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A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding. The......more
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Four bastard children of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford vigorously made their way in the world despit......more
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A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes ......more
Debate within the Venetian Senate at turn of the fifteenth century has long been opaque, as only an elite few were allow......more
This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Socie......more
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Niccolò Ridolfi (1501-50), was a Florentine cardinal, nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and h......more
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This collection of seventeen essays newly identifies contributions to musical culture made by women before 1500 across E......more
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In Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid, Flemish immigrants and imported Flem......more
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more
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Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in pri......more
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When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what t......more
Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstra......more
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Ilmari Karimies investigates Martin Luther’s understanding of reality and faith. He examines Luther’s understanding of r......more
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