The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance 0691211469, 9780691211466

New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance: Contributions to the History of European Intellectual Culture 9004224300, 9789004224308

This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in the history of Eur

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Handbook of eating and drinking 9783030145033, 3030145034

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Eating Right in the Renaissance 9780520927285

Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of die

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European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance 9781442674684

In this first book-length study in the fieldof authorial criticism, various specialists from Italian, French, English, a

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Tales of Titans, Vol. 1: From Rome to the Renaissance 9780997680782, 9780997680799, 0997680784

From GOLD AWARD Winning author Rich DiSilvio Tales of Titans Vol. I brings great historical figures to life with concis

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The Hungry Soul - Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature 0029170737

The Hungry Soul is a fascinating exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. Kass brilliantly reveals how the

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The Renaissance in Rome 9780253212085, 9780253334916

" . . . comprehensive, readable, beautifully documented . . . I cannot imagine a library or a person seriously inte

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The Ancient Greeks’ Diet: The History of Eating and Drinking in Greece

The need to eat and drink is a biological necessity for everyone, but along with that, food and drink are often at the v

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Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present [Third ed.] 9781421443119, 1421443112

Now updated — A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping histo

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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World: European and Middle Eastern Cultures, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance 9782503580555, 9782503580562

This volume of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-cultural and multi-period analysis of pregnancy

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