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African Venice

A Guide to Art, Culture and People

Paul Kaplan and Shaul Bassi, Foreword by Igiaba Scego, and Afterword by Maaza Mengiste

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09993-4
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272 pages
5 1/2" × 8 1/4"
46 color illustrations/10 maps
2025

Beware the Poetry

Political Satire and the Emergence of a Public Sphere in Madrid, 1595–1643

Javier Castro-Ibaseta

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09935-4

274 pages
6" × 9"
5 b&w illustrations
2025

Interactions in the Early Modern Age

Cervantine Blackness

Nicholas R. Jones

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09877-7

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09878-4

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202 pages
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15 b&w illustrations
2024

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Staging Habla de Negros

Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain

Nicholas R. Jones

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08346-9

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08347-6

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248 pages
6" × 9"
15 b&w illustrations
2019

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Ribera’s Repetitions

Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples

Todd P. Olson

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09754-1

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264 pages
8" × 10"
34 color/63 b&w illustrations
2025

Lies of the Land

Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

Camille Serchuk

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09773-2

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234 pages
8" × 10"
55 color/29 b&w illustrations
2025

Animal Sightings

Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400–1550

Jodi Cranston

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09763-3

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184 pages
8" × 10"
20 color/60 b&w illustrations
2025

Actors Carved and Cast

Netherlandish Sculpture of the Sixteenth Century

Ethan Matt Kavaler

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09715-2

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280 pages
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45 color/62 b&w illustrations
2024

Illuminating the Vitae patrum

The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy

Denva Gallant

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09563-9

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168 pages
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35 color/39 b&w illustrations
2024

Palaces of Reason

The Royal Residences of Bourbon Naples

Robin L. Thomas

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09521-9

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212 pages
8" × 10"
16 color/74 b&w illustrations
2024

Pearls for the Crown

Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion

Mónica Domínguez Torres

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09681-0

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218 pages
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50 color/40 b&w illustrations
2024

Isfahan

Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran

Farshid Emami

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09552-3

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276 pages
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45 color/60 b&w illustrations
2024

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

The Man Who Broke Michelangelo’s Nose

Felipe Pereda

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09694-0

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288 pages
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41 color/67 b&w illustrations
2024

Living with Sculpture

Presence and Power in Europe, 1400-1750

Elizabeth Rice Mattison and Ashley B. Offill

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ISBN: 978-0-944722-55-8

340 pages
9.5" × 12"
567 color illustrations
2024
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023

Copy, Print, Paper, Type

Edited by Samuel V. Lemley

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09732-9

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184 pages
7" × 10"
65 b&w illustrations
2024
Co-published with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Penn State Series in the History of the Book

The Letter from Prison

Literature of Cultural Resistance in Early Modern England

W. Clark Gilpin

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09735-0

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260 pages
6" × 9"
2024

Rival Wisdoms

Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Nancy Mason Bradbury

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09688-9

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220 pages
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1 b&w illustration
2024

Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France

A Documentary History

Edited by Jeffrey Merrick

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08335-3

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08336-0

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272 pages
6" × 9"
1 map
2019

Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Archival Voices from 1785

Edited by Jeffrey Merrick

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09711-4

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264 pages
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2024

Atlantic Crossroads in Lisbon’s New Golden Age, 1668–1750

Cacey Bowen Farnsworth

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09886-9

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242 pages
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4 b&w illustrations/1 map
2024

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

A New Antiquity

Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600

Alessandra Russo

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09569-1

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288 pages
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35 color/40 b&w illustrations
2024

Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer

An Intervention

Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell, Cynthia S. Colburn, and Ella J. Gonzalez

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09717-6

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09708-4

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272 pages
7" × 10"
77 b&w illustrations
2024

Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates

Art Through a Modern American Mind

C. Oliver O’Donnell

Was: $106.95 Now: $64.17 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08464-0

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08465-7

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272 pages
6" × 9"
36 b&w illustrations
2019

Speculum Lapidum

A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones

Camillo Leonardi, and Translated with an introduction by Liliana Leopardi

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09539-4

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240 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
5 b&w illustrations
2023

Magic in History

Disenchanting Albert the Great

The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician

David J. Collins, S. J.

Was: $54.95 Now: $32.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09744-2

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224 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
7 b&w illustrations
2024

Magic in History

Everyday Magicians

Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England

Sharon Hubbs Wright and Frank Klaassen

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09393-2

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164 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
16 b&w illustrations
2022

Magic in History Sourcebooks

The Magic of Rogues

Necromancers in Early Tudor England

Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08929-4

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176 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
9 b&w illustrations
2021

Magic in History Sourcebooks

The Child Witches of Olague

Lu Ann Homza

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09880-7

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09749-7

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144 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
1 map
2024

Magic in History Sourcebooks

Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates

Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608–1614

Lu Ann Homza

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09181-5

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09182-2

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260 pages
6" × 9"
1 map
2022

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Praying to Portraits

Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Adam Jasienski

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09344-4

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232 pages
8" × 10"
50 color/15 b&w illustrations
2023

Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

Cécile Fromont

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09218-8

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336 pages
10" × 9"
126 color/52 b&w illustrations/1 map
2022

An Artful Relic

The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy

Andrew R. Casper

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09039-9

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216 pages
7" × 10"
5 color/43 b&w illustrations
2021

Murder and Madness on Trial

A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna

Mònica Calabritto

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09508-0

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09509-7

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164 pages
6" × 9"
5 b&w illustrations/1 map
2023

Interactions in the Early Modern Age

Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image

Rose Marie San Juan

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09335-2

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09336-9
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238 pages
8" × 10"
26 color/54 b&w illustrations
2023

Skepticism’s Pictures

Figuring Descartes’s Natural Philosophy

Melissa Lo

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09482-3

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230 pages
7" × 10"
70 b&w illustrations
2023

The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha

Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century

A. Katie Harris

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09535-6

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09536-3
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242 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2023

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Sacred Habitat

Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic

Ran Segev

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09533-2

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09534-9
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230 pages
6" × 9"
18 b&w illustrations
2023

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Catherine of Aragon

Infanta of Spain, Queen of England

Theresa Earenfight

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09164-8

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266 pages
6" × 9"
7 color/17 b&w illustrations/2 maps
2021

Disharmony of the Spheres

The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors

Jennifer Nelson

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08340-7

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08341-4

216 pages
7" × 10"
19 color/24 b&w illustrations
2019

Brilliant Bodies

Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy

Timothy McCall

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09060-3

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240 pages
9" × 10"
36 color/50 b&w illustrations
2022

Pandemic in Potosí

Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis

Kris Lane

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09198-3

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152 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
9 b&w illustrations/1 map
2022

Latin American Originals

Indigenous Life After the Conquest

The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico

Caterina Pizzigoni and Camilla Townsend

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08813-6

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184 pages
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13 b&w illustrations/2 maps
2021

Latin American Originals

An Irish Rebel in New Spain

The Tumultuous Life and Tragic Death of William Lamport

Andrea Martínez Baracs and Translated By Hank Heifetz

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09040-5

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160 pages
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6 b&w illustrations
2022

Latin American Originals

Violent First Contact in Venezuela

Nikolaus Federmann’s Indian History

Peter Hess

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09179-2

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136 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
3 b&w illustrations/1 map
2021

Latin American Originals

The Vienna School of Art History

Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918

Matthew Rampley

Was: $117.95 Now: $70.77 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06158-0

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ISBN: 978-0-271-06159-7

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296 pages
7" × 10"
18 b&w illustrations
2013

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