In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution. Stimulating, vivid and provocative, his graphic depiction of the turbulent era examines ordinary English men and women as well as kings and…
Grounded in social history, this text refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the tales told by the "conteuses" (French story-telling women in the 1690s) and the late 20th-century tales by women writers that derive in part from this centuries-old tra…
"This volume is the first English-language translation of Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance, Austrian art historian and curator Julius von Schlosser's pioneering interpretation of late Renaissance cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum"--