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Manners, Customs, and Dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance Period by Paul Lacroix
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Paul Lacroix

Fig. 200.—Medal to commemorate the Association of the Merchants of the City of Rouen. It was not until the reign of Henry IV. that they again confined themselves to their ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
The Erotic Poems (Classics) by Ovid
mobi |eng | 2004-04-28 | Author:Ovid

What he describes here–camouflaging his personal feelings, as so often, behind a smokescreen of mythic witticisms–is the psychological impact of falling in love with an actual person. The symptoms are ...
( Category: Love Poems May 27,2019 )
Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series) by Elliott Dyan
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Elliott, Dyan [Elliott, Dyan]

1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray An earlier version of this chapter was presented at the conference “Constructing Medieval Sexualities,” sponsored by the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies in ...
( Category: Renaissance May 27,2019 )
A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

* * * Antenami was very pleased with himself, hopeful that two desires could be assuaged now that he had found her. He had little interest in the family business. ...
( Category: Renaissance May 16,2019 )
Lost Gold of the Dark Ages by Caroline Alexander
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Caroline Alexander [Alexander, Caroline]

CONVERSIONS As pagan Anglo-Saxons moved into Britain after the Romans, Celtic Christians retreated westward or were absorbed into the invaders’ Germanic culture. It was only with the advent of Christian ...
( Category: Renaissance May 15,2019 )
The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Philip Kazan [Philip Kazan]

The nuns had washed and repaired my clothes. I found them waiting for me one morning when I came back to my cell after hobbling around the lovely little garden ...
( Category: Renaissance May 6,2019 )
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence by Edward L. Goldberg
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Edward L. Goldberg [Goldberg, Edward L.]

Fire at the Fair ‘We arrived in Ferrara early this morning, which is Tuesday, but we didn’t find the ambassador. So, we can expect him to appear this evening, on ...
( Category: Renaissance April 30,2019 )
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick (ed.)
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Isaac Kramnick (ed.) [Kramnick, Isaac]

ON THEATER AND MORALS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU D‘Alembert wrote the entry for “Geneva” in the Encylopédie, in which he criticized its prohibition of theater. Rousseau replied in 1758 in his Epistle ...
( Category: Renaissance April 29,2019 )
Macbeth by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Bloom

CHAPTER 7 What, Will the Line Stretch Out to th’ Crack of Doom The subsequent scene of the Witches and Hecate seems to me Shakespeare’s, though there is an ongoing ...
( Category: Drama April 14,2019 )
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:E. M. Cioran

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: Renaissance March 23,2019 )
Machiavelli in hell by Sebastian De Grazia
epub |eng | 1989-03-13 | Author:Sebastian De Grazia

Moses, perhaps his £freatest hero, is the model of the babe in the bulrushes. CHAPTER lO death of Lorenzo de’ Medici the elder, the Duomo was struck in its highest ...
( Category: Renaissance March 14,2019 )
The Politics by Aristotle & Trevor J. Saunders & T. A. Sinclair
mobi, epub |eng | 1981-11-19 | Author:Aristotle & Trevor J. Saunders & T. A. Sinclair

Iv xv (1299a3–1300b12) THE EXECUTIVE ELEMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION Aristotle now turns to the second of the three ‘elements’ he had enumerated at the beginning of IV xiv, the executive ...
( Category: Renaissance March 6,2019 )
Shakespeare and the Second World War by Irena Makaryk
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Irena Makaryk [Makaryk, Irena R. and McHugh, Marissa]

8.2. Photographs of Japanese products with English names or words: ‘Are these Japanese products made for Japanese people?’ The Photographic Weekly Bulletin 257 (3 February 1943), 5–6. As if in ...
( Category: Renaissance March 4,2019 )
The Road To Rome (flc-3) by Ben Kane
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Kane [Kane, Ben]

Chapter XVII: Homecoming At the junction, Tarquinius stopped. The northern Italian countryside had been growing more familiar since before dawn, but he knew this spot better than anywhere in the ...
( Category: Military March 18,2018 )
02 Of Love and Evil by Anne Rice
mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Anne Rice

CHAPTER NINE I STOPPED. I FOUND MYSELF IN A NARROW MUDDY LANE, overcome with the stench of the filth flowing into the gutters. I thought again of trying to reach ...
( Category: Renaissance February 17,2018 )

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