lives from
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Renaissance and Baroque Art Hans Holbein
Selected Essays The Artist in a Changing World
Leo Steinberg Jeanne Nuechterlein
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Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art
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taking interpretive risks that challenged the Feminism in Early Modern
profession by overturning reigning orthodox-
ies. This volume begins and ends with thematic
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Selected Essays
Leo Steinberg Titian’s Touch
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frescoes in the Sistine Chapel to the Conversion of
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Selected Essays Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of
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Leonardo da Vinci and The Book Florence and its Painters
of Doom From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci
Bianca Sforza, The Sforziada and Artful Edited by Andreas Schumacher
Propaganda in Renaissance Milan The arts in fifteenth-century Florence made numer-
Simon Hewitt ous pioneering advances. Artists like Fra Angelico,
Debunking the notorious forger Shaun Greenhalgh’s Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, and Leonardo da
claim that he painted La Bella Principessa—the Vinci brought innovation to the themes, forms, and
mesmerizing portrait of Duke of Milan’s teenage techniques of painting, opening up a new world of
daughter, Bianca Sforza, that stormed the art world artistic expression.
in 2009—Hewitt agrees with others that the paint- Drawing on prominent examples of painting,
ing should be attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. sculpture, and drawing, this lavishly illustrated vol-
Hewitt brings the tragic Sforza to life, suggests why ume offers multifaceted insights into the intellectual
and by whom she was likely murdered, and explains world and working methods of Florentine artists
why Leonardo’s portrait of her was included in one during the Italian Renaissance.
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Utrecht, Caravaggio, and Europe
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The Endless Periphery The Making of Measure and the
Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Promise of Sameness
Italy
Emanuele Lugli
Stephen J. Campbell
“The long lacking history of measurements has fi-
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view of the central decades of the Italian Renais- ing chapter of European and Mediterranean history,
sance. With deep erudition and an acute eye for hidden under the ‘purported simplicity’ of meters
detail, Campbell pries the Renaissance out of the and weights. He guides the reader backward in time
stranglehold of Giorgio Vasari’s Florentine chauvin- from the standardizations of the eighteenth century
ism, which has defined the hierarchies of traditional to the world of medieval cities like Pisa or Milan .
art history since he first published his Lives of the . . to the foot of the Lombard king Liutprand, the
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where great art can be created, Campbell invites Roman land surveyors. The book shows the connec-
us to see a rich landscape of artistic production in tivity between abstract and physical forms, the inter-
which astute artists of tremendous talent forged relations of things and ratios. It reads like a thrilling
complex dialogues and conceptual geographies, novel while at the same time following the highest
responding to one another across the peninsula.” academic standards.”—Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthisto-
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Darker Shades
My Dearest Heart The Racial Other in Early Modern Art
The Artist Mary Beale (1633-1699) Victor I. Stoichita
Penelope Hunting This book asks how important Western artists, from
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London’s artistic, literary and scientific life. . . . non-Western individuals in early modern art. Victor
A fitting tribute to a woman who is again being I. Stoichita’s nuanced and detailed study examines
recognised as a major figure in seventeenth-century images of racial otherness during a time of new
British portraiture.”—Apollo encounters of the West with different cultures and
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Divine Conception considers the Western canon’s most essential facets:
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The Experimental Fire The Transmutations of
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that is destined to become the key work in the mie Royale des Sciences, France’s official scientific
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