The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
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If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is...
Isabella De'Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess
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Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and...
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Robin D. G. Kelley, Langston Hughes, Evelyn Louise Crawford and Mary Louise Patterson
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Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of...
The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursuing Wealth and Honor in Renaissance Germany
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As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide...
The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova (1531)
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Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest...
In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
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In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all...
Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance
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In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an...
Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
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Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day - so why do we refuse to think of them...
Sampling Theory, a Renaissance: Compressive Sensing and Other Developments: 2015
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Reconstructing or approximating objects from seemingly incomplete information is a frequent...