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Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare
In a major contribution to the burgeoning area of study that crosses between early modern texts and premodern cultures, Danila Sokolov argues for the necessity of reading the work of English Petrarchan writers in light of earlier medieval forms of poetic subjectivity. By doing just that, this book directly challenges one of the most enduring ......
One of the most brilliant courtiers and military leaders in Renaissance France, Jacques de Savoie, duke of Nemours, was head of the cadet branch of the house of Savoy, a dynasty that had ruled over a collection of lands in the Western Alps since the eleventh century. Jacques’ cousin Emanuel Filibert, duke of Savoy and ruler of the ......
The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art ......
This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years following 1948. Drawing on the remarkable cinematic and literary output of the last twenty years, this collection posits loss as a new conceptual framework in which to understand Jewish-Muslim relations. Whereas previous studies of ......
A translation of Polish politician and architect Ignacy Potocki's unpublished treatise Remarks on Architecture. Includes an introduction that places Potocki and the treatise within the political, social, and cultural context of eighteenth-century Poland.
A translation of Polish politician and architect Ignacy Potocki's unpublished treatise Remarks on Architecture. Includes an introduction that places Potocki and the treatise within the political, social, and cultural context of eighteenth-century Poland.
