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Bonds of Blood
Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture
AvKenneth A. Loparo,Caroline Dodds Pennockm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
674 kr
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The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative study of the everyday life of the Aztecs.
Myths of Renaissance Individualism
AvJ. Martin
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
618 kr
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The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. Myths of Renaissance Individualism , in short, will interest students not only of history but also of art history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology and religion.
Accounting for Affection
Mothering and Politics in Early Modern Rome
AvC. Castiglione
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 007 kr
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Accounting for Affection examines the multifaceted nature of early modern motherhood by focusing on the ideas and strategies of Roman aristocratic mothers during familial conflict. Illuminating new approaches to the maternal and the familial employed by such women, it demonstrates how interventions gained increasing favor in early modern Rome.
Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
Architecture and Iconography
AvR. Usher
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 194 kr
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This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources.
Ships on Maps
Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe
AvRichard W. Unger
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 119 kr
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Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.
Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice
The Disease that Came to Stay
AvL. McGough
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
563 kr
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A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.
Drinking Matters
Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe
AvB. Kümin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
618 kr
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Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as well as infinite forms of social exchange.
Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany
Civic Duty and the Right of Arms
AvB. Tlusty
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
2 230 kr
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For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was confirmed with blades and guns.
Economy of Obligation
The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
AvC. Muldrew
Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
2 563 kr
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This book is an excellent work of scholarship. It seeks to redefine the early modern English economy by rejecting the concept of capitalism, and instead explores the cultural meaning of credit, resulting from the way in which it was economically structured. It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of exchanges, and that credit in terms of household reputation, was a 'cultural currency' of trust used to transact most business. As the market expanded in the late-sixteenth century such trust became harder to maintain, leading to an explosion of debt litigation, which in turn resulted in social relations being partially redefined in terms of contractual equality.
Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland
From the Golden Age to Romanticism
AvR. Dekker
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
1 071 kr
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Between the 17th and 19th centuries auto-biographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the past alive, and allow us to sketch six intimate portraits. The second part of the book concentrates on the changes. Childhood became more highly valued as a phase of life. Children were taken more seriously. This is shown in chapters on child's play, punishment, wet-nursing and independence. Around 1800, in diaries, parents more openly grieved about the loss of a child, which indicates both a change of literary conventions and changes in the way emotions were felt and expressed. Finally, autobiographers wrote more and differently about their early years, and developed new memory strategies. Autobiographical texts are discussed within a wider cultural setting, using paintings, poetry, pedagogical tracts and novels. This book makes clear how changes in autobiographical style, the concept of childhood and the working of human memory are connected.
Matheus Miller’s Memoir
A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century
AvT. Safley
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
1 119 kr
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This book reconstructs the worldview of a Lutheran merchant from the city of Augsburg in the seventeenth century. Yet, despite its individual focus, the book explores universal institutions of early modern Europe: patriarchy, hierarchy, honor, community, and confession.
Reformation of the Dead
Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, c.1450-1700
AvC. Koslofsky
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
1 119 kr
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Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism. By drawing on anthropological interpretations of death ritual, this study explores the changing relationships between the body, the soul, the living and the dead in the daily life of early modern Germany.
Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
AvNA NA
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
1 086 kr
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This book examines the effects of alcohol on gender relations in traditional Europe, focussing on England, France, and Italy in the late medieval and early modern periods, roughly 1300 to 1700. While alcohol causes physiological changes that are scientifically verifiable, the work of anthropologists reveals that much of what passes for drinking behavior and drunken comportment varies from one society to the next. In traditional Europe, as in modern Western societies, drinking led to increased sexual activity for both men and women, and it inclined men to commit acts of violence. Despite male fears of female sexuality and despite patriarchal restraints, women still consumed alcoholic beverages, sometimes in gargantuan amounts. This widespread consumption of wine, ale, or beer illustrates the importance of alcohol in traditional Europe. Alcohol was the ubiquitous social lubricant, and alcoholic beverages formed an important part of most people's diets.
