Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England
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The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had...
Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
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This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality...
Giovanni Bellini - Landscape of Faith in Renaissance Venice
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Praised by Albrecht Du rer as being "the best in painting," Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is...
Railway Renaissance: Britain's Railways After Beeching
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When a 35 mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle reopened on 6...
Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance
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The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe's relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand,...