Renaissance category: 1000 books
Shakespeare's Big Men
Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Shakespeare’s Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies – Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus – through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology’s theory of the origins of human society explains the social...
Sins of the Fathers
Moral Economies in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety and explores the tensions between competing organizational categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments. Hilaire Kallendorf explores the decline and rise of these organizational categories...
Daum's boys
Schools and the Republic of Letters in early modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The first English language in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject, the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar.
Ireland: 1641
Contexts and reactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general massacre of Protestant settlers, is still evident in Ireland today. Indeed, the 1641 ‘massacres’,...
by Kirsteen M. Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective. It examines the reaction of the covenanted interest to the actions and policies of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, drawing particular attention to links, similarities and differences...
by P. Friedmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Anne Boleyn entered Henry's life just as he was seeking to discard his wife, Catherine of Aragon, for failing to give him a son. Henry courted Anne, but she refused to yield to his advances until he promised her marriage. At that moment, Anne was his. Driven by his love for a woman who refused him...
Layered Landscapes
Early Modern Religious Space Across Faiths and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions of praxis and belief, the...
Practicing the City
Early Modern London on Stage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that trafficked in the contemporary urban scene. But beyond the stage’s representing the everyday activities of the expanding metropolis, its unprecedented urban turn introduced a...
by George Upton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Prince Eugene, the great warrior and statesman, although scion of an Italian family, and by birth a Frenchman, became a thorough German. He appeared at a critical time in the relations between Germany and France, to save his adopted fatherland from destruction, and to illuminate the darkest period...
by Albert Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
It is perhaps a matter rather for regret than for surprise that so few attempts have been made to describe, as a whole, the life and character of Henry VIII. No ruler has left a deeper impress on the history of his country, or done work which has been the subject of more keen and lasting contention....
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.
Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater...
Reading Galileo
Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became...
Paraphrases on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippans, Colossians, and Thessalonians
Paraphrases on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippans, Colossians, and Thessalonians
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
As part of his effort to make the Bible an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, Erasmus composed the Paraphrases. In these series of texts, the Holy Scripture provides the core of a work that is vastly expanded to embrace the reforming "philosophy of Christ"...
by Pierre Chevalier, George Nafziger
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
George Nafziger translates a classic account of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's revolt in the Hetmanate from 1648 to 1651