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The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (Norton History of Modern Europe) by Eugene F Rice Publisher Comments Professor Rice, assisted in this edition by Professor Tony Grafton continues to argue, as in the first edition, that this century represents a shift from medieval to "early" modern.... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Renaissance by Walter Pater Publisher Comments Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 by Anthony Grafton Publisher Comments Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader. In a full-scale presentation of the world of scholarship, from the Renaissance to the modern period, Grafton sets before us in... (read more) List Price $39.75 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Man and Nature in the Renaissance (Cambridge History of Science) by Allen Debus Publisher Comments Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Renaissance Diplomacy by Garrett Mattingly Publisher Comments Famed historian's definitive history of the origins of diplomacy, tracing the diplomat's role as it emerged in the Italian city-states and spread northward in the 16th and 17th centuries. "An important book...carefully and elegantly written." The... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Private Life #03: Histoire de La Vie Privee, Vol. 3, de La Renaissance Aux Lumieres / Ieres by Roger Chartier Review Its broad chronological scope, its remarkable effective integration of essays by different historians, and above all its ability to represent the seemingly frivolous details of private life in a challengingly theoretical matrix make this an important and... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like at the Rebirth of Genius: Renaissance Italy, Ad 1400-1550 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cult & Bel Mod Eur 1450-1600 by David Englander Publisher Comments This open university reader is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources, illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in sixteenth-century Europe. It contains more than eighty extracts... (read more) List Price $88.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age by Theodore K Rabb Publisher Comments With Renaissance Lives, Theodore K. Rabb revives a tradition of writing that was often practiced by the historians of that astounding era: to tell the story of an age by examining the lives of those who lived it. Rabbs subjects are all people who felt... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Italian Renaissance, Vol. 1 by Lewis William Spitz Publisher Comments In two volumes, the Renaissance and Reformation Movements presents the panoramic history of the politico-ecclesiastical, intellectual, and cultural life of the two centuries preceding the 16th-century Reformation. This is volume 1.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance by Lisa Jardine Publisher Comments In this provocative and wholly absorbing work, Lisa Jardine offers a radical interpretation of the Renaissance, arguing that the creation of culture during that time was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth -- that the expansion of commerce... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Approaches to European History #0006: Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G Nauert Publisher Comments 'This new textbook provides a synthesis of the major themes of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert traces the origins of the humanist \"movement\" and its development in the social and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century by Peter N Miller Publisher Comments Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men. This book is the first in English to portray this extraordinary man as well as his whole circle, including Pope Urban VIII, Galileo, Peter-Paul Rubens,... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley Publisher Comments In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic clash between rival empires and faiths for control of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World by John A Wagner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-376) and index.... (read more) Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Panorama of the Renaissance by Margaret Aston Synopsis This ingenious, profusely illustrated book presents the entire epoch of the Renaissance through a spectacular array of images and invites readers to follow the great lives, explore the themes, and witness the major events of this exciting era. 1,000... (read more) List Price $24.98 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy Publisher Comments Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews — and with burning at the stake — its targets were more... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Popes Elephant an Elephants Journey From Deep in India To the Heart of Rome by Silvio A Bedini Synopsis In 1514, Rome, the Eternal City, was the center of the Christian world and home and workshop to Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. It was also the city of Pope Leo X, the pleasure-loving pontiff whose court was infamous for its excess, frivolity and... (read more) List Price $8.97 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A History of Private Life, Volume 3: Passions of the Renaissance by Roger Chartier Review This is a bold and seductive book...Richly illustrated, with contributions from foremost French historians, it is set fair to become the authoritative history of intimacy in the early modern West.... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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The civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale Book News Annotation Hale (Italian history, University College, London) analyzes the foundation of modern Western thought and culture during the Renaissance, 1450-1620. He discusses the period's artistic, scientific and philosophical achievements, as well as the negative... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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