R.E.C - Renaissance 1

What did it mean to be a Covenanter? From its first subscription in 1638, the National Covenant was an aspect of life that communities across Scotland encountered on a daily basis. However, how cont……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Set in the 1740s, just after the start of the French and Indian wars, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer……続きを見る

Widely acknowledged as the sixteenth century's most significant handbook on leadership, The Book of the Courtier offers an insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance. Set in 150……続きを見る

Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina del luglio 1620 fu quel tragico evento un evento che provocò la strage di centinaia di persone (si stima fra le 300 e le 600) , tutti appartenenti alla minoranza rifor……続きを見る

In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jes……続きを見る

This work offers a detailed reconstruction of the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification (in 1626) and subsequent canonization in 1169 of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena ……続きを見る

George Nafziger translates a classic account of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's revolt in the Hetmanate from 1648 to 1651 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

Periodo di transizione verso il consolidamento delle grandi monarchie europee, che nel secolo successivo si sarebbero disputate l’egemonia nel Continente, il Quattrocento segnò anche la fine del per……続きを見る

Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England. By examining the rich variety of debates about democracy that took place between 1570 and 16……続きを見る

Das Buch präsentiert zwei sehr unterschiedliche Textformate: eine Forschungsarbeit von 1974 zur «Patriotischen Gesellschaft in Bern», die jetzt erstmalig gedruckt vorliegt, und eine vorläufige Dokum……続きを見る

Was können Rechtsvergleich und Rechtsgeschichte leisten? Der Autor beantwortet diese Frage mit Blick auf die Gesetzgebungslehre des deutschen Juristen und Philosophen Christian Thomasius (1655–1728)……続きを見る

Der Autor schildert den Konflikt zwischen den Bürgern und dem in Nürnberg residierenden Friedrich dem Hohenzollern, und Mittendrin steht Bürgermeister Heinrich Topler. Heinrich Toppler war ein Ratsh……続きを見る

This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and……続きを見る

In 1759 the botanist and scientist Vitaliano Donati led an expedition to Egypt under the patronage of King Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia, to acquire Egyptian antiquities for the Museum in Turin. Ch……続きを見る

Originally published in 1969 this book considers the theoretical extent of the royal supremacy in the Elizabethan church and examines how far this supremacy was effective in practice. The first part……続きを見る

This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They we……続きを見る

This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe ……続きを見る

Il Tre-Quattrocento in Italia fu un periodo cruciale sotto tutti gli aspetti: i Comuni si trasformarono in Signorie, creando forme di governo “nazionali” ma non nazionalistiche, che al di là di alcu……続きを見る

From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century Rome In this illustrated account of the sack of Rome as a……続きを見る