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Ariosto and the Arabs
Contexts for the Orlando Furioso
Av Mario Casari, Monica Preti m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
497 kr
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Among the most dynamic and influential literary texts of the European sixteenth century, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1532) emerged from a world whose horizons were rapidly changing. The poem is a prism through which to examine various links in the chain of interactions that characterized …
Trading at the Edge of Empires
Francesco Carletti's World, c. 1600
Av Brian Brege, Paula Findlen m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
391 kr
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In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Florentine Francesco Carletti became the first European merchant to leave an account of travel on existing commercial routes. A repentant ex-slave trader and smuggler turned dealer in Chinese goods, Carletti …
Seachanges
Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550–1800
Häftad, 2022
357 kr
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Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Musicians have always been migratory frontrunners, and musical encounters have always generated nodes of cultural complexity. But hearing past musicking that took place in diaspora and …
Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Häftad, 2022
401 kr
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When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Representations of Tupinamba cannibals, Aztecs slicing human hearts out, and idolatrous Incas flooded the early modern European …
Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History
Av Anne Dunlop
Häftad, 2023
401 kr
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With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For those they conquered, and for those who later …
Robert Klein
A Meteor in Art History and Philosophy
Av Jérémie Koering, Alessandro Nova m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
349 kr
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Although Robert Klein (1918–1967), well known for his erudition and the originality of his research, was an important, even paradigmatic figure for the field of art history in the twentieth century, no sustained study has yet been dedicated to his work.Klein undertook to rethink Renaissance art and …
Lost and Found
Locating Foundlings in the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2024
401 kr
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Florence’s foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. Its progressive approach to caring for abandoned children was matched by the iconic architectural form designed one of the period’s leading architects, Filippo Brunelleschi. …
Global Gold
Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Häftad, 2024
349 kr
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Gold as a material and gold as a value becomes a truly universal equivalent in the early modern world as global economies begin to emerge after 1492. The essays in Global Gold present both the aesthetic and economic conditions that immediately precede the emergence of this global commerce as well …
Crossroads Africa
African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity
Av Cécile Fromont, Sarah M. Guérin m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
576 kr
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Crossroads Africa explores the role of Africa and Africans in shaping the early modern world (c. 1300–1700). These essays identify and analyze key spaces, objects, and ideas that emerged on the continent as it engaged with the early modern world and that continue to inform the circulation of …
Renaissance in the 19th Century
Revision, Revival, and Return
Häftad, 2018
448 kr
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The Renaissance in the 19th Century examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European critique: a commentary on and reshaping of a nineteenth-century present that is perceived as deeply problematic. The revival, located between historical nostalgia and critique of the contemporary world, …
