The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, Hardcover - Jeanette Favrot Peterson

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

Reducere. The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about whom ...

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 222 x 284 x 24Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

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

Reducere. Weapons is one of the bestselling books on armament ever published. This definitive guide covers the entire history of weapons, from the earliest, ...

Traces the transmission of Guadalupe as la Virgen de ida y vuelta from Spain to the Americas and back again, analyzing how the Spanish and Mexican ...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Photographer: Craig VarjabedianContribution by: Jeanetta Calhoun MishContribution by: Dennis DitmansonAward-winning photographer Cr...

Featuring a foreword by the late Terry Jones, this is the definitive survey of the twentieth century's overlooked comic greatsPublisher: UnboundAut...

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

Presents seven dramas from the first truly American theatre. Composed in Nahuatl during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of these play...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Ben DetrickNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 183 x 237 x 27Cover type: HardbackIllustrator: Andrew ...

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...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

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

In all its triumphs and innovations, evils and errors, the Reformation left a lasting double legacy--a divided church in need of unity and the poss...

Discover countries, cultures, and traditions in this new series!Every day, all around the world, kids go to school, eat lunch and play games... And...

The Voynich Manuscript is an extensively illustrated codex featuring cosmological and astrological diagrams interwoven with detailed herbal illustr...

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

Reducere. Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southe...

Reducere. This 3rd edition of The Anime Encyclopedia brings the landmark reference work up to date with six additional years of information on Japanese anima...

Reducere. Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagun's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in...

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

Reducere. This compendium is the exhaustive encyclopedia of mystical phenomena. A true treasure that every Catholic man, woman, and child will turn to again ...

Reducere. Four hundred seventy years ago the Anabaptist movement was launched with the inauguration of believer's baptism and the formation of the first cong...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century pe...

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

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

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

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...