Books by Mary Laven
Mary Laven is a senior lecturer in early modern European history at the University of Cambridge. Her first book, Virgins of Venice, won the 2002 John Llewellyn Rhys prize. She published Women and Religion in the Atlantic Age 1550-1900 in 2013 and curated Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment at the Fitwilliam Museum in 2015.
Interviews with Mary Laven
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At Home in Renaissance Italy
by Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Flora Dennis (editors) -
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Galateo
by Giovanni della Casa -
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Global Interests
by Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton -
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Empire of Great Brightness
by Craig Clunas -
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Dutch New York, Between East and West
by Deborah L Krohn, Marybeth De Filippis and Peter Miller
The best books on Renaissance Worlds, recommended by Mary Laven
The best books on Renaissance Worlds, recommended by Mary Laven
New scholarship is opening up different ways of looking at the Renaissance. The historian explains what we should read to gain a wider appreciation of this key period in European history
