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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

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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

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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

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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

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Review of A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe edited by Stuart Leibiger

The Enchantments Of Circe: Translation Studies And The English Renaissance, Joshua S. Reid

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Barker, S. K. and Brenda M. Hosington, eds. Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640. Boston: Brill, 2013. xxix + 253 pp. ISBN 978-9004241848. $146.00 cloth.

Braden, Gordon, Robert Cummings, and Stuart Gillespie, eds. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume 2: 1550-1660. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. xiii + 599 pp. ISBN 978-0199246212. $250.00 cloth.

Hosington, Brenda et al. Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalog: An Analytical and Annotated Catalogue of Translations, 1473-1640. ISBN 978-0955787652.

Reynolds, Matthew. The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue. Oxford: Oxford UP, …

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.

Noir Westerns After World War Ii, Kenneth Estes Hall, Chritian Krug

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Excerpt: Towards the end of Ethan and Joel Coen's Academy-Award winning No Country for Old Men (2007), Carla Jean Moss's life depends on the toss of a coin. Heads or tails will decide whether she lives or dies.

Recording Review Of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot, Ted Olson

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Review of Woody Guthrie, American Radical Patriot

Review Of Women As Translators In Early Modern England, By Deborah Uman, Judith Bailey Slagle

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Review of Deborah Uman. Women as Translators in Early Modern England. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012. 166 pages. $65.00.

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.

The Kansas Cattle Towns: Where Trail Meets Rail, Kenneth Estes Hall

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Excerpt: That land of the West has gone now, "gone, gone with lost Atlantis," gone to the isle of ghosts and of strange dead memories. It was a land of vast silent spaces, of lonely rivers, and of plains where wild game stared at the passing horseman .

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Book Review Of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-First Century Traditional Singer, Ted Olson

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Review of Art Rosenbaum: The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America's Great Twenty-first Century Traditional Singer

Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' From The Great Smoky Mountains, Ted Olson

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Excerpt: In an interview published in the February 1992 issue of The Banjo Newsletter and conducted by bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and banjo player and instruction book author Tony Trischka, Carroll Best conveyed the depth of his connections to the instrument he had mastered: “When I was old enough to pick up a banjo I wanted to play.”

From The Iron Horse To Hell On Wheels: The Transcontinental Railroad In The Western, Kenneth Estes Hall

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Excerpt: "I'm crazy about trains! says Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) to his friend Wyatt Earp (James Garner) in Hour of the Gun (Sturges Ch. 6), explaining why he's waiting on the Contention train. Of course he's really there to help Earp get his revenge on Ike Clanton (Robert Ryan) - but then we never quite know with Doc Holliday.