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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Andrea Bayer, ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300124118.  Daedalus Item Code: 21920
 
Betrothal, marriage, the birth of a child—these were moments of utmost significance in the lives of Italian men and women of the Renaissance, marked by grand celebrations where extraordinary objects ... (Read More)
 
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Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300095630.  Daedalus Item Code: 31850
 
Although we live in an era when vast sums of money are lavished on wedding festivities, we are not the first; in Renaissance Italy, middle- and upper-class families spent enormous amounts on ... (Read More)
 
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A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Martyn Whittock.
Publisher: Robinson.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781845296858.  Daedalus Item Code: 21980
 
Between the 10th century and the Wars of the Roses in the mid-15th, England moved from the age of Saxon kings to the birth of the modern nation, while the consolidation of the crown and the feudal ... (Read More)
 
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Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
Susan Walker & Peter Higgs, eds.
Publisher: Princeton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780691088358.  Daedalus Item Code: 21452
 
Fabled for her sexual allure and cunning intelligence, Cleopatra VII of Egypt has fascinated generations of admirers and detractors since her tumultuous life ended in suicide in 30 BC. This lavishly ... (Read More)
 
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The Day of the Barbarians: The Epic Battle That Began the Fall of the Roman Empire
Alessandro Barbero.
Publisher: Atlantic Books.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781843545941.  Daedalus Item Code: 30683
 
"Medievalist [Alessandro] Barbero offers a revisionist history of the relatively obscure battle of Adrianople, arguing that the course of world history changed after the clash in 378, in the eastern ... (Read More)
 
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Decorative Arts: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: The Complete Plates
Carl Becker. Carsten-Peter Warncke, ed.
Publisher: Taschen.   Format: box.
ISBN: 9783836505185.  Daedalus Item Code: 31721
 
When this stunning catalog was originally published in three volumes, from 1852–1863, what purchasers received was, in essence, a small museum in print. The 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings ... (Read More)
 
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art: Three-Volume Set
Gordon Campbell, ed.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: set.
ISBN: 9780195334661.  Daedalus Item Code: 30744
 
Drawing on the defining scholarship of The Dictionary of Art on the Renaissance in Northern Europe, this three-volume encyclopedia surveys all aspects of Northern Renaissance art, from ... (Read More)
 
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Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects
Manfredo Tafuri. Daniel Sherer, trans. K. Michael Hays, foreword.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300111583.  Daedalus Item Code: 21837
 
(Winner of the RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture) This is the final work of Italy's Manfredo Tafuri (1935–94), one of the most influential architectural ... (Read More)
 
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
Eric Jager.
Publisher: Arrow.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780099457237.  Daedalus Item Code: 22166
 
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Nonfiction, Eric Jager's 2005 investigation recounts the last duel decreed by order of the Parlement of Paris. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive ... (Read More)
 
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The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece
Vernon Silver.
Publisher: Morrow/BOMC.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780061558283.  Daedalus Item Code: 11524
 
It is among the most prized of antiquities—the Greek artist Euphronios's wine cup depicting the death of Zeus's son Sarpedon at Troy. Lost for more than two millennia, the chalice mysteriously ... (Read More)
 
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Sarah Bradford.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143035954.  Daedalus Item Code: 31105
 
The biographer of Queen Elizabeth II and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis here tackles the much-besmirched life of Lucrezia Borgia, simultaneously one of the most celebrated and vilified women of ... (Read More)
 
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Medieval Sieges and Siegecraft
Geoffrey Hindley.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781602396333.  Daedalus Item Code: 22417
 
In this vivid reconstruction of siege warfare in the medieval world, with detailed descriptions of weapons and tactics, Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle. The ... (Read More)
 
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