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  • af Juan Luis Vives
    313,95 kr.

    Sixteenth-century humanist Juan Luis Vives sought to find ways to alleviate the sufferings of the poor of Bruges, dealing with problems and presenting solutions that sound remarkably familiar to twentieth-century urban ears.

  • - A Documentary Study
     
    398,95 kr.

    First published in 1971, The Society of Renaissance Florence is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

  • af Giordano Bruno
    448,95 kr.

    In this edition Gosselin and Lerner have provided a broad understanding of Bruno and his time, with background and interpretive discussion. They have also preserved the flavour and ferment of the original discourses and maintained Bruno's eclectic if somewhat obscure style.

  • af William Harrison Woodward
    448,95 kr.

    Four short Latin treatises published between 1400 and 1460 define the humanist idea of education and form the heart of a book that has remained for almost seventy years the fundamental study of early Renaissance educational theory and practice.

  • af Mark W. Roskill
    483,95 kr.

    Dolce's Dialogo della pittura first appeared in Venice in 1557 and consists of a three-part dialogue between two Venetians, Aretino and Fabrini, on the particular merits of works of art and artists, including Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.

  • af Werner L. Gundersheimer
    418,95 kr.

    Offers a broad sampling of humanist work by educators, statesmen, philosophers, churchmen and courtiers translated into English.

  • - Being a calendar of Jewish Cases extracted from the records of the Canariote inquisition in the collection of the Marquess of Bute
     
    458,95 kr.

    First published in 1926, together with an introduction analysing the work of the Inquisition and explaining its relation to general Jewish history until 1928, this is a fascinating collection of records showing not only the workings of the Inquisition, but the lives of crypto-Jews during a time of fierce repression.

  • - Projects and Patrons, Workshop and Art Market
    af Martin Wackernagel
    508,95 kr.

    Wackernagel stresses the changing roles of commissions and patrons in the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries, from small-scale enterprise under Lorenzo de Medici to the large-scale development of major Florentine monuments.

  • - Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France
    af Larissa J Taylor
    458,95 kr.

    Larissa Taylor has examined over 1600 sermons given by the leading lay preachers in France between 1460 and 1560, and examines the social context of preaching and the sermon while reconstructing popular attitudes towards original sin, free will, purgatory, the Devil, the sacraments, and the magical arts.

  • af Lauro Martines
    468,95 kr.

    First published in 1963, this groundbreaking study provides a detailed picture of the social structure of Florence in the Quattrocento. Martines's work influenced a generation of scholars and illuminated a complex and multifaceted world.

  • af Wallace K. Ferguson
    413,95 kr.

    Originally published in 1948, Wallace K. Ferguson's The Renaissance in Historical Thought is a key piece of scholarship on Renaissance historiography.

  • af Dominic Baker-Smith
    413,95 kr.

    This study plac Utopia in the context of early sixteenth-century Europe and the intellectual preoccupations of More's own humanist circle, and clarifying those sources in classical and Christian political thought that provoked his writing.

  • - Lives of Illustrious Men of the XVth Century
    af Vespasiano da Basticci
    443,95 kr.

    The memoirs of a Florentine bookseller, Vespasiano da Basticci (b. 1421), who was the most celebrated dealer of books and manuscripts of his generation. His shop become a meeting place for distinguished and learned individuals of his time.

  • af F.J. Levy
    458,95 kr.

    An essential text in Renaissance historiography, Tudor Historical Thought will now be available to a new generation of scholars.

  • - The Protestant Ethic, the Rise of Capitalism and the Abuses of Scholarship
    af Kurt Samuelsson
    338,95 kr.

    In this bold and hard-hitting essay, Samuelsson cuts through the controversy and convincingly challenges Weber's hypothesis and many of Tawney's theories.

  • - Text and Translation into English
     
    453,95 kr.

    The reprint is of the 1922 edition of Valla's treatise and presents the Latin text and English translation of it and the forged donation document on facing pages.