Illuminated Manuscripts
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Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art....
The 50 Francis Street Photographer
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From the 1950s to the 1990s, John Walsh ran his photography business out of a small shop on 50...
And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
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Bestselling author Jane Christmas resolves to enter a convent to find out whether she is, as she...
The The Renegado
Philip Massinger and Michael Neill
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The Renegado is one of the most shamelessly entertaining plays of its age, fetching its inspiration...
Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
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On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of...
Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
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Written a generation apart and rarely treated together by scholars, Little Women (1868) and The...
The Hurt(Ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800
Tomas Macsotay and Karel Vanhaesebrouck
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This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period,...
Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street
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Tallinn, 1419. What links the Keeper of the Tower, a prostitute and a Flemish painter to a haunted...
The 19th Wife
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Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled...
Bodies of Light
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Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century...