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The Aquatic Metropolis

Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City

John F. López

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10041-8
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232 pages
9" × 10"
47 color/42 b&w illustrations
2026

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

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The Brothel and Beyond

An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice

Saundra Weddle

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10021-0

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240 pages
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43 color/38 b&w illustrations
2026

Spontaneous Objects

A Natural History of Art and Its Others

Rebecca Zorach

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10043-2

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286 pages
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56 color/44 b&w illustrations
2026

Cervantine Blackness

Nicholas R. Jones

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09877-7

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202 pages
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15 b&w illustrations
2025

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World

Kathleen Miller

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09982-8

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208 pages
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7 b&w illustrations
2025

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza

The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10037-1

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178 pages
6" × 9"
2025

Interactions in the Early Modern Age

Bernardino Ochino’s Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation

Andrea Beth Wenz

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10026-5

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230 pages
6" × 9"
1 b&w illustration/2 maps
2025

Interactions in the Early Modern Age

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

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
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20 color/60 b&w illustrations
2025

Opacity

Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic

Angela Vanhaelen

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09996-5

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204 pages
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11 color/39 b&w illustrations
2025

AFRICANAS

Envisioning Diplomacy

Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe

Mayu Fujikawa

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09925-5

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256 pages
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39 color/58 b&w illustrations
2025

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
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34 color/63 b&w illustrations
2025

Iridescence and the Image

Material Thinking in the Early Modern Spanish World

Brendan C. McMahon

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09969-9

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224 pages
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49 color/19 b&w illustrations
2025

Facing Decay

Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe

Erin Griffey

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10022-7

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274 pages
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8 color/22 b&w illustrations
2025

The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar

Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America

Sylvia Sellers-García

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ISBN: 978-0-271-10034-0

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118 pages
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1 map
2025

Latin American Originals

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

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274 pages
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5 b&w illustrations
2025

Interactions in the Early Modern Age

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
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9 b&w illustrations
2021

Magic in History Sourcebooks

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
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5 b&w illustrations
2023

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
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16 b&w illustrations
2022

Magic in History Sourcebooks

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
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36 color/50 b&w illustrations
2022

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
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77 b&w illustrations
2024

The Mineral and the Visual

Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture

Brigitte Buettner

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09250-8

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272 pages
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35 color/55 b&w illustrations
2022

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
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1 map
2022

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

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
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5 color/43 b&w illustrations
2021

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

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

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
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1 map
2024

Magic in History Sourcebooks

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
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50 color/15 b&w illustrations
2023

Disenchanting Albert the Great

The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician

David J. Collins, S. J.

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09744-2

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

Magic in History

Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France

A Documentary History

Edited by Jeffrey Merrick

Was: $33.95 With code: $20.37 | Hardcover Edition
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

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

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

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

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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238 pages
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26 color/54 b&w illustrations
2023

Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance

Volume 1, Insects

Edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09446-5

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09447-2

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294 pages
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11 b&w illustrations
2023

Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures

Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance

Volume 2, Concepts

Edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09448-9

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09449-6

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226 pages
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9 b&w illustrations
2023

Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures

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
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65 b&w illustrations
2024
Co-published with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Penn State Series in the History of the Book

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

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
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6 b&w illustrations
2023

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

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

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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230 pages
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18 b&w illustrations
2023

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

Adam Franklin-Lyons

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09174-7

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266 pages
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2 maps
2022

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

The Letter from Prison

Literature of Cultural Resistance in Early Modern England

W. Clark Gilpin

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260 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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2024

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

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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ISBN: 978-0-271-09689-6
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220 pages
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2024

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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ISBN: 978-0-271-09712-1

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264 pages
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2024

Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler

Marjorie Swann

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09519-6

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09520-2

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270 pages
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2023

Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700

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

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
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5 b&w illustrations/1 map
2023

Interactions in the Early Modern Age

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