Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World – serie
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Publishing The Prince
History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism
Av Jacob Soll
Häftad, 2008
395 kr
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As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince …
History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning
Häftad, 2019
581 kr
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A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi …
Birth of the Archive
A History of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2018
1160 kr
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The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and …
Information Master
Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System
Av Jacob Soll
Häftad, 2011
395 kr
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"Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of …
History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning
Inbunden, 2007
1515 kr
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A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi …
Printing and Prophecy
Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550
Inbunden, 2011
851 kr
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Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed …
Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess
The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe
Inbunden, 2014
1126 kr
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Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century. While the author “Wilhelm Friess” was a convenient fiction, his text had a long and remarkable history as it moved from the papal …
