<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - Renaissance]]> https://www.thebookco.com Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:56:08 +0000 <![CDATA[Antipodes (In Search of the Southern Continent)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/antipodes-in-search-of-the-southern-continent-9781925377323 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:39:51 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/antipodes-in-search-of-the-southern-continent-9781925377323 Antipodes (In Search of the Southern Continent) by Avan Judd Stallard, 9781925377323Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim Ter..

Price: $39.95

]]> Antipodes (In Search of the Southern Continent) by Avan Judd Stallard, 9781925377323Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim Ter..

Price: $39.95

]]> <![CDATA[The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence (Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-social-fabric-of-fifteenth-century-florence-9780367407261 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:25:53 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-social-fabric-of-fifteenth-century-florence-9780367407261 The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence (Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers) by Alessia Meneghin, 9780367407261

Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.

Price: $189.99

]]> The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence (Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers) by Alessia Meneghin, 9780367407261

Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.

Price: $189.99

]]> Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.

]]> <![CDATA[Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination]]> https://www.thebookco.com/monsters-and-borders-in-the-early-modern-imagination-9781138610897 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:09:23 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/monsters-and-borders-in-the-early-modern-imagination-9781138610897 Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination by Jana Byars, Hans Peter Broedel, 9781138610897

This book explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. It investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in the Renaissance and the era of Enlightenment.

Price: $233.99

]]> Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination by Jana Byars, Hans Peter Broedel, 9781138610897

This book explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. It investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in the Renaissance and the era of Enlightenment.

Price: $233.99

]]> This book explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. It investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in the Renaissance and the era of Enlightenment.

]]> <![CDATA[Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean (The Lure of the Other)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/conversion-and-islam-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean-9781472457226 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:47:54 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/conversion-and-islam-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean-9781472457226 Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean (The Lure of the Other) by Claire Norton, 9781472457226This book analyzes conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the book examines ..

Price: $249.99

]]> Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean (The Lure of the Other) by Claire Norton, 9781472457226This book analyzes conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the book examines ..

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]]> <![CDATA[The Social Politics of Criminal Justice in Florentine Tuscany, c. 1282-1382 (A Popular Failure)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-social-politics-of-criminal-justice-in-florentine-tuscany-c-1282-1382-9781032770840 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:45:49 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-social-politics-of-criminal-justice-in-florentine-tuscany-c-1282-1382-9781032770840 The Social Politics of Criminal Justice in Florentine Tuscany, c. 1282-1382 (A Popular Failure) by Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm, 9781032770840

This book explores how medieval Florentines, grappling with the rising inequality and political instability of rapid urbanization and economic growth, addressed the challenge of questioning the goals of public power and public institutions such as criminal courts.

Price: $233.99

]]> The Social Politics of Criminal Justice in Florentine Tuscany, c. 1282-1382 (A Popular Failure) by Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm, 9781032770840

This book explores how medieval Florentines, grappling with the rising inequality and political instability of rapid urbanization and economic growth, addressed the challenge of questioning the goals of public power and public institutions such as criminal courts.

Price: $233.99

]]> This book explores how medieval Florentines, grappling with the rising inequality and political instability of rapid urbanization and economic growth, addressed the challenge of questioning the goals of public power and public institutions such as criminal courts.

]]> <![CDATA[Early Modern English Foodways (A Critical Sourcebook)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/early-modern-english-foodways-9780367234621 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:02:04 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/early-modern-english-foodways-9780367234621 Early Modern English Foodways (A Critical Sourcebook) by David B. Goldstein, Victoria Yeoman, 9780367234621

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates how food connects all forms of life, in the mos..

Price: $350.00

]]> Early Modern English Foodways (A Critical Sourcebook) by David B. Goldstein, Victoria Yeoman, 9780367234621

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates how food connects all forms of life, in the mos..

Price: $350.00

]]> Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates how food connects all forms of life, in the mos..]]> <![CDATA[A Short History of Renaissance Italy]]> https://www.thebookco.com/a-short-history-of-renaissance-italy-9781032218694 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:42:56 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/a-short-history-of-renaissance-italy-9781032218694 A Short History of Renaissance Italy by Lisa Kaborycha, 9781032218694

The fifteen chapters move briskly from the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West through the growth of the Italian city-states, where, in the crucible of pandemic disease and social unrest, a new approach to learning known as humanism was forged, political and religious certainties challenged.

Price: $51.99

]]> A Short History of Renaissance Italy by Lisa Kaborycha, 9781032218694

The fifteen chapters move briskly from the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West through the growth of the Italian city-states, where, in the crucible of pandemic disease and social unrest, a new approach to learning known as humanism was forged, political and religious certainties challenged.

Price: $51.99

]]> The fifteen chapters move briskly from the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West through the growth of the Italian city-states, where, in the crucible of pandemic disease and social unrest, a new approach to learning known as humanism was forged, political and religious certainties challenged.

]]> <![CDATA['A Marvel to Behold': Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII]]> https://www.thebookco.com/a-marvel-to-behold-gold-and-silver-at-the-court-of-henry-viii-9781783275076 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:56:50 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/a-marvel-to-behold-gold-and-silver-at-the-court-of-henry-viii-9781783275076 'A Marvel to Behold': Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII by Timothy Schroder, 9781783275076Bringing the existence and significance of the lost riches of Henry VIII back to life, this book sheds new light on Henrician and Tudor court culture.

Henry VIII amassed the most spectacular collection of gold and silver of any British monarch. Plate and jewels were hugely prominent ..

Price: $65.00

]]> 'A Marvel to Behold': Gold and Silver at the Court of Henry VIII by Timothy Schroder, 9781783275076Bringing the existence and significance of the lost riches of Henry VIII back to life, this book sheds new light on Henrician and Tudor court culture.

Henry VIII amassed the most spectacular collection of gold and silver of any British monarch. Plate and jewels were hugely prominent ..

Price: $65.00

]]> Bringing the existence and significance of the lost riches of Henry VIII back to life, this book sheds new light on Henrician and Tudor court culture.

Henry VIII amassed the most spectacular collection of gold and silver of any British monarch. Plate and jewels were hugely prominent ..]]> <![CDATA[Nautical Rutters and New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600]]> https://www.thebookco.com/nautical-rutters-and-new-bodies-of-knowledge-in-the-age-of-the-first-globalization-9781041183396 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:02:54 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/nautical-rutters-and-new-bodies-of-knowledge-in-the-age-of-the-first-globalization-9781041183396 Nautical Rutters and New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 by Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni, Henrique Leitão, 9781041183396Central to the European maritime expansion of the 15th century was the mastery of long-distance sea routes and the development of rutters—technical documents recording navigational data and geographic observations. This book highlights the indispensable role of rutters and ships' logbooks in early..

Price: $64.99

]]> Nautical Rutters and New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 by Luis Ribeiro, David Salomoni, Henrique Leitão, 9781041183396Central to the European maritime expansion of the 15th century was the mastery of long-distance sea routes and the development of rutters—technical documents recording navigational data and geographic observations. This book highlights the indispensable role of rutters and ships' logbooks in early..

Price: $64.99

]]> <![CDATA[Mental Libraries (The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/mental-libraries-9781032852300 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:00:08 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/mental-libraries-9781032852300 Mental Libraries (The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture) by Julia Domínguez, 9781032852300

Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production. 

Price: $64.99

]]> Mental Libraries (The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture) by Julia Domínguez, 9781032852300

Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production. 

Price: $64.99

]]> Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production. 

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