The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town, Paperback - Steven Ozment

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...

Reducere. The word "German" was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two th...

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...

Reducere. In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the to...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Teresa LimNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

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

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

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

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

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

The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century - Steven Runciman

A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twent...

The musical and literary works of Luis Milton reveal the performance practices and theoretical conventions of the early 16th century.Publisher: Ind...

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

Reducere. DescriptionCould Things Get Any Weirder in Wells, Maine?Working at her mother's hole-in-the-wall bookstore, Annie's Book Stop, 17-year-old Keegan h...

A valuable sourcebook for costume designers, dressmakers and those involved in historical reenactments, this book contains all the information you ...

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

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

Reducere. Fall through a portal in time with Cheryl Unruh's vignettes. Wrapped in the comfort of childhood's small-town embrace, grow deeper in understanding...

Reducere. Every detail is accurate - because one of the authors is President Bill Clinton.The drama and action never stop - because the other author is James...

Wittlinger takes a fresh look at German national identity in the 21st century and shows that it has undergone considerable changes since unificatio...

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

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

Exploring the changing meanings of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance, this volume examines the blurring of boundaries betwe...

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

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

A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Cen...

The follow-up to Hannah's Story, this recounts the fortunes of Hannah's female descendants into the 20th century and the enduring challenges they f...

Reducere. Join Liberty Porter as she adjusts to life in the White House with the fun-filled Liberty Porter, First Daughter trilogy--now available in a collec...

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year - the rise and fall of the women who ruled sixteenth-century Europe

Publisher: Museum of Fine Art, Budapest / Hungarian National GalleryIllustration(s): 200 col & b/w illsNumber of pages: 440Publication date: 2019Di...