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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies
Edited by William R. Bowen (University of Toronto, Scarborough) and Raymond G. Siemens (University of Victoria)
As Willard McCarty so rightly notes in the opening article to this volume, “wherever one looks,
computing seems to be at or near the epicentres of disturbance.” Most certainly, near the forefront of
any examination of disciplinary pursuits in the academy today, among the many and very important issues being addressed
one will inevitably nd the role of computing and its integration into, and perhaps revolutionizing of,
central methodological approaches. Published by Iter and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
the series New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies addresses this context
from both broad and narrow perspectives, with anticipated discussions rooted in literature, art history,
musicology, culture, and more in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Articles in this volume cover such topics as
the digital reconstruction and re-presentation of archival materials, the adaptation of text encoding systems
to address the concerns of manuscript studies, the pedagogical opportunities presented by the electronic medium,
and well beyond.
2008 / 330 + viii pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-369-3 / MR 324 / $65, £37
Mehmet II the Conqueror and the Fall of the Franco-Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turks: Some Western Views and Testimonies
by Marios Philippides (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
This book represents a significant contribution to late Byzantine and early Ottoman studies and is also
a real addition to our knowledge of the Latin Levant and certain aspects of Renaissance history.
There is a substantial literature on the fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman advance in the Aegean
that followed upon it, and this collection of sources
deals with the period 1453 to 1481 and includes both historical and ethnographic material.
The texts chosen range from eyewitness to well-informed accounts of events. It was through texts of this
nature that western Europe attempted to understand the nature of the enemy. These important texts
are not well-known because the original editions go back to the 15th and 16th centuries and are
difficult to obtain.
2007 / 430 + xiv pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-346-4 / MR 302 / $53, £37
The Golden Way: The Hebrew Sonnet during the Renaissance and the Baroque
by Dvora Bregman (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
This ground-breaking and much acclaimed study by Professor Dvora Bregman appeared in Hebrew in 1995.
It follows the history of the Hebrew sonnet from its first appearance around 1300 in Italy—close to the
time of the first sonnets in Italian—to its subsequent development throughout Europe
and the Turkish Empire. Now translated into English, The Golden Way leads the reader into the fascinating
and hitherto little-known world of the Hebrew sonnet and the poets who cultivated it.
2005 / 292 pages / ISBN-10: 0-86698-348-1, ISBN-13: 978-0-86698-348-8 / MR 304 / $45, £37
Religion in
Social Context in Europe and America, 1200-1700
Richard C. Trexler
This volume brings together twenty-two papers by Richard Trexler and reflects the trajectory of the author's career and various interests.
Two of the papers are original works, and eight others appear here in English for the first time. Over time, a sharp turn from political to
cultural and social history is evident, even though a dominant concern with the relationship among diplomacy, religion, and power has
persisted. This compilation should be of interest to scholars of Italian, general European, and conquest American history.
2002 / 608 pages / 86698-280-9 / MR 238 / $55,
£48
Backlist
Janus
Secundus
David Price
One of the most significant and enduring Renaissance Latin erotic poets.
A Renaissance Masters volume.
1996 / 128 pages / 86698-180-2 / MR143 / $22, £19
$11, £10
Rabelais
Michael Heath
This book highlights the consistent playfulness of the work of the most
controversial comic writer of the Renaissance, while allowing the seeming
contradictions (fantasy and realism, laughter and erudition, sex and
spirituality) to coexist and complement one another. A Renaissance
Masters volume.
1996 / 144 pages / 86698-181-0 / MR130 / $22, £19 $16,
£14
Place
and Displacement in the Renaissance
edited by Alvin Vos
"In this handsome
and well-illustrated volume...Vos and his authors have given us an
array of challenging ideas to ponder and some models to emulate."
-- Sixteenth Century Journal
Twelve essays address
the concept of physical places as symbolic domains; they pay particular
attention to popular culture and contemporary visual representations.
1995 / 320 pages / 86698-139-X / MR132 / $25, £22 $13,
£12
Ernesto
Grassi, The Primordial Metaphor
translated by Laura Pietropaulo and Manuela Scarci
Examines the ontology of metaphor from the origins of sound, language,
and mimesis, as well as in the work of Salutati, Freud, Leopardi, Pseudo-Longinus,
Proust, and Novalis, culminating in a reading of Ecclesiastes
from Grassi's unique perspective.
