Renaissance category: 1000 books
The Ties That Bind
Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The family is a major area of scholarly research and public debate. Many studies have explored the English family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on husbands and wives, parents and children. The Ties that Bind explores in depth the other key dimension: the place of brothers and...
Appello al Turco
I confini infranti del Rinascimento
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Per molto tempo i poteri pubblici, i singoli individui e le autorità religiose del mondo cristiano fecero di nascosto la cosa innominabile che questo libro riporta alla luce: si appellarono ai turchi per risolvere i loro più disparati problemi personali o politici. Ciò accadde soprattutto nell’Italia...
Leonardo e Machiavelli
Vite incrociate
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Urbino, giugno 1502: il trentatreenne Niccolò Machiavelli è stato inviato dalla Cancelleria fiorentina presso il giovane Cesare Borgia, celebre ormai per la forza, l’insolenza, l’audacia con cui si avvia a diventare il signore dell’Italia centrale, e che potrebbero fare di lui il “principe...
by Giuseppe Caridi
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Asceta e taumaturgo, ma anche ambizioso e determinato a raggiungere il suo obiettivo apostolico, Francesco (1416-1507) si divise tra ferrea disciplina e frequentazione delle più importanti corti europee. Da qui una certa dicotomia riscontrabile nella sua condotta, sempre comunque caratterizzata a...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.
A comparative...
Plural Pasts
Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01) including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural Pasts explores Ottoman literacy practices....
The Americas in the Spanish World Order
The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish...
Reforming the North
The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
The turbulence of the Protestant Reformation marks a turning point in European history, but the Scandinavian contribution to this revolution is not well known outside the Northern world. Reforming the North focuses on twenty-five years (1520–45 AD) of this history, during which Scandinavians terminated...
The Navigation of Feeling
A Framework for the History of Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2001
In The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions, William M. Reddy offers a theory of emotions which both critiques and expands upon recent research in the fields of anthropology and psychology. Exploring the links between emotion and cognition, between culture and emotional expression,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile. His devotion to his country and his people never faltered, nor his determination to give them a glorious place on the European cultural map by his writings. On...
by Helmer J. Helmers, Geert H. Janssen
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurtured some of the period's greatest luminaries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Descartes and Spinoza. Long celebrated for its religious tolerance, artistic...
by Richard Rex
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Abandoning the traditional narrative approach to the subject, Richard Rex presents an analytical account which sets out the logic of Henry VIII's shortlived Reformation. Starting with the fundamental matter of the royal supremacy, Rex goes on to investigate the application of this principle to the...
by Giuseppe Caridi
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Succeduto nel 1416, all’età di 20 anni, al padre Ferdinando I al vertice della Corona d’Aragona, Alfonso V nel 1420 si recò a Napoli su richiesta della regina Giovanna II, che lo adottò e gli assicurò la successione al suo regno. Dopo tre anni, tuttavia, la volubile sovrana revocò l’adozione...
by José Ignacio Ortega Cervigón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Descubra los apasionantes inicios de la Europa moderna a través de la vida del emperador Carlos V, en cuya persona se aunó el cetro imperial alemán y la corona de la Monarquía Hispánica. Un recorrido histórico completo por los principales aspectos políticos, sociales y económicos de esta turbulenta...