Salvation at Stake. Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, Paperback - Brad S. Gregory

Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comp...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

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From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

Reducere. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing toge...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

DescriptionThis fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect ...

Reducere. In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two...

"Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and c...

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. This included...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

Previous edition: The Italian Wars, 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe, by M. Mallett and Christine Shaw.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Lydia (Northwestern University) BarnettIllustration(s): 11 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of ...

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early mo...

"Expanded, revised and translated edition of Goauter le monde: une histoire culturelle du goaut aa l'aepoque moderne, published in French by PIE Pe...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Gary FergusonIllustration(s): 5 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021D...

In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and trac...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 31 Halftones, black and white; 5 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 514Publication date: 2019D...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Claudia SwanIllustration(s): 85 color illus.Number of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 2...

This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

"A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Basile BaudezIllustration(s): 176 color illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.Publishe...

Reducere. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whe...

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish, English and Scots Catholics across Europe through the early modern period. -- .

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part ...

This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic the...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both c...

Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the ea...

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Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --Histo...

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Reducere. For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such...

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The prehistory of modern passport and identification technologies: the documents, seals, and stamps, that could document and transform their owner'...