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Dans "Urbain Grandier et les possédées de Loudun", Gabriel Legué explore l'un des épisodes les plus énigmatiques de l'histoire de la France du XVIIe siècle, où la controverse autour du prêtre Urbain……続きを見る

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market ……続きを見る

This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contr……続きを見る

In the 17th century, a young man named George Fox was dissatisfied with the Church of England and its Nonconformists. The Church was dictatorial and considered anyone who went against it a heretic. ……続きを見る

Shadows on the Rock Willa Cather - Set in 17th century Canada. A year in the life of a widow and his young daughter and the trappers, missionaries, craftsmen, friends and others who come to their ho……続きを見る

Der scharlachrote Buchstabe Nathaniel Hawthorne - Die Handlung des Romans spielt in einer strenggläubigen Siedlung in Neuengland zu Zeiten des amerikanischen Puritanismus, also gegen Ende des 17. Ja……続きを見る

Die Kartause von Parma Stendhal - Der Roman beginnt im Mailand des Jahres 1796, nachdem Napoleon die Stadt während seines Italienfeldzugs erobert hatte. Während der Marchese del Dongo und sein älter……続きを見る

Die Abenteuer der Manon Lescaut Antoine François Prévost - Der junge Chevalier Des Grieux hat seine Studien beendet und steht kurz vor der Abreise aus Amiens, als er der liebenswürdigen Manon Lescau……続きを見る

For the first time, this volume brings together the history of the royal spare in the monarchy of early modern France, those younger brothers of kings known simply as ‘Monsieur’. Ranging from the Wa……続きを見る

A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody divi……続きを見る

This volume demonstrates that the Catholic rhetoric of tradition disguised both novelties and creative innovations between 1550 and 1700. Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism reveals that the peri……続きを見る

L'expulsió dels moriscos valencians el 1609 va causar una gran impressió en els contemporanis, que, des del punt de vista de la societat cristiana dominant, no tardarien a redactar escrits apologèti……続きを見る

En 1609 se inició por orden de Felipe III el proceso de expulsión de los moriscos valencianos. Esta obra aborda el desarrollo que esta operación tuvo en Denia y el distrito de embarque que le fue as……続きを見る

康熙來了 恪守史料，布局奇絕，敘事精妙，文筆流暢 史景遷獨特歷史書寫風格濫觴之作 蒙太奇筆法大膽重建康熙內心世界 **◆ 「**三藩之亂」的動盪如何對康熙的治理思想起到重大影響？ ◆ 求知不輟的康熙****如何適應……続きを見る

Sembla que en l'actualitat està de moda parlar sobre el comportament del clima. Analitzar-ne la influència que en segles passats hi va exercir i les conseqüències econòmiques i socials que va provoc……続きを見る

Explore the history of County Dublin from the pre-Christian era in Francis Elrington Ball's "A History of the County Dublin". The complete work comprises six volumes. In each volume, the parishes ar……続きを見る

El nacionalismo y su relación con el cosmopolitismo ha sido un tema de reflexión constante y central para la filosofía y la teoría política desde la ilustración hasta nuestros días. El volumen recog……続きを見る

自絢爛歸於平淡****從國史寫到家傳 張岱的深邃虛幻****史景遷妙筆重塑 只要有人追憶，往事就不必如煙 史景遷細數張岱心靈點滴 窺探亡國知識分子的內心****轉折 同時瞥見晚明的精緻生活美學 張岱是明代散文大家，傳……続きを見る

In this book Phil Corr provides a tour de force by writing for both the biography reader and the scholar. In this hybrid work he vividly portrays the life of Titus Coan, "the pen painter," while als……続きを見る

Discourse on the Method Rene Descartes - Published in the 17th century, Discourse on the Method is considered one of the most profound and influential works on philosophy. Descartes touches on subje……続きを見る

Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called Age of Enlightenment thought so. By marrying for that selfish, personal emoti……続きを見る

The Robbers Friedrich Schiller - Contains all 9 Volumes. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a hero……続きを見る

La religione del secolo XVI assiste ad una svolta epocale caratterizzata da alcuni cambiamenti: il rifiuto della religiosità «del corpo», tipica del periodo basso medievale, in favore di una concezi……続きを見る

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmo……続きを見る

This book's very existence is significant, since the material is that of the end of the seventeenth century, the period when the dramatic changes that took place in the eighteenth century were begin……続きを見る

The Discontented tells the heroic story of the Hungarian uprisings against the Habsburgs in 17th and 18th centuries. Led by the charismatic trio of Imre Thököly, Helena Zrinyi and Ferenc Rákóczi II,……続きを見る

By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renai……続きを見る

What does obscene mean? What does it have to say about the means through which meaning is produced and received in literary, artistic and, more broadly, social acts of representation and interaction……続きを見る

A gripping account of the violence and turmoil that engulfed England’s fledgling colonies and the crucial role played by Native Americans in determining the future of North America. In 1675, eastern……続きを見る

An Irish Rebel in New Spain recounts the story of the so-called Irish Zorro, who, in 1659, was burned at the stake for conspiring against the empire to make himself king of Mexico, restore the privi……続きを見る