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This book examines the important social role of charitable institutions for women and children in late Renaissance Florence. Wars, social unrest, disease and growing economic inequality on the Itali……続きを見る

Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince remains an influential book more than five centuries after he wrote his timeless classic. However, the political philosophy expressed by Machiavelli in his tome is o……続きを見る

Connaissez-vous la mère d'Henri IV? Sa sœur, ses épouses? Ses conquêtes, des plus ordinaires aux plus ébouriffantes? On croit les connaître, mais on en sait si peu de choses! Ce livre en dévoile l'e……続きを見る

This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the e……続きを見る

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literat……続きを見る

The Jacobites, adherents of the exiled King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his descendants, continue to command attention long after the end of realistic Jacobite hopes down to the pres……続きを見る

Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to ……続きを見る

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long been considered an embodiment of the Restoration era. This interdis……続きを見る

This book investigates the economic, strategic, and political importance of forests in early modern and modern Europe and shows how struggles over this vital natural resource both shaped and reflect……続きを見る

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing tog……続きを見る

The letters in this volume reflect Erasmus’ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Cat……続きを見る

Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in Lo……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Amerigo Vespucci et la découverte de l’embouchure de l’Amazone et de la baie de Rio de Janeiro en moins d’une heure ! Au cours de ses expéditions, Ameri……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Pedro Álvares Cabral et la découverte du Brésil en moins d’une heure ! Portugal, le 9 mars 1500. Pedro Álvares Cabral, un navigateur peu expérimenté, qu……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le Mayflower et le mythe fondateur des États-Unis en moins d’une heure ! 16 septembre 1620. Dans le port de Southampton, un navire s’apprête à partir qu……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Newton et la théorie de la gravitation universelle en moins d’une heure ! Figure incontournable de l'histoire des sciences, Isaac Newton bouleverse le m……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’inquisition en moins d’une heure ! Érigée par les philosophes des Lumières comme le spectre d’une Église fanatique et encline à l’obscurantisme, l’inq……続きを見る

This book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annu……続きを見る

At a time when the French monarchy traced its origins back to ancient Troy, Homeric epic was fated to play a significant political role. Homer came to Renaissance France packaged with an ancient int……続きを見る

In 1533, Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII’s closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch except Henry VII and Mary Tudor. Duchess of Suffolk a……続きを見る

British history is rich in enthralling stories: pivotal moments that changed the future of the country; moments of drama, suspense, intrigue. Dive right into the heart of the dramatic downfall of An……続きを見る

Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature an……続きを見る

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, advocates of protection against foreign competition prevailed in a fierce controversy over international trade. This groundbreaking study is the first to e……続きを見る

Jeremy Bentham, the founder of classical utilitarianism, was a seminal figure in the history of modern political thought. This lively monograph presents the numerous French connections of an emblema……続きを見る

Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance of the French Revolution through the prism of several major interpretations, including the commentaries of Burke, Tocqueville and Ma……続きを見る

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cam……続きを見る

At seven oclock on the morning of 13 February 1542, Catherine Howard stepped out into the cold of the great courtyard of the Tower of London. Slowly she was escorted across the yard and carefully he……続きを見る

Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers al……続きを見る

This volume ranges widely across the social, religious and political history of revolution in seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, from contemporary responses to the outbreak of war to the criti……続きを見る

This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African King……続きを見る