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  • Transregional Lordship and the Italian Renaissance

    René de Challant, 1504-1565

    by Matthew Vester ...
    Series series Renaissance History, Art and Culture
    René de Challant, whose holdings ranged from northwestern Italy to the Alps and over the mountains into what is today western Switzerland and eastern France, was an Italian and transregional dynast. The spatially dispersed kind of lordship that he practiced and his lifetime of service to the house of Savoy, especially in the context of the Italian Wars, show how the Sabaudian lands, neighboring ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Dynasticism and Apanage Politics

    Jacques de Savoie-Nemours, 1531–1585

    by Matthew Vester ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    One of the most brilliant courtiers and military leaders in Renaissance France, Jacques de Savoie, duke of Nemours, was head of the cadet branch of the house of Savoy, a dynasty that had ruled over a collection of lands in the Western Alps since the eleventh century. Jacques’ cousin Emanuel Filibert, duke of Savoy and ruler of the Sabaudian lands, fought against Jacques, and each expanded their ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Sabaudian Studies

    Political Culture, Dynasty, and Territory (1400–1700)

    Edited by Matthew Vester ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    This collection of interdisciplinary essays introduce the history and culture of the lands ruled by the sovereign house of Savoy during the late medieval and early modern periods, territories now part of France, Italy, and Switzerland. Because the Sabaudian realms were geographically, linguistically, and culturally diverse and did not evolve into a single modern nation-state, their early history ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    by John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Read more

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  • Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Helen Hills ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe. In recent years scholars have begun to investigate the ways in which architecture plays a part in the construction of gendered identities. So far the debates have focused on the built environment of the nineteenth ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Reviving the Eternal City

    Rome and the Papal Court, 1420-1447

    by Elizabeth McCahill ...
    Series Book 11 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century, a crucial transitional period before the city's rebirth. As Elizabeth ... Read more

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  • The Power of Images

    Siena, 1338

    by Patrick Boucheron ...
    Where can the danger be lurking? Two soldiers are huddled together, one gazing up at the sky, the other darting a sideward glance. They derive a tacit reassurance from their weapons, but they are both in their different ways alone and scared. They were painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, and they seem symptomatic of a state of emergency: the year was 1338, and the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

    by Emanuele Lugli ...
    An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements.Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome

    The Rise of the Resident Ambassador

    by Catherine Fletcher ...
    Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length study of this subject for sixty years, Catherine Fletcher substantially enhances our understanding of the envoy's role during this pivotal period for the development of diplomacy. Uniting rich but hitherto unexploited archival sources with recent insights from social and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Trace and Aura

    The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan

    by Patrick Boucheron ...
    Translated by Willard Wood, Lara Vergnard ...
    From one of the foremost medievalists of our time, a groundbreaking work on history and memory that goes well beyond the life of this influential saint.Elected bishop of Milan by popular acclaim in 374, Ambrose went on to become one of the four original Doctors of the Church. There is much more to this book, however, than the captivating story of the bishop who baptized Saint Augustine in the ... Read more

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  • Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

    by John E. Law ...
    Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones ... Read more

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  • Venice's Intimate Empire

    Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean

    by Erin Maglaque ...
    Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice's Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean.Maglaque elaborates an ... Read more

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