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  • Classic Anatomical Illustrations

    by Vesalius, Albinus, Leonardo ...
    Series series Dover Fine Art, History of Art
    An awe-inspiring fusion of science and art, this magnificent single-volume reference features more than 130 ground-breaking anatomical illustrations by history's most brilliant artists. Dramatic and highly studied sketches dating back to the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, these images by Leonardo da Vinci, Bartolommeo Eustachius, Andreas Vesalius, Bernard Albinus, and Pietro da Cortona ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Vesalius: The China Root Epistle

    A New Translation and Critical Edition

    by Daniel H. Garrison, Andreas Vesalius ...
    This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius' skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatomy, which was based on animal rather than human dissections. Along with reflections about his life as a young anatomist, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The History of the Renaissance World

    From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world.Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Oration on the Dignity of Man

    by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ...
    Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 17 November 1494) was a renowned Italian Renaissance philosopher despite his early death. At the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key ... Read more

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  • Ambivalent Conquests

    Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570

    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series Book 61 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive outcomes. She seeks to penetrate the ways of thinking ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Royal Babies

    A History 1066-2013

    by Amy Licence ...
    Babies are born every day, but only once or twice in a lifetime, a child arrives who will inherit the throne. This summer, the nation watched as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, delivered our future king. There have been predictions, expectations and a flurry of media attention around the new parents but apart from the flashing cameras and internet headlines, this is nothing new. Royal babies have ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

    by Professor William D. Rubinstein ...
    From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consists of six signatures on legal documents. His will makes no mention of his books or manuscripts. His two daughters were illiterate. There is, in other words, a seemingly enormous gap between the meagreness of Shakespeare's background and his achievements ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The She-Apostle

    The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal

    by Glyn Redworth ...
    Before dawn one morning in June 1612, an elderly Frenchman took charge of a carriage carrying a precious cargo near Tyburn Fields, London's notorious place of execution. It was heading for a house in Spitalfields, where a wizened Spanish woman was waiting to receive the mortal remains of freshly-martyred Catholic priests. Her name was Luisa de Carvajal and this book tells her story. Born into a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • 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

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Papal Monarchy

    by William Barry ...
    Alaric, King of the Western Goths, entered Rome with his army, by the Salarian Gate -- outside of which Hannibal had encamped long ago--and took the Imperial City. Eleven hundred and sixty-four years had passed since its legendary foundation under Romulus; four hundred and forty-one since the battle of Actium, which made Augustus Lord in deed, if not in name, of the Roman world. When the Gothic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Body Emblazoned

    Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture

    by Jonathan Sawday ...
    An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Francis I

    The Maker of Modern France

    by Leonie Frieda ...
    Leonie Frieda, the bestselling author of Catherine de Medici, returns to sixteenth-century Europe in the evocative and entertaining biography, Francis I.Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Francis was the founder of ... Read more

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