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Product Description: From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.   In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of Renaissance and Reformation (late fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century...read more
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9780385495578 | Nan a Talese, October 29, 2013, cover price $30.50 | About this edition: From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.

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9780307967497 | Unabridged edition (Random House, October 29, 2013), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.

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By Rembrandt Duits (editor)
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9781409420385 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 28, 2013, cover price $99.95

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Product Description: Andrei Pippidi follows conceptions of the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries and ties the roots of these images to patterns in western intellectualism. A pathbreaking book, his volume reconsiders the writing of Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli, individuals we take to be intellectuals yet who mostly did not travel or have direct contact with the Ottoman Empire...read more
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9780231703789 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Andrei Pippidi follows conceptions of the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries and ties the roots of these images to patterns in western intellectualism.
9780199327836 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2013, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft (as in the case of Martin Guerre) was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these were causing deep anxiety, which led authorities to invent increasingly sophisticated means for unmasking deception...read more
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9780230547063 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2012, cover price $92.00 | About this edition: Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors.

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By Marina S. Brownlee (editor) and Dimitri H. Gondicas (editor)
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9789004235915 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $171.00

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Product Description: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it...read more
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9780393064476 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 26, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

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9780393343403 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 4, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

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Product Description: How much did the Renaissance change medical history and public health? Did landmark developments benefit the everyday lives of ordinary people? This book looks at the new 'scientific' ways of learning and experimentation of the period, to show what health and disease were like in the Old and New Worlds...read more
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9781410946683 | Raintree Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: How much did the Renaissance change medical history and public health?
9781410946508 | Raintree Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: How much did the Renaissance change medical history and public health?

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9781410946621 | Capstone Pr Inc, August 1, 2012, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: How much did the Renaissance change medical history and public health?
9781410946447 | Raintree Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $33.99 | About this edition: How much did the Renaissance change medical history and public health?

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9781601521897 | Referencepoint Pr Inc, August 1, 2012, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using Renaissance! This 96-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response...read more
By Sarah M. Anderson (editor), Mary Dieterich (editor) and Hotle
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9781580376327 | Mark Twain Media Inc Pub, January 3, 2012, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using Renaissance!

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Product Description: "A pleasurable and illuminating collection that sets out the important implications of accessories and shows how conspicuous consumption and ornamental ostentation aim to secure status and display affiliation. Ornamentalism explains how accessories carry heavily laden symbolic and mnemonic significance, given their age, beauty, and value...read more
By Bella Mirabella (editor)
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9780472071173 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 11, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: "A pleasurable and illuminating collection that sets out the important implications of accessories and shows how conspicuous consumption and ornamental ostentation aim to secure status and display affiliation.

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Product Description: Hugh of Amiens (c. 1085-1164) was an important intellectual figure in the twelfth century. During a long life he served as a cleric, Cluniac monk, abbot, and archbishop of Rouen. He wrote a number of works including poems, biblical exegesis, anti-heretical polemics, and most importantly one of the earliest collections of systematic theology, his "Dialogues"...read more
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9781409427346 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 1, 2011, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Hugh of Amiens (c.

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Product Description: At first glance, the Renaissance and the Reformation--two movements (one cultural, one religious) that defined Europe from 1400 to 1600--may appear to be polar opposites. The Renaissance found scholars and artists celebrating the beauty and splendor of the material world, while the Reformation saw Protestant and Catholic religious leaders and their followers focusing on eternal salvation...read more
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9780195308891 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2011, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: At first glance, the Renaissance and the Reformation--two movements (one cultural, one religious) that defined Europe from 1400 to 1600--may appear to be polar opposites.

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9780195338027 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: At first glance, the Renaissance and the Reformation--two movements (one cultural, one religious) that defined Europe from 1400 to 1600--may appear to be polar opposites.

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Product Description: Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture...read more
By Michelle O'Malley (editor)
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9781444337754 | Blackwell Pub, January 3, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture.

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9781444396751 | Blackwell Pub, August 26, 2011, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: This book argues that the Renaissance, an era long associated with the historical development of individualism, in fact witnessed the emergence of radically new concepts of group identity. From the end of the fifteenth century, rapidly accelerating globalization intensified cross-cultural encounters, destabilized older categories of large- and small-group identity, and contributed to the rise of new hybrid group concepts...read more
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9781107003606 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 22, 2011, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book argues that the Renaissance, an era long associated with the historical development of individualism, in fact witnessed the emergence of radically new concepts of group identity.

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Product Description: In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studie...read more
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9781405123693 | Blackwell Pub, August 2, 2010, cover price $98.95 | About this edition: In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.

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9781405123709 | Blackwell Pub, August 9, 2010, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity.

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9781444324518 | Blackwell Pub, June 1, 2010, cover price $84.95

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9782252037546 | Isd, April 16, 2010, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles...read more
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9780742564879 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 30, 2008, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.

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Product Description: If the first phase of feminist criticism of English Renaissance studies unduly stressed women's victimization, the revisionist trend, this collection argues, is in denial about gender inequality altogether. This exciting volume represents the newest, post-revisionist phase of feminist criticism, which tries to integrate the vital insights of both earlier phases of scholarship and to establish a more accurate and nuanced picture of women's relation to early modern English culture...read more
By Dympna Callaghan (editor)
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9781403992123 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 2, 2007, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: If the first phase of feminist criticism of English Renaissance studies unduly stressed women's victimization, the revisionist trend, this collection argues, is in denial about gender inequality altogether.

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9783525824757 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, August 12, 1990, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Just as they aspired to revive the Greek and Roman past, so the humanist scholars of the Renaissance sought to retrieve the early Christian era. Among the most fully studied figures of Christian antiquity was Saint Jerome. Eugene Rice's award-winning book traces the saint's changing images and fortunes from 1300 to 1600 and charts how culture-- popular and elite, secular and sacred, pietistic and scholarly-- celebrated those aspects of Jerome's life that best suited its own purposes...read more
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9780801837470 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Just as they aspired to revive the Greek and Roman past, so the humanist scholars of the Renaissance sought to retrieve the early Christian era.

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9780520052758 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $52.00

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9780521219693 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $89.95

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9780521219679 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 1979), cover price $67.50

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Product Description: This is an economic history of sixteenth-century Europe that combines the virtues of a scholarly monograph with those of a general history. Professor Miskimin describes the intellectual and philosophical context in which economic decisions were made, and on which the fundamental economic categories of the period were based...read more
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9780521216081 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1977, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: This is an economic history of sixteenth-century Europe that combines the virtues of a scholarly monograph with those of a general history.

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9780521292085, titled "The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe 1460-1600" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1977, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This is an economic history of sixteenth-century Europe that combines the virtues of a scholarly monograph with those of a general history.

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