Early Modern & Modern
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Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri Altarpiece [Paperback]
Jennifer Sliwka (Author)
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ISBN: 9781857095944
Published by : National Gallery of Art
Visions of Paradise showcases new scholarly research on the monumental Palmieri Altarpiece by Francesco Botticini (1446-1498). The painting, which depicts the Assumption of the Virgin, was made for the funerary chapel of the Florentine citizen Mat... .... Learn More -
“Onder faveur van ’t canon”: VOC-Artillerie, 1602-1796: Technologische vernieuwingen, logistiek en beleid [Hardback]
John R. Verbeek (Author)
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ISBN: 9789464280432
Published by : Sidestone Press
Het zeer gedegen werk van John R. Verbeek (1955-2021) voert de lezer rechtstreeks naar het militair optreden van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) in haar octrooigebied in Azië.
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“Onder faveur van ’t canon”: VOC-Artillerie, 1602-1796: Technologische vernieuwingen, logistiek en beleid [Paperback]
John R. Verbeek (Author)
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ISBN: 9789464280425
Published by : Sidestone Press
Het zeer gedegen werk van John R. Verbeek (1955-2021) voert de lezer rechtstreeks naar het militair optreden van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) in haar octrooigebied in Azië.
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Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe [Paperback]
Margaret C. Jacob (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812223873
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making ... .... Learn More -
Nowhere in the Middle Ages: The Middle Ages Series [Hardback]
Karma Lochrie (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812248111
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were inca... .... Learn More -
A Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of the English Reformation: Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture [Hardback]
Scott Lucas (Author)
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ISBN: 9781558497061
Published by : University of Massachusetts Press
This work offers a bold reassessment of a major work of sixteenth-century English literature. Perhaps no other work of secular poetry was as widely read in Tudor England as the historical verse tragedy collection ""A Mirror for Magistrates"". For ... .... Learn More -
Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England [Hardback]
Karen Cunningham (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812236408
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecutio... .... Learn More -
Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in Bronze Age Aegean [Hardback]
Philippa M. Steele (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789259018
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 7
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Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how... .... Learn More -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets [Hardback]
Philip J. Boyes (Editor); Philippa M. Steele (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250923
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: Volume 1
Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty o... .... Learn More -
Sealed by Time: The Loss and Recovery of the Mary Rose [Paperback]
Peter Marsden (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785701528
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Archaeology of the Mary Rose
Volume: 1
Although the wreck of the Mary Rose was raised twenty years ago, the excavations and conservation work and indeed the ship itself have never been published in full. Now the Mary Rose Trust, with the Heritage Lottery Fund is publishing the compl... .... Learn More
