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Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
Lauro MartinesUsing tales, poetry, prayer, and letters as prime sources, Lauro Martines probes religious sensibilities, love, alienation, explosive feeling against political auth
The Social World of the Florentine Humanists
Lauro MartinesLauro 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.
An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context
Lauro MartinesEach is accompanied by an essay, in which Lauro Martines situates the story in its temporal context, transforming it into an outright historical document.
Furies: War in Europe, 1450–1700
Lauro MartinesFuries: War in Europe 1450-1700 by acclaimed historian of the Renaissance Lauro Martines compellingly and simply delivers the story of modern Europe's martial roots, capturing the brutality of early modern war and how it shaped the history ...
April Blood
Lauro MartinesIn April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.
Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy
Lauro MartinesSavonarola mingled the fervour of religion with the ardour of republican politics. Scourge and Fire is the story of his impact on Florence and of the city's spell over him.
Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian ...
Lauro MartinesNeighborhood voices in poetry - The verbal web of patronage - Prayer in the urban setting - Love and history : men against women - Suicide of a poet - Alienation : the outsider as poet - Cruelty in the community - Seduction and family space ...
Loredana: A Venetian Tale
Lauro MartinesIn 1700, a Venetian priest, Fra Benedict Loredan, compiles an assembly of documents - letters, written confessions, top-secret state files, diary excerpts, pieces of a secret chronicle - which together tell the story of two lovers caught up ...
Lawyers and Statecraft in Renaissance Florence
Lauro MartinesDiversorum, though attributed to Niccolò Guicciardini. Most of these consilia are from the early sixteenth century and nearly all Florentine. Ormannozzo Deti is prominent. II, II, 377. Rough drafts of consilia and pleas by Niccolò Guicciardini, ...
La minificcion bajo el microscopio
Lauro ZavalaLa Minificción en Panamá Enrique Jaramillo Levi La Minificción en México Lauro Zavala La Minificción en Colombia Henry González Martínez La Minificción en Venezuela Violeta Rojo Antología del cuento corto colombiano Guillermo ...
La minificción en México: 50 textos breves
Lauro Zavala... en que vayan siendo preparadas por especialistas del mismo. Henry González Martínez Coordinador del convenio por la U.P.N. Junio de 2000 Acerca de esta Antología ista selección propone treinta autores mexicanos 10 LAURO ZAVALA.
New Historical Anthology of Music by Women
James R. Briscoe(1744-1812). KARIN. PENDLE. Marianna von Martines, Austria's most prolific woman composer of the last half of the eighteenth century, was born into an upper-class family headed by a father who served as maestro di camera (master of ...
Nëwempit matyä´äky: Antología de cuento mexicano en Mixe de ...
Lauro ZavalaEsta antología surgió con la idea de que lectores hablantes de diversas lenguas mexicanas tengan acceso en su lengua materna a textos de autores mexicanos que han marcado un antes y un después en la literatura nacional y universal, y que ...
The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
Sarah J. Lauro... Zombie': The Pleasures and Perils of Postcolonial Hybridity”; Ellen Draper, “ Zombie Women When the Gaze Is Male”; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, “Women Possessed”; Rhodes, White Zombie; and Shannon Rose Riley, “Cannibals, Zombies, ...
Cartografías del cuento y la minificción:
Lauro ZavalaCartografías del cuento y la minifícción reúne ensayos sobre la historia, la teoría, el análisis y la didáctica de la narrativa contemporánea a partir de la distinción entre el paradigma clásico (la narrativa secuencial y ...
Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts ...
PreviewFor more on this see Kyle William Bishop, “Raising the Living Dead,” in American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walk ing Dead in Popular Culture (London: McFarland 81 Company), 37—63; Chera Kee, “''They are not men . . . they are dead bodies!'': From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again,” in Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post/Human, ed. Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 9— 23. 6.
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Preview447 Chera Kee, “From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again” in Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post Human, eds. Deborah Christieand SarahJuliet Lauro (New York:Fordham University Press, 2011), 20. 448 Chris Vials, “The Origin of the Zombie in American Radio and Film: BHorror, U.S. Empire, and the Politics of Disavowal” in Generation Zombie: Essays on theLiving Deadin Modern Culture, eds. Stephanie Boluk and Wylie Lenz ( Jefferson: McFarland& Company ...
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