Renaissance Woman (Servadio Gaia)(Paperback)

Renaissance Woman (Servadio Gaia)(Paperback)

The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a 'New Woman,' proposes Gaia Servadio in this rich feast of a book. She dates the birth of this revolutionary movement to the invention of the printing press in 1456, which made books-and hence education-available to women. Central to her

Hildegard of Bingen (Meconi Honey)(Paperback)

A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded and led a noted women's religious community, and wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history. Yet we know her best as Western music's most

A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays (Heywood Thomas)(Paperback)

Here is a marvelous collection of plays from the English Renaissance period, offering prime examples of the 'domestic drama' genre that first appeared around 1590. These four pioneering works, set in near-contemporary England and concerned with issues of marriage and crime rather than war andpower,

Sofonisba's Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work (Cole Michael W.)(Pevná vazba)

The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the Renaissance Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535-1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house. She went on to serve as an instructor to

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna (Targoff Ramie)(Paperback)

A biography of Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of

Renaissance Architecture (Anderson Christy)(Paperback)

The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings that emerged during these seminal centuries of

Renaissance Pupil's Book (Barling Rose)(Paperback / softback)

Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (Wind Edgar)(Paperback)

An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance

Renaissance Fun (Steadman Philip)(Paperback)

An amusing account of the technology of Renaissance entertainment and the ancient influences that inspired it. Renaissance Fun is about the technology of entertainment in the forms of stage machinery, theatrical special effects, gardens, fountains, automata, and self-playing musical instruments

Renaissance in Italy - A History (Bartlett Kenneth)(Paperback / softback)

The Renaissance Complete (Aston Margaret)(Paperback)

No period has been more discussed and dissected than the Renaissance. Today's emphasis on the period's complexity--the way ideas, politics, religion, society, art, and science depend upon and affect one another. The Renaissance Complete brings the image to center stage. More than 1,000

Renaissance Women Poets (Whitney Isabella)(Paperback)

Social convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting the work of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-this volume

The Economy of Renaissance Florence (Goldthwaite Richard A.)(Paperback)

Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of

Psychic Literacy: & the Coming Psychic Renaissance (Swann Ingo)(Paperback)

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe (Earle T. F.)(Paperback)

Renaissance: Every Album, Every Song (Detmer David)(Paperback)

Renaissance, a much beloved but highly underrated English progressive rock band, began life in 1969 as an offshoot of The Yardbirds. Keith Relf and Jim McCarty, who had recently left that iconic blues-rock group, decided to put together a new band that would differ from its predecessor by being

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general introduction to medieval literature whilst the remaining essays turn to the works of major writers

The Renaissance Flute: A Contemporary Guide (Clark Kate)(Paperback)

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists, whether they specialize in modern flute or historical instruments. Yet, actually delving into the study of renaissance flute has proven a challenge - there

The Renaissance in Italy (Ruggiero Guido)(Paperback)

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on

Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps (Van Duzer Chet)(Paperback)

The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject

Renaissance Galway: Delineating the Seventeenth-Century City (Walsh)(Paperback)

Renaissance Galway is the next ancillary publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The subject of the book is the remarkable 'pictorial map' of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century. It offers a bird's eye view of Galway city at this time and presents insights into the

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Burckhardt Jacob)(Paperback)

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts

Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Greenblatt Stephen)(Paperback)

Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance--More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and

Isabella d'Este: A Renaissance Princess (Shaw Christine)(Paperback)

Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539), is one of the most studied figures of Renaissance Italy, as an epitome of Renaissance court culture and as a woman having an unusually prominent role in the politics of her day. This biography provides a well-rounded account of the full range of