Elements in the Renaissance – serie
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Measuring in the Renaissance
An Introduction
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production (ranging from architecture to tailoring), warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell. This study delves into the applications of measuring, with a particular emphasis on …
Plague, Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France
Av Neil Murphy
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague of Provence in the 1720s represented the development of a new and 'modern' form of public health care under the control of the absolutist …
The French Disease in Renaissance Italy
Representation and Experience
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element provides a fresh approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease, by reassessing a wide range of textual and visual sources through the lens of contemporary medical ideas. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and also a wider …
Cinderella's Glass Slipper
Towards a Cultural History of Renaissance Materialities
Häftad, 2022
311 kr
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Cinderella's Glass Slipper studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects. The literary fairy-tale first arose in Renaissance Venice, originating from oral story-telling traditions that would later become the Arabian Nights, and subsequently in the Parisian …
Who Owns Literature?
Early Modernity's Orphaned Texts
Av Jane Tylus
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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Interest in material culture has produced a rigorous body of scholarship that considers the dynamics of licensing, permissions, and patronage - an ongoing history of the estrangement of works from their authors. Additionally, translation studies is enabling new ways to think about the emergence of …
Making News in Renaissance Europe
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element, while offering a general account of news in the period, will convey the latest research results concerning the dynamics and significance of this major development. Drivers of change, apart from …
Looking Trustworthy
Portraits and Textual Poses of Humanist Translators in the Renaissance
Av Andrea Rizzi
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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In this Element I investigate how Renaissance humanist translators used the printed page to construct a trustworthy persona and persuade readers of their translations' value. These portraits did more than decorate books - they shaped the public identity of translators, lent credibility to their …
The Fabric of War
The Material Culture and Social Lives of Banners in Renaissance Europe
Av John Gagné, Timothy McCall
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The Fabric of War traces the rich history of flags and banners in Renaissance Europe through a critical analysis of the cultural, ideological, material, and artistic histories of these complex and ubiquitous objects. It examines banners as numinous textiles that animated and adorned battle, …
Risks in Renaissance Art
Production, Purchase, and Reception
Av Jonathan K. Nelson, Richard J. Zeckhauser
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element represents the first systematic study of the risks borne by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It employs a new methodology, built around concepts from risk analysis and decision theory. The Element classifies scores of documented examples …
Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494-1559
Av Susan Broomhall, Carolyn James
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women connected to imperial, royal and princely …
Senses of Space in the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social horizons of the period emerge out of those experiences and further shape them This Element takes an approach that is both global expansive and locally rooted by focusing on four cities as key …
Senses of Space in the Early Modern World
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social horizons of the period emerge out of those experiences and further shape them This Element takes an approach that is both global expansive and locally rooted by focusing on four cities as key …
Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494-1559
Av Susan Broomhall, Carolyn James
Inbunden, 2024
918 kr
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The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women connected to imperial, royal and princely …
Risks in Renaissance Art
Production, Purchase, and Reception
Av Jonathan K. Nelson, Richard J. Zeckhauser
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element represents the first systematic study of the risks borne by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It employs a new methodology, built around concepts from risk analysis and decision theory. The Element classifies scores of documented examples …
The French Disease in Renaissance Italy
Representation and Experience
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element provides a fresh approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease, by reassessing a wide range of textual and visual sources through the lens of contemporary medical ideas. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and also a wider …
Plague, Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France
Av Neil Murphy
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague of Provence in the 1720s represented the development of a new and 'modern' form of public health care under the control of the absolutist …
Renaissance Physiognomics
Inbunden, 2026
903 kr
Kommande
Physiognomics is the theory according to which there is a relationship between certain signs on the body and certain characteristics of the soul, and furthermore that it is possible to exploit this relationship to transition from what is visible to what is invisible: to read the body in order to …
Renaissance Physiognomics
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
Kommande
Physiognomics is the theory according to which there is a relationship between certain signs on the body and certain characteristics of the soul, and furthermore that it is possible to exploit this relationship to transition from what is visible to what is invisible: to read the body in order to …
Who Owns Literature?
