The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant - Duccio Balestracci

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Reducere. - A wide selection of writings by one of the most celebrated art historians and connoisseurs of Italian Renaissance painting- A veritable history o...

DescriptionThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20...

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

Reducere. "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Alge...

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 ...

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

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

Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

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

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices withi...

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

Reducere. Chocolate cake makes sweet dreams come true. In a real-life fairy tale, author Sheryl Ness shares how she fell in love with Vincenzo, a chef in a q...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Arnold Hermann Ludwig HeerenIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 486Publication date: 20...

Reducere. DescriptionThis collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading, 13 point Garamond, 1.25 spacing. The Way of a Pilgrim was written by an ...

Atlantic Wars is the first work to comprehensively explore how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until ...

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in...

Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-did...

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

A rich family record illustrated with stunning photographs, from 1840 onwardsPublisher: Pimpernel Press LtdAuthor(s): Ludovic LindsayNumber of page...

This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic, religious, and other developments in England from the end ...

DescriptionThe Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century whi...

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Ko...

Reducere. The author of the The Children's Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish...

Reducere. The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minn...

All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking...

Reducere. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, U.S.Author(s): Frank KoonceNumber of pages: 188Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 303 x 235 x 16Cover type: BookRed...

This engaging and highly readable family history follows ten generations of a mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of ...

Reducere. On January 19th, 1863, when the spectre of the Great Famine still loomed over the land, Alexander Irvine was born into dire poverty in the town of ...