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  • Oil and Marble

    A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

    In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • London Lives

    Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800

    London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Abortion in Early Modern Italy

    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy.In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. His poignant portraits of women who terminated or were forced to terminate pregnancies offer a corrective to longstanding views: he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Dogs of God

    Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

    From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort to consolidate its own burgeoning power by throwing off the yoke of the Vatican. By waging war on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Building the Italian Renaissance

    Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age. This dome would be the largest ever built. This is foremost a technical ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

    You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously large-scale project to be a plot for failure conspired by his rivals and the "Warrior Pope." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lucrezia Borgia

    Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy

    The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance—incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait, the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither a vicious monster nor a seductive pawn, Lucrezia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe

    Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

    This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere.Adelina Modesti uses Grand Duchess Vittoria as an exemplar of pan-European 'matronage' and proposes a new matrilineal model of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

    In this game-changing revisionist history, a leading scholar of the Renaissance shows how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century.The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remarkable ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Henry VIII

    The Charismatic King who Reforged a Nation

    by Kathy Elgin ...
    This captivating biography of perhaps the most charismatic monarch of all time describes Henry's love affairs and life at the English Court together with his political wranglings, military campaigns, mood swings, and acts of murderous brutality. This fully illustrated book on the reign of Henry VIII focuses not only on his marital adventures, but also on his abilities as a politician, reformer, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Christopher Marlowe : Poet & Spy

    Poet & Spy

    by Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Spinoza and the Stoics

    by Jon Miller ...
    For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of 'Spinoza the Stoic'. Until now, however, no one has systematically examined the relationship between the two systems. In Spinoza and the Stoics Jon Miller takes on this task, showing how key elements of Spinoza's metaphysics, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Feeling Exclusion

    Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

    Feeling Exclusion: Religious Confl**ict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe.Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a ... Read more

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  • Charles I's Killers in America

    The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe

    When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces the gripping story of two of these men-Edward Whalley and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Margaret Beaufort

    Mother of the Tudor Dynasty

    The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim to the crown of England to her son, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor monarchs. Margaret's royal blood placed her on the fringes of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's most important ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

    The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Tudors

    The History of England Volume II

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 2 - The History of England
    Following on from Foundation, Tudors is the second volume in Peter Ackroyd's astonishing series, The History of England.Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • En Garde!

    Swashbuckling Skirmish Wargames Rules

    Series Book 12 - Osprey Wargames
    En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the models that they control will fight – offensively, defensively, or by applying special skills and abilities. En Garde! covers the conflicts of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Europe's Babylon

    The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age

    by Michael Pye ...
    A revelatory history of Antwerp—from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury—by the New York Times Notable author of *The Edge of the World.***Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp.In the Age of Exploration, Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. It was somewhere ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mesoamerican Voices

    Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala

    Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Questioning Collapse

    Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

    Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Les Valois (1293-1589)

    Hérédités, pathologie, amours et grandeurs

    Nous avons lu dans nos livres d'Histoire bien des certitudes sur les rois de France et leurs familles : Charles VI était atteint de folie, la femme de Philippe VI boitait, Henri III était efféminé, Marguerite de Valois incestueuse, etc, etc...Dans ce livre concernant la dynastie des Valois, l'auteur s'évertue à étudier et à suivre chronologiquement les manifestations de l'hérédité et de l ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman’s uproarious history for mischievous Anglophiles.With this “impeccable” (BBC History) chronicle, acclaimed popular historian Ruth Goodman reveals a Renaissance Britain particularly rank with troublemakers. From snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting “thee,” to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table ... Read more

    $12.99 USD