Fats: A Global History
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No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter,...
Gardens of Beauty: Gardens of the Borromeo Islands
Dario Fusaro and Paolo Pejrone
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A tribute to the beauty of the famed Italian gardens of Isola Bella and Isola Madre, two precious...
Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture
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This edited volume presents a selected history of French music and culture, but one with a dynamic...
The Dance of Death
Hans Holbein and Ulinka Rublack
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'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it...
The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art
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Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and...
Anatomy of Satire
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Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some...
Niorstigningar Saga: Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse Descent into Hell
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The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing...
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
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Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of...
The Psalms and Medieval English Literature: From the Conversion to the Reformation
Tamara Atkin and Francis Leneghan
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The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
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Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from...