Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy. Contested Deliveries, Paperback - ***

This book explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the l...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors and patrons dealt with the practical and esoteric i...

Galvani and Volta underwent two revolutions. This text is concerned with the revolution in published communications and in its research, aims to sh...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

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Reducere. Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the no...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 260Collection: Theme...

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DescriptionThis fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect ...

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

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This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

DescriptionThe "Ethiope, " the "tawny Tartar, " the "woman blackamoore, " and "knotty Africanisms"--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance te...

What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies.Editor(s): Manuel...

Reducere. Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor C...

Sex, Gender, and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000–1122 - Megan McLaughlin

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Modern Musar explores the diverse ways Jews understand ten virtues: honesty and love of truth; curiosity and inquisitiveness; humility; courage and...

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Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass-whethe...

Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and historiographies of Europea...

Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to th...

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An examination of the role of Winchester as the heart of royal power in early medieval England.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/wNumber of ...

Concise history of the Sri Lankan people.Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Wickramasinghe NiraNumber of pages: 416Publication date: ...

The Early Mediterranean Village: Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy - John Robb

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

This volume focuses on the four most influential Islamic authority structures with a visible following among Muslims around the globe: Al-Azhar (Eg...

Gaining a first job as a nurse or midwife is becoming not only highly competitive but an increasingly more complex process.

Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in ...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

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In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negoti...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

This Element covers social construction of the ideas of body and gender in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity, Martyrdom and asceticism as Chris...

Reducere. Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of t...

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This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...