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| 1. |  | Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682  Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History | Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The Enlightenment against the Baroque: economics and aesthetics in the eighteenth century Author: Saisselin, Rémy G. (Rémy Gilbert) 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Popular Culture | Art | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to descri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Erasmus of the Low Countries Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to prom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Religion | Renaissance History | European History | Christianity Publisher's Description: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century. A worldly Venetian patrician, he later became an ascetic advocate of Church reform and, as a Catholic cardinal, was sent to the important Colloquy of Regensburg. He failed in his mission to bri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834 Author: Haliczer, Stephen 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Renaissance History Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Nuptial arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the fatal number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic Author: Allen, Michael J. B Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Medieval Studies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: The latest of Michael Allen's distinguished studies of the Renaissance Neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), presents a difficult, fascinating text. Late in his career, Ficino wrote a commentary on the intractable passage in Book VIII of Plato's Republic that concerns the mysterious geometric o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The widening gate: Bristol and the Atlantic economy, 1450-1700 Author: Sacks, David Harris 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History | United States History Similar Items |