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Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare

Product Description: The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304â1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West...read more

By William J. Kennedy

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9781501700019 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304â1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language.

Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance

By Marsha S. Collins

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9781138900684 | Routledge, April 6, 2016, cover price $140.00

Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

Product Description: From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homerâs epic poems â the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him â served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts...read more

By Jessica Wolfe

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9781442650268 | Univ of Toronto Pr, August 26, 2015, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homerâs epic poems â the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him â served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts.

Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe

Product Description: In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations. In this volume of essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of relationships began to transform early modern European culture...read more

By Marlene Eberhart (editor)

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9781625341662 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 31, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations.

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9781625341679 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 31, 2015, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations.

Love, War, and Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso De Ercilla and Edmund Spenser

By Cyrus Moore

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9780866984928 | Mrts, December 31, 2014, cover price $68.00

Renaissance Paratexts

Product Description: In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist GÃ©rard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality, and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books...read more

By Louise Wilson (editor)

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9780521117395 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $99.99

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9781107463424 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2014, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist GÃ©rard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning.

9780385230018, titled "Embracing Life: Growing Through Love and Loss" | Reprint edition (Main Street Books, December 1, 1989), cover price $15.00 | also contains Embracing Life: Growing Through Love and Loss | About this edition: Offers thoughts on family relationships, shares advice on adjusting to the loss of a loved one, and discusses self-esteem, inner peace, and faith

The Italian Mind: Vernacular Logic in Renaissance Italy (1540-1551)

By Marco Sgarbi

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9789004264090 | Brill Academic Pub, February 13, 2014, cover price $142.00

Barbarian Memory: The Legacy of Early Medieval History in Early Modern Literature

Product Description: An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers...read more

By Nicholas Birns

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9781137364555 | Palgrave Pivot, October 23, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille.

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

By Hooper Walter (editor)

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9781107658929 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 11, 2013), cover price $19.99

Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne

Product Description: In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of the Alps...read more

By Cynthia Skenazi

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9789004254664 | Brill Academic Pub, September 13, 2013, cover price $127.00 | About this edition: In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time.

Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, Geography, Privacy

Product Description: Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices...read more

By Angela Vanhaelen (editor) and Joseph P. Ward (editor)

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9780415661096 | Routledge, March 20, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society.

The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance

Product Description: This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit.

By John L. Lepage

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9781137281814 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 24, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit.

Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles

By Nicholas Sparks (editor)

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9781443841450 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $92.95

The Emblematics of the Self: Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Greek Romance

Product Description: The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization...read more

By Elizabeth B. Bearden

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9781442643468 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 21, 2012, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth.

Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds

Product Description: This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period. Contrary to what one might read in Hegel, the "prosification" of the world has remained an unfinished affair...read more

By Leah Middlebrook (editor)

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9780826518347 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, March 12, 2012, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period.

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9780826518354 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, March 12, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This broad-ranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period.

Le Plaisir Au Temps De La Renaissance

Product Description: Le Plaisir est-il le Bien ? La Renaissance reprend a son compte cette question debattue depuis le Philebe et le livre X de l Ethique a Nicomaque. Au XVe siecle, Lorenzo Valla, dans son dialogue Sur le Plaisir de 1430 tranche dans le sens dune identification entre le plaisir et le Bien suivi un siecle plus tard par Erasme qui nhesite pas dans lEpicurien (1533) dassimiler le Christ a Epicure...read more

By Marie-Therese Jones-Davies (editor)

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9782503532479 | Brepols Pub, December 31, 2011, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: Le Plaisir est-il le Bien ?

The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

By Richard Strier

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9780226777511 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 2011, cover price $54.00

Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: People, Things, Forms of Knowledge

Product Description: The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" â the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to connect with others in ways not rooted in family, rank or vocation, but rather founded in voluntary groupings built on the shared interests, tastes, commitments, and desires of individuals...read more

By Paul Yachnin (editor)

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9780415896085 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 16, 2011), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society.

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9780203861356 | Routledge, December 14, 2009, cover price $110.00

Renaissance Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Product Description: Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery.' In what ways have colonial and postcolonial studies transformed our perceptions of early modern European texts and images? How have those perceptions enriched our broader understanding of the colonial and the postcolonial? Focusing on English, Portuguese, Spanish and French colonial projects, Shankar Raman explains how encounters with new worlds and peoples irrevocably shaped both Europeans and their 'others'...read more

By Shankar Raman

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9780748636839 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 31, 2011, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery.

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9780748636846 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 31, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Shows how Renaissance writers and artists struggled to reconcile past traditions with experiences of 'discovery.

Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe: 1500-1700

Product Description: Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations...read more

By Lorna Hutson (editor)

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9780754669036, titled "Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700: 1500-1700" | Ashgate Pub Co, January 16, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations.

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9780198341352, titled "Spell It Yourself" | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1981, cover price $3.50 | also contains Spell It Yourself

Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800

By Richard Scholar (editor)

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9781409408659 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 16, 2010, cover price $149.95

Renaissance Food from Rabelais to Shakespeare: Culinary Readings and Culinary Histories

By Joan Fitzpatrick (editor)

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9780754664277 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 16, 2010, cover price $149.95

Humanisme Et Juste Milieu Au Siecle De Rabelais: Essai De Critique Illusoire

Product Description: On appelle juste milieu l''espace qui sÃ©pare le manque du trop-plein. Exemple canonique : le courage est un juste milieu, puisquâil sâintercale entre la lÃ¢chetÃ© et la tÃ©mÃ©ritÃ©. Câest cette notion capitale, thÃ©orisÃ©e par Aristote, que ce livre se propose de dÃ©crire, en Ã©tudiant ses implications sur lâÃ©thique de la Renaissance...read more

By Tristan Vigliano

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9782251346038 | Isd, September 25, 2009, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: On appelle juste milieu l''espace qui sÃ©pare le manque du trop-plein.

The Poetic Theology of Love: Cupid in Renaissance Literature

Product Description: This book argues that current criticism tends to take the mythology of love either too innocently or too skeptically and therefore distorts the complex roles played by the god of love in longer narrative poems and discursive works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

By Thomas Hyde

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9780874132731 | Univ of Delaware Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $36.50 | About this edition: This book argues that current criticism tends to take the mythology of love either too innocently or too skeptically and therefore distorts the complex roles played by the god of love in longer narrative poems and discursive works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Spell It Yourself

By G. T. Hawker

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9780198341352 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1981, cover price $3.50 | also contains Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe: 1500-1700

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