The Students and Their Books

The Students and Their BooksThe topic of this volume is the teaching and learning practices in the major and minor academic centers of renaissance Europe and their relevance for early modern intellectual history. Academic knowledge is here regarded not as a finished product but as a process, induced by multiple factors and several conditions: the personalities and intellectual profiles of teachers and learners, the dialectic between their respective interests and roles, the

Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry that now extends to every state

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Folbre upends conventional economic thinking and maps a hopeful path toward a more equitable and sustainable economy

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Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy—from Paul to Luther

self-erasure

Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature explores the unique popularity and literary value of travel writing during the 1700s

and perhaps reflecting the context of religious diversity and theories of religious pluralism in Britain

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