To Embody the Marvellous. The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain, Hardback - Esther Fernandez

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

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...

In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties,...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

Looks at The Museum of Modern Arts holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly chan...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Teresa TinsleyIllustration(s): 11 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): OEzge Baykan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) CalafatoIllustration(s): 110 colour illusNum...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 21Cover type: Hardback...

Explores the architectural and artistic projects of Philip II of Spain, placing them in the wider context of the peninsular, European, and transoce...

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

Reducere. Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms through the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.Publisher: The School of Life Pres...

This Element compares the adaptations of the 1996 and 2018 versions of West Side Story in detail, illuminating issues encountered when translating ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ricardo PadronIllustration(s): 35 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimension...

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...

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.Publishe...

Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians delves into the practice of bibliophilia - the love of books - and the many ways in which books...

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

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

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

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Linda NochlinIllustration(s): 126 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

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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 ...

The region called Livonia (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia) emerged out of the rapid transformation caused by the conquest, Christianisa...

Influential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis' encounter and collaborat...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

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...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understandi...

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 Pursuit of Style in English Drama embraces and expands the concept of style to offer new readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Matthe...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

A portrait of history's first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire brok...

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

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

Publisher: Ulysses PressAuthor(s): Lou FlorezNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 132 x 185 x 18Cover type: HardbackRedescopera fa...

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