Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Mark Jurdjevic
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavelli's contempt for Florence's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the city's unrealized political potential.
Visualizing Venice
Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project, this book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated by technologies...
Occasions of State
Early Modern European Festivals and the Negotiation of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation’s PALATIUM project. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, a Europe-wide group of early-career and experienced...
Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe
Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This fourth volume in the European Festival Studies, 1450–1700 series breaks with precedent in stemming from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the PALATIUM project supported by the European Science Foundation. The volume draws on up-to-date...
by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Adam Morton
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these...
Storied Ground
Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from...
The Image of Restoration Science
The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Designed by John Evelyn, and etched by Wenceslaus Hollar, it is arguably the best-known representation of seventeenth-century English science. The use of such plates to celebrate...
by Jacob K. Olupona, Oladipo O. Akinkugbe
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The Evolution of Ondo Kingdom:Over 500 years ( 1510-2010 +) is an account of different aspects of the growth and development of the Ondo Kingdom over the past 500 years, commencing with first monarch , a female, called Pupupu, to the current Monarch, Oba Dr. Victor Adesimbo Kiladejo Jilo III with...
The Early Modern Hispanic World
Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown...
Moors Dressed as Moors
Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence.
In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary,...
by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history...
by Tracy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs,...
by Jean-Christian PETITFILS
Language: French
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Qui a guidé le bras de Ravaillac ? Au terme d'une enquête minutieuse, Jean-Christian Petitfils propose une réponse inattendue.
Le 14 mai 1610, le carrosse découvert où Henri IV a pris place quitte le Louvre et roule dans Paris qui s'apprête à fêter le couronnement de la reine Marie...
by Stefano Ulliana
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Questo breve saggio cerca di dimostrare la valenza tendenzialmente rivoluzionaria del movimento protestante, sia dal punto di vista teologico ed ideologico, sia da quello delle conseguenti formazioni politico-civili e/o economico-sociali alle quali ha dato adito e sviluppo. All’interno di questo...