Scribes, Script, and Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance [Revised] 0838910386, 9780838910382

North Africa, Revised Edition: A History from Antiquity to the Present [Revised Edition] 9780292761919

North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. P

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European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance 9781442674684

In this first book-length study in the fieldof authorial criticism, various specialists from Italian, French, English, a

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Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts [Course Book ed.] 9781400858460

Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of r

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From Unicode to Typography. Greek script

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Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts 9780674062979

Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it w

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Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays 9780691214849

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's speci

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The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance 0892365374, 9780892365371

Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the mo

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The Book in the Renaissance 9780300110098, 1175255166

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Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond 9780520960862

Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Rena

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The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance 019518811X, 9780195188110

From the earliest period of its existence, Christianity has been recognized as the "religion of the cross." So

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