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Correggio

Subjectivity and the Mechanisms of the Renaissance Image

Giancarla Periti

Was: $74.99 Now: $44.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10033-3

248 pages
9" × 10"
56 color/54 b&w illustrations
2026

Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Bamberg, 1400–1640

William Bradford Smith

Was: $69.99 Now: $41.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10212-2

236 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
1 b&w illustration/2 maps
2026

Magic in History

Black and Gold

Transmutations of Metal and Modernity

W. Ian Bourland

Was: $32.99 Now: $19.79 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10130-9

Was: $120.99 Now: $72.59 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10129-3

232 pages
6" × 9"
24 color/6 b&w illustrations
2026

AFRICANAS

Spontaneous Objects

A Natural History of Art and Its Others

Rebecca Zorach

Was: $84.99 Now: $50.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10043-2

286 pages
7" × 10"
56 color/44 b&w illustrations
2026

The Aquatic Metropolis

Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City

John F. López

Was: $69.99 Now: $41.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10041-8

232 pages
9" × 10"
47 color/42 b&w illustrations
2026

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

The Brothel and Beyond

An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice

Saundra Weddle

Was: $89.99 Now: $53.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10021-0

240 pages
8" × 10"
43 color/38 b&w illustrations
2026

The Epic of Florida

Selected Poems by Juan de Castellanos, Bartolomé de Flores, and Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo

Thomas Hallock

Was: $24.99 Now: $14.99 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10156-9

Was: $94.99 Now: $56.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10155-2

182 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
6 b&w illustrations/1 map
2026

Latin American Originals

The Conquest That Never Was

Pedro de Alvarado and the Delusion of Peru

W. George Lovell

Was: $29.99 Now: $17.99 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10142-2

Was: $99.99 Now: $59.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10143-9

162 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
7 b&w illustrations/3 maps
2026

Latin American Originals

Sacred Habitat

Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic

Ran Segev

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09534-9

Was: $129.95 Now: $77.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09533-2

230 pages
6" × 9"
18 b&w illustrations
2023

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Lies of the Land

Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

Camille Serchuk

Was: $99.95 Now: $59.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09773-2

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

Envisioning Diplomacy

Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe

Mayu Fujikawa

Was: $99.99 Now: $59.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09925-5

256 pages
8" × 10"
39 color/58 b&w illustrations
2025

Iridescence and the Image

Material Thinking in the Early Modern Spanish World

Brendan C. McMahon

Was: $84.99 Now: $50.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09969-9

224 pages
8" × 10"
49 color/19 b&w illustrations
2025

Facing Decay

Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe

Erin Griffey

Was: $99.99 Now: $59.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10022-7

274 pages
6" × 9"
8 color/22 b&w illustrations
2025

Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza

The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez

Was: $34.99 Now: $20.99 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10038-8

Was: $109.99 Now: $65.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10037-1

178 pages
6" × 9"
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

Was: $34.99 Now: $20.99 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09993-4

272 pages
5 1/2" × 8 1/4"
46 color illustrations/10 maps
2025

Opacity

Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic

Angela Vanhaelen

Was: $94.99 Now: $56.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09996-5

204 pages
7" × 10"
11 color/39 b&w illustrations
2025

AFRICANAS

Rival Wisdoms

Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

Nancy Mason Bradbury

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ISBN: 978-0-271-09689-6

Was: $104.95 Now: $62.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09688-9

220 pages
6" × 9"
1 b&w illustration
2024

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

Andrea Beth Wenz

Was: $99.99 Now: $59.99 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-10026-5

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

Interactions in the Early Modern Age

Stigma

Marking Skin in the Early Modern World

Edited by Katherine Dauge-Roth and Craig Koslofsky

Was: $29.95 Now: $17.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09443-4

Was: $119.95 Now: $71.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09442-7

294 pages
7" × 10"
11 color/40 b&w illustrations
2023

Perspectives on Sensory History

Pearls for the Crown

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

Mónica Domínguez Torres

Was: $99.95 Now: $59.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09681-0

218 pages
8" × 10"
50 color/40 b&w illustrations
2024

The Man Who Broke Michelangelo’s Nose

Felipe Pereda

Was: $84.95 Now: $50.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09694-0

288 pages
8" × 10"
41 color/67 b&w illustrations
2024

Isfahan

Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran

Farshid Emami

Was: $112.95 Now: $67.77 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09552-3

276 pages
9" × 10"
45 color/60 b&w illustrations
2024

Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies

A New Antiquity

Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600

Alessandra Russo

Was: $99.95 Now: $59.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09569-1

288 pages
7" × 10"
35 color/40 b&w illustrations
2024

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023

Copy, Print, Paper, Type

Edited by Samuel V. Lemley

Was: $64.95 Now: $38.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09732-9

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 Child Witches of Olague

Lu Ann Homza

Was: $21.95 Now: $13.17 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09749-7

Was: $69.95 Now: $41.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09880-7

144 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
1 map
2024

Magic in History Sourcebooks

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

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

Magic in History

Animal Sightings

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

Jodi Cranston

Was: $99.95 Now: $59.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09763-3

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

Ribera’s Repetitions

Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples

Todd P. Olson

Was: $104.95 Now: $62.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09754-1

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

Cervantine Blackness

Nicholas R. Jones

Was: $19.95 Now: $11.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09878-4

Was: $89.95 Now: $53.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09877-7

202 pages
6" × 9"
15 b&w illustrations
2025

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

The First Viral Images

Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe

Stephanie Porras

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09284-3

Was: $109.95 Now: $65.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09283-6

200 pages
8" × 10"
27 color/61 b&w illustrations
2023

Speculum Lapidum

A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones

Camillo Leonardi, and Translated with an introduction by Liliana Leopardi

Was: $15.99 Now: $9.59 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09539-4

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

Magic in History

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