Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Paperback - Tim Parks

Reducere. Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at ...

The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence - Larry J. Feinberg

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Laurie Schneider AdamsIllustration(s): 5 figuresNumber of pages: 181Publication date: 2006Dimensions...

Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It offers the most compreh...

Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence.

DescriptionServing as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of...

Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unex...

From the author of the acclaimed biography of Turner comes a major new work that explores the relationship between art and business in nineteenth-c...

Visions of medieval castles in Fourteenth and fifteenth - century illuminations produced in France - Sabina Madgearu

A journey around Italy by train, full of humorous and insightful observations on what the railways and their travellers reveal about the country. F...

Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a...

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Edward Gordon Duff (1863-1924) was a librarian and bibliographer with a particular interest in the early history of the printed book. This 1899 wor...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation ret...

Publisher: Random HouseAuthor(s): Tim ParksPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 233 x 152 x 34Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

Subtitled, }A Sceptic's Search For Health & Healing{. An inspiring and educational true story of Parks' journey into the world of meditation and al...

A brilliantly comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's so...

This first book-length study of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century addresses issues of conflict, kinship, lordship, law, justi...

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An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--ha...

The Novel: A Survival Skill radically reevaluates traditional literary criticism offering an exciting account of what is really at stake in the bus...

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge - because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience - it'...

Reducere. DescriptionToday most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step throu...

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DescriptionThis volume brings together 19 original chapters, plus four substantive introductions, which collectively provide a unique examination o...

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An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and his...

The experts introduce superb historical buildings and sculptures in their historical contexts, and as insiders lead you through world famous painti...

By helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and wor...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Tim ParksNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softba...

DescriptionIn the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant name...

The 4th edition of The Economics of Money, Banking and Finance is written to meet the needs of students requiring a rigorous grounding in financial...

Reducere. Tim Parks's best seller, Italian Neighbors, offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village out...

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By applying an analytical framework to the patient, stepped-out development of models, Mishkin draws students into a deeper understanding of modern...

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The Scheme of Things, a coming-of-age story with a thriller twist, poses the question: Have you ever had a secret? For young Henry Dodge, every day...

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Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early mo...

The breakthrough text that closes the gap between economic theory and the day-to-day behaviour of banks and financial markets. Working from a macro...

This innovative text offers an introduction to money, banking and financial markets, with a special emphasis on the importance of confidence and tr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard KieckheferPreserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that...