Renaissance category: 1000 books

Ce livre offre une splendide description de l’architecture de Venise avec quelques belles envolées poétiques très bien traduites par Mathilde Crémieux. Un merveilleux guide d’une ville, avec des informations intéressantes et des références de premier ordre. ll n’est pas étonnant que ce livre ait été un ouvrage de référence pendant longtemps.

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603. During this period, the Ottoman Empire moved into a new phase of expansion, emerging in the sixteenth century as a dominant political player on the world scene....

This key Seminar Study was first published as Restoration England: The Reign of Charles II in 1985. Unavailable for several years, the book has now been heavily revised, and expanded, to take account of over ten years of new scholarship. In particular, the Second Edition reflects new work done on...

By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions...

What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to...

Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France’s "Great Century" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablière and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher...

The story of the battle of Turnham Green and how 'the sack of London' was prevented by Londoners. As Charles I's army marched on the capital in the autumn of 1642, Nehemiah Wallington, a wood-turner living near London Bridge, wrote in his journal, 'those cruel cavilers doe so plonder & pillage...

Découvrez ce qui se cache derrière les procès pour sorcellerie...Dans l’imagination populaire, la grande vague hystérique de sorcellerie, de sabbats et de procès terrifiants de cruauté, avec leurs interrogatoires sadiques et l’horrible issue du bucher, est indissociable de l’image d’un...

“The Story of Perugia” presents the fascinating history of the beautiful Italian city, exploring it's architecture, people, traditions, notable events, and more. Highly recommended for those with an interest in Perugia and Italian history in general. Contents include: “The earliest Origins of...

This volume contains the surviving correspondence of Erasmus for the first seven months of 1529. For nearly eight years he had lived happily and productively in Basel. In the winter of 1528-9, however, the Swiss version of the Lutheran Reformation triumphed in the city, destroying the liberal-reformist...

A History of Victoria is a lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria, from the arrival of the first Aboriginal peoples through to the present day. In his inimitable style, Geoffrey Blainey considers Victoria's transformation from rural state to urban society. He speculates...

This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of...

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Azincourt, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Comprender el origen de la guerra de los Cien Años y de las constantes luchas de poder que se instalan...

"Más que en cualquier otro período, la filosofía en el Renacimiento reclama un abordaje interdisciplinario, cosa que se ha tenido en cuenta al acercarnos a sus autores. De todos modos, nos hemos ceñido al campo de las ideas sobre el que confluyen otras perspectivas. Asimismo, hemos tomado...