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Depuis la fin du 20ème siècle, un regain d’intérêt pour les écrits religieux s’affirme au Québec mais aussi plus généralement en Europe. Marie Guyart dite de l’Incarnation (1599-1672), l’auteure d’u……続きを見る

Winner of the 2024 Francis Jones Prize for Welsh History. Early modern Wales was a place of opportunity for the gentry. The Acts of Union with England granted them powers to govern their local commu……続きを見る

Mae John Jones, Gellilyfdy, sir y Fflint (c.1580–1658) yn enwog fel ysgrifydd medrus a dibynadwy a gopïodd nifer helaeth o destunau canoloesol, mewn llaw galigraffig hardd. Mae ei gopïau o farddonia……続きを見る

The chapters reconstruct the values, norms, experiences, material manifestations, and power structures underlying the understandings of the holy and the sacred in early modern Christian contexts. Th……続きを見る

Frauenhäuser, die Bordelle spätmittelalterlich-frühneuzeitlicher Städte, stellen ein Phänomen mediävistischer Forschung dar, das an Aktualität kaum verloren hat. Die Existenz der geordneten Prostitu……続きを見る

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“Imagine a book with the narrative force and the behind-the-scenes revelations of Barbarians at the Gate. Now imagine that what’s at stake isn’t just which rich investment banker gets richer, but ra……続きを見る

The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural stud……続きを見る

This is the first complete study of English deists as a group in several decades and it argues for a new interpretation of deism in the English Enlightenment. While there have been many recent studi……続きを見る

This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the six……続きを見る

Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution……続きを見る

The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a ge……続きを見る

This book, now available in paperback, studies the patriarchalist theories of Sir Robert Filmer (1588–1653) in the context of early modern English and European political cultures. Making use of unex……続きを見る

Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of Eng……続きを見る

Cuando la oralidad era imperante, siete soldados de la Monarquía sintieron la necesidad de escribir sus autobiografías en la primera mitad del siglo xvii. Entre ellos, el capitán Alonso de Contreras……続きを見る

This accessibly written volume examines the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from the Jews' distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergenc……続きを見る

In 1624 the Dutch West India Company established the colony of Brazil. Only thirty years later, the Dutch Republic handed over the colony to Portugal, never to return to the South Atlantic. Because ……続きを見る

A look at how seventeenth-century English literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slavery Over the course of the seven……続きを見る

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in th……続きを見る

Was it the Titanic of its age? Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean eraーa magnificent ship embodyi……続きを見る

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, ……続きを見る

By the end of France’s long seventeenth century, the seminary-trained, reform-minded Catholic priest had crystalized into a type recognizable by his clothing, gestures, and ceremonial skill. Althoug……続きを見る

Au XVIIe siècle, l’intérêt de l’Europe, et de la France en particulier, pour le reste du monde, va croissant. Mus par des motivations d’ordre commercial, diplomatique, savant, religieux ou autres, l……続きを見る

En 1694, Mary Astell connaît la célébrité pour un court essai A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest. Ce petit texte offre une défense vive et argu……続きを見る

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La Maison de Salomon est le nom que donne l'homme d'État anglais Francis Bacon à l'institution imaginaire décrite dans son récit utopique La Nouvelle Atlantide : une confrérie dont les membres s'eff……続きを見る

L'Histoire de l'Empire Habsbourg de John S. C. Abbott retrace, avec rigueur et clarté, la trajectoire politique et dynastique de l'une des maisons régnantes les plus puissantes et influentes de l'hi……続きを見る

En 1675, en pleine guerre de Hollande, la France de Louis XIV est frappée par une des principales secousses rebellionnaires de l'Ancien Régime, restée célèbre sous le nom de « révolte du papier timb……続きを見る

À partir du xviie siècle, l’élargissement du champ d’activité de la diplomatie des cours européennes à l’Amérique, à l’Afrique et à l’Asie invite le monde à la table des grandes négociations. Mais p……続きを見る

He was born on September 5th, 1638 in the French lap of luxury otherwise known as the "Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye." This extravagant palace of French excess is located about 12 miles west of P……続きを見る