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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
by Gavin Menzies  Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the...
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The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (Norton History of Modern Europe)
by Eugene F Rice Synopsis Was the shift from old to new in this period a transition from medieval to modern? 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...
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The Reformation
by Diarmaid Macculloch 
Publisher Comments The definitive history of the Reformation from an award-winning historian. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation represented the greatest upheaval in Western society since the collapse of the Roman Empire a millennium before. The consequences of...
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Jerry Brotton Publisher Comments More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe...
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Historical Atlas of the Renaissance
by Robert Ritchie Publisher Comments The Renaissance first bloomed in northern Italy in the 14th...
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Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love
by Myriam Cyr Publisher Comments Provides an eye-opening look at a series of remarkable and passionate letters that chronicle a tumultuous seventeenth-century love affair between a young Portuguese nun and a French officer, written by the nun, Mariana Alcoforado, when her lover was...
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The Renaissance: A Short History
by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments From a legendary historian comes "a concise and entertaining survey" ("The Wall Street Journal") of perhaps the most revolutionary, and romanticized, era of human history....
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Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
by Lawrence Goldstone Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Longitude and "Brunelleschi's Dome, the fascinating story of a bold freethinker who discovered blood circulation, questions religious orthodoxy, was burned at the stake--and the strange fate of the book that caused his death....
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Christianity in the West 1400-1700
by John Bossy Publisher Comments A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the Christian people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins...
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments In the hands of award-winning historian Brook, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought--from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global....
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
by Carlo Ginzburg Publisher Comments "A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of...
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The Renaissance
by Walter Pater Publisher Comments Pater's assessments of Renaissance art have had a crucial influence on the art criticism of the last hundred years....
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Humanism and the Renaissance
by Zachary Sayre (edt) Schiffman Publisher Comments A volume in the "Problems in European Civilization" series, this book features a collection of secondary source essays focusing on aspects of the Renaissance and humanist beliefs. The proven PEC format features key scholarship, chapter and essay...
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Christopher Columbus and the age of exploration :an encyclopedia
by Silvio A Bedini Publisher Comments More than just an encyclopedia on Christopher Columbus's life and voyages, this comprehensive reference book provides a panoramic view of the age of European exploration--from the late fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century--while emphasizing...
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Uppity Women of the Renaissance
by Vicki Leon Publisher Comments The author of "Uppity Women of Ancient Times" introduces some of history's most outrageous women from Renaissance times. Illustrations....
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini Publisher Comments 1910. Harvard Classics, Volume 31. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. An excellent translation of the honest, if self-aggrandized life of the epitomal sixteenth-century Renaissance man. It ranks among the greatest autobiographies ever written....
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Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
by Patricia (edt) Fumerton Synopsis Items as familiar as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food look decidedly less familiar when seen through the eyes of Renaissance men and women. InItems as familiar as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry...
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The Economy of Early Renaissance Europe, 1300-1460
by Harry A Miskimin Publisher Comments In his unique analysis of the economic structure of early Renaissance Europe, Harry A. Miskimin uses modern economic concepts to examine the far-reaching changes which drew the monarchs of Europe ever further into the management of economic affairs...
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War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620
by J R Hale Publisher Comments This book examines the developments in military technique and technology which both fueled and resulted from the changing nature of warfare....
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Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe (Handbook to Life)
by Sandra Sider Publisher Comments The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminated in England in the early 17th...
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