The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe. Calvin's Reformation Poetics, Paperback - ***

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

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 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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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...

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...

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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...

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

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...

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:...

This history of Europe begins with the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the gradual unifying of Europe's Medieval-era powers, and concludes with...

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...

"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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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

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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...

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

Drawing on a wide range of archives, from Lisbon to Vienna to Berlin, this detailed comparative study shows how recorded political knowledge was un...

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

Endorsed for Edexcel, Revolutions in early modern and modern Europe covers Paper 1 and both Paper 2 options for Route C of the Edexcel AS and A lev...

Reducere. Written between 1824 and 1827 by an English Protestant, "A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland" has been reprinted many ti...

DescriptionReprint of the 1824 work by William Cobbett.

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

DescriptionIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purp...

Reducere. The liturgical year is a relatively modern invention. The term itself only came into use in the late sixteenth century. In antiquity, Christians di...

The English Exorcist presents an intellectual history of John Darrell, a controversial Puritan exorcist in the early modern period. It illustrates ...

DescriptionDrawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: European History: A Captiv...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Andrew (Newcastle University, UK) ShailIllustration(s): 99 bw illusNumber of pages: 424Publication d...