Cornel Zwierlein: 2 books
Imperial Unknowns
The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication...
The Political Thought of the French League and Rome (1585-1589)
De justa populi gallici ab Henrico tertio defectione and De justa Henrici tertii abdicatione (Jean Boucher, 1589)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Since the nineteenth century, the political thought of the French Catholic League (1585-1595) has been considered to be mere plagiarism of Calvinist monarchomach texts written after the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572). Based on the original manuscript of the most important Leagueist treatise,...