Trial of Jeanne Catherine. Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva, Paperback - Sarah Beam

This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, incl...

Reducere. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments ...

Reducere. Winner: New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and Seven Sisters Book Awards This full-color illustrated book of poetry chronicles the author's 500-mile so...

Reducere. This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower cl...

The Geneva Conventions Under Assault - Sarah Perrigo, Jim Whitman

Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to th...

'The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome' Mary BeardFor centuries, half the ancient world remained invisible -- unt...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

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...

Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass-whethe...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilizatio...

Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in ...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

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 early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negoti...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

Looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24 -- .

When a white man from a prominent local family in Woodstock was murdered in 1905, authorities quickly identified a local African American man as th...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic hist...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550-1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and ...

A lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo periodPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Frank FeltensNum...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 304Collection: Edinburgh Studies in LawPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 239 x 29Cover ...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors and patrons dealt with the practical and esoteric i...

This book nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship. It argues that domestic trage...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Judith HudsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePubli...

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...

Illustrates the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes -- .

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Galvani and Volta underwent two revolutions. This text is concerned with the revolution in published communications and in its research, aims to sh...

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...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Quantum field theory has undergone extraordinary developments and permeates many branches of modern research such as particle physics, cosmology, c...

Reducere. With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the ...

Reducere. Marriage expert Joe Beam shares a four-step, fail-proof process for falling in love, staying in love, and renewing lost love. The Book of Love This...

Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....