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  • The Material and Emotional Worlds of Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg

    Edited by Jennifer Spinks, Sasha Handley, Charles Zika ...
    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    The Material and Emotional Worlds of Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg explores the life, work, and artistic creativity of Albrecht Dürer within the vibrant cultural, economic, and material world of Nuremberg around 1500, offering fresh interdisciplinary insights into the objects, emotions, and experiences that shaped his art and legacy.Nuremberg c.1500 was one of the most important and dynamic political ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany

    by Jennifer Spinks ...
    Series series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht Durer and Hans Burgkmair. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Albrecht Dürer’s material world

    Edited by Edward H. Wouk, Jennifer Spinks ...
    The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery’s outstanding Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer as an intense observer of the worlds of manufacture, design and trade that fill his graphic art.Artworks and artefacts ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700

    Edited by Jennifer Spinks, Charles Zika ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped by new developments ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Early Modern Women in the Low Countries

    Feminizing Sources and Interpretations of the Past

    by Susan Broomhall, Jennifer Spinks ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves through texts, art, architecture and material objects, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they have been interpreted in modern academic and popular contexts. Broomhall and Spinks analyse late ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • 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

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  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Strait Gate

    Thresholds and Power in Western History

    by Daniel Jütte (Jutte) ...
    Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jütte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages

    by Ittai Weinryb ...
    This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe and explores the cultural responses to large scale bronzes in the Middle Ages. Starting with mining, ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Gothic Screen

    Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200–1400

    by Jacqueline E. Jung ...
    At the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur, and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for crucifixes and reliquaries, and a ground for spectacular arrays of narrative and iconic sculptures, the choir screen profoundly shaped the spaces of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Witch Craze

    by Lyndal Roper ...

    $42.99 CAD