Welcome to our virtual exhibit for Renaissance Society of America!
We are sorry not to meet you this year at the Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are available in print via print on demand and as e-books. Please browse and follow the links to shop!
- Available in e-book
- Available in print at 40% off. Use coupon code NR18
- New & forthcoming
- Essential backlist
Have a project you'd like to discuss? Several of our editors acquire books related to renaissance studies.
- Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief Kendra Boileau
- Executive Editor Eleanor H. Goodman
- Acquisitions Editor Kathryn Yahner
Out of concern for the health, safety, and well-being of our staff, and in response to a statewide order closing all non-life-sustaining businesses, PSU Press has suspended warehouse operations until further notice and will not be shipping physical books during this time. (For more information on PSU Press's response to COVID-19, click here.)
Available as an e-book
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress
From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
Tracy Adams and Christine Adams
Radicals in Exile
English Catholic Books During the Reign of Philip II
Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez
The Bonds of Humanity
Cicero’s Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100–ca. 1550
Cary J. Nederman
Imagined Romes
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
C. David Benson
Religion Around John Donne
Joshua Eckhardt
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Edited by Cécile Fromont
The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual
Selected Writings of Francesco Guicciardini
Francesco Guicciardini, and Carlo Celli
Jules Michelet
Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-Century France
Michèle Hannoosh
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Nicholas R. Jones
Making Magic in Elizabethan England
Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic
Edited by Frank Klaassen
Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman
Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain
Silvia Z. Mitchell
The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550–1720
Kristoffer Neville
Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates
Art Through a Modern American Mind
C. Oliver O’Donnell
Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829
Gail Orgelfinger
The Long Life of Magical Objects
A Study in the Solomonic Tradition
Allegra Iafrate
To the Shores of Chile
The Journal and History of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643
Mark Meuwese
Animating Empire
Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World
Jessica Keating
Defending the Faith
John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church
Edited by Angela Ranson, André A. Gazal, and Sarah Bastow
The History of the New World
Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Girolamo Benzoni, translated by Jana Byars, and edited by Robert C. Schwaller and Jana Byars
Buying Baroque
Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America
Edited by Edgar Peters Bowron
Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires
Encounters and Confluences
Edited by Mohammad Gharipour
Performing Animals
History, Agency, Theater
Edited by Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld
Baroque Seville
Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis
Amanda Wunder
The Noisy Renaissance
Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
Niall Atkinson
Measuring Shadows
Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility
Raz Chen-Morris
The Arras Witch Treatises
Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460)
Edited and translated by Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Lia Markey
The Native Conquistador
Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain
Edited and translated by Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, and Pablo García Loaeza
The Improbable Conquest
Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata
Edited by Pablo García Loaeza and Victoria L. Garrett
The Vienna School of Art History
Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918
Matthew Rampley
Gorgeous Beasts
Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective
Edited by Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist
A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso
Paul Barolsky
Forbidden Rites
A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Richard Kieckhefer
Available in print
Use coupon code NR18 for 40% off!
Truth in Many Tongues
Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire
Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler
Forming Sleep
Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance
Edited by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon
Right Romance
Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England
Emily Griffiths Jones
Polemical Encounters
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers
Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England
Richard Napier's Medical Practice
Ofer Hadass
Passing to América
Antonio (Née María) Yta’s Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire
Thomas A. Abercrombie
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Monica Mattfeld
The Chankas and the Priest
A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru
Sabine Hyland
The Transformations of Magic
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Frank Klaassen
Alchemical Belief
Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
Bruce Janacek
New & Forthcoming books
Sorry, not yet available as e-books.
Notre Dame Cathedral
Nine Centuries of History
Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon, Translated by Andrew Tallon and Lindsay Cook
Baptism Through Incision
The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire
Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren
Contraband Guides
Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
Paul H. D. Kaplan
Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies
Christian K. Kleinbub
Titian’s Icons
Tradition, Charisma, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy
Christopher J. Nygren
Picatrix
A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic
Translated with an introduction by Dan Attrell and David Porreca
Robert Burton’s Rhetoric
An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge
Susan Wells
Disharmony of the Spheres
The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors
Jennifer Nelson
Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
Jodi Cranston
The Shape of Difficulty
A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects
Bret L. Rothstein
Idolizing Mary
Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico
Amara Solari
To Heaven or to Hell
Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario
David Thomas Orique, O.P.
Editorial Staff to contact
Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies, graphic studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, Graphic Medicine, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sensory History
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, Latin American Originals, Magic in History, Magic in History Sourcebooks, and Refiguring Modernism
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, and religious studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity, Signifying (on) Scriptures, Religion Around, The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe, Keystone Books, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies, Critical Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700, and World Christianity
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