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What God Kept For Himself

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What God Kept For Himself - Atheism, Sodomy, And Radical Dissent In Renaissance Italy

by Umberto Grassi

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 In early modern Italy, a wave of Inquisition trials prosecuted radical dissenters for their claims that Adam and Eve had angered God by engaging in sodomyâ€"a sexual practice reserved for the divine. Such statements, which led to charges of atheism, played a key role in fueling broader critiques of Church corruption and Christian morality.
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The State Drug

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The State Drug - Theriac, Pharmacy, And Politics In Early Modern Italy

by Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore

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 In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic â€œwonder drugâ€ theriac became a vehicle for political, pharmaceutical, and commercial power. The State Drug shows how regimes and medical authorities secured support by promoting and regulating theriac. In turn, it sheds new light on the relationship between medicine and authority in early modern Europe.
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Feeding The Eternal City - Jewish And Christian Butchers In The Roman Ghetto

by Kenneth Stow

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 Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Romeâ€™s ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher meat. But Jewish butchers found ways to circumvent canon law by working with their Christian counterparts. Kenneth Stow describes this complex collaboration, which enabled Jews to maintain their traditions in a hostile city.
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Translating Faith - Ethiopian Pilgrims In Renaissance Rome

by Samantha Kelly

~~72,88€~~ 58,30€ 20% OFF

 Samantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in premodern Europe to leave extensive documentation in their own language, they negotiated religious pluralism amid rising Catholic conformity and collaborated with Latin Christians on scholarly projects of enduring interest.
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A Veil Of Silence - Women And Sound In Renaissance Italy

by Julia Rombough

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 Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in womenâ€™s residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was tied to ideals of feminine purity and spiritual discipline, yet enclosed women still laughed, shouted, sang, and conversed. A Veil of Silence offers a revealing history of the political and spiritual meanings of the senses.
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Translating Faith - Ethiopian Pilgrims In Renaissance Rome

by Samantha Kelly

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 Samantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in premodern Europe to leave extensive documentation in their own language, they negotiated religious pluralism amid rising Catholic conformity and collaborated with Latin Christians on scholarly projects of enduring interest.
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Being A Jesuit In Renaissance Italy - Biographical Writing In The Early Global Age

by Camilla Russell

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 Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Camilla Russell looks to the lives and writings of early Jesuits to better understand the Societyâ€™s appeal, how it worked, and the ideas that drove Christian thinkers and missionaries during the Renaissance and early modern period.
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What It Means To Be Human - The Case For The Body In Public Bioethics

by O. Carter Snead

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 American law assumes that individuals are autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose, and not obligated to each other. But our bodies make us vulnerable and dependent, and the law leaves the weakest on their own. O. Carter Snead argues for a paradigm that recognizes embodiment, enabling law and policy to provide for the care that people need.
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Smellosophy - What The Nose Tells The Mind

by A. S. Barwich

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 For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli â€œsparkingâ€ regions of the brain. But this view has a key flaw: odors donâ€™t line up consistently with the neural map. A. S. Barwich explores the new science of smell and urges us to rethink theories of mind and brain inspired by the mapping model.
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Bone Rooms - From Scientific Racism To Human Prehistory In Museums

by Samuel J. Redman

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 In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.
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The Dynamics Of Learning In Early Modern Italy - Arts And Medicine At The University Of Bologna

by David A. Lines

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 A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term decline. Drawing on rich archival sources, including teaching records, David Lines shows that one of Italyâ€™s leading institutions, the University of Bologna, displayed remarkable vitality in the arts and medicine.
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Writing History In Renaissance Italy - Leonardo Bruni And The Uses Of The Past

by Gary Ianziti

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 Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about-and what it has meant for the field of historiography-has long been a matter of confusion and controversy. Writing History in Renaissance Italy offers a fresh approach to the subject by undertaking a systematic, work-by-work investigation that encompasses for the first time the full range of Bruni's output in history and biography.The study is the first to assess in detail the impact of the classical Greek historians on the development of humanist methods of historical writing. It highlights in particular the importance of Thucydides and Polybius-authors Bruni was among the first in the West to read, and whose analytical approach to politics led him in new directions. Yet the revolution in history that unfolds across the four decades covered in this study is no mere revival of classical models: Ianziti constantly monitors Bruni's position within the shifting hierarchies of power in Florence, drawing connections between his various historical works and the political uses they were meant to serve.The result is a clearer picture of what Bruni hoped to achieve, and a more precise analysis of the dynamics driving his new approach to the past. Bruni himself emerges as a protagonist of the first order, a figure whose location at the center of power was a decisive factor shaping his innovations in historical writing.
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Return Of Lucretius To Renaissance Florence

