Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts 9783110473377, 9783110472363

Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts 9783110473377, 9783110472363

The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen cont

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Albrecht Dürer and the Depiction of Cultural Differences in Renaissance Europe 9780367567453, 9780367568474, 9781003099628

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürer’s depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his dep

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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence 1107043913, 9781107043916

This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Inv

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The Humanist Controversy and Other Texts 185984507X, 1859844081, 9781859845073

There can be little doubt that Louis Althusser was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century and

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Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union 9780674273917

Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians, beginning with the impact of the Bolshevik Revo

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Secrets of the Sacred Texts (Secrets in the Sacred Texts)

"He who knows does not talk, he who talks does not know." Lao Tzu Truer words were never stated--at least in r

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Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age 9780674270053

Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Ca

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Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene 9780823284245

Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterrane

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The Prince and the Pauper

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The Historians Mu'awiya - The Depiction of Mu'awiya in the Early Islamic Sources [1 ed.] 9783639099454

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