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Renaissance

A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
edited by Guido Ruggiero
This volume brings together some of the most exciting Renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship. The authors seek to overturn the idea that it was a period of ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.99

A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature
edited by Donna B Hamilton
This Companion places the poetry of the English Renaissance within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

English Renaissance Drama
by Peter Womack
This book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. Peter Womack places emphasis on those plays which are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes be seen in modern productions, ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.99
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Renaissance Popes: Statesmen, Warriors and the Great Borgia Myth
by Gerald Noel
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Scultura del rinascimento in Puglia
edited by Clara Gelao
Eleven essays from an international conference held in Bitonto in 2001 on the subject of Renaissance sculpture in Puglia. Italian text. 237p, b/w and col pls and figs (Edipuglia 2004)
Paperback. Price GB £32.00

Antiquity Renewed: Late Classical and Early Modern Themes
by Z. von Martels, V.M. Schmidt
In conjunction with a long-running research project at the University of Groningen on cultural change, this volume forms the proceedings of a workshop held at the university in 2001. These ten essays look at the reception of classical material in Late ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

The Culture of San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero Della Francesca
by James R Banker
The life and influence of Piero della Francesca form the focus of this book, rather than his artworks. James Banker recreates life in the small Tuscan town of San Sepolcro, Piero's birthplace, in the early 15th century arguing that it was the culture, ...
Hardback. Price GB £39.00

The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance
by Joscelyn Godwin
The Renaissance was defined by its fascination for the lost world of Greece and Rome, in particularly its paganism and its evocation of a time without sin. This well illustrated study searches for the reasons why Europe, especially Italy, `adopted ...
Hardback. Price GB £26.00

Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
by Pia Palladino
Italian manuscript painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance truly is `writing made beautiful' and this book celebrates this exquisite artistic tradition. Taken from an exhibition held in Cleveland, San Francisco and New York in 2003-2004, this ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00

Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
edited by Susan Karant-Nunn
These ten essays include different approaches to the ways in which Christians aspired to, and worshipped God. Based on literary works, archival and archaeological material they look at different forms of religious devotion from early Christianity through ...
Hardback. Price GB £47.00