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Review Of John Of Salisbury And The Medieval Roman Renaissance, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Review Of John Of Salisbury And The Medieval Roman Renaissance, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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Review of Irene O'Daly. 2018. John of Salisbury and the Medieval Roman Renaissance. Manchester University Press. 9781526109491.
Review Of Venice: An Intimate Empire, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Review Of Venice: An Intimate Empire, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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Review of Erin Maglaque. (2018) Venice's Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean. Cornell. 9781501721656.
Book Review Of A New Sense Of The Past: The Scholarship Of Biono Flavio, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Book Review Of A New Sense Of The Past: The Scholarship Of Biono Flavio, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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Review of Mazzocco, Angelo, and Marc Laureys, eds. A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392–1463). Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016. pp. 288. ISBN: 9789462700482 (paperback).
Book Review Of The “Commentaries” Of Pope Pius Ii (1458–1464) And The Crisis Of The Fifteenth-Century Papacy, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Book Review Of The “Commentaries” Of Pope Pius Ii (1458–1464) And The Crisis Of The Fifteenth-Century Papacy, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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The “Commentaries” of Pope Pius II (1458–1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy. Emily O’Brien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xiv + 336 pp. $65.
Book Review Of The Black Prince Of Florence, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Book Review Of The Black Prince Of Florence, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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Review of The Black Prince of Florence by Catherine Fletcher
Book Review Of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest For Cultural Legitimacy In Venice, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Book Review Of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest For Cultural Legitimacy In Venice, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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Review of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice by Sarah Gwyneth Ross
Book Review Of The Mapping Of Power In Renaissance Italy, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Book Review Of The Mapping Of Power In Renaissance Italy, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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Review of The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy by Mark Rosen.
Review Of Diplomacy In Renaissance Rome: The Rise Of The Resident Ambassador, By Catherine Fletcher., Brian Maxson
Review Of Diplomacy In Renaissance Rome: The Rise Of The Resident Ambassador, By Catherine Fletcher., Brian Maxson
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Book Review Of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams And The Grand Strategy Of The Republic By Charles N. Edel, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
Book Review Of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams And The Grand Strategy Of The Republic By Charles N. Edel, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
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Review of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic by Charles N. Edel.
Book Review Of Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs From The Middle Ages And Renaissance, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Book Review Of Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs From The Middle Ages And Renaissance, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
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Review of Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Vittore Branca
Understanding The Essex Junto: Fear, Dissent, And Propaganda In The Early Republic, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
Understanding The Essex Junto: Fear, Dissent, And Propaganda In The Early Republic, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
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Historians have never formed a consensus over the Essex Junto. In fact, though often associated with New England Federalists, propagandists evoked the Junto long after the Federalist Party’s demise in 1824. This article chronicles uses of the term Essex Junto and its significance as it evolved from the early republic through the 1840s.
Review Of The Duke’S Assassin: Exile And Death Of Lorenzino De’ Medici, By Stefano Dall'aglio, Trans. By Donald Weinstein., Brian Maxson
Review Of The Duke’S Assassin: Exile And Death Of Lorenzino De’ Medici, By Stefano Dall'aglio, Trans. By Donald Weinstein., Brian Maxson
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New archival documentation that was previously unknown details a new understanding concerning the life and death of Lornezino de' Medici.
Review Of The Cambridge Companion To The Italian Renaissance, Ed. By Michael Wyatt., Brian Maxson
Review Of The Cambridge Companion To The Italian Renaissance, Ed. By Michael Wyatt., Brian Maxson
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The reviewed book's organization around themes reflects the domination of cultural history in the field of Renaissance Studies today.
Review Of Living Well In Renaissance Italy: The Virtues Of Humanism And The Irony Of Leon Battista Alberti, By Timothy Kircher., Brian Maxson
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Leon Battista Alberti wrote with a sense of irony that separated his works from his humanist contemporaries and linked him to the tradition of fourteenth-century vernacular writers, particularly Petrarch and Boccaccio. His irony was characterized by his encouragement to look for virtue beneath appearances and his distrust of equating virtue with humanist learning.
Review Of The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticaries, Brian Maxson
Review Of The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticaries, Brian Maxson
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This reviewed book offers a fascinating series of inquiries into the objects, architecture, and spaces in home interiors in early modern Italy, particularly in Florence, Venice, and Bologna.
