Interesting books I have encountered while on the Deadfall/Deadwater journey...
Not in any particular order. This is just a small selection of the books I've come across or used, and basically all the ones I've read or downloaded from the library at work aren't on here because that's far, far too many to deal with. Links are Amazon affiliate links, for the hell of it.
Books I've used for research or inspiration:
Medieval and Renaissance Dagger Combat by Jason Vail. On Kindle Unlimited now but I ended up buying it because I found it useful enough to keep.
YE OLDE RUFF & TUMBLE: Romein de Hooge M. P. Lynch, translator. 18th century guide to wrestling/grappling, including several throws based on grabbing someone by their hair. In Kindle Unlimited, but given that it's currently $1.99 otherwise, I think I'll just buy the thing.
To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology by Marina Belozerskaya
How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians by Rudolph M. Bell. Basically about the advice people got from self-help manuals of the time.
Warriors for a Living: The Experience of the Spanish INfantry during the Italian Wars, 1494-1559 (History of Warfare) by Idan Sherer. My HOLY GRAIL of life at the time for a common soldier. I found it via my library, where we had access to a digital copy, but it was useful enough (there's a whole chapter just on the process of sacking a city!) that I declared it to be my reward for finishing the draft and plonked down $130 for it. Yeah, you saw that correctly, it's an academic book that expects to be sold to, like, maybe 10 libraries worldwide and me.
Gun Culture in Early Modern England by Lois G. Schwoerer
Tuscans and their Familier: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 by David V. Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. "Catasto" = census, basically.
Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders. Edited by Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr., Rosemary Horrow, Simon Maclean. I am 90% sure this is the book that's sitting at home, but I bought it via a non-Amazon used book site that either I do not have a login for or that I've forgotten. Anyway, this (or one like it) is a collection of translations of primary documents, accounts of protests and riots and such.
Books waiting in stacks (physical or digital) for me to get to:
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
by Seb Falk
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman. Yesterday on the drive into work (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
myrialux gets to WFH a while longer, but not the library), I was listening to the Not Just the Tudors podcast where Susannah Lipscomb interviewed the author and by the time I got to work I knew I'd be buying the book.
A Short History of Sheep by Sally Coulthard. It's in Kindle Unlimited, so it's sitting in my KU COllection on my Kindle now, until I get around to it.
An Encyclopedia of Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes
Matchlocks to Flintlocks: Warfare in Europe and Beyond, 1500-1700 by William Urban
Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair. Exactly what I need to read for my FMC. XD I came upon this one circuitously, when I was trying to remember the name of a index card note-taking system because I am implementing an index card note-taking system (nowhere near as fancy as zettlekasten, which is what it turned out to be), and I went YES THIS IS PERFECT. It's right near the top of my TBR pile.
Who Are You?: Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Valentin Groebner
Books I have in sample form on my Kindle to decide whether I want to drop the cash and put them in one of the aforementioned stacks:
Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance Illustrated Edition by Ioanna Iordanou
A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Not on my Kindle as a sample because I do not dare put it on there as a sample because it is $75 and I do not want to forget that, read the sample and buy it, then go ZOMG THIS COST $75!!! I am, however, going to see if my library has access to it and if not, then ILL it instead. (a few minutes later: No, we do not have access to it, and I cannot yet ILL it because it's just published at the end of December and most libraries won't lend it out for several months after they've gotten it, to allow their faculty and students first crack. So it goes on my Not Yet Published Amazon list, to be looked for in the future.)
The Fat Woodworker by Antonio Manetti, translated by Robert L. Martone and Valerie Martoni. Trnaslation of a 15th C story about a prank by the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi, which purports to bring the reader into the social world of, essentially, middle-class Florence of the time.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Books I've used for research or inspiration:
Medieval and Renaissance Dagger Combat by Jason Vail. On Kindle Unlimited now but I ended up buying it because I found it useful enough to keep.
