ＳＳＩ - Renaissance 1

L’existence de relations postales est généralement perçue comme un prérequis de l’essor de la diplomatie moderne. L’apparition de routes de relais sur de grandes distances, à la fin du Moyen Âge, pe……続きを見る

Im prunkvollen Versailles des 18. Jahrhunderts stieg eine Frau aus einfachen Verhältnissen zur mächtigsten und einflussreichsten Figur am Hof Ludwigs XV. auf: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, später bekan……続きを見る

Dive into the history of modern Europe with "The Cambridge Modern History Collection," which brings together all five original volumes in one ebook. This ebook offers a global perspective on key dev……続きを見る

From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of reli……続きを見る

Il Paesaggio con fiume, primo disegno firmato da Leonardo da Vinci, datato 5 agosto 1473 (Gall.degli Uffizi,Fi.), pur nella sua armonica visione d'insieme, è il risultato di una pluralità di element……続きを見る

Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was in turn influenced……続きを見る

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumbling city” populated by “broken ruins” into……続きを見る

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fe……続きを見る

The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe. But what came before Pietro Pomponazzi and his c……続きを見る

This explores the English folklore surrounding King Arthur and his knights. There are many Arthurian legends. Here one can read about Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Tristram, Sir Galahad and Sir Perciva……続きを見る

The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth century. She secured a steady stream of elite patron……続きを見る

An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world. Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an obje……続きを見る

*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize* *Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction* *A Sunday Times Book of the Year* ***A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year* ***A Times Book of the Ye……続きを見る

Ancora una volta rimasi attratto dai dettagli che non avevo mai preso in considerazione prima di allora, ritenendoli trascurabili non gli avevo dato mai né peso né misura. Chissà cosa poteva signifi……続きを見る

Tutto ebbe inizio in una notte d'estate di fine luglio, anche se a tutt'oggi, d' allora sono ormai passati sei anni, non saprei dirvi con precisione quale potrebbe essere stata la causa che lo ha de……続きを見る

Un piccolo incidente domestico basta per rendersi conto che esiste una concreta possibilità di avviicinarsi ad un Bene più grande di quello assegnato ad ognuno dal proprio destino? Purtroppo questa ……続きを見る

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs. From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and……続きを見る

This collection aims to explore new perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles and wider impact within early mod……続きを見る

Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Pr……続きを見る

****A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells ……続きを見る

The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, th……続きを見る

At the mid point of the sixteenth century, a Neapolitan gentleman, Federico Grisone, published, for the first time, a printed book about the art of training the horse “for the use of war” and on the……続きを見る

Juan de Valdés played a pivotal role in the febrile atmosphere of sixteenth-century Italian religious debate. Fleeing his native Spain after the publication in 1529 of a book condemned by the Spanis……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern worl……続きを見る

When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in……続きを見る

Considering plays by Philip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, John Ford and James Shirley, this study addresses the political import of Caroline drama as it engages with contemporary struggles o……続きを見る

Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyri……続きを見る

The Royal Stuarts ruled for over 300 years in Scotland and for a century as the Royal Family of Britain and Ireland. They were leading actors in the foremost political dramas of British history - th……続きを見る

Extrait : "Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal-duc de Richelieu, la terreur de l'Europe, le fléau de la Maison d'Autriche, et le plus grand homme d'État de notre siècle, et peut-être même de la monarch……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