The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean. The Art of Travel, Paperback - ***

This interdisciplinary edited collection draws early modern art and material culture into the discussion of the "oceanic turn" in cultural studies,...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

DescriptionIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives--and, by extension, of the Spani...

DescriptionPrinciples of Art History by Heinrich W lfflin (1864-1945), a revolutionary attempt to construct a science of art through the study of t...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Nathan T. ArringtonIllustration(s): 138 b/w illus., 16 color illus. (8-page insert)Number of pages:...

Tracing the currents of change that unite the visual and material culture of the Islamic world across space and time The seas have long served as b...

DescriptionLive pain free and maximize your training potential The Modern Art and Science of Mobility is a striking visual guide to releasing muscl...

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...

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...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Ancient EnvironmentsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

The first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. D...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...

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

Reducere. Few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and west...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 22Cover type: Pap...

Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the ...

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...

Reducere. The 9 Types of Leadership draws on the Enneagram, an amazingly accurate descriptor of personality, to help people in the workplace create more effe...

Using the metaphor of "religious butinage, " this book explores the idea of religious practices as predominantly mobile, eschewing rigid frameworks...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

DescriptionThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performanc...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder P...

The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a...

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.Publisher: Getty Trust Publication...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

DescriptionThe Cinema of Ken Loach examines the connection between art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film direct...