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Table of Contents: “…'Women who read are dangerous': illuminated manuscripts and female book collections in the early RenaissanceThe dangers of reading novels and romances; The benefits of reading good books; Two noblewomen, two libraries: ­Margaret of York and Margaret of ­Austria; A space for female devotion: the bedroom and study; Outstanding manuscripts for exceptional women; Conclusions; About the author; Works cited; 5. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Tassili N'Ajjer : Prehistoric Rock Paintings of the Sahara --Prehistoric Sites --Grimes Graves --Working on the Evidence: Maiden Castle --The Origins of Art in France --Borobudur: Beyond the Reach of Time --Digging for the History of Man --Greek Pottery --Etruscan Tombs of Volterra --The Shape of Darkness --A Thousand and One Years Ago --Pre-Columbian Art in Mexico --In Search of the Mayas --The Aztec Sun --Maya Terracotta Figurines --French Romanesque Art --Romanesque Painters --English Romanesque Art --And They Sang a New Song --Popular Art in Brittany --The Birth of European Painting --Dijon: The Four Grand Dukes of Burgundy --Beaune: Rogier van der Weyden --Ecce Homo --Early Renaissance in Italy --Fra Angelico --Piero della Francesca --The Northern Renaissance --Jean Fouquet --Guido Mazzoni --Botticelli's Calumny of Apelles --The Age of Titian --The Age of Leonardo and Raphael --Michelangelo --The Miracle of Palladio --At the Turn of the Age: Hans Holbein --The Past Replayed: Kirby Hall --Jan Bruegel the Elder --The Age of Rubens --Matthew Merian --The Age of Rembrandt --Rembrandt's Christ --Mexico: The Grandeur of New Spain --Spanish Art: El Greco to Goya --Baroque Painting in France and Italy --Dia Dolorosa (Stations of the Cross) --The Wizards of the Marvellous --The Long Frontiers to the North --The Southern Empire of Baroque --From Rubens to Gainsborough --The Baroque of Extremes --Antoine Watteau: The Melancholia of Pleasure --George Stubbs --Royal Rococo --The Multiplication of Styles 17001900 --The British Achievement --The Road to Modern Art.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Mining in history -- 1.1 Introduction: historiography of mining -- 1.2 Mining procedures -- 1.3 Society, economy, and technology: mining in history -- 1.3.1 Liquation: mining and merchant capitalism in early Renaissance Europe -- 1.3.2 Mercury amalgamation: mining and colonization in 16th century Latin America -- 1.3.3 Drills and dynamite: the efficient use of labor and capital in copper mines -- 1.4 Mining in the 21st century.…”
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