Word in the Wilderness. Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania, Hardback - Alexander Lawrence Ames

Examines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

Examines sixty-eight women artists in early modern Bologna, revealing how they obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subject...

Contracts in the Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter - Lawrence A. Cunningham

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

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

Reducere. For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual an...

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Alexander Des Forges reads shiwen from a literary perspective, showing how the examination essay redefined prose aesthetics, transformed the work o...

A reexamination of French Impressionism, focusing on the culinary metaphors that the most influential nineteenth-century critics used to express at...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressAuthor(s): Sean LawrenceNumber of pages: 267Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublic...

This study of the intellectual culture of the women's monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscript...

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This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers ...

Publisher: Manuscript PublishingIllustration(s): 200Number of pages: 212Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 227 x 318 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

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

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

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

Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed originals upon which they a...

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Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

Reducere. For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumin...

Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

Reducere. While many books, fiction and nonfiction alike, chronicle Alexander the Great's ascension to power and conquest of the ancient world, few go back t...

Reducere. A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850sIn Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americ...

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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Reducere. From the bestselling author of The Lamb's Supper and Signs of Life comes an illuminating work that unlocks the many mysteries of the Catholic sacra...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

Reducere. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations...

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

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fecamp's Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piet...

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DescriptionThis book illustrates fifty paintings (1986-2018) with a brief reference on each. The paintings inform or are informed by architectural ...