Politics and 'Politiques' in Sixteenth-Century France: A Conceptual History, Hardcover - Emma Claussen

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word 'politique',...

Reducere. To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwise excu...

Reducere. In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the freque...

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage...

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage...

Reducere. An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Mar...

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices withi...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag n and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades ...

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressAuthor(s): Alessandro ZirNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 16Cover t...

DescriptionThe musica secreta or concerto delle dame of Duke Alfonso II d'Este, an ensemble of virtuoso female musicians that performed behind clos...

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, U.S.Author(s): Frank KoonceNumber of pages: 188Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 303 x 235 x 16Cover type: BookRed...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

This is the most comprehensive history of the Netherlands available in the English language. It surveys Dutch history from the 16th century, when t...

Contributor(s): Author: Carlo GinzburgTranslator: Anne C. TedeschiThe Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth...

Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans within sixteenth-cen...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionPrimarily known for its inspiring history of mass uprisings and revolutions, France was also, in the first years of the 20th century, th...

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteent...

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Ma...

DescriptionPeter Crawford examines the life and career of the fifth-century Roman emperor Zeno and the various problems he faced before and during ...

Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backd...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Emma RothschildIllustration(s): 1 table.Number of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x...

Given that there is no shortage of economic theories while economic problems are growing periodically, Conceptual Economics boldly attempts to init...

Country and destination, nation and idea, France has a rich and complex history that fascinates the world and attracts millions of visitors each ye...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

Reducere. Sepher Raziel--also called Liber Salomonis--is a full grimoire in the Solomonic tradition from a sixteenth century manuscript. It contains seven bo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel HawleyIn May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158, 800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan...

Reducere. If you want to discover the influential and captivating history of France, then read on...France has influenced the course of history in Europe and...

Publisher: Golden Hoard Press LtdIllustration(s): 28 illustrations, 24 tablesNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 185 x 257 x 16Co...

Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619,...

Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unex...

A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competiti...

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, securi...

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself - this volume offers new i...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Noam AndrewsIllustration(s): 70 figuresNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 29Cover...

Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus...

The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity ...

Did the Reformers lack a vision for missions? In Sixteenth-Century Mission, a diverse cast of contributors explores the wide-reaching practice and ...

Reducere. Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or naturism, an activity more commonly referred to as nudism. Because of Fr...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe beloved thoroughfare at the heart of Denver, Sixteenth Street has always been the Mile-High City s Main Street. Sixteenth Street got...

This volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain a...

Reducere. A rich compendium of masterworks from the golden age of printmakingIn the 1500s, the printed image functioned as a tool for storytelling. In additi...