New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

enaissance studies
The Mermaids of Venice
Fantastic Sea Creatures
in Venetian Renaissance Art
by Alison Luchs
This book focuses on the conceptions of artists
who made marine hybrids some of the most
engaging inventions of the Renaissance in
Venice and its subject city, Padua. The chapters
deal with five functional contexts: book decoration;
tomb monuments; church decoration;
centers of political activity; private homes.
350p, 32 col & 234 b/w illus, hardback,
9781905375455, $181.00(s), Harvey Miller
Publishers, December 2009, Studies in Medieval
and Early Renaissance Art History 58.
Mirrors of Revolution
Conflict and Political Identity
in Early Modern Europe
by F Benigno
This book is one of the first attempts to create
a European, transnational approach to the
problems of the early modern age. It proposes
a detailed reconstruction of the main interpretative
tendencies that have developed around
the English Civil War, the French Revolution,
the so-called ‘Seventeenth-Century Crisis’, the
Fronde, and the Neapolitan revolt of Masaniello.
It proposes an original interpretation of revolution
based on the concept of political identity.
293p, hardback, 9782503528977, $116.00,
Brepols Publishers, December 2009,
Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 16.
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Jerusalem on the Hill
Rome and the Vision of St. Peter’s in the Renaissance
by Marie Tanner
The author analyzes the Renaissance rebuilding of Saint Peter’s basilica as a
mirror of the political fortunes of the papacy. By embedding references to the
Holy Land in the fabric of the new basilica, the architecture itself became the
voice of the papacy’s political agenda. Peter’s tomb provided the fulcrum of a
program to transform the basilica, and all of Rome, into a new Jerusalem.
300p, 24 col & 150 b/w illus, hardback, 9781905375493, $181.00(s),
Harvey Miller Publishers, December 2009, Studies in Medieval and Early
Renaissance Art History 60.
Stradanus (1523–1605)
Court Artist of the Medici
by Manfred Sellink
Jan van der Straet, also called Giovanni Stradano, was a renowned court artist
in Florence during the second half of the sixteenth century. His contemporary,
Raffaello Borghini, refers to the artist as the first among the ‘valentuomi forestieri’
in Italy. Prints after his design were spread throughout the whole world;
their popularity and ‘nachleben’ continues until the present day. However,
Stradanus as a person and an artist at the court of Cosimo I Medici in Florence
has not, until now, been introduced to a larger public.
304p, 230 col illus, paperback, 9782503529967, $87.00, Brepols Publishers, December 2009.
Servants of Satan and Masters of Demons
The Spanish Inquisition’s Trials for Superstition,
Valencia and Barcelona, 1478–1700
by Gunnar W Knutsen
This volume offers a systematic study of the trials for superstition in Valencia and
Barcelona in the period 1478-1700. By comparing these tribunals, the book seeks
to explain the absence in the Southern half of Spain of brujas, witches who gave
their souls to the devil and caused death and destruction through magical means.
232p, hardback, 9782503528618, $87.00, Brepols Publishers, December 2009,
Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 17.
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder
Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness
by K Neville
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder was an architect, gentleman, and founder of the artistic dynasty that was immensely influential
at the Swedish court in the 17th and 18th centuries. He was architect to the crown and to the city of Stockholm,
and he supplied buildings for a wide range of functions. His productivity required a new approach to architecture, and
he was part of the first generation of architects in northern Europe to develop the architectural studio, distinguishing
the design process from the business of building, recreating himself as the modern architect.
300p, paperback, 9782503528267, $131.00(s), Brepols Publishers, November 2009, Architectura Moderna 7.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009