Triumph of the Body. Michelangelo and Sixteenth-century Italian Draughtsmanship, Paperback - ***

Publisher: Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National GalleryIllustration(s): 200 col & b/w illsNumber of pages: 440Publication date: 2019Di...

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

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressAuthor(s): Alessandro ZirNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 16Cover t...

DescriptionThe 1960s witnessed a magnificent, if misguided, swansong for the ocean liner. As the decade progressed a steady succession of elaborate...

This is the most comprehensive history of the Netherlands available in the English language. It surveys Dutch history from the 16th century, when t...

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

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year - the rise and fall of the women who ruled sixteenth-century Europe

Contributor(s): Author: Carlo GinzburgTranslator: Anne C. TedeschiThe Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twent...

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel HawleyIn May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158, 800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan...

Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans within sixteenth-cen...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Noam AndrewsIllustration(s): 70 figuresNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 29Cover...

This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, securi...

A valuable sourcebook for costume designers, dressmakers and those involved in historical reenactments, this book contains all the information you ...

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Ma...

In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag n and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades ...

Wintroub presents a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French s...

Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619,...

The musical and literary works of Luis Milton reveal the performance practices and theoretical conventions of the early 16th century.Publisher: Ind...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make ...

Reducere. In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the freque...

Three sixteenth century dietaries makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early modern culture. It provides the first modern editi...

DescriptionThe musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind clos...

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

This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

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 ...

Exploring the changing meanings of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance, this volume examines the blurring of boundaries betwe...

Reducere. To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excu...

Reducere. This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century.

Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus...

Reducere. Four hundred seventy years ago the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believer's baptism and the formation of the first cong...

Reducere. DescriptionThere is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his d...

Reducere. The first comprehensive anthology of modern Italian poetry, in a beautiful bilingual editionMore than a century has passed since F. T. Marinetti's ...

Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backd...

Did the Reformers lack a vision for missions? In Sixteenth-Century Mission, a diverse cast of contributors explores the wide-reaching practice and ...

Reducere. A rich compendium of masterworks from the golden age of printmakingIn the 1500s, the printed image functioned as a tool for storytelling. In additi...

Publisher: Golden Hoard Press LtdIllustration(s): 28 illustrations, 24 tablesNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 185 x 257 x 16Co...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 292Collection: New Library of PsychoanalysisPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 232 x 23Cover t...

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 ...

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word 'politique',...

Body Psychotherapy for the 21st Century looks at the wider psychotherapy field, bringing awareness of embodiment into what has been a verbally orie...

Reducere. Sepher Raziel--also called Liber Salomonis--is a full grimoire in the Solomonic tradition from a sixteenth century manuscript. It contains seven bo...

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 ...

Thieves never prosper - and neither do killers...

Discussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema and exp...