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The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Spaccio della bestia trionfante
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$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552015
Pub Date: March 2024
In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their skies with bestial vices, and narrates a mythical drama of universal reform designed to replace them with their respective virtues.
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
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$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: October 2023
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
Entertaining the Idea
Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy
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$71.00
ISBN: 9781487507435
Pub Date: December 2020
This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare.
Early Modern Asceticism
Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance
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$80.00
ISBN: 9781487505325
Pub Date: October 2019
Challenging contemporary perceptions of the ascetic in the early modern period, this book explores asceticism as a vital site of religious conflict and literary creativity, rather than merely a vestige of a medieval past.
Collected Works of Erasmus
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus, Volume 41
Price:
$340.00
ISBN: 9780802092229
Pub Date: March 2019
CWE 41 is intended as an essential companion to the full range of Erasmus scholarship on the New Testament, as it is translated, annotated and presented in Volumes 42-60.
Experimental Selves
Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe
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$106.00
ISBN: 9781487503680
Pub Date: September 2018
Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an "experimental" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2357 to 2471, Volume 17
Price:
$217.00
ISBN: 9781442648784
Pub Date: October 2016
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530).
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2204 to 2356 Volume 16
Price:
$217.00
ISBN: 9781442647497
Pub Date: March 2015
The letters in this volume reflect Erasmus’ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Germany.
The Matter of Mind
Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781442643482
Pub Date: January 2012
Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.
Cervantes, Literature and the Discourse of Politics
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$48.95
ISBN: 9781442612235
Pub Date: November 2011
Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers.
Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9780802071576
Pub Date: December 1996
Four short Latin treatises published between 1400 and 1460 define the humanist idea of education and form the heart of a book that has remained for almost seventy years the fundamental study of early Renaissance educational theory and practice.
Erasmus
His Life, Works, and Influence
Price:
$41.95
ISBN: 9780802071774
Pub Date: December 1995
Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts.
The View from Minerva's Tower
Learning and Imagination of the Anatomy of Melancholy
Price:
$41.95
ISBN: 9781487585402
Pub Date: December 1989
Burton’s book, Vicari argues, is neither a structured treatise nor a self-indulgent romp, but a fairly well controlled instrument of persuasion, a swollen sermon.

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Spaccio della bestia trionfante
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552015
Pub Date: March 2024
In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their skies with bestial vices, and narrates a mythical drama of universal reform designed to replace them with their respective virtues.
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: October 2023
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
Entertaining the Idea
Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487507435
Pub Date: December 2020
This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare.
Early Modern Asceticism
Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487505325
Pub Date: October 2019
Challenging contemporary perceptions of the ascetic in the early modern period, this book explores asceticism as a vital site of religious conflict and literary creativity, rather than merely a vestige of a medieval past.
Collected Works of Erasmus
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus, Volume 41
$340.00
ISBN: 9780802092229
Pub Date: March 2019
CWE 41 is intended as an essential companion to the full range of Erasmus scholarship on the New Testament, as it is translated, annotated and presented in Volumes 42-60.
Experimental Selves
Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe
$106.00
ISBN: 9781487503680
Pub Date: September 2018
Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an "experimental" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2357 to 2471, Volume 17
$217.00
ISBN: 9781442648784
Pub Date: October 2016
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530).
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2204 to 2356 Volume 16
$217.00
ISBN: 9781442647497
Pub Date: March 2015
The letters in this volume reflect Erasmus’ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Germany.
The Matter of Mind
Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
$100.00
ISBN: 9781442643482
Pub Date: January 2012
Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy.
Cervantes, Literature and the Discourse of Politics
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442612235
Pub Date: November 2011
Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators
$39.95
ISBN: 9780802071576
Pub Date: December 1996
Four short Latin treatises published between 1400 and 1460 define the humanist idea of education and form the heart of a book that has remained for almost seventy years the fundamental study of early Renaissance educational theory and practice.
Erasmus
His Life, Works, and Influence
$41.95
ISBN: 9780802071774
Pub Date: December 1995
Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts.
The View from Minerva's Tower
Learning and Imagination of the Anatomy of Melancholy
$41.95
ISBN: 9781487585402
Pub Date: December 1989