Michael - Renaissance 1

Originally published in 1961, this masterly study of the guns used by the rivals in the Armada campaign remains an essential contribution to the understanding of the event, for it gave a new perspec……続きを見る

Religion and slavery have been connected since the beginning of human history, but their tangled relationship has rarely been dissected and truly understood. This groundbreaking book illuminates how……続きを見る

A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historians The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the ……続きを見る

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reci……続きを見る

The practice of swearing oaths was at the centre of the English Reformation. On the one hand, oaths were the medium through which the Henrician regime implemented its ideology and secured loyalty am……続きを見る

The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War,……続きを見る

This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed. It was the physician and scholar Johann Wier (1515-1588) who challenged the domin……続きを見る

What if the Renaissance wasn't humanity's greatest cultural awakening, but history's most successful marketing campaign designed to legitimize the power of banking dynasties? In "Secrets of the Medi……続きを見る

Collection des articles du regretté Malcolm Smith sur la littérature française de la Renaissance, études qui n’en ont jamais négligé les dimensions polémiques et religieuses. 続きを見る

L'Europe au XVIe siècle a vécu à l'ombre de la menace turque. A quels auteurs cette situation n'a-t-elle pas inspiré quelque chose ? La situation des Français, à cet égard, avait quelque chose d'amb……続きを見る

Recueil de vingt-trois articles, parmi les plus importants de l'éminent connaisseur du XVIe siècle français. M. Screech, ayant fait de la verve rabelaisienne son quotidien, un certain nombre d'artic……続きを見る

Anlässlich seines 90. Geburtstages vereinigt dieser Band 16 bisher unveröffentlichte Aufsätze und acht Rezensionen des Osteuropahistorikers Peter Hoffmann zur Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte sow……続きを見る

From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of reli……続きを見る

Réédition d'un texte aussi introuvable que célèbre, scandaleux pamphlet incrédule pour les uns, texte "évangélique" et proche de la spiritualité de Marguerite de Navarre pour les autres. L'introduct……続きを見る

During a seminal decade (1433–1443), Florence became a crossroads of cultural, political, and ecclesiastical significance, hosting an exiled pope and a desperate Roman emperor while embracing the ri……続きを見る

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, which contain both a highly Latinate description of……続きを見る

"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is bor……続きを見る

Now in its second edition, Britain since 1688 is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British History from 1688 to the present day that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. Chronolo……続きを見る

Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolutio……続きを見る

This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Two essays deal with musical in……続きを見る

Au seizième siècle, le cœur battant du monde connu était un port sur la mer du Nord : Anvers. Éblouissante et bouillonnante, telles Paris au dix-neuvième ou New York au vingtième siècle, son opulenc……続きを見る

The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'. In the studies collected here, Professor North is concerned to examine the ways in which this Baltic region became int……続きを見る

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was one of the luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance and the scholar responsible for the revival of Platonism. The translator and interpreter of the works of both Plat……続きを見る

Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixty-nine years of life, he was a stellar student, a Basilian monk, a Greek Ortho……続きを見る

The story of the trial of visionary philosopher Giordano Bruno. "A nice overview of the conflict between religion and philosophy in the Renaissance." ー Publishers Weekly Giordano Bruno challenged e……続きを見る

The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles engage the day-to-day workings of rural society: li……続きを見る

Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe (1980) examines Western European history during three crucial centuries of transition. He expands the concept of Reformation to cover all the movem……続きを見る

M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century CE. After his retirement, he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in antiquity bec……続きを見る

By any metric, Cicero's works are some of the most widely read in the history of Western thought. Natural Law Republicanism suggests that perhaps his most lasting and significant contribution to phi……続きを見る

Renaissance anatomist Gabrielle Falloppia is best known today for his account of the eponymous fallopian tubes but he made numerous other anatomical discoveries as well, was one of the most famous s……続きを見る