The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of kn

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This study provides an entirely new look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540, mainly in France

This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scra

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