The Society of Renaissance Florence

The Society of Renaissance Florence
Author: Renaissance Society of America
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780802080790

First published in 1971, The Society of Renaissance Florence is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460

The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460
Author: Lauro Martines
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442696133

Lauro Martines' exhaustive search of manuscript material in the state archives of Florence is the basis for a fascinating portrayal of representative humanists of the period. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists explores the wealth, family tradition, civic prominence, and intellectual achievements of these individuals while assessing the attitudes of other Florentines towards them. Martines demonstrates that humanists tended to be wealthy educated men from important families, challenging long-held assumptions about the status of humanisits in that society. First published in 1963, this groundbreaking study provides a detailed picture of the social structure of Florence in the Quattrocento. Martines's work influenced a generation of scholars and illuminated a complex and multifaceted world.

Venice

Venice
Author: Renaissance Society of America
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802084248

This work presents important sources - many previously unpublished in any language, and almost none previously available in English - for the history of the city-state of Venice from its zenith to its decline.

The Vespasiano Memoirs

The Vespasiano Memoirs
Author: Vespasiano (da Bisticci)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802079688

The memoirs of a Florentine bookseller, Vespasiano da Basticci (b. 1421), who was the most celebrated dealer of books and manuscripts of his generation. His shop become a meeting place for distinguished and learned individuals of his time.

Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance

Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance
Author: Debora K. Shuger
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802080479

By examining orthodox methods of thought in the Renaissance, the author tries to reconstruct a picture of the dominant culture of the period in England between 1580 and 1630.

More's Utopia

More's Utopia
Author: Dominic Baker-Smith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780802083760

This study plac Utopia in the context of early sixteenth-century Europe and the intellectual preoccupations of More's own humanist circle, and clarifying those sources in classical and Christian political thought that provoked his writing.

Religious Books, 1876-1982

Religious Books, 1876-1982
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher: New York : Bowker
Total Pages: 1328
Release: 1983
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

"Prepared by the R.R. Bowker Company's Department of Bibliography in collaboration with the Publications Systems Department"--Page opposite t.p. Includes indexes. Author Index ... 3901-4069 Title Index ... 4071-4389.

Jews in the Canary Islands

Jews in the Canary Islands
Author: Catholic Church
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802084507

In 1492, the Jews of Spain were given a choice: convert to Christianity or be expelled from Spain. Many chose to hide themselves as 'New Christians, ' or conversos, outwardly professing to be Christians while practicing their true faith in secret. In 1504, the Office of the Inquisition was set up in the remote Spanish holdings on the Canary Islands to seek out crypto-Jews, sorcerers, and other heretics. Jews in the Canary Islands is a calendar of Jewish cases brought before the Canariote Inquisition between 1499 and 1818, when the Inquisition was discontinued. First published in 1926, together with an introduction analysing the work of the Inquisition and explaining its relation to general Jewish history until 1928, this is a fascinating collection of records showing not only the workings of the Inquisition, but the lives of crypto-Jews during a time of fierce repression.

The William and Mary Quarterly

The William and Mary Quarterly
Author: Richard Lee Morton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1963
Genre: Periodicals
ISBN:

Publishes refereed scholarship in history and related disciplines from initial Old World-New World contacts to the early nineteenth century and beyond. Its articles, notes and documents, and reviews range from British North America and the United States to Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Spanish American borderlands. Forums and topical issues address topics of active interest in the field.