Nat - Renaissance 1

From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. ……続きを見る

This book provides a fresh perspective on the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives by embarking on a journey through the manors, castles and palaces in which their lives were played out. This journey tra……続きを見る

Following Shakespeare’s death in 1616, four women were crucial in ensuring the original work of the Bard was not forgotten. This was the Shakespeare Ladies Club. Formed in 1736, the club was a quart……続きを見る

As England’s most celebrated royal dynasty, it’s often overlooked that the Tudors have their origins in rural Wales, far from the urban centres of English power where they dared to become great. Whe……続きを見る

El Renacimiento, que cronológicamente abarca desde mediados del siglo XIV hasta principios del siglo XVII, representa todo un programa de renovación cultural y política, que pretende instaurar una n……続きを見る

In The Enlightenment's Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteenth century. Combining discussions of intellectual h……続きを見る

Still-Life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy centers on the still-life compositions created by Evaristo Baschenis and Bartolomeo Bettera, two 17th-century painters living and working in the Italian ……続きを見る

This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants’ War – pamphlets, banners, and clothing – to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of su……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

À travers une analyse minutieuse du fonctionnement du circuit d’échange du blé et des différents contextes qui servent à l’expliquer, l’auteur montre comment les autorités pontificales du XVIe et du……続きを見る

Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem Thema Pflege in der Frühen Neuzeit. Krankenpflege in dieser Zeit wird vor allem mit religiösen Orden und Gemeinschaften in Verbindung gebracht. Über die weltliche Kr……続きを見る

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Win……続きを見る

Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution -……続きを見る

Œuvre du célèbre juriste Jean Bodin, De la démonomanie des sorciers deviendra rapidement le manuel de référence des juges siégeant aux procès de sorcellerie. A l'aube de la plus intense période de p……続きを見る

Ce texte important de la littérature politique de l'Âge d'or de l'humanisme italien est publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit autographe, conservé à la Biblioteca Nazionale de Florence. ……続きを見る

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Win……続きを見る

The practice of swearing oaths was at the centre of the English Reformation. On the one hand, oaths were the medium through which the Henrician regime implemented its ideology and secured loyalty am……続きを見る

'The Somerley Portrait: A Portrait Of Catherine Carey By Levina Teerlinc' is a non fiction essay exploring the origins of a recently re discovered Tudor portrait owned by the Earls of Normanton in t……続きを見る

Una gran biografía de Bartolomé de las Casas, un personaje fascinante y contradictorio cuyas ideas siguen generando debate. Esta biografía de Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) pretende devolver al ……続きを見る

In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuart claimant. This book examines the res……続きを見る

In "Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit" entfaltet Egon Friedell ein faszinierendes Panorama der kulturellen Entwicklung von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne. Mit einem unverwechselbaren literarischen Stil,……続きを見る

Egon Friedells "Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit" ist ein umfassendes Werk, das die kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Entwicklungen von der Renaissance bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts beleuchtet……続きを見る

Egon Friedells monumental angelegte "Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit" erstreckt sich über fünf Bände und bietet dem Leser eine umfassende Analyse der europäischen Kultur und ihrer Entwicklung vom späte……続きを見る

A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we ……続きを見る

The Wars of the Roses saw family fight family over the greatest prize – the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the……続きを見る

The discipline of history defines itself in terms of proof not trust. However, in the eighteenth century it became embarrassingly clear that the capacity of the past to appear as a totality under th……続きを見る

'IRRESISTIBLE' JENNIFER SAINT 'SPELLBINDING' ELODIE HARPER 'BEGUILING' WILLIAM BOYD 'GRIPPING' ISABELLE SCHULER THE UNMISSABLE UNTELLING OF ROMEO AND JULIET, NARRATED BY ROSALINE, THE WOMAN ROMEO 'L……続きを見る

Toscana. Tre racconti intessuti di un unico filo nero; nero come il colore dell'oblio in cui si gettano i ricordi delle azioni scellerate commesse nella convinzione di aver agito per sopravvivere. U……続きを見る

This first full-length study in English on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing enriches our understanding of an unusually fertile period for Italian contributions to the genre. The intrinsic ……続きを見る

The disastrous protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War (1546-47) and the promulgation of the Ausburg Interim (1548) left the fate of German Protestantism in doubt. In the wake of these events, a s……続きを見る