World-Making Renaissance Women. Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture, New ed, Hardback - ***

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

Illustrates the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes -- .

A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious ...

This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conferences sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at t...

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Donna A. (Salem State University, USA) SegerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publicat...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 218Collection: Popular Culture and Everyday LifePublication date: 2007Dimensions: 159 x 237 x ...

As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and ...

Providing close readings of Shakespeare's history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan politics and renewed attention to neglected cont...

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical...

This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imaginati...

Why the new nomad and an increase in migration is the best way to help the planet to prosper.Illustrations: None

Explores the ambivalent legacy of indigenous peoples' natural rights articulated by Europeans in Spanish and English colonial contexts. It will app...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part ...

Uses court records to re-evaluate women's economic roles in early modern Scotland. -- .

Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the...

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sarah (Australian Catholic University, Australia) BendallIllustration(s): 150 color and bw illusNumb...

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and six...

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

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

The illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonce, body p...

Reducere. Leaping Over The Ocean is a deliberate attempt to include/intrude specific Black women into existing narratives on race, gender and travel. My focu...

Exploring the history of the liberation wars in Iraqi Kurdistan and South Sudan, this book analyses both the rebels' strategies and government coun...

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social...

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its c...

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

This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration...

The idea of ghost is more than an enduring source of imagination, fear, and even entertainment in human society. It is an alternative key to decons...

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like m...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Kristin CelelloNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

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

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretati...

DescriptionA study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women Litera...

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...

This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000-11, predecessor o...

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

This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in ...

Rethinking American Women's Activism traces intersecting streams of feminist activism from the nineteenth century to the present.Publisher: Taylor ...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He ...

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumpe...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass-whethe...