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  • Expelling the Plague

    The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533

    by Zlata Blazina Tomic, Vesna Blazina ...
    Series Book 43 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    A vibrant city-state on the Adriatic sea, Dubrovnik, also known as Ragusa, was a hub for the international trade between Europe and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the city suffered frequent outbreaks of plague. Through a comprehensive analysis of these epidemics in Dubrovnik, Expelling the Plague explores the increasingly sophisticated plague control regulations that were adopted by the city and ... Read more

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  • The Borgias

    The Hidden History

    by G. J. Meyer ...
    An unprecedented portrait of the Renaissance-era Borgia family and their storied milieu, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tudors“A vivid and at times startling reappraisal of one of the most notorious dynasties in history . . . If you thought you knew the Borgias, this book will surprise you.”—Tracy Borman, author of Queen of the Conqueror and Elizabeth’s Women“Fascinating . . . a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Black Death

    A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic

    by Thomas Asbridge ...
    “A magisterial history” (The Guardian) of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight.“Terrific—and truly terrifying. Thomas Asbridge puts a human face—or rather multiple faces—on the Black Death.”—Eric Cline, author of 1177 B.C.In the mid ... Read more

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  • The Prince

    by Niccol� Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Peter Bondanella ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Agents of Empire

    Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

    by Noel Malcolm ...
    In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous frontiers of these opposing power-blocs. Agents of ... Read more

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  • Dubrovnik

    A History

    by Robin Harris ...
    Since emerging as a settlement in the seventh century, Dubrovnik has faced Venetian aggressors, Ottoman plotters, a terrible earthquake in 1667 and, finally, the will of Napoleon. In 1991-92 the city survived the besieging Yugoslav army, which heavily damaged but did not destroy its cultural heritage. This book is a comprehensive history of Dubrovnik's progress over twelve centuries of European ... Read more

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  • The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth

    by Gerard Noel ...
    Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the worlds largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new ... Read more

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  • Before the Normans

    Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

    by Barbara M. Kreutz ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries ... Read more

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  • The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden

    Religion at the Roman Street Corner

    by Harriet I. Flower ...
    The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and ... Read more

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  • Description Of The Methods Adopted By The Duke Valentino When Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli (Mobi Classics)

    by Niccolo Machiavelli,W. K. Marriott (Translator) ...
    Complete interlinked edition complemented by author biography. "The Duke Valentino had returned from Lombardy, where he had been to clear himself with the King of France from the calumnies which had been raised against him by the Florentines concerning the rebellion of Arezzo and other towns in the Val di Chiana, and had arrived at Imola, whence he intended with his army to enter upon the campaign ... Read more

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  • The Deaths of the Popes: Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places and Epitaphs

    Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places and Epitaphs

    by Wendy J. Reardon ...
    The traditions associated with a pope's death have changed from when they were buried in the catacombs of Rome. Various ceremonies, rites and rituals developed over time, but a formal procedure was not initiated until the early 1300s and even then was not always strictly followed. This comprehensive reference book provides information on the deaths, funerals and burial places of each pope and ... Read more

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  • The Tombs of Pompeii

    Organization, Space, and Society

    by Virginia Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not conducive to ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD