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Alexander Lectures eBook Series

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  • The Renaissance and English Humanism

    by Douglas Bush ...
    Series series Alexander Lectures
    The appearance of a fourth printing of The Renaissance and English Humanism indicated the scholarly success this book has enjoyed for more than a decade. As a brief yet thoughtful and eloquent evaluation of the influence of the Christian humanistic tradition upon our culture it has not been surpassed. The study is divided into four parts: in the first, Professor Bush discusses modern theories of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Enriched edition. An Engaging Exploration of Spain's Vibrant History and Culture

    by Mary Platt Parmele, Jeremy Longford ...
    In "A Short History of Spain," Mary Platt Parmele offers a comprehensive yet succinct overview of Spanish history, weaving together significant events, cultural developments, and socio-political transformations from antiquity to the 20th century. Her literary style is characterized by clarity and precision, providing readers with an engaging narrative that often incorporates biographical sketches ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

    by Stanley Wells ...
    How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of ... Read more

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  • Cultures of Plague

    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. ...
    Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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    by John Foxe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial Acts and Monuments, popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of ... Read more

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  • The Mirror of Simple Souls

    by Margaret Porette, Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., J. C. Marler, Judith Grant ...
    Series series Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture
    When Dr. Romana Guarnieri, in a letter to Osservatore Romano (16 June 1946), announced her discovery that Margaret Porette (d. 1 June 1310) was the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, certainly a major French document of pre-Reformation spirituality, a sensation was created in the academic world. Although The Mirror is one of the few heretical documents to have survived the Middle Ages in its ... Read more

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  • Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland

    Edited by Gregory Hulsman, Caoimhe Whelan ...
    Series Book 4 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies, religion, geography and archaeology. The buildings and ruins still occupying our urban and rural ... Read more

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  • Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean

    by Emily Weissbourd, Barbara Fuchs ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study – early modern ... Read more

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  • Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote

    by Susan Byrne ...
    Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history – into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel.Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote ... Read more

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  • The Burley manuscript

    Edited by Peter Redford ...
    Series series The Manchester Spenser
    The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided for each of the other items, including those in foreign languages. The history and provenance of ... Read more

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  • Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli

    Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague

    by William J. Landon ...
    By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions to Machiavelli’s restoration has been hitherto neglected – Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi (1482–1549), ... Read more

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  • Reforming French Culture

    Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers

    by George Hoffmann ...
    Reforming French Culture is a ground-breaking work on the literary genre of Reformation satire--colloquial, obscene, scatological--designed to mock the excesses as well as the essence of the Roman Catholic rite and hierarchy. Enticingly, Hoffmann proposes that while romance, with its episodic, heroic narrative, is the literary genre of Counter-Reformation, satire is the genre of Reformation. This ... Read more

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