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Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance : Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna / by Terpstra, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Down and out and off the streets: sheltering Renaissance children -- Opening a home -- Entering a home: prescriptions and procedures -- Making a home with girls -- Making a home with boys -- Running a home -- Leaving home -- The politics of Renaissance orphanages.…”
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The book in the Renaissance by Pettegree, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…The book world before print -- Gutenberg -- Renaissance encounters : the crisis of print -- The creation of a European book market -- Book town Wittenberg -- Luther's legacy -- First with the news -- Polite diversions -- At school -- The literature of conflict -- The search for order -- Market forces -- Science and exploration -- Healing -- Building a library -- Word and the street.…”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…From low-obscure beginnings raysde to fame : critical and historical contexts of the Lord Mayor's Show -- Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye : the writers, the artificers and the livery companies -- A day of well compos'd variety of speach and shew : bringing the shows to life -- A briefe narration of each seuerall shew : the show from street to print -- To prune and dresse the tree of gouernment : political and contemporary contexts of the shows -- Appendices. …”
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