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Summer of Fire and Blood
The German Peasants' War
Av Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
195 kr
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The definitive history of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as thousands of people massed in armed …
Witch Craze
Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
Av Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2006
276 kr
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A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make themFrom the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being …
Martin Luther
Renegade and Prophet
Av Lyndal Roper
E-bok, 2017
79 kr
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This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story …
Witch in the Western Imagination
Av Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2026
298 kr
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In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and …
The Holy Household
Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg
Av Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 1991
1393 kr
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This is a fascinating study of the impact of the Reformation idea of `civic righteousness' on the position of women in Augsburg. Lyndal Roper argues that its development, both as a religious credo and as a social movement, must be understood in terms of gender. Until now the effects of the …
Oedipus and the Devil
Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
Av Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 1994
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
646 kr
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This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity.
The Origins of the English Gentry
Häftad, 2005
502 kr
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The gentry played a central role in medieval England, and this study is a sustained attempt to explore the origins of the gentry and to account for its contours and peculiarities between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century. The book deals with the deep roots of the gentry, but argues …
Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution
The Colchester Plunderers
Häftad, 2005
502 kr
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This is a critical re-evaluation of one of the best known episodes of crowd action in the English Revolution, in which crowds in their thousands invaded and plundered the houses of the landed classes. The so-called Stour Valley riots have become accepted as the paradigm of class hostility, …
The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris
Av Bronislaw Geremek, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek examines the various groups which made up the marginal world - beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, …
Puritanism and Theatre
Av Margot Heinemann, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 1982
804 kr
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The closing of the theatres by Parliament in 1642 is perhaps the best-known fact in the history of English drama. As the Parliamentary Puritans were then in power, it is easy to assume that all opponents of the theatre were Puritans, and that all Puritans were hostile to the drama. The reality was …
Crisis of Feudalism
Av G. Bois, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2009
871 kr
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Guy Bois' study of late medieval Normandy is a work of many dimensions. It should be of particular interest to English readers because of the close historical associations of England with Normandy and because of the natural resemblances between these two countries, separated only by the English …
Small Books and Pleasant Histories
Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England
Av Margaret Spufford, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 1985
720 kr
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Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic and agricultural framework of the life of the English villager in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to his or her social and mental world. Margaret Spufford's interest in literacy, and particularly in the ability to read, …
The Sense of the People
Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785
Av Kathleen Wilson, Lyndal Roper
Inbunden, 1995
1509 kr
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This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of the 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. Pioneering in its focus on provincial towns, its attention to the imperial contexts of urban politics and its use of a rich and diverse …
Lordship, Knighthood and Locality
A Study in English Society, c.1180-1280
Av Peter R. Coss, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2004
921 kr
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This book is a study in the evolution of English society between c. 1180 and c. 1280. The argument proceeds by means of a detailed analysis of the honour and locality of Coventry, concentrating upon the nature of lordship and upon the social and economic fortunes of knights, free tenants and local …
Crowds and History
Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790-1835
Av Mark Harrison, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, urbanisation 'revolutionised' English society as much as industrialisation. Central to this urbanising process, and the civic culture it inspired, was the bringing together of people in large numbers - to celebrate, commemorate, vilify or …
Praise and Paradox
Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature
Av Laura Caroline Stevenson, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2002
636 kr
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Praise and Paradox explores the relationship of language, literary structure, and social ideology in the popular Elizabethan literature that praised merchants, industrialists and craftsmen. Part I defines a canon of 296 popular vernacular works, relates the increasing popularity of tales about …
Desolation of a City
Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
Av Charles Phythian-Adams, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2002
895 kr
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This book is a contribution to both national and local history. Coventry is taken as a richly documented case-study of the crisis which marked the end of the medieval period for many substantial towns. Its demographic and economic decline is followed from the fifteenth century to a dramatic period …
An Island for Itself
Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily
Av Stephan R. Epstein, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2003
921 kr
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This study of late medieval Sicily develops a critique of theories of dependence through trade, and a new interpretation of the late medieval economy. It thus addresses current debates on the origins of modern Italian economic dualism, and on the transition from feudalism to capitalism in early …
Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation
The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500
Häftad, 2002
955 kr
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The introduction of the horse brought many advantages to medieval English farming, particularly as an improvement to ploughing and hauling. But the replacement of oxen by horses was by no means inevitable, as the situation often depended upon a number of factors not immediately obvious to modern …
Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria
Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe
Av Wolfgang Behringer, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2003
603 kr
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This is a major study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. Based on an intensive search through central and local legal records for south-eastern Germany, an area extending well beyond but including present-day Bavaria, the author has compiled a thorough overview of …
After Chartism
Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848-1874
Häftad, 2004
502 kr
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This book charts the course of working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the continental revolutions of 1848 to the fall of Gladstone's Liberal government in 1874. The author traces the genealogy of English radicalism from its roots in Protestant Dissent and the seventeenth-century …
Fair Shares for All
Jacobin Egalitarianism in Practice
Av Jean-Pierre Gross, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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This study explores the egalitarian policies pursued in the provinces during the radical phase of the French Revolution, but moves away from the habit of looking at such issues in terms of the Terror alone. It challenges revisionist readings of Jacobinism that dwell on its totalitarian potential or …
Commoners
Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820
Häftad, 1996
838 kr
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This is one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history to be published in the past generation. Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before …
The Culture of Clothing
Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime
Häftad, 1996
846 kr
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Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of …
The Sense of the People
Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785
Av Kathleen Wilson, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 1998
838 kr
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This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of the 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. Pioneering in its focus on provincial towns, its attention to the imperial contexts of urban politics and its use of a rich and diverse …
Fashioning Adultery
Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740
Av David M. Turner, Lyndal Roper
Inbunden, 2002
1610 kr
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This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources - including sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, trial reports and the records of marital …
The Origins of the English Gentry
Inbunden, 2003
1844 kr
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The gentry played a central role in medieval England, and this study is a sustained attempt to explore the origins of the gentry and to account for its contours and peculiarities between the mid-thirteenth and the mid-fourteenth century. The book deals with the deep roots of the gentry, but argues …
The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886-1922
Av Jonathan Morris, Lyndal Roper
Häftad, 2002
703 kr
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From the mid-1880s a shopkeeper movement developed in Milan, centred around a shopkeeper newspaper, a federation of shopkeeper trade associations, and a shopkeeper bank. In 1904 shopkeeper representatives initiated a sequence of events that led to the fall of the first radical-socialist …
Living I Was Your Plague
Martin Luther's World and Legacy
Av Lyndal Roper
Inbunden, 2021
413 kr
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From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona …
Living I Was Your Plague
Martin Luther''s World and Legacy
Av Lyndal Roper
E-bok, 2021
333 kr
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From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet , new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image Martin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized …
