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Art Auctions and Dealers: The Dissemination of Netherlandish Art during the Ancien Regime (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)) מאת Dries Lyna This collection of essays presents a status quaestionis concerning the dissemination of Flemish and Dutch art during the period 1400-1800, and highlights the role art auctions and dealers have played in this process. Auctions emerged as the primary channel for art sales at the end of the seventeenth...

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The Flemish Primitives V: Anonymous Masters (Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) מאת Anne Dubois This fifth volume in the series examines all the works painted by anonymous masters. Most works of the 15th and early 16th centuries are not signed. Several of these works have not proved possible to attribute to a known painter or to a master with a provisional name. These works, labelled as anonym...

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Paradise Lost and Republican Tradition from Aristotle to Machiavelli (Cursor Mundi) מאת William Walker This major interdisciplinary study re-examines the political thought of John Milton, one of the celebrated proponents of the 'Commonwealth and Free State' that was established in England in the mid-seventeenth century. Walker shows that in his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), Milton presents a hetero...

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Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 2: From c. 1036 to c. 1300 (Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages) מאת Kari Ellen Gade Volumes One and Two in this series present the large and important body of skaldic poetry preserved in sagas of legendary and historical medieval Scandinavian kings, mainly those of Norway....

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Markets and Agricultural Change in Europe from the 13th to the 20th Century (Rural History in Europe) מאת Vicente Pinilla The main target of this book is to explore how the involvement of rural populations and communities in different kinds of markets (mainly for agricultural commodities) has influenced the management of rural land in Europe. Most of the papers focus on precisely what were the forces driving agricultur...

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The Medieval Household - Daily Life in Castles and Farmsteads (The Medieval Countryside) מאת Eva Svensson Recent archaeological excavations in Scandinavia provide us with a fascinating insight into the household and its function as a social focus for people of different medieval social estates. This book investigates four excavated Swedish sites - the castles of Saxholmen and Edsholm, and the rural sett...

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The Masters of the Dark Eyes: Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland (Ars Nova) מאת Klara H. Broekhuijsen This study deals with the work of the most prolific Dutch book illuminators, the so-called Masters of the Dark Eyes, named after the most conspicuous aspect of their style: the dark, heavily accentuated shadows round the eyes of the figures. With their elaborately illuminated manuscripts, these mast...

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Theatre of the Body: Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early Modern London (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies) מאת Kate Cregan This study is a threefold investigation of understandings of embodiment - as displayed in the playhouses, courthouses, and anatomy theatres of London between 1540 and 1696. These dates mark the waxing and waning of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons' domination of the practice of dissection i...

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Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe) Donald Maddox

Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe) מאת Donald Maddox Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century is the first volume of studies devoted solely to the Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages. These anonymous plays, found in a single luxury manuscript, comprise the only major corpus of dramatic works in French that have survived from the four...

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Three Women of Liege: A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies (Medieval Women Texts and Contexts) מאת Jennifer N. Brown Elizabeth of Spalbeck, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies were three of the famous late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century 'holy women' from the region of Brabant and Liege: their life stories (written in Latin by Philip of Clairvaux, Thomas of Cantimpre, and Jacques of Vitry) were read through...

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The Poet's Notebook: The Personal Manuscript of Charles d'Orleans (Paris, BnF MS fr. 25458) (Texts and Transitions) מאת M. J. Arn This study of Charles d'Orleans personal manuscript of his poetry - the first in nearly a century - paves the way not only for a new edition of the duke's uvre (by Mary-Jo Arn, John Fox, and R. Barton Palmer) but for a new view of it. Following the first complete modern description of the manuscript...

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New Essays on Metaphysics as Scientia Transcendens: Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Medieval Philosophy, held at the Pontifical Catholic ... August 2006 (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Age) R. Hofmeister Pich

New Essays on Metaphysics as Scientia Transcendens: Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Medieval Philosophy, held at the Pontifical Catholic ... August 2006 (Textes et Etudes du Moyen Age) מאת R. Hofmeister Pich This volume is not an historical study of the origins and development of medieval approaches to theories of transcendentals. Its point of departure is rather the role that transcendentals played in natural theology and metaphysical theories of the 13th and 14th centuries. Accordingly, the effort of ...

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Profane Imagery in Marginal Arts of the Middle Ages (Profane Arts of the Middle Ages) מאת Elaine C. Block Contents: PROFANE IMAGERY ON MISERICORDS AND BADGES R. Mellinkoff; The Power of Sexual and Scatological Display E. C. Block; Misericords and the World of Bruegel C. Grossinger; Tutivillus M. Hall; Where the Abbot Carries Dice: Gaming Board Misericords in Context T. Pearson; The Mermaid in the Church...