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Dreaming the English Renaissance
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 33.00Dreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most profound beliefs of people of the time. more...
The Sistine Secrets
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 16.99The Shocking Secrets of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Artwork The recent cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes removed layer after layer of centuries of accumulated tarnish and darkness. The Sistine Secrets endeavors to remove the centuries of prejudice, censorship, and ignorance that blind us to the truth about one of the world's most famous... more...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 34
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 89.99Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics,... more...
Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond, 1
BRILL 2009; US$ 138.00Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late medieval Spain. "Converso and Moriscos Studies" examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions. more...
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 109.99Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco II Sforza (d. 1535), the last duke. As new rulers, the Visconti and the Sforza had had to impose their regime by... more...
King's Sister - Queen of Dissent
BRILL 2009; US$ 277.00This study reconstructs for the first time Marguerite of Navarrea (TM)s leadership of a broad circle of nobles, prelates, humanist authors, and commoners, who sought to advance the reform of the French church along evangelical (Protestant) lines. Hitherto misunderstood in scholarship, they are revealed to have pursued, despite persecution, a consistent... more...
Mosquito Empires
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 21.00This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. more...
A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632–1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women’s freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon’s writing from two works— Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate... more...
Attending Madness
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 77.00He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient, but would try to have his orders carried out if possible. Such was the view of William Coady, attendant to the insane in the British settler colony of Victoria, Australia in the 1870s.This book is a history of William Coadys occupation,... more...
Towards a Transcultural Future
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 117.60This second collection, complementing ASNEL Papers 9.1, covers a similar range of writers, topics, themes and issues, all focusing on present-day transcultural issues and their historical antecedents:TOPICS TREATEDPreparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic... more...









