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The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

A New Translation with Commentary

By Nicholas R. Jones
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Intellectual History, European History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Translating the foundational text of pastoral fiction and poetry into English for the modern scholar and reader

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander's World

By Andrew L. Thomas
Subjects: German Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, German History

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

By Craig A. Monson
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth-century Rome

Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire

By Laura Wangerin
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

What makes a successful government?

Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain

Reading, Ownership, Circulation

By Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

Rediscovering and reframing the rich and multifaceted history of early modern British women’s book ownership and library compilation

The Birth of the Archive

A History of Knowledge

By Markus Friedrich
Translated by John Dillon
Subjects: History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Intellectual History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

The dynamic but little-known story of how archives came to shape and be shaped by European culture and society

The Most Noble of People

Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain

By Jessica Coope
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Islamic Studies, History, European History

Negotiates ethnic, religious, and gender identity amid turbulent social change in medieval Islamic Spain

Virtuous Necessity

Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England

By Jessica Murphy
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England

The Neapolitan Recipe Collection

Cuoco Napoletano

By Terence Peter Scully
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Literary Studies, European Literature

Feasting as a window into medieval Italian culture

The Age of Attila

Fifth-Century Byzantium and the Barbarians

Revised Edition

By C.D. Gordon
Contributions by David Stone Potter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A classic brought back in print with an introduction and notes by David S. Potter

Speaking Ruins

Piranesi, Architects and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome

By John Pinto
Subjects: Art, Architecture, History, European History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A study of Piranesi's presentation of classical Roman architecture, through drawings and etchings

The Lion's Ear

Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music

By Anthony M. Cummings
Subjects: History, European History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Music

The first book on Pope Leo X's musical patronage in Renaissance Italy

Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind

Medieval Constructions of a Disability

By Edward Wheatley
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, European History
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability

Macaronic Sermons

Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England

By Siegfried Wenzel
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History

A fascinating analysis of a language and culture in transition

Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory

By Rudi Paul Lindner
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Provides a new understanding of early Ottoman history

The Origins of Mexican Catholicism

Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

By Osvaldo F. Pardo
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Latin American Studies
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

Offers a nuanced account of the evangelization in the Americas of the sixteenth century

The Afterlife of Pope Joan

Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England

By Craig Rustici
Subjects: Gender Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Investigates representations of the legend of Pope Joan in Early Modern England and their implications on social, political, and religious thought

Romans in a New World

Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America

By David Andrew Lupher
Subjects: Classical Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

Explores the impact the discovery of the New World had upon Europeans' perceptions of their identity and place in history

When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans

A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods

By John V. A. Fine
Subjects: History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

A magisterial analysis showing the complexity of pre-national identity in Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia

The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guisc

Translated by Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Foreign Language, Latin

A new translation of the principal account of the Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily

Joining the Conversation

Dialogues by Renaissance Women

By Janet Levarie Smarr
Subjects: Gender Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History

Calls attention to the work of French and Italian Renaissance women in a genre that has never before been acknowledged as important to women's literature

The Jesuit and the Incas

The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.

By Sabine Hyland
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

The story of the life and untimely death of a persecuted priest in colonial Peru and the controversy over mysterious, recently discovered documents about him

Conflict and Coexistence

Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain

By Lucy K Pick
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

Illuminates the career and method of one of thirteenth-century Spain's most important religious, military, and political figures

The Footsteps of Israel

Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England

By Andrew Scheil
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion

Illuminates the previously unrecognized role of Jews and Judaism in early English writing and society

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