YE OLDE RUFF & TUMBLE: Romein de Hooge M. P. Lynch, translator. 18th century guide to wrestling/grappling, including several throws based on grabbing someone by their hair. In Kindle Unlimited, but given that it's currently $1.99 otherwise, I think I'll just buy the thing.
To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology by Marina Belozerskaya
How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians by Rudolph M. Bell. Basically about the advice people got from self-help manuals of the time.
Warriors for a Living: The Experience of the Spanish INfantry during the Italian Wars, 1494-1559 (History of Warfare) by Idan Sherer. My HOLY GRAIL of life at the time for a common soldier. I found it via my library, where we had access to a digital copy, but it was useful enough (there's a whole chapter just on the process of sacking a city!) that I declared it to be my reward for finishing the draft and plonked down $130 for it. Yeah, you saw that correctly, it's an academic book that expects to be sold to, like, maybe 10 libraries worldwide and me.
Gun Culture in Early Modern England by Lois G. Schwoerer
Tuscans and their Familier: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 by David V. Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. "Catasto" = census, basically.
Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders. Edited by Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr., Rosemary Horrow, Simon Maclean. I am 90% sure this is the book that's sitting at home, but I bought it via a non-Amazon used book site that either I do not have a login for or that I've forgotten. Anyway, this (or one like it) is a collection of translations of primary documents, accounts of protests and riots and such.
Books waiting in stacks (physical or digital) for me to get to:
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
by Seb Falk
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman. Yesterday on the drive into work (
myrialux gets to WFH a while longer, but not the library), I was listening to the Not Just the Tudors podcast where Susannah Lipscomb interviewed the author and by the time I got to work I knew I'd be buying the book.A Short History of Sheep by Sally Coulthard. It's in Kindle Unlimited, so it's sitting in my KU COllection on my Kindle now, until I get around to it.
An Encyclopedia of Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes
Matchlocks to Flintlocks: Warfare in Europe and Beyond, 1500-1700 by William Urban
Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age by Ann M. Blair. Exactly what I need to read for my FMC. XD I came upon this one circuitously, when I was trying to remember the name of a index card note-taking system because I am implementing an index card note-taking system (nowhere near as fancy as zettlekasten, which is what it turned out to be), and I went YES THIS IS PERFECT. It's right near the top of my TBR pile.
Who Are You?: Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe by Valentin Groebner
Books I have in sample form on my Kindle to decide whether I want to drop the cash and put them in one of the aforementioned stacks:
Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance Illustrated Edition by Ioanna Iordanou
A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. Not on my Kindle as a sample because I do not dare put it on there as a sample because it is $75 and I do not want to forget that, read the sample and buy it, then go ZOMG THIS COST $75!!! I am, however, going to see if my library has access to it and if not, then ILL it instead. (a few minutes later: No, we do not have access to it, and I cannot yet ILL it because it's just published at the end of December and most libraries won't lend it out for several months after they've gotten it, to allow their faculty and students first crack. So it goes on my Not Yet Published Amazon list, to be looked for in the future.)
The Fat Woodworker by Antonio Manetti, translated by Robert L. Martone and Valerie Martoni. Trnaslation of a 15th C story about a prank by the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi, which purports to bring the reader into the social world of, essentially, middle-class Florence of the time.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
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I'm hoping Invisible Agents is as good. The interview was, and the three-star reviews complaining that the author keeps reminding the reader that being a woman at the time was to be overlooked and unappreciated hearten me, because those people obviously missed the point that the author was making: it's those very qualities that made woman spies so successful! Of course it's going to be repeated, it's the thesis
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And if the author ever notices, they will be So Happy!
So many of those sound fantastic.
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(I am actually about to wave around a post later tonight about organising my TBR chaos, which may or may not be of interest, but if you have any comments, I would be delighted to hear them.)
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Re: post--cool! :D
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Your personal library must be so interesting!
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Which is how I landed a copy of "Space Flight Mechanics 1999" for $5 instead of $600, and can see my launch vehicle ascent trajectory paper in print. According to the Amazon listing, I am the only person to buy a copy of that book in the past dozen years.
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