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The Absent Image
Lacunae in Medieval Books
Elina Gertsman
Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire
Laura Fernández-González
Riemenschneider in Rothenburg
Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City
Katherine M. Boivin
The Magic of Rogues
Necromancers in Early Tudor England
Frank Klaassen, and Sharon Hubbs Wright
Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath
Michael D. Bailey
Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna
Babette Bohn
Romanesque Tomb Effigies
Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200
Shirin Fozi
Visual Aggression
Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany
Assaf Pinkus
Indigenous Life After the Conquest
The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico
Caterina Pizzigoni and Camilla Townsend
Notre Dame Cathedral
Nine Centuries of History
Dany Sandron and Andrew Tallon, Translated by Andrew Tallon and Lindsay Cook
Titian’s Icons
Tradition, Charisma, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy
Christopher J. Nygren
Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies
Christian K. Kleinbub
America and the Art of Flanders
Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles
Edited by Esmée Quodbach
Framing the Church
The Social and Artistic Power of Buttresses in French Gothic Architecture
Maile S. Hutterer
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress
From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
Tracy Adams and Christine Adams
Right Romance
Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England
Emily Griffiths Jones
Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole
Matthew M. Reeve
Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius
Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Radicals in Exile
English Catholic Books During the Reign of Philip II
Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez
Contraband Guides
Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
Paul H. D. Kaplan
The Bonds of Humanity
Cicero’s Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100–ca. 1550
Cary J. Nederman
A Weaver-Poet and the Plague
Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London
Scott Oldenburg
Baptism Through Incision
The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire
Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, and Translated by Nina M. Scott
Truth in Many Tongues
Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire
Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler
Culinary Shakespeare
Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England
Edited by David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner
Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt
Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature
Reginald A. Wilburn
Forming Sleep
Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance
Edited by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Nicholas R. Jones
Jules Michelet
Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-Century France
Michèle Hannoosh
Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman
Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain
Silvia Z. Mitchell
Passing to América
Antonio (Née María) Yta’s Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire
Thomas A. Abercrombie
Picatrix
A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic
Translated with an introduction by Dan Attrell and David Porreca
Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates
Art Through a Modern American Mind
C. Oliver O’Donnell
Disharmony of the Spheres
The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors
Jennifer Nelson
Religion Around John Donne
Joshua Eckhardt
Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
Jodi Cranston
Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829
Gail Orgelfinger
Imagined Romes
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
C. David Benson
Textual Spaces
French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage
Richard E. Keatley
Idolizing Mary
Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico
Amara Solari
The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550–1720
Kristoffer Neville
Polemical Encounters
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Edited by Cécile Fromont
Making Magic in Elizabethan England
Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic
Edited by Frank Klaassen
The Long Life of Magical Objects
A Study in the Solomonic Tradition
Allegra Iafrate
Robert Burton’s Rhetoric
An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge
Susan Wells
To the Shores of Chile
The Journal and History of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643
Mark Meuwese
The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual
Selected Writings of Francesco Guicciardini
Francesco Guicciardini, and Carlo Celli
Defending the Faith
John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church
Edited by Angela Ranson, André A. Gazal, and Sarah Bastow
Milton and the Parables of Jesus
Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings
David V. Urban
To Heaven or to Hell
Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario
David Thomas Orique, O.P.
Animating Empire
Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World
Jessica Keating
Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England
Richard Napier's Medical Practice
Ofer Hadass
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
The Plague in Print
Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558–1603
Rebecca Totaro
Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment
One First Matter All
Edited by Kevin J. Donovan and Thomas Festa
Ground-Work
English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science
Edited by Hillary Eklund
Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities
Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare
Danila Sokolov
With Wandering Steps
Generative Ambiguity in Milton’s Poetics
Edited by Mary C. Fenton and Louis Schwartz
Baroque Seville
Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis
Amanda Wunder
Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires
Encounters and Confluences
Edited by Mohammad Gharipour
Buying Baroque
Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America
Edited by Edgar Peters Bowron
Contesting Conquest
Indigenous Perspectives on the Spanish Occupation of Nueva Galicia, 1524–1545
Ida Altman
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Monica Mattfeld
Gluttony and Gratitude
Milton’s Philosophy of Eating
Emily E. Stelzer
Performing Animals
History, Agency, Theater
Edited by Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld
Apocalypse Illuminated
The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts
Richard K. Emmerson
The Noisy Renaissance
Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
Niall Atkinson
Measuring Shadows
Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility
Raz Chen-Morris
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Lia Markey
Hazards of the Dark Arts
Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic
Translated by Richard Kieckhefer
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
The Surviving Image
Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art
Georges Didi-Huberman, and Translated by Harvey Mendelsohn
The Chankas and the Priest
A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru
Sabine Hyland
The Improbable Conquest
Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata
Edited by Pablo García Loaeza and Victoria L. Garrett
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
Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture
Edited by Anthony Colantuono and Steven F. Ostrow
On Antique Painting
Francisco de Hollanda, Translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl, with introductory essays by Joaquim Oliveira Caetano and Charles Hope and notes by Hellmut Wohl
The Transformations of Magic
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Frank Klaassen
The Vienna School of Art History
Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918
Matthew Rampley
Lorenzo de’ Medici at Home
The Inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492
Edited and translated by Richard Stapleford
Idea of the Temple of Painting
Giovan Paolo Lomazzo, Edited and translated by Jean Julia Chai
Gorgeous Beasts
Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective
Edited by Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist
Alchemical Belief
Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
Bruce Janacek
A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso
Paul Barolsky
Forbidden Rites
A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Richard Kieckhefer
Private Lives Made Public
The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England
Andrea Walkden
The Shape of Difficulty
A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects
Bret L. Rothstein
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, magic and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American history and culture, and Modernism. 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, religious studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity; Religion Around; The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe; Keystone Books; Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies; Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700; World Christianity; and Perspectives on Sensory History.
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