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Censorship and Cultural Sensibility
The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents,...
Alchemy in Europe
A Guide to Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This comprehensive annotated bibliography, first published in 1990, guides the user helpfully through where to find information on various elements on alchemy when researching. Divided into categories to aid finding the right area of interest, this book forms a unique reference tool.
The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito
Volume 3 (1532-1536)
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Wolfgang Capito (1478–1541), a leading Christian Hebraist and Catholic churchman who converted to Protestantism, was a pivotal figure in the history of the Reformation. After serving as a professor of theology in Basel and adviser to the archbishop of Mainz, he moved to Strasbourg, which became,...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2357 to 2471
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530), at which the first of many attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement of the religious division in Germany came to a rancorous...
Politics under the Later Stuarts
Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The first major study of party conflict in England over the later Stuart period from the reign of Charles II to its culmination under Anne. Tim Harris shows how the party configuration of subsequent British politics emerged in these crucial years. He deals not only with high politics and with the organisation of the new parties, but also with the ideological roots of party strife.
by Philippe Tamizey de Larroque
Language: French
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Un héros ignoré - le soldat La Pierre, d’Unet - Philippe Tamizey de Larroque Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Philippe Tamizey de Larroque : Éditeur, érudit...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established...
German History in Modern Times
Four Lives of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans'...
Slav Outposts in Central European History
The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline...
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)
Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note. He published significant works in natural law and history, but also a very important body of moral essays and epistles. He authored several engaging autobiographies...
Il condottiero
Biografia romanzata su Cesare Borgia
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Dall'autrice di "Principe delle tenebre. Biografia romanzata su Manfredi di Svevia"
Biografia romanzata su Cesare Borgia, duca Valentino. L'uomo dimenticato dalla Storia.
L’AUTRICE
Monica Maria Giovanna Lucrezia Valentini vive a Roma con il marito, il figlio e una...
The Devil in Disguise
Deception, Delusion, and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
The Devil in Disguise illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about. It does so through the fascinating story of one family and their locality:...
Romanticism, History, Historicism
Essays on an Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism’s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the...
Armada 1588
The Spanish Assault on England
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
The defeat of the Spanish Armada is one of the turning points in English history, and it was perhaps the defining episode in the long reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. The running battle along the Channel between the nimble English ships and the lumbering Spanish galleons has...