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Courts and courtiers --- Manners and customs. --- France --- Social life and customs. --- History --- Social life and customs --- Court life --- Congresses --- Marguerite, --- Henry --- 1500-1610. --- France. --- Court and courtiers

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Clandestine Philosophy examines the circulation and consequences of 'clandestine philosophical manuscripts', a genre that flourished in the eighteenth century and included forbidden works such as erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life and of the nobility, forbidden religious texts, and books about alchemy and the occult. The editors have brought together leading experts on the history of European philosophy to explore the circulation of radical ideas during the eighteenth century and the social, political, and cultural impact they had on eighteenth-century society.

Renaissance. --- clandestine. --- court life. --- early modern philosophy. --- erotic. --- forbidden religious texts. --- history of philosophy. --- literature. --- manuscript studies. --- manuscripts. --- occult. --- pamphlets. --- philosophy. --- politica. --- religion. --- satires. --- subversive. --- texts. --- History of Western philosophy

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In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene Brucker explores those pivotal years in Florence and ranges over northern Italy, with forays into the histories of Genoa, Milan, and Venice. The ten essays, three of which have never before been published, exhibit Brucker's graceful intelligence, his command of the archival sources, and his ability to make history accessible to anyone interested in this place and period. Whether he is writing about a case in the criminal archives, about a citation from Machiavelli, or the concept of modernity, the result is the same: Brucker brings the pulse of the period alive. Five of these essays explore themes in the premodern period and delve into Italy's political, social, economic, religious, and cultural development. Among these pieces is a lucid, synoptic view of the Italian Renaissance. The last five essays focus more narrowly on Florentine topics, including a fascinating look at the dangers and anxieties that threatened Florence in the fifteenth century during Leonardo's time and a mini-biography of Alessandra Strozzi, whose letters to her exiled sons contain the evidence for her eventful life.

Renaissance --- Italy --- Florence (Italy) --- History --- Jusqu'à 1421 --- 1421-1737 --- 1268-1492 --- 15th century. --- alessandra strozzi. --- aristocracy. --- assassination. --- black death. --- campanilismo. --- christianity. --- court life. --- criminals. --- da vinci. --- europe. --- exile. --- fede. --- feudalism. --- fiducia. --- florence. --- genoa. --- government. --- hapsburg. --- historical women. --- history. --- italian history. --- italian renaissance. --- italy. --- letters. --- machiavelli. --- medici. --- medieval italy. --- milan. --- modernity. --- nation. --- national identity. --- nonfiction. --- northern italy. --- plague. --- poison. --- politics. --- religion. --- renaissance. --- spain. --- trust. --- urban italy. --- venice.

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From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or' 740s, h'as proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.

Arabic poetry --- Mural painting and decoration, Umayyad --- Umayyad mural painting and decoration --- History and criticism --- Foreign influences. --- Qusayr ʻAmrah (Jordan : Dwelling) --- History and criticism. --- Arabic poetry - 622-750 - History and criticism. --- abbasid. --- abd al malik. --- al azraq. --- al buldn. --- alois musil. --- amir. --- ancient art. --- apodyterium. --- arab. --- arabic poetry. --- arabic. --- architecture. --- art history. --- bath house. --- baths. --- captive woman. --- court life. --- dancing girls. --- decorative arts. --- desert. --- dynasty. --- femininity. --- frescoes. --- gender. --- hunt. --- hunting lodge. --- iconography. --- iran. --- islam. --- jordan. --- khusraw. --- late antiquity. --- middle east. --- monument. --- murals. --- musicians. --- muslim. --- mythology. --- negus. --- nonfiction. --- ode. --- persia. --- prince. --- princess. --- qusayr amra. --- roderic. --- royal court. --- self fashioning. --- shaykh musa. --- syria. --- umayyad. --- women. --- Qusayr Amrah (Jordan : Dwelling)