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Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image
BRILL 2005; US$ 142.00This volume provides the first full study of Sambucus? influential Neo-Latin emblem book. By analysing individual emblems and the historical contexts in which they were shaped, a new picture emerges of the use of the emblem for Renaissance humanists. more...
Complete Writings
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 30.00Renowned in her day for her scholarship and eloquence, Isotta Nogarola (1418-66) remained one of the most famous women of the Italian Renaissance for centuries after her death. And because she was one of the first women to carve out a place for herself in the male-dominated republic of letters, Nogarola served as a crucial role model for generations... more...
The World of Bede
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 40.00An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d. 735), first historian of the English and one of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages. more...
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Tolhurst offers the first feminist reading of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia and positions it in the contexts of medieval historiography, mythography, and literature as well as selected post-medieval literature and Arthurian films. more...
Medieval Tradition of Thebes
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 123.00The first comprehensive study of the classical legend of Thebes in the Middle Ages. more...
Bede's Historiae
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 99.00he church history of the Anglo-Saxons can only be approached through the lens of a few writers, arguably the greatest of whom is Bede; his works illuminate an otherwise impoverished landscape of ecclesial development from conversion to established Christi more...
Gilbert Murray Reassessed
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 54.99This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the distinguished scholar and public figure Gilbert Murray (1866-1957). Sixteen contributors survey his childhood, his work in the theatre and in international relations, his Greek scholarship and contributions on religion and philosophy, his friendships (including those with Bertrand... more...
Letters and Orations
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 22.50By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary... more...
The Singing Masters
The Lilliput Press 1990; US$ 4.36Fascinating... a delight not to be missed. It's a rare treat indeed to find such an honest, penetrating, wise and thoughtful autobiobiography.' - Eilís Dillon, The Irish Times 'A beautifully-written book.' - Benedict Kiely, Sunday Independent 'Wonderfully lyrical... and extremely well written. It is haunting and memorable. When you finish it, you... more...









