Renaissance
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
$21.99 Add to cartA brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this style
- Author: Wittkower, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0393005992
- Language: English
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives..
$18.00 Add to cart‘The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land … He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it’
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall o… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics #217
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0140442170
- Language: English
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The French Huguenots and Wars of Religion
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Huguenot Society’s 2022 Scholarly Works Award
The Huguenots and their struggle for freedom of conscience and freedom of worship are largely unknown outside of France. The entranc
- Author: Davis, Stephen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1532661614
- Language: English
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Titian: His Life and Works: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist in Context, with a Gallery of His Paintings and Drawings
$35.00 Read moreCelebrated for his use of expressive brush marks, which filled his paintings with dynamism, light and colour in a way not seen before in Renaissance art, Tiziano Veccellio became the greatest painter
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0754835537
- Language: English
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The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
$19.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de’ Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestu… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0316409669
- Language: English
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Leonardo, Frida and the Others: The History of Art, 800 Years – 100 Artists
$35.00 Add to cartThis fresh and engaging, illustrated history of art explains the fundamentals every art lover needs while presenting the development of different schools and styles as one continuous, astonishing time… [more below]
- Author: Jouneaux, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377183
- Language: English
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A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
$19.95 Add to cartThe Compendium of Common Knowedge (1558-1603) offers insight into ordinary lives-both common and noble-in the England of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. In this little book you’ll find notes on Eli… [more below]
- Author: Secara, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0981840108
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore 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 em… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0192801635
- Language: English
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House of Borgia: A Captivating Guide to the Borgias and Their Feuds with the Medici Family, Sforza Dynasty, and Girolamo Savonarola
$24.99 Add to cartThe History of the House of Borgia: The Infamous Family of the Italian Renaissance!
Do you know the WHOLE story of the House of Borgia-from their rise from obscurity to the highest echelons of European
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168489
- Language: English
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Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History
$37.00 Add to cartFor centuries, bird guano has played a pivotal role in the agricultural and economic development of Latin America, East Asia, and Oceania. As their populations ballooned during the Industrial Revoluti… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Environment and History
- Author: Cushman, Gregory T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 02 2014
- ISBN10: 110765596X
- Language: English
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The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas M?tzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary
$34.95 Read more“You will be gripped and inspired by this exciting story-I couldn’t put it down.”
On the 500th anniversary of the German Peasant Wars, a bri
-Lyndal Roper, author of Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet- Author: Drummond, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1839768940
- Language: English
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The Unbound Prometheus
$45.00 Add to cartIn this new edition of his classic history on revolution and economic development in Europe, David Landes reasserts his original arguments in the light of current debates about globalization and compa… [more below]
- Author: Landes, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 590
- Publish Date: June 26 2003
- ISBN10: 052153402X
- Language: English
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Mosquito Empires
$35.00 Add to cartThis book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean – the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake – in the seventeenth t… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to the Americas
- Author: McNeill, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0521459109
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- Language: English
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Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice
$65.00 Add to cartAn authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian Renaissance
Meticulously researched and luxuriously illustrated, this volume o- Author: Humfrey, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300254474
- Language: English
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De’ Medici
$21.00 Add to cartA vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de’ Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant–sometimes ruthless–statesman who was respo… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Miles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 074325435X
- Language: English
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The Medicis and Borgias: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Medici Family and House of Borgia
$26.99 Add to cartTwo manuscripts in one book:
- House of Medici: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Medici Family and Dynasty
- House of Borgia: A Captivating Guide to the Borgias and Their Feuds with the Medici Fam
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168608
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age
$28.00 Add to cartA “lively and engaging” history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion.
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity o- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0316545317
- Language: English
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The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
$18.00 Add to cartA rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics black spine edition
“. . . as when iron is drawn to- Author: Copenhaver, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0141393149
- Language: English
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Bruegel
$20.00 Add to cartThe great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836553066
- Language: English