1994 / 160 pages / 86698-125-X / MR121 / $20, £18
$5, £5
Robert
Burton, Philosophaster
edited and translated by Connie McQuillen
". . . provides
a perceptive apparatus, the Latin text, and a fast-paced translation."
-- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
A topical satire
on seventeenth-century education.
This is Volume 15 in the Renaissance Text Series
of the Renaissance Society of America. Please visit the RTS web page for a complete list of titles.
1993 / 240 pages / 86698-123-3 / MR103 / $25, £22 $13,
£12
Creative
Imitation: New Essays on Renaissance
Literature in Honor of Thomas M. Greene
edited by David Quint, Margaret W. Ferguson, G. W. Pigman
III, & Wayne A. Rebhorn
Essays addressing the problems of rhetoric and imitation inherent in
the humanist legacy, feminist criticism and theory, ways of exploring
the relationship between literature and history, and the implications
for representations of selfhood.
1992 / 456 pages / 86698-109-8 / MR95 / $36, £31
$18, £16
Reconsidering
the Renaissance: Papers from the Twenty-First
Annual Conference of CEMERS
edited by Mario A. Di Cesare
Thirty-one essays on subjects such as astrology, historiography, acting,
spas, early bookmaking, music, witchcraft, gardens, popular religion,
neopaganism, Neoplatonism, and homosexuality.
1992 / 544 pages / illus. / 86698-107-1 / MR93 / $40, £35
$20, £18
Miscellanea
Moreana: Essays for Germain Marc'hadour
edited by Clare M. Murphy, Henri Gibaud, & Mario
A. Di Cesare
Twenty-fifth anniversary volume of Moreana.
1989 / 608 pages / 86698-045-8 / MR61 / $50, £44
$20, £18
Robert
Wakefield:
On the Three Languages (1524)
edited and translated by G. Lloyd Jones
Wakefield's Oratio de laudibus et utilitate trium linguarum (Greek,
Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic along with Latin); substantial introduction,
detailed commentary.
This is Volume 13 in the Renaissance Text Series
of the Renaissance Society of America. Please visit the RTS web page for a complete list of titles.
1989 / 272 pages / 86698-077-6 / MR68 / $30, £26
$15, £13
Renaissance
Humanism: Studies in Philosophy
and Poetics
Ernesto Grassi
Concludes Grassi's dialogue with Heidegger: the philosophical import
of Humanism in Salutati, Bruni, Valla, Alberti, Landino, Poliziano,
Pontano, Vives, and Erasmus.
1988 / 168 pages / 86698-035-0 / MR51 / $24, £21
$8, £7
Renaissance
Dialectic and Renaissance Piety: Benet
of Canfield's Rule of Perfection: A Translation and Study
edited by Kent Emery, Jr.
First English translation; introduction includes Benet and Neoplatonic
theology.
1987 / 328 pages / 86698-034-2 / MR50 / $30, £26
$8, £7
Persons
in Groups: Social Behavior as Identity
Formation in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
edited by Richard C. Trexler
Eighteen papers define the major approaches to the subject.
1985 / 272 pages / 86698-069-5 / MR36 / $24, £21
$12, £11
Heidegger
and the Question of Renaissance Humanism:
Four Studies
Ernesto Grassi
Studies in Heideggerian philosophy, showing that basic theses on Being
and beings, reason and language, poetry and philosophy were anticipated
by Italian humanists.
1983 / 112 pages / 86698-062-8 / MR24 / $24, £21
$6, £6
Renaissance
Curiosa: Dee's Conversation with
Angels, Cardano's Horoscope of Christ, Trithemius and Cryptography,
Dalgarno's Universal Language
Wayne Shumaker
Important texts representing an important direction of Renaissance scientific
inquiry.
1982 / 208 pages / illus. / 86698-014-8 / MR8 / $24, £21
G.
A. Bredero: The Spanish Brabanter:
A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Social Satire in Five Acts
translated by H. David Brumble III
The first English translation of Bredero's Spaanschen Brabander
(1617), a bright satire epitomizing early Amsterdam.
1982 / 160 pages / 86698-018-0 / MR11 / $5, £5
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