Maria - Renaissance 1

Il volume ricostruisce la biografia intellettuale dell'umanista ferrarese Pellegrino Prisciani (1435 ca.–1518). Astrologo, astronomo, storiografo, cartografo, ambasciatore e diplomatico, oltre che a……続きを見る

Este libro comienza planteándose el estudio comparativo de las vidas de Teresa de Jesús y las religiosas de la España barroca para determinar las sutiles fronteras que separan la rápida proyección a……続きを見る

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic……続きを見る

This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare. It shows how each reading……続きを見る

Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious offers paradigm-breaking insights into the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of humour and comedy. Based on an innovative audience experiment at Shakes……続きを見る

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary ……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. 続きを見る

L’échange épistolaire occupe une place très importante dans les pratiques sociales, politiques et culturelles de l’époque prémoderne, s'affirmant comme genre littéraire à part entière à la Renaissan……続きを見る

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

Dès 1526, Guillaume Farel est au service des paroisses de langue française de Berne. À la suite de l’adoption de la réforme en 1528, il compose, en français, des formulaires liturgiques inspirés par……続きを見る

The great merchant port of Danzig, now Gdansk, is at the centre of this set of studies by Professor Maria Bogucka. Through it passed the greatest part of the trade that linked the West with Poland a……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

Una biografia politico-intellettuale di Machiavelli, che non trascura gli eventi salienti della vita privata che meglio ne mettono in luce la figura. Ma l’attenzione si concentra sul suo pensiero po……続きを見る

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533– c.1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop.……続きを見る

This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of ……続きを見る

La Germanía de Valencia (1519-1522), el conflicto sociopolítico más relevante de la historia valenciana, es analizado desde el campo temático de las revueltas y revoluciones medievales y modernas ce……続きを見る

Presenting the text of a notorious Jesuit attack on Queen Elizabeth I's treatment of her Catholic subjects, this volume highlights the European context of the English Reformation and Robert Persons'……続きを見る

How could a woman be three times accused of witchcraft and go on running a successful farmstead? Why would men use a frying pan for cattle magic? Why did witches keep talking about the children? Wha……続きを見る

While far fewer studies on women and gender have been published in Poland than in the West, the last decade has seen growing interest in gender history among Polish scholars. The first general histo……続きを見る

English dress in the second half of the sixteenth century has been studied in depth, yet remarkably little has been written on the earlier years, or indeed on male clothing for the whole century. Th……続きを見る

This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean. Drawing on h……続きを見る

What were the laws on marriage in Ireland, and did church and state differ in their interpretation? How did men and women meet and arrange to marry? How important was patriarchy and a husband's cont……続きを見る

This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th–18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with empirical history, the authors explore these two……続きを見る

Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the econom……続きを見る

Performing Power explores 18th-century fabrication of the royal image by focusing on the example of King Gustav III (1746–1792) – one of Sweden’s most acclaimed and controversial monarchs – who cons……続きを見る

The fascinating history of medicine in Europe is filled with curious, often bizarre, strange, and gruesome cures, enthusiastically espoused by physicians and other medical practitioners of the times……続きを見る

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden deat……続きを見る

Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In ……続きを見る

Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church. Recent scholarship on medieval Europe has emphasised ……続きを見る