Review Of The Italian Renaissance And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento, Brian Maxson
Review Of The Italian Renaissance And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento, Brian Maxson
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This book reviewed rejects recent scholarship that has minimized the significance of the Italian Renaissance. Instead, it argues that the cities of Florence, Venice, and Milan enjoyed a distinct period of precocity over the rest of Europe between roughly 130--1500.
Review Of Neo-Latin And The Humanities: Essays In Honour Of Charles E. Fantazzi, Ed. By Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher, And Jonathan Reid., Brian Maxson
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This is a collection of essays that works to illustrate the cultural force of Neo-Latin and the humanists who wrote them.
Academic Library Core Collection For Celtic And Roman Religions In Roman Britain, Kim Woodring
Academic Library Core Collection For Celtic And Roman Religions In Roman Britain, Kim Woodring
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Presented here is a bibliography representing a core collection on the Celtic and Roman religion in Roman Britain. This religion, which was formed from the mixing of Celtic and Roman religions, was truly a new religion. It was formed from two powerful but different religions. The Celts believed in nature and the power it held within everything in their world. The Romans believed in the power of their pantheon of gods and goddesses. When these two factors merged it produced a religion unlike any other in the world during the Iron Age. This bibliography will list the resources to form …
Review Of Reviving The Eternal City: Rome And The Papal Court, 1420-1447 By Elizabeth Mccahill, Brian Maxson
Review Of Reviving The Eternal City: Rome And The Papal Court, 1420-1447 By Elizabeth Mccahill, Brian Maxson
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Review Of Notable Men And Women Of Our Time, Brian Maxson
Review Of Notable Men And Women Of Our Time, Brian Maxson
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Paolo Giovio wrote his text in the aftermath of the sack of Rome by imperial troops in 1527, although the work remained unfinished at the time of the author's death some twenty-five years.
Review Of Entering A Clerical Career At The Roman Curia, 1458–1471 By Kirsi Salonen And Jusi Hanska, Brian Maxson
Review Of Entering A Clerical Career At The Roman Curia, 1458–1471 By Kirsi Salonen And Jusi Hanska, Brian Maxson
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Review Of The Renaissance Of Empire In Early Modern Europe, Brian Maxson
Review Of The Renaissance Of Empire In Early Modern Europe, Brian Maxson
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This work offers a panoramic sweep of the use of Roman Imperial Iconographies and literary traditions from the 14th through 17th centuries.
Review Of Healthy Living In Late Renaissance Italy, Brian Maxson
Review Of Healthy Living In Late Renaissance Italy, Brian Maxson
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This work offers an interdisciplinary study of preventative health in 16th and 17th century Italy. Previous studies on the practice and prescription of early modern preventative health are few, and scholars have tended to assume that medical understanding of the body's humors remained relatively static during this period.
Book Review Of A Companion To James Madison And James Monroe, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
Book Review Of A Companion To James Madison And James Monroe, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
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Review of A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe edited by Stuart Leibiger
Review Of Isabella D’Este And Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing At The Italian Renaissance Court, Brian Maxson
Review Of Isabella D’Este And Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing At The Italian Renaissance Court, Brian Maxson
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The book reviewed depicts husband and wife, Francesco Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este, who worked together to direct the domestic and diplomatic affairs of Mantua far more than the scholarship on Isabella has usually assumed.
Review Of Humanism In Fifteenth-Century Europe., Brian Maxson
Review Of Humanism In Fifteenth-Century Europe., Brian Maxson
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This important book seeks to dispel the myth that humanism and humanists were unique to the Italian Peninsula during the Fifteenth Century.
Book Review Of Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter Of Monticello: Her Life And Times By Cynthia A. Kierner, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
Book Review Of Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter Of Monticello: Her Life And Times By Cynthia A. Kierner, Dinah Mayo-Bobee
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Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times. By Cynthia A. Kierner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 281.)
Review Of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, Brian Maxson
Review Of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, Brian Maxson
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The author offers a comprehensive analysis of the thought of Machiavelli situated against the backdrop of political and biographical developments in the early 16th century.
Review Of Cultures Of Charity: Women, Politics, And The Reform Of Poor Relief In Renaissance Italy, Brian Maxson
Review Of Cultures Of Charity: Women, Politics, And The Reform Of Poor Relief In Renaissance Italy, Brian Maxson
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The author uses a thematic approach to argue that Bologna was a trensetter in approaches and institutions aimed at helping the poor between roughly 1450-1700.
Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro, Brian Maxson
Review Of Contesting The Renaissance By William Caferro, Brian Maxson
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