著者:Anna Whitelock
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2025年05月21日
From the private world of a beloved English queen, a story of intimacy, royalty, espionage, rumor, and subterfuge
Queen Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to E……続きを見る
Kaum ein anderes architektonisches Ensemble wirkt in seiner Gesamterscheinung russischer als der Gebäudekomplex des Moskauer Kreml. Interessanterweise wurden seine prominentesten Bauten nicht von ei……続きを見る
How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future?
The word nostalgia was invent……続きを見る
Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates i……続きを見る
Les lectures humanistes des représentations naturalistes antiques des origines de la civilisation imposent un nouveau regard sur la condition primitive de l’humanité. L’idéalisation de la vie édéniq……続きを見る
The complete correspondance between d'Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavia, who was responsible for buying works of art in Venice for Isabella's collection. There are full indices.
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Fruit de l’admiration d’Estienne pour l’excellence des artisans dont le « génie » assurait à la foire de Francfort son rayonnement international, et surtout pour son « Académie foraine des Muses », ……続きを見る
La fama di Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) è soprattutto legata alla sua biblioteca: circa 9.500 stampati e oltre 1.000 manoscritti, che egli riunisce e mette a disposizione degli studiosi. Alle c……続きを見る
David Hume, einer der einflussreichsten Denker der Aufklärung, revolutionierte das Verständnis von menschlicher Erkenntnis, Moral und der Natur des Selbst. Mit seiner radikalen Skepsis und seinem ko……続きを見る
Step into the turbulent world of 16th-century Russia with Ivan the Terrible's Journey to Absolute Rule. In this compelling biography, Anna S. Ulianova delves into the life of Ivan IV, the enigmatic ……続きを見る
This book argues that painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) is a formative cross-cultural figure in the practice of art history itself.
Featuring new interpretations of some of his best-known ……続きを見る
In "The Later Renaissance," David Hannay embarks on an incisive exploration of the cultural, artistic, and intellectual currents that defined this dynamic period of European history. With a keen ana……続きを見る
著者:Alannah Tomkins
出版社: Manchester University Press
発売日: 2025年01月21日
This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Fu……続きを見る
Praise for Joanna Hickson:
‘An intriguing tale, told with confidence’ The Times ‘Rich and warm’ Sunday Express
Will his ambition be her destiny or her downfall?
When Isabel Williams is betrothed to ……続きを見る
A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe
**'**A majestic, brilliant account of the birth of an empire. Spectacu……続きを見る
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections bet……続きを見る
著者:Gerard Passannante
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2024年05月31日
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the ……続きを見る
This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morali……続きを見る
The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the l……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
The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been dismissed as nothin……続きを見る
This book aims to rewrite the narrative of women and power in medieval society. Based on a rich corpus of sources – systematically collected for the first time – it reveals female monasteries as cen……続きを見る
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly fro……続きを見る
Louis XI, known as "The Spider King" because he wove many intricate plots, lives on in popular imagination primarily as a villain and a cruel, cunning, rather unscrupulous character. Absolutists fle……続きを見る
This collection of essays, in honour of Professor Roger A. Mason, critically re-assesses what we understand by the terms "Renaissance" and "Reformation" in Scottish History.
Roger Mason's research i……続きを見る
On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall.
Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had been read, stamped and sealed. The will confirmed the line ……続きを見る
In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery and incest with her husband, the countess's step grandson, William Cecil, Lor……続きを見る
Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what th……続きを見る
Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity.
Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set ……続きを見る
The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional.
State trials provide……続きを見る