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Engines of Truth Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom
ISBN: HB: 9780300125665, Yale University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad...
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£65,00
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Setting Plato Straight Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780226307008, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars – most of them Catholic – read, digested, a...
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£36,00
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Camisard Uprising War and Religion in the Cevennes
ISBN: PB: 9781909930209, Signal Books, December 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Protestant numbers in France fell from ten per cent of the population in 1598, when Henri IV gave protection by the Edict of Nantes, to a persecuted two per cent in 1700 following its revocation in 1685 by Louis XIV. The destru...
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£14,99
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Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II
ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...
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£15,99
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Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612
ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...
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£20,00
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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples
A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...
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£36,00
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Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform
ISBN: HB: 9780226280394, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 13 halftones
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform – an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the...
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£28,00
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Mystic Fable, Volume Two The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
ISBN: HB: 9780226209135, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 5 tables
More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststru...
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£34,00
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Crimean Tatars From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest
ISBN: PB: 9781849045186, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands of Crimean Tatars clashed with pro-Russian militiamen in Simferopol, while Mosc...
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£30,00
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Murder of King James I
ISBN: HB: 9780300214963, Yale University Press, October 2015
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 97 black&white illus.
A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leadi...
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£30,00
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