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Renaissance humanism recognized no mutually exclusive polarities between the sciences and the arts, and Leonardo's emphasis in science and engineering are as impressive and innovative as his artisti……続きを見る

A General History of the Pirates has long been a classic of seafaring literature and was inspiration to both Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. Nothing is known about Captain Charles Johnson, a……続きを見る

Connaissez-vous la mère d'Henri IV? Sa sœur, ses épouses? Ses conquêtes, des plus ordinaires aux plus ébouriffantes? On croit les connaître, mais on en sait si peu de choses! Ce livre en dévoile l'e……続きを見る

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of water, and – in matters economic, political and military – the ocean of th……続きを見る

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of ……続きを見る

Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of the common law could not accommodate. Where the com……続きを見る

Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstr……続きを見る

John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British ……続きを見る

A modern English translation of Henry de Sainct-Didier's 1573 fencing training manual. Sainct-Didier taught a style of swordsmanship informed by more than two decades as a soldier on the battlefield……続きを見る

Firenze, A.D. 1478.La città più ricca d’Europa è governata da famiglie di mercanti e banchieri che ospitano e forggiano i miglioriartisti d’Italia. Sontuosi palazzi ospitano collezioni di capolavori……続きを見る

Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined t……続きを見る

This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in ……続きを見る

Published in 1979: This book is about the History of the work of painter and architect, Raffaello around the Renaissance era. 続きを見る

Henri II, Henri III, Louis XIII, Louis XIV… tous ont en commun d’avoir été à la tête de la France et leurs règnes ont, d’une façon ou d’une autre, changé le cours de l’Histoire. Mais que savons-nous……続きを見る

El problema principal, por no decir el único, que se plantea en este libro es el de la convivencia entre grupos de diferentes culturas. El autor expresa lo que le separa de Villanueva, de Juan Goyti……続きを見る

400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a sing……続きを見る

Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelange……続きを見る

Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange o……続きを見る

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the family between Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as……続きを見る

From the mid 18th century up till after memories of the Napoleonic wars and the glories of 'Nelson's navy' had faded, the Royal Navy was the bulwark of Britain's defence and the safeguard of trade a……続きを見る

Now available as an ebook. Praise for The Flowering of The Renaissance: ‘An evocative picture of Rome at the turn of the sixteenth century … the account of Michelangelo is particularly memorable. At……続きを見る

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Vincent Cronin, is the extraordinary story of Italy - from the birth of the Roman Empire to the rise of the city-states through the Renaissance and th……続きを見る

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards th……続きを見る

A history of walking over the British countryside. Published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Ramblers’ Association, ‘Ramble On’ tells the story of how country walks were transformed fro……続きを見る

The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of Europe……続きを見る

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing appro……続きを見る

Biographies of a Reformation: Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, c. 1520-1635 investigates how religious coexistence functioned in six towns in the multiconfessional reg……続きを見る

Gregers og Grethe Dirckinck-Holmfelds bog tager dig med om bag Københavns kulisser og fortæller byens spændende historie sted for sted. Med anekdoter fra byens historie guider bogen dig rundt mellem……続きを見る

Tra la fine del Quattrocento e gli inizi del Cinquecento l’occidente cristiano, che interrompe il dialogo con le Chiese orientali e teme l’avanzata dell’islam, è attraversato da ansie di rinnovamen……続きを見る

Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect……続きを見る