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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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Terry Kirby
The Newsmongers

"... unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed "Strange Newes" sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today's digital age. The narrative weav…

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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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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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Noria K Litaker
Bedazzled Saints

Winner of the Sixteenth Century Society Gerald Strauss Book Award Shortlisted for the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Award The defense of the cult of saints and relics was an essential element of the…

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Giovanna Montenegro
German Conquistadors in Venezuela

"Giovanna Montenegro investigates one of the strangest and often-ignored episodes in the conquest and colonization of the Americas--the governance of the Province of Venezuela by the Welsers, a Germa…

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Patricia Emison
The Long Picturesque, or Unraveling the Rules of Art

This book provides a Renaissance art historian¿s view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape …

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Helen Pfeifer
Empire of Salons

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth ce…

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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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Rachel L. Denyer, Howell G. M. Edwards, Morgan C. T. Denyer
Armorial Porcelain

This book explores the genesis of armorial porcelain manufacture in Britain. While heraldic devices began appearing on Chinese porcelain from the sixteenth century onwards, armorials did not appear on Bri…

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Chloe L. Ireton
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercely contested and claimed. It recreates the worlds o…

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Andrea Ballesteros - Danel
Pre-Columbian Contact between the Americas and Oceania

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pa…

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Shah Tahmasp I,
The Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I

"A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary so…

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Laurent De Sutter,
Superweak

We have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore - persons, ideas, facts, realities, beings. We have become superheroes because we have seized on a tool that subjects everything to the scrutiny o…

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Joanne Paul
Thomas More

Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century 'Engrossing ' THE TIMES'In this excellent study, Thomas More…

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Joanne Paul
Thomas More

The definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More.Born into the era of the Wars of the Roses, educated during the Eu…

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Laurent De Sutter,
Superweak

We have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore - persons, ideas, facts, realities, beings. We have become superheroes because we have seized on a tool that subjects everything to the scrutiny o…

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Malissa Taylor
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its "classica…

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