Ogata Korin. Art in Early Modern Japan, Hardback - Frank Feltens

A lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo periodPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Frank FeltensNum...

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A pioneering work that contains a wealth of in-depth analysis and original interpretation. The book will open up new avenues of discussion among st...

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, village...

While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The ...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

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...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Christine M. E. GuthIllustration(s): 40 color illustrations, 11 b-w illustrationsNumber of page...

Experience the breathtaking masterworks of one of the most influential artists in Japan's history. Hokusai's Brush is a companion to the Freer Gall...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Claudia SwanIllustration(s): 85 color illus.Number of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Takaaki InuzukaIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorTranslator: Haruko LauriePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x...

DescriptionThis is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as ...

DescriptionThis significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a "parallel modernism" that was visually similar to Euroamerican modern...

Reducere. Frank McCourt isi continua memoriile scriind cu acelasi melanj de nostalgie, umor negru si autoironie plina de compasiune cu care ne-a cucerit in m...

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

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 304Collection: Edinburgh Studies in LawPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 239 x 29Cover ...

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...

Uncertain Powers presents a nuanced study of female leadership in medieval Japan. Sachiko Kawai explores the important political and economic roles...

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...

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

Harry R. McCarthy's innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to foreground how boys' physical skills shaped the plays ...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Akiko YanoIllustration(s): With over 400 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 566Publication date: 2013Di...

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

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

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550-1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and ...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

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...

This book nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship. It argues that domestic trage...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

Young Charlotte is a filmmaker who loves everything that's black and white, including spiders, penguins, and the old movies that she sees with her ...

This new, interdisciplinary history of romanticism, art and science, reveals how romantic artworks participated in a profound crisis concerning the...

DescriptionDifference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio, and fro...

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

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Judith HudsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePubli...

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

Illustrates the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes -- .

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