Renaissance category: 1000 books

Los ensayos reunidos en este volumen ilustran algunos temas y diversos problemas surgidos del interés del autor por la historia de Europa, especialmente del mundo hispánico, en los siglos XVI y XVII. En su calidad de complemento de los otros libros escritos por John Elliott, estos ensayos...

In his first letter to the church in Corinth, Paul writes, "I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures" (1 Cor 15:3-4...

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards...

FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice...

Selecting a place called Area 51 in Nevada and beneath a shroud of secrecy, the Central Intelligence Agency first flew the U-2, the Angel knowing at the time that the Russians would most likely shoot it down within 18 months. To replace the U-2, the CIA designed America’s first stealth plane, using...

This book is an English translation of the second volume of Laurent Joubert’s 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires. In it, Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek...

A modern English translation of Henry de Sainct-Didier's 1573 fencing training manual. Sainct-Didier taught a style of swordsmanship informed by more than two decades as a soldier on the battlefields of France's Italian Wars. He demonstrates techniques which are straight-forward and direct, without...

The Corporation of the Master in Deeds of Arms of Paris was founded under the auspices of Charles IX in 1567 and, for the next 225 years, it regulated the conduct and teaching of fencing in Paris until its demise in the French Revolution. The Corporation included many of the most celebrated names...

Erasmo, grande umanista del Cinquecento, ricordato e celebrato per l'ironico e godibilissimo Elogio della follia, scrive questo testo nel 1529, che per profondità d'indagine e l'attualità dei principi esposti costituisce un testo di pedagogia di straordinario interesse anche per il lettore contemporaneo. L’educazione...

El imperio español fue una de las más grandes creaciones políticas europeas. Concebido a principios del siglo xvi, perduró trescientos años en la América continental y casi otros setenta en el Caribe y Filipinas. Hugh Thomas, con el estilo que le ha granjeado tantos lectores, emprende un estudio...

FROM THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS TO THE ATTAINMENT OF UNITY   Contents include: ITALY IN THE CENTURY PRECEDING THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS [284-395] THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS [395-476] THE KINGDOM OF THEODORIC [476-553] THE LOMBARDS, THE POPES, AND THE FRANKS [553-800] THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES [800-1002] THE...

Since her early youth at the glittering court of Dresden, Anna had been known as a difficult child and troublemaker.  Servants complained about her violent outbursts, while courtiers bemoaned her general disregard for aristocratic female etiquette.  Upon reaching her teenage years, the princess’...

From the frightful spectacle of poverty, barbarity and ignorance, from the oppression of illiterate masters, and the sufferings of a degraded peasantry, which the annals of England and France present to us, it is delightful to turn to the opulent and enlightened states of Italy, to the vast and magnificent...

Im 18. Jahrhundert beschäftigte sich Friedrich Schiller als Historiker und Dramatiker mit dem Krieg. 1792 veröffentlichte er eine "Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges". Der Dreißigjährige Krieg von 1618 bis 1648 war ein Konflikt um die Hegemonie in Deutschland und Europa und zugleich...