Renaissance category: 1000 books
Milton's Italy
Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate...
Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean
The Lure of the Other
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and...
by Steven Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign play in the long-term transformation...
Reformation without end
Religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Reformation without end radically reinterprets the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they lived during ‘the Enlightenment’. Instead, they thought that they still faced the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began...
Knights in Arms
Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions...
Permanent Revolution
The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
How did the English Reformation, with its illiberal, intolerant beginnings, lay the groundwork for the Enlightenment—free will, liberty of conscience, religious toleration, constitutionalism, and all the rest? In his provocative rewriting of the history of liberalism, James Simpson uncovers its unexpected debt to Protestant evangelicalism.
North/South
The Great European Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The division of European society and culture along a North/South axis was one of the most decisive and enduring developments in the modern world. In North/South, which completes a trilogy of works devoted to the study of the mind and body of Europe, Ricardo J. Quinones examines the momentous early...
Ideas of monarchical reform
Fénelon, Jacobitism, and the political works of the Chevalier Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683–1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of the political...
Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
What did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul's discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the “Christian...
From Natural History to the History of Nature
Readings from Buffon and His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
This scholarly and conscientious book makes an important . . . contribution to the study and interpretation of Buffon, and so, too, to the Enlightenment generally. What Lyon and Sloan have done is present English texts under four headings, so that we have successively: a selection from Buffon's writings...
The Cooke sisters
Education, piety and politics in early modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters’ own writings,...
Bridging Traditions
Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Bridging Traditions explores the connections between apparently different zones of comprehension and experience—magic and experiment, alchemy and mechanics, practical mathematics and geometrical mysticism, things earthy and heavenly, and especially science and medicine—by focusing on points of intersection...
by Prosper Mérimée
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2014
MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE, Malgré l’intervalle de temps assez considérable qui s’est écoulé depuis que la Commission a eu l’honneur de vous présenter un aperçu général de ses travaux, elle ne peut vous signaler aujourd’hui...
Sabaudian Studies
Political Culture, Dynasty, and Territory (14001700)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This collection of interdisciplinary essays introduce the history and culture of the lands ruled by the sovereign house of Savoy during the late medieval and early modern periods, territories now part of France, Italy, and Switzerland. Because the Sabaudian realms were geographically, linguistically,...