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This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early modern book trade in Paris and northwestern France, ca. 1450–1550. The book market, commercial trade, and geo-political ties conne……続きを見る

Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women’s studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to pr……続きを見る

This is a study of the organisation and practical operation of the system of poor relief in Emden from the late 15th century to the end of the 16th. The city went through dramatic economic, confessi……続きを見る

As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore af……続きを見る

In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body – and mind – have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughou……続きを見る

Scientists and the Sea is a history of how the scientific study of the sea has developed over a period of nearly 2500 years. Beginning with the speculations of Greek philosophers it carries the stor……続きを見る

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650ー1800 takes a fresh look at archival and printed sources from England and America, elucidating why women were instrumental to the Quaker movement fr……続きを見る

Stepfamilies were as common in the European past as they are today*. Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400*–1800 is the first in-depth study to chart four centuries of continuity and change for these complex……続きを見る

Real Lives in the Sixteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate similar situations in different geographical regions. The vibrant narratives span four cont……続きを見る

This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These ……続きを見る

War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an e……続きを見る

Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed ……続きを見る

Camerino, San Severino Marche e Castelraimondo. Gli scenari de “La Contesa” segnano un territorio e la sua storia. I tempi, tuttavia, erano quelli della spada ed i fatti narrati, inevitabilmente, af……続きを見る

In Charles XII, King of Sweden, Carl Gustafson Klingspor brings to life the extraordinary story of one of history’s most enigmatic and fearless monarchs. Published by Perennial Press, this riveting ……続きを見る

In the Middle Ages Italy was occupied by a vast number of political communities, some large, others very small, some self-governing, some under despotic rule. These small states were forever contend……続きを見る

Prince Eugene, the great warrior and statesman, although scion of an Italian family, and by birth a Frenchman, became a thorough German. He appeared at a critical time in the relations between Germa……続きを見る

A HISTORY of Milan, under the House of Sforza, can hardly incur the charge of being superfluous. While Rome, Florence and Venice have each found English historians, and while fresh books on Renaissa……続きを見る

Questo breve saggio cerca di dimostrare la valenza tendenzialmente rivoluzionaria del movimento protestante, sia dal punto di vista teologico ed ideologico, sia da quello delle conseguenti formazion……続きを見る

Rodrigo Borgia is destined to become Pope Alexander VI, one of the most powerful and corrupt men of the 15th century, but what of his youth? Called to Rome with his brother at seventeen, the hot-blo……続きを見る

Ma quanti sono stati veramente i Vangeli? Perché ancora oggi tante persone credono che i Protocolli dei Savi di Sion siano autentici? Quale fu la vera sorte del conte Ugolino? Chi era per davvero Wa……続きを見る

Domenico Berti fu più volte Ministro nei governi La Marmora e Depretis. Scrisse vari saggi tra i quali spicca “Il processo originale di Galileo Galilei”, dopo approfonditi studi sui documenti origin……続きを見る

Il 7 febbraio 1450 una delle più nobili famiglie italiane toccava il suo apogeo: in Milano entrava da trionfatore Francesco Sforza. Si compiva così un progetto iniziato nel 1385 da Muzio Attendolo c……続きを見る

Mercante, uomo politico e ambasciatore cui la Repubblica di Firenze affidò difficili missioni presso i re di Francia e l’imperatore, Bonaccorso Pitti (1354-1432) ha a lungo affascinato studiosi sia ……続きを見る

The ancient Italian province of Venetia is of interest to us in the present inquiry as the source to which the first Venetians looked as the home of their fathers or of their own youth. It was a reg……続きを見る

Gustavus Adolphus and the Struggle for Power During the Protestant Reformation by Charles Fletcher is a compelling exploration of one of Europe’s most influential military leaders and statesmen. Pub……続きを見る

The purpose of this volume is to supply several of those documents which are of great historical importance, and which, at present, find no place in the series of documents published by the Oxford U……続きを見る

WE shall begin the study of the Renaissance with the last quarter of the thirteenth century. Not that the Middle Ages ended at this time and that then the Renaissance, in all its aspects, began. One……続きを見る

During the most recent conference of the Renaissance Society of America, two sessions were devoted entirely to the Renaissance in Poland. In fifty-nine editions of what is considered the most presti……続きを見る

IN the night of the 24th of August, 410, Alaric, King of the Western Goths, entered Rome with his army, by the Salarian Gate -- outside of which Hannibal had encamped long ago--and took the Imperial……続きを見る

FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point ……続きを見る