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Sonntag, der 28. April 1940: Am Himmel von Kristiansund erscheinen deutsche Jagdflugzeuge, um die norwegische Stadt zu bombardieren. Die Einwohner beobachten bestürzt das schreckliche Schauspiel. Vo……続きを見る

Nach einer Wahren Begebenheit: 1611 kommt Ebba Magnusdotter Brahe als Hofdame an den schwedischen Königshof, wo der junge König Gustav Adolf sich alsdann Hals über Kopf in die hübsche junge Frau ver……続きを見る

Les destins de l'Espagne et de la France paraissent opposés aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. La première, la Reconquête achevée, se trouve propulsée au premier rang grâce aux Découvertes et à une politiqu……続きを見る

La fortune des hommes politiques a toujours intrigué les Français même si leur état d’esprit, dans ce domaine, a évolué au cours des siècles. Au XVIIe siècle, il paraissait normal, et presque nécess……続きを見る

Qui pense le monde ? Les hommes du passé ou les historiens du présent ? L’histoire universelle telle qu’elle était pratiquée depuis l’Antiquité s’est transformée à partir du XVIe siècle dans des con……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking exploration of European history, Ryan Evans takes readers on a riveting journey through the collapse of feudalism and the emergence of the modern world. The Fall of Feudalism ……続きを見る

Hidalgo, gentleman, officier, letrado, yeoman ou croquant, les sociétés anglaise, française et espagnole du xviie siècle sont riches de figures sociales héritées des siècles précédents. Mais cette p……続きを見る

La guerre de Candie est aujourd’hui bien oubliée. Ce conflit suscita pourtant un intérêt constant dans l’Europe du xviie siècle, tenue en haleine par les péripéties de ce siège interminable qui abou……続きを見る

Avec un bureau de ville formé d'un maire et de six échevins, un conseil de notables de nature consultatif et une assemblée générale pour les élections, Nantes jouit d'un ensemble municipal complet a……続きを見る

How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to cha……続きを見る

In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the practice of Calvinism, throwing the minority Protestant population into cr……続きを見る

As the epicenters of style and innovation, the cities of Paris and Versailles dominate studies of consumerism in seventeenth-century France, but little scholarship exists on the material culture, fa……続きを見る

The historiography of English Catholicism has grown enormously in the last generation, led by scholars such as Peter Lake, Michael Questier, Stefania Tutino, and others. In Suspicious Moderate, Anne……続きを見る

There have been many studies analyzing the philosophy of Blaise Pascal, but this book is the first full-length study of the philosophies of his sisters, Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal Périer,……続きを見る

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of v……続きを見る

Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of differen……続きを見る

In Incomplete Conquests**, Stephanie Joy Mawson uncovers the limitations of Spanish empire in the Philippines, unearthing histories of resistance, flight, evasion, conflict, and warfare from across ……続きを見る

At Kingdom's Edge investigates how life in a conquered colony both revealed and shaped what it meant to be English outside of the British Isles. Considering the case of Jeronimy Clifford, who rose t……続きを見る

On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt ……続きを見る

The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the s……続きを見る

De 1562 à 1629, les guerres de Religion sont marquées par les révoltes successives des huguenots, des Malcontents et des ligueurs. Pour obtenir des soutiens militaires et financiers contre la monarc……続きを見る

By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cogn……続きを見る

The analysis of land management, lineage and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent historiography. It a……続きを見る

The essays in this book aim to answer the following questions: What was the place of prayer in the early modern world? What did it look and sound like? Of what aesthetic and political structures did……続きを見る

This is the first book-length treatment of the ‘turncoat’ John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales in 1648. The volume charts Poyer’s rise from a h……続きを見る

This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation. The book assimilates new scholarship and deploys a wealth of original archival research to present a fresh picture……続きを見る

This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times. As Ireland has one of the oldest literatures in Europe, and also one of the most com……続きを見る

Lhwyd, the illegitimate son of a father ruined by the Civil War, had to make his own way in the world. A competent botanist before going up to Oxford as a student, he spent much time there at the Bo……続きを見る

An annotated edition of Leon Modena’s Hebrew Musar book Tsemaḥ Tsaddik (‘Pious Plant’), originally published in Venice in 1600. Tsemaḥ Tsaddik follows the format of a medieval Physiologus, where eac……続きを見る

Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a cit……続きを見る