The Book Company: New Products - Renaissance

The Jesuits and the Age of Enlightenment (Scholarly Perspectives and Inquiries)

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:28:31 +0000

What role did Jesuit humanism, education, global missions, and science play in shaping Jesuit participation in the cultural history of the Enlightenment, and why did so many Jesuits and former Jesuits become critics of the legacy of the philosophes by the end of the eighteenth century? What..

Price: $94.00

The Grammar of Angels (The Life of a Renaissance Prodigy and His Search for a Philosophy of Everything)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:28:16 +0000

The wonderous story of a Renaissance prodigy and polymath who strove to unlock the magical powers of language.

The Grammar of Angels is a riveting narrative that reveals the quest undertaken by the singular Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Pico dedicated his life to a quest to f..

Price: $29.95

The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack (How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:48:23 +0000

Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how not to die in the Renaissance
'An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times

Price: $20.00

The Science of Assassin's Creed (Vikings, Pirates, and The Engine of History)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:15:37 +0000

Learn the fascinating science and history that inspires one of the world's most popular video game series—Assassin's Creed.

The global video game industry is one of the fastest-growing entertainment markets in the world—and at the center of that cultural force stands Ass..
Price: $18.00

Early Modern Musical Innovation (The Hidden History of Olbrycht Górecki)

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:46:16 +0000
Explore the extraordinary life and turbulent times of Olbrycht Górecki (c. 1621—c. 1684)—Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, soldier, Calvinist, polyglot and inventor of “Lute strings covered with Sylver wyer.” A key catalyst in a line of musical instrument innovations over the last 500 years, Górecki’s s..
Price: $92.00

The Secret Seekers (A Book Detective's Quest to Crack the Coded Messages of History's Most Brilliant Women)

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:10:36 +0000

Coded messages, hidden carvings, ciphered pendants: what if the secrets of the women of Renaissance England are hidden in plain sight?
Now celebrated as an artistic and literary golden age, the Renaissance was more complicated—and turbulent—than we remember, especially for women. R..
Price: $28.99

Writing in the Mind, Thinking on the Paper (Commonplacing in Neo-Latin Learning)

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:08:38 +0000
No matter the time period, it is difficult to remember what one has read without a system of writing, and early modernity is no exception. Humanist commonplacing was developed to help students and scholars overcome this hardship. Although those trained in this technique could rely on keywords to l..
Price: $84.00

Networks in the Early History of Capitalism (Merchant Practices in Renaissance Venice)

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:24:48 +0000

Drawing on a detailed examination of Venetian commerce in the Middle Ages, this book explores the business practices and structures that enabled merchants to compete in a challenging international market.
Price: $61.99

Messianic and Utopian Influences on Imperial Spain (A Comparative Study in the Works of Tommaso Campanella and Pedro Fernández de Quirós)

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:14:03 +0000

Roure draws a novel connection between Tomasso Campanella’s utopian ideas for Imperial Spain and Catholicism and Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernández de Quirós’ vision of an idyllic society and a mythical city of New Jerusalem in the antipodes.
Price: $61.99

Aristotle and New Spain

Wed, 27 May 2026 16:28:47 +0000

This book is a detailed exploration of the Hispanic intellectual context and the different Aristotelian traditions that prevailed until the 16th century. Through a review and contextualization of Aristotelian thinkers and texts, it argues that a unique Aristotelian tradition was formed in New S..
Price: $61.99