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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were
Language: en
Pages: 244
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In
Language: en
Pages: 54
Pages: 54
Type: BOOK - Published: 1965 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century understandings of the world were framed by classical theory.