American Baroque : Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700 / by Warsh, Molly A.

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American Baroque : pearls and the nature of empire, 1492-1700 / by Warsh, Molly A.

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Music and urban life in baroque Germany / by Kevorkian, Tanya

Table of Contents: “…Sonic Performance in the Baroque City -- Musical Tower Guards : Work and Life -- Town Musicians I : Performance, Competitors, and Collaborators -- Town Musicians II : Training, Career and Household, and Councilors -- Weddings -- Space and Movement -- Religion, Countryside, and Courts -- Conclusion.…”
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Witch craze : terror and fantasy in baroque Germany / by Roper, Lyndal

Table of Contents: “…The Baroque landscape -- Interrogation and torture -- Cannibalism -- Sex with the devil -- Sabbaths -- Fertility -- Crones -- Family revenge -- Godless children -- A witch in the age of enlightenment.…”
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The reception of Machiavelli in early modern Spain / by Howard, Keith David

Table of Contents: “…Machiavellian Discourse in the Hispanic Baroque Reason-of-State Tradition --…”
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Structural Forms in the French Theater, 1500-1700 / by Roaten, Darnell

Table of Contents: “…Definition of Renaissance and Baroque in the French Theater --…”
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Gender, sexuality, and early music /

Table of Contents: “…Construction of desire in early baroque instrumental music /…”
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The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary culture / by Merrim, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Agile platforms of the spectacular city : the new world and the old -- Order and concert -- Balbuena's "La grandeza mexicana" and the advent of the spectacular city -- Balbuena's spectacular city and the Creole cause -- Engaging plurality : Baroque plenitude and the spectacular city in Mexico -- "To know the all" : the spectacular esoteric city in Mexico -- Babel : wild work of the new world Baroque -- Appendix. …”
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Scripts of Blackness : early modern performance culture and the making of race / by Ndiaye, Noémie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Performative blackness in early modern Europe -- A brief history of baroque black-up : cosmetic blackness and religion -- A brief herstory of baroque black-up : cosmetic blackness, gender, and sexuality -- Blackspeak : acoustic blackness and the accents of race -- Black moves : race, dance, and power -- Post/script: Ecologies of racial performance -- Appendix. …”

Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by D'Eugenio, Daniela

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Literary history and theroies of paremias -- Vincenzo Brusantino's Le cento novelle : paremias and Tridentine ethics in reinterpreting the Decameron -- John Florio's Firste Fruites and Second Frutes : paremias and Elizabethan teaching of the Italian language -- Pompeo Sarnelli's Posilecheata : paremias and the multi-faceted Neapolitan Baroque -- Conclusion -- Index of paremias in Le cento novelle, Firste fruites, seond frutes, and Posilecheata.…”
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The scientific counter-revolution : the Jesuits and the invention of modern science / by Gorman, Michael John

Table of Contents: “…-- Establishing mathematical authority: the politics of Christoph Clavius -- Mathematics and modesty: the problemata of Christoph Grienberger -- Discipline, authority and Jesuit censorship: from the Galileo trial to the Ordinatio pro studies superioribus -- The Jesuits and the Vacuum debate -- The angel and the compass: Athansius Kircher's geographical project -- Between the demonic and miraculous: Athanasius Kircher and the baroque culture of machines -- From 'The eyes of all' to 'Usefull quarries in philosophy and good literature': the changing reputation of the Jesuit Mathematicus.…”

Francesca Caccini at the Medici court : music and the circulation of power / by Cusick, Suzanne G.

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European music, 1520-1640 /

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance humanism and music / Gary Tomlinson -- The concept of the Renaissance /James Haar -- The concept of the Baroque / Tim Carter -- Italy, i: 1520-1560 / Giulio Ongaro -- Italy, ii: 1560-1600 / Noel O'Regan -- Italy, iii: 1600-1640 / Tim Carter -- Music for the mass / Allan W. …”
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The moment of Caravaggio / by Fried, Michael

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