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Hardback. The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This book explores the extent to which this professional identity was based on expertise in the mathematical arts and sciences. Num Pages: 192 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 290 x 254 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300150933
- ISBN
- 9780300150933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.13€ 51.02
€ 65.13
€ 51.02
Hardback. The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two momentous events: the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and the Great Fire six years later. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23 colour images + 115 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 202 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300190229
- ISBN
- 9780300190229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.32
€ 53.29
€ 42.32
Hardback. From 1650 to 1900 Paris was the undisputed centre of fashion and taste in Europe. This book traces the story of Parisian decorative arts from the reign of Louis XIV to the triumph of art nouveau, through a selection of 150 masterpieces from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Series: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Num Pages: 608 pages, 800 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DDN; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; AFT; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 254 x 51. Weight in Grams: 3752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Slp
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191295
- ISBN
- 9780300191295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 248.67€ 193.10
€ 248.67
€ 193.10
Hardback. Showcases 126 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries. This title features works in a variety of media and from far-flung places, including paintings, silver, and furniture from South America and sculptures in ivory from the Spanish Philippines and from Portuguese territories in India. Editor(s): Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L. Series: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Num Pages: 225 pages, 198 colour images + 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 3JD; 3JF; ACBS; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 313 x 262 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1718.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300191769
- ISBN
- 9780300191769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.13€ 51.02
€ 65.13
€ 51.02
Hardcover. Reformation Thought, 4th edition offers an ideal introduction to the central ideas of the European reformations for students of theology and history. Written by the bestselling author and renowned theologian, Alister McGrath, this engaging guide is accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Christian theology. Num Pages: 326 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 251 x 21. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470672839
- ISBN
- 9780470672839
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.23
€ 94.23
Hardback. To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First edition.
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520202603
- ISBN
- 9780520202603
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76€ 49.28
€ 62.76
€ 49.28
Hardback. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire. Num Pages: 405 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 tables, 45 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC9; HBT; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 405
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520209336
- ISBN
- 9780520209336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.07€ 64.99
€ 84.07
€ 64.99
Paperback. Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. This title shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early instances of the modern anxiety. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520212961
- ISBN
- 9780520212961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.02
€ 41.99
€ 30.02
Paperback. Shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from popular politics in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and entered fully into the historical process of European state formation. This book offers an alternative to traditionally elite-centered accounts of territorial state formation in Europe. Num Pages: 237 pages, 12 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 9. Weight in Grams: 372. Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700. 237 pages, 12 line illustrations. Shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from popular politics in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and entered fully into the historical process of European state formation. This book offers an alternative to traditionally elite-centered accounts of territorial state formation in Europe. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JPA. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 9. Weight: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520213180
- ISBN
- 9780520213180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.65
€ 35.99
€ 26.65
Paperback. Taking as case studies two paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, this text examines the ways that identity, gender and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and conoisseurship that have surrounded it. Series: The Discovery Series. Num Pages: 201 pages, 8 color illustrations, 57 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; ACQ; AFC; AGB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 175 x 10. Weight in Grams: 536. The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity. Series: Discovery Series. 201 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 57 b&w photographs. Taking as case studies two paintings of circa 1621-22 attributed to Artemisia, this text examines the ways that identity, gender and market pressures interact both in the artist's work and in the criticism and conoisseurship that have surrounded it. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; ACQ; AFC; AGB; JFSJ. Dimension: 252 x 175 x 10. Weight: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Copyright 2001
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520228412
- ISBN
- 9780520228412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.84
€ 54.99
€ 39.84
Hardback. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite, disparaging vernacular works, often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 122 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 257 x 216 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1430. Vernacular Painting in High Qing China. 280 pages, col. Illustrations. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite, disparaging vernacular works, often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC. Dimension: 257 x 216 x 31. Weight: 1438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520258570
- ISBN
- 9780520258570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.07€ 64.81
€ 84.07
€ 64.81
Hardback. An account of the early modern period in France, when relative social and economic stability provided a backdrop for the splendours of France's great Renaissance Prince, Francis I, and then for the tensions and bloodshed of later 16th-century France. Series: History of France S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631170273
- ISBN
- 9780631170273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.20
€ 144.20
Hardback. Presenting an interpretation of England in the 1690s, this book reconstructs the reign of William III through the eyes and in the words of those who lived through it. The author employs a range of sources including popular ballads, correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, sermons, poems, and memoirs. Series: History of Early Modern England S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DNF; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631175452
- ISBN
- 9780631175452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.04
€ 158.04
Hardback. Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. * Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works. Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 816 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 816
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631176657
- ISBN
- 9780631176657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.79
€ 139.79
Hardback. Opening with a history of music and musicians in Tudor England, this book covers composition and performance, as well as the changing functions of music over the period. It also contains chapters that are devoted respectively to secular vocal music, to keyboard music, and to ensemble and lute music. Editor(s): Bray, Roger. Series: Blackwell History of Music. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; AVGC2; AVGC3; AVGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631179245
- ISBN
- 9780631179245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 232.19
€ 232.19
Paperback. aeo Provides new perspective on one of the most complex and popular periods of British history. aeo Reflects new interest in "regional" history, setting political struggles against broad geographical and local background. aeo Introduces students to histiographical debates of the period. Num Pages: 472 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631191551
- ISBN
- 9780631191551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.53
€ 57.53
Paperback. This work examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It explains what the institutions of central government were designed to do, and how they related to each other. It also discusses how order and obedience were supposed to be preserved in the countryside. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLC; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631191575
- ISBN
- 9780631191575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99
€ 54.99
Hardback. * A lively reassessment of England and Scotland under the Tudors and Stuarts* Examines the relationship with Ireland throughout the sixteenth-century* Covers politics and religion as well as economic, social and cultural change. . Series: History of the Modern British Isles. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKS; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 254 x 31. Weight in Grams: 874.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631193333
- ISBN
- 9780631193333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.32
€ 142.32
Paperback. aeo The most comprehensive history ever written of one of the most effective (and one of the oddest) armies the world has ever seen. aeo Based entirely on contemporary sources. Num Pages: 600 pages, 10 maps, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKS; 1DBR; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631193470
- ISBN
- 9780631193470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.46
€ 52.46
Paperback. The seventeenth century has gained enormously from the resurgence of historical studies in Spain and from the contributions of historians outside the penninsula. In this book, John Lynch has taken account of this research to substantially revise and expand his Spain Under the Hapsburgs, Volume II . Series: A History of Spain. Num Pages: 456 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1K; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631193975
- ISBN
- 9780631193975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.05
€ 60.05