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Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
Price:
$120.00
ISBN: 9781487500702
Pub Date: April 2025
A multidisciplinary study of the art and science of botany in Shakespeare’s time, Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance excavates plant natural history as a vital resource for reimagining categories of embodiment, including gender and sex.
Masculinities and Representation
The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487556976
Pub Date: December 2024
Masculinities and Representation reveals how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.
Bodies beyond Labels
Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain
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$95.00
ISBN: 9781487556891
Pub Date: May 2024
Bodies beyond Labels presents an affirmative view of joy and non-labelled expressions of gender, sexuality, and performativity in the Spanish empire.
Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
Price:
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487503802
Pub Date: September 2021
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Price:
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487541958
Pub Date: June 2021
Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.
Goodbye Eros
Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes
Price:
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487504212
Pub Date: April 2020
A surfeit of tropes about love exhausted Spanish literature in the age of Cervantes. This book provides a pioneering look at the rich array of ways in which Spanish Golden Age authors responded by crafting a new literary aesthetic.
Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces
Price:
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487503888
Pub Date: January 2019
Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces explores the performative aspects of early modern theatre architecture and design, explicating the aesthetic function of pictorial displacements, visual anomalies, and architectural paradoxes
The Jesuits II
Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
Price:
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487520687
Pub Date: March 2016
With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen different countries, The Jesuits, II continues in the illustrious tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to religious memory.
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages
Transcultural Perspectives
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$84.00
ISBN: 9781442644663
Pub Date: January 2016
Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend.
Baroque Visual Rhetoric
Price:
$106.00
ISBN: 9781442648791
Pub Date: December 2015
Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes the Baroque’s combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance
Price:
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442600140
Pub Date: July 2013
Award-winning historian Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this new and beautifully illustrated overview.
Quixotic Frescoes
Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art
Price:
$52.00
ISBN: 9781442610316
Pub Date: May 2009
Quixotic Frescoes delves into the politics of imitation, self-censorship, religious ideology expressed through the pictorial, as well as the gendering of art as reflected in Cervantes' work.
Between Renaissance and Baroque
Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610
Price:
$58.00
ISBN: 9781442610309
Pub Date: May 2009
Bailey provides us with a new understanding of the stylistic and iconographic strands which shortly afterward were woven together to form the Baroque.
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442614932
Pub Date: December 2008
The first art treatise specifically directed toward non-practitioners, Il Riposo gives unique insight into the early stages of art history as a discipline, late Renaissance art and theory, and the Counter-Reformation in Italy.
Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773
Price:
$61.00
ISBN: 9780802085078
Pub Date: November 2001
Through a sweeping look at Jesuit activities in Japan, China, Mughul India, and Paraguay, Bailey finds evidence of artistic hybridization as a means of communication and argues in favour of a paradigm of artistic exchange.
Literature in the Light of the Emblem
Price:
$47.95
ISBN: 9780802078919
Pub Date: December 1998
The literature of the 16th and 17th centuries was informed by the symbolic thought embodied in the mixed art form of emblems. This study explores the relationship between the emblem and the literature of England and Germany during the period.
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance
$120.00
ISBN: 9781487500702
Pub Date: April 2025
Masculinities and Representation
The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487556976
Pub Date: December 2024
Bodies beyond Labels
Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487556891
Pub Date: May 2024
Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic
$84.00
ISBN: 9781487503802
Pub Date: September 2021
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487541958
Pub Date: June 2021
Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.
Goodbye Eros
Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487504212
Pub Date: April 2020
A surfeit of tropes about love exhausted Spanish literature in the age of Cervantes. This book provides a pioneering look at the rich array of ways in which Spanish Golden Age authors responded by crafting a new literary aesthetic.
Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces
$74.00
ISBN: 9781487503888
Pub Date: January 2019
Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces explores the performative aspects of early modern theatre architecture and design, explicating the aesthetic function of pictorial displacements, visual anomalies, and architectural paradoxes
The Jesuits II
Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487520687
Pub Date: March 2016
With contributions from distinguished scholars from a dozen different countries, The Jesuits, II continues in the illustrious tradition of its predecessor to make an important contribution to religious memory.
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages
Transcultural Perspectives
$84.00
ISBN: 9781442644663
Pub Date: January 2016
Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend.
Baroque Visual Rhetoric
$106.00
ISBN: 9781442648791
Pub Date: December 2015
Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes the Baroque’s combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442600140
Pub Date: July 2013
Quixotic Frescoes
Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art
$52.00
ISBN: 9781442610316
Pub Date: May 2009
Quixotic Frescoes delves into the politics of imitation, self-censorship, religious ideology expressed through the pictorial, as well as the gendering of art as reflected in Cervantes' work.
Between Renaissance and Baroque
Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610
$58.00
ISBN: 9781442610309
Pub Date: May 2009
Bailey provides us with a new understanding of the stylistic and iconographic strands which shortly afterward were woven together to form the Baroque.
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442614932
Pub Date: December 2008
The first art treatise specifically directed toward non-practitioners, Il Riposo gives unique insight into the early stages of art history as a discipline, late Renaissance art and theory, and the Counter-Reformation in Italy.
Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773
$61.00
ISBN: 9780802085078
Pub Date: November 2001
Through a sweeping look at Jesuit activities in Japan, China, Mughul India, and Paraguay, Bailey finds evidence of artistic hybridization as a means of communication and argues in favour of a paradigm of artistic exchange.
Literature in the Light of the Emblem
$47.95
ISBN: 9780802078919
Pub Date: December 1998
The literature of the 16th and 17th centuries was informed by the symbolic thought embodied in the mixed art form of emblems. This study explores the relationship between the emblem and the literature of England and Germany during the period.