by Alison Brown

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 In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius's De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine thinkers-earlier and more widely than has been supposed-to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies.To answer the question of why ordinary Florentines were drawn to this recently discovered text, despite its threat to orthodox Christian belief, Brown tracks interest in it through three humanists-the most famous of whom was Machiavelli-all working not as philologists but as practical administrators and teachers in the Florentine chancery and university. Interpreting their direct use of Lucretius within the context of mercantile Florence, Brown highlights three dangerous themes that had particular appeal: Lucretius's attack on superstitious religion and an afterlife; his pre-Darwinian theory of evolution; and his atomism, with its theory of free will and the chance creation of the world.The humanists' challenge to established beliefs encouraged the growth of a "Lucretian network" of younger, politically disaffected Florentines. Brown thus adds a missing dimension to our understanding of the "revolution" in sixteenth-century political thinking, as she enriches our definition of the Renaissance in a context of newly discovered worlds and new social networks.
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Venice'S Most Loyal City - Civic Identity In Renaissance Brescia

by Stephen D. Bowd

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 This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack, economic downturn, and demographic collapse. Despite these trials, Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation, which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy.
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Tuscany In The Age Of Empire

by Brian Brege

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 Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book PrizeA new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy's leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire.The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct commercial expansion, as Brian Brege shows, Tuscany followed a different path, one that allowed it to participate in Europe's new age of empire without establishing an empire of its own. The first history of its kind, Tuscany in the Age of Empire offers a fresh appraisal of one of the foremost cities of the Italian Renaissance, as it sought knowledge, fortune, and power throughout Asia, the Americas, and beyond.How did Tuscany, which could not compete directly with the growing empires of other European states, establish a global presence? First, Brege shows, Tuscany partnered with larger European powers. The duchy sought to obtain trade rights within their empires and even manage portions of other states' overseas territories. Second, Tuscans invested in cultural, intellectual, and commercial institutions at home, which attracted the knowledge and wealth generated by Europe's imperial expansions. Finally, Tuscans built effective coalitions with other regional powers in the Mediterranean and the Islamic world, which secured the duchy's access to global products and empowered the Tuscan monarchy in foreign affairs.These strategies allowed Tuscany to punch well above its weight in a world where power was equated with the sort of imperial possessions it lacked. By finding areas of common interest with stronger neighbors and forming alliances with other marginal polities, a small state was able to protect its own security while carving out a space as a diplomatic and intellectual hub in a globalizing Europe.
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Love And Sex In The Time Of Plague - A Decameron Renaissance

by Guido Ruggiero

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 Guido Ruggiero brings readers back to Renaissance Florence, capturing how the Decameron sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Giovanni Boccaccioâ€™s masterpiece of love, sex, loyalty, and betrayal resonated amid the Black Death and the eraâ€™s convulsive political change, reimagining truth and virtue in a moment both desperate and full of potential.
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Niccolo Di Lorenzo Della Magna And The Social World Of Florentine Printing, Ca. 1470 1493

by Lorenz Boninger

~~143,02€~~ 114,42€ 20% OFF

 Lorenz BÃ¶ninger tells the story of NiccolÃ² di Lorenzo della Magna, a major printer of Renaissance Italy. NiccolÃ²â€™s hitherto mysterious life and career provide unparalleled insight into the business of printing in its earliest years, illuminating the economic, legal, and intellectual forces that surrounded the publication and dissemination of texts.
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Milan Undone - Contested Sovereignties In The Italian Wars

by John Gagne

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 In 1499, Milan was an independent state with a stable government. But over the next thirty years, it descended into chaos amid the Italian Wars. John GagnÃ© details Milanâ€™s social and political breakdown. The Renaissance may have been the cradle of the modern nation-state, but it was also a time when sophisticated sovereigns collapsed.
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Abortion In Early Modern Italy

by John Christopoulos

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 John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives, he explores the meanings of a practice that was officially banned yet widely practiced and generally tolerated, demonstrating that Italy was hardly a haven for Catholic anti-abortion absolutism.
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Giannozzo Manetti - The Life Of A Florentine Humanist

by David Marsh

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 Giannozzo Manetti was one of the most remarkable figures of the Italian Renaissance, though today his works are unfamiliar in English. In this authoritative biography, the first ever in English, David Marsh guides readers through the vast range of Manettiâ€™s writings, which epitomized the new humanist scholarship of the Quattrocento.
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Forgotten Healers - Women And The Pursuit Of Health In Late Renaissance Italy

by Sharon T. Strocchia

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 In Renaissance Italy women from all walks of life played a central role in health care and the early development of medical science. Observing that the frontlines of care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Sharon Strocchia encourages us to rethink womenâ€™s place in the history of medicine.
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Everyday Renaissances - The Quest For Cultural Legitimacy In Venice

by Sarah Gwyneth Ross

~~75,53€~~ 60,42€ 20% OFF

 Revealing an Italian Renaissance beyond Michelangelo and the Medici, Sarah Gwyneth Ross recovers the experiences of everyday people who were inspired to pursue humanistic learning. Physicians were often the most avid professionals seeking to earn the respect of their betters, advance their families, and secure honorable remembrance after death.
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Clerical Households In Late Medieval Italy

by Roisin Cossar

~~75,53€~~ 60,42€ 20% OFF

 Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformersâ€™ desire for clerics to remain celibate, clerical households resembled those of the laity, and priestsâ€™ lives included apprenticeships in youth, fatherhood in middle age, and reliance on their families in old age.
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Success And Suppression - Arabic Sciences And Philosophy In The Renaissance

by Dag Nikolaus Hasse

~~91,43€~~ 73,14€ 20% OFF

 Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.
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