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Patrick Provost-Smith
Provost-Smith, P: Holy War, Just War

Explores the sixteenth century debates about the nature of conflict, focusing on the Spanish conquistadors and their evangelisation of Mexico and Peru. This title shows how these debates were later approp…

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Sion Parkinson
Stinkhorn

A meditation on sound, inviting us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors.The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, cert…

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
Don Quixote

Vintage Classics

'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer 'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben OkriWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funni…

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Chrysostomus Javelli

The volume provides the first book-length study of Chrysostomus Javelli¿s philosophical works. An Italian university professor and a prominent figure in the intellectual landscape of sixteenth-century Eur…

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Charles Barber
Eccentric Renaissance

Eccentric Renaissance shows how El Greco and two other sixteenth-century Cretan artists, Michael Damaskenos and Georgios Klontzas, actively engaged in a re-casting of the Byzantine tradition of icon paint…

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Kate Foster
The King's Witches

A masterpiece . . . I literally didn't look up from the first page to the last' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealThe King's Witches by Kate Foster is a compelling and beautiful historical…

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Sara Kehaulani Goo
Kuleana

"From an early age, Sara Kehaulani Goo was enchanted by her family's land in Hawai'i. The vast area on the rugged shores of Maui's east side--given by King Kamehameha III in 1848--extends from mounta…

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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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Ferdinand Dugue
William Shakespeare

The man we encounter in Ferdinand Dugue's 1857 play is not the bland Shakespeare of history, about whose personal life we know so little. No, this is the playwright we would liked to have known: poet, rom…

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Forgotten Experts

"Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. These individuals served the Ottoman court with thei…

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Andrea Beth Wenz
Bernardino Ochino's Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation

Bernardino Ochino was one of the most celebrated Italian Catholic preachers of the sixteenth century-until the Roman Inquisition forced him into exile. But rather than silencing him, displacement granted …

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Tafel E 'Orient' in Archduke Ferdinand's Portrait Collection

Ottomania - Band 16

This volume presents a study of the thirty-four portraits in panel E 'Orient' in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. In this multi-faced object potentates from south-eastern Europe and Ottoman, Persian and…

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James E. Kelly
The Catholic Reformation

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Catholic Reformation: A Very Short Introduction traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginnings in the first half of the sixteenth century, th…

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Glen van Brummelen
The Doctrine of Triangles

An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentiethThe Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, s…

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Michael Lentz,
Schattenfroh

"An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious "psychogeography of the self" that both disrupts and elevates the twenty-first century vision of the novel. Our narrator is held in complete darkness …

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the …

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the …

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Lucy Rayfield
Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primarily, as a tool for teaching Latin; it was also judged to be a canny means of enriching…

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Lily V. Filson
Renaissance Automata of the Villa Pratolino

This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these 'living sculptu…

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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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