European General category: 8233 books
by Wim Blockmans, Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial...
A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation
Commemorating 500 years of Popes, Protestants, Reformers, Radicals and Other Assorted Irritants
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his ideas to a church door - and the Reformation began. Or maybe it was a little more complicated than that.
Nick Page brings his skills as an unlicensed historian to bear on this key period in European (and world) history in order to uncover everything you...
Egyptian Oedipus
Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2–80), was one of Europe’s most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology, numerology, geology, and music. But Kircher...
Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy
Politics, Religion, and the Power of Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
It is a little known fact that as early as the thirteenth century, Europe's political and religious powers tried to physically mark and distinguish the Jews from the rest of society. During the Renaissance, Italian Jews first had to wear a yellow round badge on their chest, and then later, a yellow...
Erasmus
Life of a humanist
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book presents the history of Erasmus, an European humanist; and his essay against war.
"With Erasmus a new period opens. Two things broadly distinguish him, as a scholar, from the men before and after him. First, he was not only a refined humanist, writing for the fastidious few, and prizing...
On History
Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K....
Spectacular Miracles
Transforming Images in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Winner of the ACE / Mercers' Book Award 2014
Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images: that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep, or produce miraculous cures. Although contrary to widely held assumptions,...
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment
Art, Science, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of...
Invisible City
The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2004
More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the...
by Friedrich Spee
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women accused...
Reading the Middle Ages, Volume I
Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, c.300 to c.1150, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Spanning the period from c.300 to c.1150 and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein's Reading the Middle Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this volume contains...
Reading the Middle Ages
Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Covering over one thousand years of history and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein's Reading the Middle Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition...
Europe's Tragedy
A New History of the Thirty Years War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia...
by Dominik Jesse
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin (Englische Philologie), course: Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: What starts like a jaunty comedy soon turns into a suspense-packed spy film resulting in a trigger-happy...