Author: Angela P Pacheco
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Whitman, Jon (ed), Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period
Jon Whitman (ed.), Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) 338 pp. $82.00 PDF, £22.99 Pb, £67.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107042780 In Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period, Jon Whitman brings together experts from different countries to discuss…
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Catani, Marco and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience
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Angela P Pacheco
Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, Brain Renaissance: From Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015) 304pp. £38.99 Hb. ISBN: 9780199383832 Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone, the authors of Brain Renaissance, from Vesalius to Modern Neuroscience, take as their starting point the famous physician Andreas Vesalius, and his publication De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543).…
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Ryan, Lorraine, Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative
Lorraine Ryan, Memory and Spatiality in Post-Millennial Spanish Narrative (Farnham: Ashgate 2014) 248 pp. Hb, £95. ISBN: 9781472435705 During the Spanish civil war, the liberal faction of Spain failed to create a new republic and after the war the country collapsed into oppression. Spain passed through a period of recovery which emphasized memory and was…
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Crane, Mary Thomas, Losing touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England
Mary Thomas Crane, Losing touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2014) 248 pp. Hb, EPUB, Mobi, PDF $49.95. ISBN: 978-1-4214-1531-4 Losing touch with Nature focuses on the reception of new scientific views in sixteenth-century England, a changing period during which the Aristotelian, Galenic, and Ptolemaic systems…