Early Modernity's Orphaned Texts
Av Jane Tylus
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
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Interest in material culture has produced a rigorous body of scholarship that considers the dynamics of licensing, permissions, and patronage - an ongoing history of the estrangement of works from their authors. Additionally, translation studies is enabling new ways to think about the emergence of …
Looking Trustworthy
Portraits and Textual Poses of Humanist Translators in the Renaissance
Av Andrea Rizzi
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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In this Element I investigate how Renaissance humanist translators used the printed page to construct a trustworthy persona and persuade readers of their translations' value. These portraits did more than decorate books - they shaped the public identity of translators, lent credibility to their …
Making News in Renaissance Europe
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element, while offering a general account of news in the period, will convey the latest research results concerning the dynamics and significance of this major development. Drivers of change, apart from …
The Fabric of War
The Material Culture and Social Lives of Banners in Renaissance Europe
Av John Gagné, Timothy McCall
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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The Fabric of War traces the rich history of flags and banners in Renaissance Europe through a critical analysis of the cultural, ideological, material, and artistic histories of these complex and ubiquitous objects. It examines banners as numinous textiles that animated and adorned battle, …
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Islamic Mediterranean, 1574-1610
Self-Fashioning, Patronage, and Negotiation
Av Davide Trentacoste, Francesco Caprioli
Inbunden, 2026
774 kr
Kommande
This Element reassesses early modern Mediterranean diplomacy by positioning the Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the centre of cross-confessional interactions with several Islamic powers between 1574 and 1610. It demonstrates how a small state shaped and used diplomacy to pursue commerce, security, and …
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Islamic Mediterranean, 1574-1610
Self-Fashioning, Patronage, and Negotiation
Av Davide Trentacoste, Francesco Caprioli
Häftad, 2026
246 kr
Kommande
This Element reassesses early modern Mediterranean diplomacy by positioning the Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the centre of cross-confessional interactions with several Islamic powers between 1574 and 1610. It demonstrates how a small state shaped and used diplomacy to pursue commerce, security, and …
The Many Lives of Täsfa Ṣeyon
An Ethiopian Intellectual in Early Modern Rome
Av Matteo Salvadore, James De Lorenzi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth-century Ethiopian intellectual Täsfa Ṣeyon. It reconstructs his formative years in the Horn of Africa and his diasporic life in the Holy Land and Italian peninsula, where he emerged as a prominent intermediary figure at Santo Stefano degli …
The Many Lives of Täsfa Ṣeyon
An Ethiopian Intellectual in Early Modern Rome
Av Matteo Salvadore, James De Lorenzi m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth-century Ethiopian intellectual Täsfa Ṣeyon. It reconstructs his formative years in the Horn of Africa and his diasporic life in the Holy Land and Italian peninsula, where he emerged as a prominent intermediary figure at Santo Stefano degli …
Itinerant Surgeons in the Holy Roman Empire (1500-1750)
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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Drawing on extensive research in dozens of town and state archives, this Element offers the first comprehensive study of the (mostly itinerant) surgeons or 'operators' who specialized in couching cataracts, extracting bladder stones, and fixing hernias and 'harelips' in the Holy Roman Empire in the …
Itinerant Surgeons in the Holy Roman Empire (1500-1750)
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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Drawing on extensive research in dozens of town and state archives, this Element offers the first comprehensive study of the (mostly itinerant) surgeons or 'operators' who specialized in couching cataracts, extracting bladder stones, and fixing hernias and 'harelips' in the Holy Roman Empire in the …
Renaissance Refugees
Negotiating Displacement in Early Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2026
910 kr
Kommande
Comparing four displaced communities in four early modern sanctuary cities (Rome, Venice, Livorno, and London), I show that refugees were not only the victims of state violence but actively negotiated with governments, contributing to the creation of asylum and resettlement policies. Reading the …
Renaissance Refugees
Negotiating Displacement in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2026
318 kr
Kommande
Comparing four displaced communities in four early modern sanctuary cities (Rome, Venice, Livorno, and London), I show that refugees were not only the victims of state violence but actively negotiated with governments, contributing to the creation of asylum and resettlement policies. Reading the …
