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Looking Trustworthy - Portraits And Textual Poses Of Humanist Translators In The Renaissance

by Andrea (The University Of Melbourne) Rizzi

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 This Element investigates how Renaissance humanist translators used the printed page to construct a trustworthy persona and persuade readers of their translations' value. These portraits shaped the public identity of translators, lent credibility to their work, and positioned them within broader networks of cultural authority.
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Looking Trustworthy - Portraits And Textual Poses Of Humanist Translators In The Renaissance

by Andrea (The University Of Melbourne) Rizzi

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 This Element investigates how Renaissance humanist translators used the printed page to construct a trustworthy persona and persuade readers of their translations' value. These portraits shaped the public identity of translators, lent credibility to their work, and positioned them within broader networks of cultural authority.
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Making News In Renaissance Europe

by Brendan (University College Cork) Dooley

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 The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element will convey the latest research results concerning the dynamics and significance of this invention. Drivers of change, apart from sheer curiosity, included state officials seeking opportunities, merchants seeking markets, writers seeking jobs.
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Making News In Renaissance Europe

by Brendan (University College Cork) Dooley

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 The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element will convey the latest research results concerning the dynamics and significance of this invention. Drivers of change, apart from sheer curiosity, included state officials seeking opportunities, merchants seeking markets, writers seeking jobs.
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The Fabric Of War - The Material Culture And Social Lives Of Banners In Renaissance Europe

by John (University Of Sydney) Gagne e Timothy (Villanova University) Mccall

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 This Element, The Fabric of War, explores the history of flags and banners in Renaissance Europe, analyzing their cultural, ideological, and artistic significance. It examines banners not just as symbols, but as vibrant, dynamic textiles that energized armies, celebrated victory, and motivated action.
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The Fabric Of War - The Material Culture And Social Lives Of Banners In Renaissance Europe

by John (University Of Sydney) Gagne e Timothy (Villanova University) Mccall

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 This Element, The Fabric of War, explores the history of flags and banners in Renaissance Europe, analyzing their cultural, ideological, and artistic significance. It examines banners not just as symbols, but as vibrant, dynamic textiles that energized armies, celebrated victory, and motivated action.
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Who Owns Literature? - Early Modernity'S Orphaned Texts

by Jane (Yale University, Connecticut) Tylus

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 Material culture scholarship explores licensing, permissions, and patronage dynamics, highlighting the estrangement of works from authors. This Element explores early modern authors' goodbyes, translators' duties, and censorship's impact on works. It explores the relevance of loss, charity, and license in literature.
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Who Owns Literature? - Early Modernity'S Orphaned Texts

by Jane (Yale University, Connecticut) Tylus

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 Material culture scholarship explores licensing, permissions, and patronage dynamics, highlighting the estrangement of works from authors. This Element explores early modern authors' goodbyes, translators' duties, and censorship's impact on works. It explores the relevance of loss, charity, and license in literature.
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The French Disease In Renaissance Italy - Representation And Experience

by John (University Of London) Henderson

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 This Element provides an approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and a wider public through performance and the circulation of popular prints. The second theme is how the French Disease was represented visually.
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The Many Lives Of Tasfa Seyon - An Ethiopian Intellectual In Early Modern Rome

by Deresse Ayenachew (Aix-Marseille Universite) Woldetsadik, James (City University Of New York) De Lorenzi e Matteo (American University Of Sharjah) Salvadore

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 This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth century Ethiopian intellectual TÃ¤sfa S?eyon. It reconstructs his formative years, scrutinizes his editio princeps of the Ge'ez Gospels, and traces his modern influence, erasure, and rediscovery by later generations of Western orientalists, Ethiopian writers, and Catholic thinkers.
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The Many Lives Of Tasfa Seyon - An Ethiopian Intellectual In Early Modern Rome

by Deresse Ayenachew (Aix-Marseille Universite) Woldetsadik, James (City University Of New York) De Lorenzi e Matteo (American University Of Sharjah) Salvadore

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 This Element examines the life and legacy of the sixteenth century Ethiopian intellectual TÃ¤sfa S?eyon. It reconstructs his formative years, scrutinizes his editio princeps of the Ge'ez Gospels, and traces his modern influence, erasure, and rediscovery by later generations of Western orientalists, Ethiopian writers, and Catholic thinkers.
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The French Disease In Renaissance Italy - Representation And Experience

by John (University Of London) Henderson

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 This Element provides an approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and a wider public through performance and the circulation of popular prints. The second theme is how the French Disease was represented visually.
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Elite Women And The Italian Wars, 1494-1559

by Carolyn James e Susan Broomhall

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 The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict known as the Italian Wars between 1494 and 1559. The authors show breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making.
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Risks In Renaissance Art - Production, Purchase, And Reception

by Jonathan K. Nelson e Richard J. Zeckhauser

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 This Element represents the systematic study of the risks taken by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It classifies scores of documented examples of losses into production risks and reception risks and discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide.
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Plague, Towns And Monarchy In Early Modern France

by Neil (Northumbria University) Murphy

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 This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. It seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s.
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Plague, Towns And Monarchy In Early Modern France

by Neil (Northumbria University) Murphy

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 This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. It seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s.
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Senses Of Space In The Early Modern World

by Nicholas (University Of Toronto) Terpstra

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 This Element takes a global expansive and locally rooted approach to answering how early moderns experienced sense and space by focusing on 4 cities as its key examples:Â Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Senses Of Space In The Early Modern World

by Nicholas (University Of Toronto) Terpstra

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 This Element takes a global expansive and locally rooted approach to answering how early moderns experienced sense and space by focusing on 4 cities as its key examples:Â Florence, Amsterdam, Boston, and Manila. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Elite Women And The Italian Wars, 1494â€“1559

by Carolyn (Monash University, Victoria) James e Susan (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne) Broomhall

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 The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict known as the Italian Wars between 1494 and 1559. The authors show breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making.
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Elite Women And The Italian Wars, 1494â€“1559

by Carolyn (Monash University, Victoria) James

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 The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict known as the Italian Wars between 1494 and 1559. The authors show breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making.
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Risks In Renaissance Art - Production, Purchase, And Reception

by Jonathan K. (Syracuse University, Florence) Nelson e Richard J. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Zeckhauser

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 This Element represents the systematic study of the risks taken by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It classifies scores of documented examples of losses into production risks and reception risks and discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide.
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Risks In Renaissance Art - Production, Purchase, And Reception

by Jonathan K. (Syracuse University, Florence) Nelson e Richard J. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Zeckhauser

~~24,33€~~ 21,90€ 10% OFF

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 This Element represents the systematic study of the risks taken by those who produced, commissioned, and purchased art, across Renaissance Europe. It classifies scores of documented examples of losses into production risks and reception risks and discusses risk-taming mechanisms operating society-wide.
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Measuring In The Renaissance - An Introduction

by Emanuele Lugli

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 During the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production, warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell. This Element delves into the applications of measuring, with a particular emphasis on the Italian states, and traces its wide-ranging cultural effects.
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Renaissance On The Road - Mobility, Migration And Cultural Exchange

by Rosa Salzberg

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 This Element examines the material and social mechanisms that enacted mobility in the Renaissance and offers a new way to understand the period's dynamism, creativity, and conflict. It highlights the experiences of a wide range of mobile populations, paying particular attention to the concrete, practical dimensions of moving around at this time.
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