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Exploring the distinctive nature and role of local pilgrimage traditions among Muslims and Catholics, Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices draws particularly on south central Java, Indonesia. In……続きを見る

In "Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period" by P. L. Jacob, the author provides a comprehensive and intricate look into the social practices and cultura……続きを見る

‘Biografie van de Zuiderzee’ vertelt de geschiedenis van de Zuiderzee aan de hand van 25 verhalen, waarin vaak mensen centraal staan. In ‘Biografie van de Zuiderzee’ vertelt Arie Kok de geschiedenis……続きを見る

What did it mean to be a Covenanter? From its first subscription in 1638, the National Covenant was an aspect of life that communities across Scotland encountered on a daily basis. However, how cont……続きを見る

Was there such a thing as a modern notion of race in the English Renaissance, and, if so, was skin color its necessary marker? In fact, early modern texts described human beings of various national ……続きを見る

A Tudor voyage of exploration - an extraordinary story of daring, discovery, tragedy and pioneering achievement. In the spring of 1553 three ships sailed north-east from London into uncharted waters……続きを見る

**UPDATED for 2019** Medieval Castles: Fascinating Facts About Famous Castles in England from the Medieval Times A fascinating and historical look at twenty one famous castles in England from the me……続きを見る

Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony’s 400th anniversary in 2007. Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a gr……続きを見る

Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown and the Pope.……続きを見る

The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great size, bloodshed and finality - the Battle of Flodden. On the back of historian George Goodw……続きを見る

Before dawn one morning in June 1612, an elderly Frenchman took charge of a carriage carrying a precious cargo near Tyburn Fields, London's notorious place of execution. It was heading for a house i……続きを見る

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of t……続きを見る

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since……続きを見る

La segunda parte de Que no te la cuenten acentúa la intención esclarecedora realizada por el P. Javier Olivera Ravasi en su primer tomo del mismo título. En la época en que vivimos, caracterizada po……続きを見る

Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the ……続きを見る

Un grand gaillard roux, un couteau à la main, se précipite sur le carrosse royal. Il frappe brutalement plusieurs coups. Le bon roi Henri meurt en quelques secondes... et déjà le bruit court que Rav……続きを見る

Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Ora……続きを見る

History of science credits the Flemish physician, alchemist and philosopher Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) for his contributions to the development of chemistry and medicine. Yet, as this book ……続きを見る

Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculinities. It examines the tensions between normative di……続きを見る

This is the first complete and accessible English translation of two major source textsーTinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectioーthat arose from the notorious Arras witch hunts and trial……続きを見る

Reminding us that the Genevan Reformation does not begin and end with John Calvin, this book provides an introduction to Guillaume Farel (1489-1565), one of several important yet often overlooked Fr……続きを見る

How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose……続きを見る

A transcription and translation of Zaharje Orfelin's 1757 festival book, Festive Greeting to Mojsej Putnik, this book is one of the most comprehensive accounts of the festival life of the Orthodox h……続きを見る

This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history of Pietism, particularly Pietistic groups who migrated from central Europe to the British colonies in……続きを見る

Jane Barker (1652-1732) is increasingly being recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. The author of both poems and novel……続きを見る

Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction from the Dutch edition of 1619, with its illustrations, many of them birds'eye 'maps'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the vol……続きを見る

'Early Dutch and English Voyages' translated into English, for the first time, by Basil H. Soulsby, F.S.A., of the British Museum; Segersz's text translated into English, for the first time, by J. A……続きを見る

The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of gentee……続きを見る

Extracts from despatches by Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande to the directors of the Zeeland Chamber of the Dutch West India Company, 1738-72, selected to illustrate the rise and expansion of the col……続きを見る

How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism? The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven ……続きを見る