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French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)
Language: en
Pages: 1638
Authors: Andrew Pettegree
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-30 - Publisher: BRILL

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This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of inve
Emblematic Monsters
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Alan W. Bates
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Rodopi

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Emblematic Monsters is a social history of monstrous births as seen through popular print, scholarly books and the proceedings of learned societies.
Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Timothy Chesters
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This work describes the ideological, intellectual, and literary role of ghost stories in late Renaissance France. It takes in prominent literary figures as well
Monstrous Bodies/political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Laura Lunger Knoppers
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Multi-disciplinary in approach & cross-European in scope, this volume explores links between the political & the monstrous in Europe from the Renaissance to the
Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Peter G. Platt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press

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""The marvelous follows us always" - or so the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi asserted in 1587. The essays in this book collectively make the case that t