The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, Paperback - Carlo Ginzburg

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

Reducere. Weaving early accounts of witchcraft-trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography-into new and startling patterns, Carlo...

Reducere. Two titles from Hilary McKay's hilarious Charlie series in one volume!

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

More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classi...

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

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

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

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

In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical mo...

From the master of "micro-history", a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkersPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Carlo GinzburgNumber ...

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...

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

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

As champions of deontology and consequentialism respectively, Kant and Sidgwick disagree on many important issues. However, close examination revea...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. A disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late six...

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

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...

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

The Dream of the Cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality th...

Wintroub presents a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French s...

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

Reducere. 917In recent years controversy over the Catholic Church's stance on environmentalism has increased. In order to avoid the errors promoted by some e...

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