Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in Canada

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “carlo tedeschi”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Cheese and the Worms

    The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

    by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...
    The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic tale of a sixteenth-century miller facing the Roman Inquisition.The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. In the fiftieth anniversary edition of this now-classic ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Night Battles

    Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    by Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, Stephen Twilley ...
    The classic study of witchcraft and popular belief, newly revisited.A landmark of microhistory, The Night Battles remains one of the most daring and influential investigations of witchcraft and popular belief in early modern Europe. Through meticulous research in the inquisitorial archives of northern Italy, Carlo Ginzburg reconstructs the story of the benandanti—the "good walkers"—peasants of the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Neuropsychiatric Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis

    Edited by Ugo Nocentini, Carlo Caltagirone, Gioacchino Tedeschi ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on the neuropsychiatric disturbances that may be experienced by patients with multiple sclerosis. The first section is designed primarily to describe the general clinical aspects of multiple sclerosis, from epidemiology to assessment tools. The role of neuroimaging and especially MRI is then explained, and treatment approaches and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

    by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi ...
    Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events.More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Read more

    Was $22.99 CAD Now $18.99 CAD

  • The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio

    The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

    by Hubert Wolf ...
    Translated by Ruth Martin ...
    A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Europe's Inner Demons

    The Demonization of Christians In Medieval Christendom

    by Norman Cohn ...
    In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th centuries when thousands of innocent people were tortured and burned alive. It is a fascinating history of the need to imagine antihuman conspiracies and an investigation of how those fantasies made the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Giordano Bruno

    Philosopher/Heretic

    by Ingrid D. Rowland ...
    "Ingrid D. Rowland brings before us today the pieces of an extraordinary sixteenth-century life . . . This is intellectual biography at its best." —Peter N. Miller, The New RepublicGiordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

    Free

  • The Flowering of the Renaissance

    by Vincent Cronin ...
    Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelangelo remodelled and beautified, in the Venice of Titian and Tintoretto and Palladio, the Renaissance reached the height of its splendour, not only in the visual arts but also in the theatre, history, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Jan van Eyck

    The Play of Realism, Second Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Craig Harbison ...
    Jan van Eyck (1395-41) was the foremost artist of the Early Netherlandish School. Although Court painter to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, van Eyck’s surviving work was not executed for the Duke, but for rising Court bureaucrats, Italian merchants and members of the secular clergy, for whom he created a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most ... Read more

    $32.49 CAD

  • Studies In Iconology

    Humanistic Themes In The Art Of The Renaissance

    by Erwin Panofsky ...
    In Studies in Iconology, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies. ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD