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Blood and Faith - The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 (Paperback): Matt Carr Blood and Faith - The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 (Paperback)
Matt Carr
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had lived for generations. In just five years, Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist: an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory making it what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history.Blood and Faith is a riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of Muslim Spain. It offers a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe-a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against overwhelming odds.

King and Collector - Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship (Hardcover): Linda Collins, Siobhan Clarke King and Collector - Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship (Hardcover)
Linda Collins, Siobhan Clarke
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Packed with absorbing detail and brilliant insights ... I was gripped from the first paragraph.' - Alison Weir No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII - famous for his six marriages, for dissolving the monasteries and for the ruthless destruction of his foes. But Henry was also an ardent patron of the arts, whose magnificent tapestries and paintings adorned his lavish court and began the Royal Collection. In contrast to later royal collectors, Henry was more interested in storytelling than art for its own sake, and all his commissions relate to one central tale: the glorification of the king and his realm. Henry's life can be seen through his collection and the works reveal much about both his kingship and his insecurities. King and Collector tells this unique story of art and power, peeling back the layers of propaganda to show the true face of the Tudor monarch.

The Queen's Slave Trader - John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial... The Queen's Slave Trader - John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed)
Nick Hazlewood
R376 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book appeal to readers of history - both nonfiction and historical fiction. The readers interested in civil/human rights issues. It is great for those who enjoy tales of sea-dogs, pirates and adventure on the high seas e.g. fans of the novels of Patrick O'Brian. It reviews in pb round-ups in national newspapers. A gripping, meticulously researched and artfully written account of the life, exploits and character of notorious sea-dog John Hawkyns, England's first slave trader. In a starred review, "Publishers Weekly" has called "The Queen's Slave Trader" "a tour de force." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries England became the greatest slave trading nation in the world, her merchants and businessmen grew fat, and her ports and cities boomed, on the suffering of millions of Africans captives. And, the pattern her slave traders followed had been pioneered in the sixteenth century by John Hawkyns, England's first, and Queen Elizabeth's personal, slave trader. "The Queen's Slave Trader" by Nick Hazlewood tells the story of England's first incursions into the trade she would come to dominate, the way they were used to attack the Portuguese and Spanish super-powers, and the involvement for the first, but not the last, time of the English crown in the shameful traffic of human beings. This is a story of survival, revenge, and the destruction of a race.

Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (Paperback): Laura Sangha, Jonathan Willis Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (Paperback)
Laura Sangha, Jonathan Willis
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book introduces students to the sources that survived to become indispensable primary material studied by historians. After a wide-ranging introductory essay, part I of the book, 'Sources', takes the reader through seven key categories of primary material, including governmental, ecclesiastical and legal records, diaries and literary works, print, and visual and material sources. Each chapter addresses how different types of material were produced, whilst also pointing readers towards the most important and accessible physical and digital source collections. Part II, 'Histories', takes a thematic approach. Each chapter in this section explores the sources that are used to address major early modern themes, including political and popular cultures, the economy, science, religion, gender, warfare, and global exploration. This collection of essays by leading historians in their respective fields showcases how practitioners research the early modern period, and is an invaluable resource for any student embarking on their studies of the early modern period.

The Reformations in Britain, 1520-1603 (Hardcover): Anna French The Reformations in Britain, 1520-1603 (Hardcover)
Anna French
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By combining politics, culture, theology and psychology in this way - and by complementing the resulting narrative with key primary sources from the period - this book arms readers to study, explore and understand the British Reformations in new and important ways. Covering England, Scotland and Wales but placing Britain into the wider context of Europe, this book provides students which a comprehensive study of how the British Isles and its people were affected by the Reformation. Reformation was a process, not an event and this book charts both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations which took place under Henry VIII, Mary I and Elizabeth I to show students new to the period how these events shaped the course of the sixteenth century.

Niccolo Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court - Politics, Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover): Lucinda... Niccolo Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court - Politics, Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover)
Lucinda Byatt
R4,522 Discovery Miles 45 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Niccolo Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court will appeal to all those interested in the organisation of these elite establishments and their place in sixteenth-century Roman society, the life and patronage of Niccolo Ridolfi in the context of the Florentine exiles who desired a return to republicanism, and the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 (Paperback): Aaron Graham, Patrick Walsh The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 (Paperback)
Aaron Graham, Patrick Walsh
R1,288 Discovery Miles 12 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume offers challenging and imaginative new perspectives on the fiscal-military structures that underpinned the development of modern European states from the eighteenth century onwards.

Feeling Exclusion - Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe (Paperback): Giovanni Tarantino, Charles Zika Feeling Exclusion - Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
Giovanni Tarantino, Charles Zika
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe. Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values, and trust of "others". Accessibly written, divided into three thematic parts, and enhanced by a variety of illustrations, Feeling Exclusion is perfect for students and researchers of early modern emotions and religion.

Catalonia: A New History (Hardcover): Andrew Dowling Catalonia: A New History (Hardcover)
Andrew Dowling
R4,057 Discovery Miles 40 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.

Slavery and Europe - Exploring the Economic Impact of Atlantic Slavery (Hardcover): Tamira Combrink, Matthias van Rossum Slavery and Europe - Exploring the Economic Impact of Atlantic Slavery (Hardcover)
Tamira Combrink, Matthias van Rossum
R4,060 Discovery Miles 40 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development, capitalism and inequality. This edited volume explores how Atlantic slaved-based economic activities and their spin-offs have contributed to the economic development of Europe. The contributions to this volume each provide new data and methods for assessing the impact of Atlantic slavery, the slave trade and slave-related economic activities on Europe's economic development. It traces this impact across Europe, from maritime and colonizing regions to landlocked regions, of which, the ties to the Atlantic slavery complex might seem less obvious at first glance. Together the studies of this volume indicate that slavery and colonialism played a pivotal role in the rise of Europe and globally diverging economic fortunes. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Slavery & Abolition.

Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day (Paperback): Richard Tames Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day (Paperback)
Richard Tames 1
R272 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R60 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the best way to the capital and where to stay. Saunter over London Bridge, with its hundreds of shops and houses. Glimpse Her Majesty at Whitehall, Europe's largest palace. Watch the finest plays and players at the Rose Theatre, and marvel at the bustle of business in the Royal Exchange. Go down to Greenwich to stand on the deck of the Golden Hind, the ship that Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world. This intriguingly addictive guide provides all you need to know to sightsee, shop and meet the famous in the capital of a nation stirring to greatness.

Drayton Hall - The Creation and Preservation of an American Icon (Paperback): Drayton Hall Preservation Trust Drayton Hall - The Creation and Preservation of an American Icon (Paperback)
Drayton Hall Preservation Trust
R507 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents - Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart... The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents - Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart (Hardcover)
Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss, Annemieke Romein
R4,370 Discovery Miles 43 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period / This book will appeal to all those interested in the political systems of Early Modern Europe / This book also covers numerous topics related to the building of the 'Early Modern State', including standing armies, monetary and financial policy, legal policy, as well as resistance and opposition to these changes

Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War - A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries (Hardcover): Xin Liu Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War - A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries (Hardcover)
Xin Liu
R4,081 Discovery Miles 40 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I's first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston's letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I's letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the letter from Lord Palmerston to the Minister of China just before the Opium War, this book explores the long journey in between from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy. It interweaves the most known diplomatic efforts at the official level with the much unknown intellectual interactions at the people-to-people level, from missionaries to scholars, from merchants to travelers and from artists to scientists. This book adopts a novel "mirror" approach by pairing and comparing people, texts, commodities, artworks, architecture, ideologies, operating systems and world views of the two empires. Using letters, gifts and traded goods as fulcrums, and by adopting these unique lenses, it puts China into the world history narratives to contextualise Anglo-Chinese relations, thus providing a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence. Xin Liu casts a new light on understanding the Sino-centric and Anglo-centric world views in driving the complex relations between the two empires, and the reversals of power shifts that are still unfolding today. The book is not intended for specialists in history, but a general audience wishing to learn more about China's historical engagement with the world.

Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 (Hardcover): Neil Murphy Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 (Hardcover)
Neil Murphy
R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. The Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 saw the mobilisation of tens of thousands of men and vast amounts of resources in both England and Scotland. Beyond its British context, the war had a European significance: it formed an element in the wider Valois-Habsburg struggles over Italy, with the complex systems of alliances spreading the repercussions of this struggle far across the continent and to the borders of England and Scotland. Recent years have seen the emergence of a renewed debate around the status of the Anglo-Scottish frontier and the wider political and social conditions which predominated in the borderlands of each kingdom. Although there has been a move to present the Anglo-Scottish border as a porous frontier where the populations on either side were closely connected, these neighbourly links imploded rapidly in wartime when frontier populations were co-opted into a national struggle. It is significant that borderers were responsible for inflicting the heaviest violence on each other during the war. Drawing on an unprecedented access to English and Sottish sources of the conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history of late medieval and early modern Europe. Aspects of military mobilisation, logistics, the defence of frontiers, the use of violence against civilians and wartime espionage feature prominently.

Laughing Histories - From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit (Paperback): Joy Wiltenburg Laughing Histories - From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit (Paperback)
Joy Wiltenburg
R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I dearly love a laugh," declared Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and her wit won the heart of the aristocratic Mr. Darcy. Yet the widely read Earl of Chesterfield asserted that only "the mob" would laugh out loud; the gentleman should merely smile. This literary contrast raises important historical questions: how did social rules constrain laughter? Did the highest elites really laugh less than others? How did laughter play out in relations between the sexes? Through fascinating case studies of individuals such as the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, the French aristocrat Madame de Sevigne, and the rising civil servant and diarist Samuel Pepys, Laughing Histories reveals the multiple meanings of laughter, from the court to the tavern and street, in a complex history that paved the way for modern laughter. With its study of laughter in relation to power, aggression, gender, sex, class, and social bonding, Laughing Histories is perfect for readers interested in the history of emotions, cultural history, gender history, and literature.

Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback): Robin Macdonald, Elizabeth L. Swann, Emilie Murphy Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback)
Robin Macdonald, Elizabeth L. Swann, Emilie Murphy
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume's organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Laughing Histories - From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit (Hardcover): Joy Wiltenburg Laughing Histories - From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit (Hardcover)
Joy Wiltenburg
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I dearly love a laugh," declared Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and her wit won the heart of the aristocratic Mr. Darcy. Yet the widely read Earl of Chesterfield asserted that only "the mob" would laugh out loud; the gentleman should merely smile. This literary contrast raises important historical questions: how did social rules constrain laughter? Did the highest elites really laugh less than others? How did laughter play out in relations between the sexes? Through fascinating case studies of individuals such as the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, the French aristocrat Madame de Sevigne, and the rising civil servant and diarist Samuel Pepys, Laughing Histories reveals the multiple meanings of laughter, from the court to the tavern and street, in a complex history that paved the way for modern laughter. With its study of laughter in relation to power, aggression, gender, sex, class, and social bonding, Laughing Histories is perfect for readers interested in the history of emotions, cultural history, gender history, and literature.

Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar (Paperback): Phebe Jensen Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar (Paperback)
Phebe Jensen; Foreword by Alison A Chapman
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological, astrological, and medical theories that undergirded calendars, traces the medieval evolution of the calendar into its early modern format against the background of the English Reformation, and presents a history of the English almanac in the context of the rise of the printing industry in England. The book includes a primer on deciphering early modern printed almanacs, as well as an illustrated guide to the rich visual and verbal iconography of seasons, months, and days of the week, gathered from material culture, farming manuals, almanacs, and continental prints. As a practical guide to English calendars and the social, mathematical, and scientific practices that inform them, Astrology, Almanacs,and the Early Modern English Calendar is an indispensable tool for historians, cultural critics, and literary scholars working with the primary material of the period, especially those with interests in astrology, popular science, popular print, the book as material artifact, and the history of time-reckoning.

Women in the French Enlightenment - From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family (Hardcover): Anna Maria Marchini Women in the French Enlightenment - From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family (Hardcover)
Anna Maria Marchini
R4,046 Discovery Miles 40 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in periodicals, and in the law. Alongside the appeals for social and intellectual emancipation advanced by the femmes savantes, typical of the eighteenth-century salons, a new conception pertaining to women's social role related to the affirmation of the bourgeoisie and of its model of the family took place. Codified in a more complex and organized way within the Rousseauian philosophy, this new conception spread in various cultural debates, gaining a real hegemony: women were meant to be excluded from any "public" space, devoid of cultural aspirations, and only devoted to satisfying the needs of the family. The book adopts a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and synthetic approach and at the same time highlights the "roots" of some fundamental ways of considering women that are still active in present-day society. It also addresses researchers in the history of philosophy, sociology, literature, and gender studies, and readers with an interest in women's issues.

Apocalypse Now - Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries (Hardcover): Damien... Apocalypse Now - Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries (Hardcover)
Damien Tricoire, Lionel Laborie
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, numerous apocalyptical and messianic movements came to the fore across Eurasia and North Africa, raising questions about possible interconnections. Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this question by exploring the interconnected histories of confessions and religions from Moscow to Cusco. It offers a broad picture of Christian and, to a lesser extent, Jewish and Islamic eschatological movements from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, thereby bridging important and long-standing gaps in the historiography. Apocalypse Now will appeal to both researchers and students of the history of early modern religion and politics in the Christian, Jewish and Islamic worlds. By exploring connections between numerous eschatological movements, it gives a fresh insight into one of the most promising fields of European and global history.

The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe - 16th to 19th Century (Paperback): Joachim Eibach, Margareth Lanzinger The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe - 16th to 19th Century (Paperback)
Joachim Eibach, Margareth Lanzinger
R1,439 Discovery Miles 14 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice, interaction and social relations, it shows continuities and social change in European history from an interior perspective. The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe contains a variety of approaches from different regions that each pose a challenge to commonplace views such as the emergence of confessional cultures, of private life, and of separate spheres of men and women. By analyzing a plethora of manifold sources including diaries, court records, paintings and domestic advice literature, this volume provides an overview of the domestic sphere as a location of work and consumption, conflict and cooperation, emotions and intimacy, and devotion and education. The book sheds light on changing relations between spouses, parents and children, masters and servants or apprentices, and humans and animals or plants, thereby exceeding the notion of the modern nuclear family. This volume will be of great use to upper-level graduates, postgraduates and experienced scholars interested in the history of family, household, social space, gender, emotions, material culture, work and private life in early modern and nineteenth-century Europe.

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 (Paperback): David Hitchcock, Julia Mcclure The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 (Paperback)
David Hitchcock, Julia Mcclure
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450-1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.

The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750 (Paperback, New Ed): David Veevers The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750 (Paperback, New Ed)
David Veevers
R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural interactions between servants of the English East India Company and the Asian communities and states they came into contact with, revealing how it was this integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commercial success rather than national or mercantilist enterprise. As their servants skilfully adapted to this rich and complex environment, the East India Company became enfranchised by the eighteenth century with a breadth of privileges and rights - from governing sprawling metropolises to trading customs-free. In emphasising the Asian genesis of the British Empire, this book sheds new light on the foreign frameworks of power which fuelled the expansion of Global Britain in the early modern world.

The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover): Zuzanna Sarnecka, Agnieszka Dziki The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Zuzanna Sarnecka, Agnieszka Dziki
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe. Chapters present a broad geographical perspective showcasing examples of modelling, firing, painting, and gilding of clay in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. The volume considers known artworks by celebrated artists, such as Luca della Robbia, Andrea del Verrocchio, Filipe Hodart, or Hans Reichle, in parallel with several lesser-studied terracotta sculptures and tin-glazed earthenware made by anonymous artisans. This book challenges arbitrary distinctions into the fine art and the applied arts, that obscured the image of artistic production in the early modern world. The centrality of clay in the creative processes of artists working with two- and three-dimensional artefacts comes to the fore. The role of terracotta figures in religious practices, as well as processes of material substitutions or mimesis, confirm the medium’s significance for European visual and material culture in general. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, and material culture.

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