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MiscAngels,Download,Heaven,Italy,Library,Medieval,Misc,Order,Renaissance

ISBN10:1107027950ISBN13:
From earliest times, angels have been seen as instruments of salvation and retribution, agents of revelation, and harbingers of hope. In effect, angels are situated at the intersections of d ...

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MiscArchitectural,Early,Francesco,Genius,Humanities,Modern,Renaissance,Robortello,Routledge,Studies

By:Marco Sgarbi
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1032090103

This book explores the intellectual world of Francesco Robortello, one of the most prominent scholars of the Italian Renaissance. From poetics to rhetoric, ...

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MiscHistory,Renaissance,Women,Writing

By:M. Spongberg
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:0333726685

The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet ...

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MiscChristianity,Fall,Medieval,Power,Religion,Renaissance,Rise,Roman,Times,World

By:Kelly Roscoe
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:168048625X

Discusses the decline of the Roman Empire, the division of the Mediterranean world during the seventh and eighth centuries into three culture zones, East Ro ...

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ChristianityChurch,Concept,Eastern,Gorgias,Orthodox,Reality,Renaissance,Syriac,Time

By:Peter Kawerau
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1463244673

An English translation of the second edition of Peter Kawerau's Die Jakobitische Kirche im Zeitalter der syrischen Renaissance (1960).

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MiscEarly,Equality,France,Modern,Renaissance,Routledge,Sexes,Studies,Towards

By:Derval Conroy
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:0367708469

This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined or realised in early modern France ...

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HistoryCulture,Dante,Early,French,Lyric,Medieval,Modern,Renaissance,Research,Shadow

By:Alison Baird Lovell
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:150151797X

This book presents an interpretation of Maurice Scve's lyric sequence Dlie, object de plus haulte vertu (Lyon, 1544) in literary relation to the ...

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HistoryCross-Cultural,Early,Exchanges,Italy,Languages,Late,Medieval,Modern,Renaissance,Studies

By:Alessandra Petrocchi
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:2503601812

Although much work has been done in the field of Renaissance Studies, at present there is no book which offers a comparative overview of the linguis ...

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HistoryEnglish,Ground-Work,Literary,Literature,Medieval,Renaissance,Science,Soil,Studies

By:Hillary Eklund
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:0820704997

How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what chan ...

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HistoryGothic,Reassessment,Renaissance

By:Elisabeth Bronfen
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:0719088631

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive n ...