Myths of Renaissance Individualism
AvJ. Martin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
563 kr
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The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he stresses the layered qualities of the Renaissance self and the salient role of interiority and notions of inwardness in the shaping of identity. Myths of Renaissance Individualism , in short, will interest students not only of history but also of art history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology and religion.
Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750–1850
AvNiall O Ciosáin
Inbunden, Engelska, 1997
1 869 kr
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This highly acclaimed book is being published for the first time in paperback. The author studies the cheap printed literature which was read in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland and the cultures of its audience. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to a little-known topic, pursuing comparisons with other regions such as Brittany and Scotland. By addressing questions such as the language shift and the unique social configuration of Ireland in this period, it adds a new dimension to the growing body of studies of popular culture in Europe.
Reformation of the Dead
Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, c.1450-1700
AvC. Koslofsky
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
1 119 kr
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Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism. The Protestant Reformation transformed the funeral more profoundly than any other ritual of the traditional church. Luther's doctrine of salvation 'by faith alone' made the foundation of the traditional funeral, intercession for the dead in Purgatory, obsolete. By drawing on anthropological interpretations of death ritual, this study explores the changing relationships between the body, the soul, the living and the dead in the daily life of early modern Germany.
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800
AvR. Davis
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
1 785 kr
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This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.
Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany
Lindau, 1520-1628
AvJ. Wolfart
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
1 119 kr
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The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture. Investigations range from interpersonal relations to dynamics of civic church and imperial government. Chronicled throughout are the interactions of two opposing principles in modern society 'secular' vs 'spiritual' and 'public' vs 'private'. These are found to operate both discursively and institutionally, and are deployed to help establish 'sovereign authority' ( Obrigkeit ), as well as to articulate resistance in the form of 'bourgeois republican ideology'.
Matheus Miller’s Memoir
A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century
AvT. Safley
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
1 153 kr
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This book reconstructs the worldview of a Lutheran merchant from the city of Augsburg in the seventeenth century. Miller's is a singular story. Though he lived through some of the great events of his age, he scarcely mentioned them. Though he was raised in the standard values of his age, he understood and applied them idiosyncratically. This is the story of one man's experience and perception based on his memoir and associated documents. Yet, despite its individual focus, the book explores universal institutions of early modern Europe: patriarchy, hierarchy, honor, community, and confession.
Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe
English Convents in France and the Low Countries
AvC. Walker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2002
1 086 kr
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This timely study analyses the seventeenth-century revival of monasticism by English women who founded convents in France and the Low Countries. Examining the nuns' membership of both the English Catholic community and the continental Catholic Church, it argues that despite strict monastic enclosure and exile, they nevertheless engaged actively in the spiritual and political controversies of their day. The book will add much to our understanding of women's power in early modern Europe, and offer an insight into a previously ignored section of English society.
Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
AvL. Martin
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
1 119 kr
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This book examines drinking and attitudes to alcohol consumption in late medieval and early modern England, France, and Italy, especially as they related to sexual and violent behavior and to gender relations. According to widespread beliefs, the consumption of alcohol led to increased sexual activity among both men and women, and it also led to disorderly conduct among women and violent conduct among men. Dr Lynn shows how alcohol was a fundamental part of the diets of most people, including women, resulting in daily drinking of large amounts of ale, beer, or wine. This study offers an intimate insight into both the altered states induced by alcohol, and, by opposition, into normal relations in family, community, and society.
Recreation in the Renaissance
Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c.1425-1675
AvA. Arcangeli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
1 341 kr
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In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. The book explores the vocabulary of play and games; the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; the medical discourse on the preservation of health, where amusements were assessed as physical exercise; the moral approach to play; legal treatises on gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650
AvC. Tait
Inbunden, Engelska, 2002
1 119 kr
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This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. It deals with the process of dying, the conduct of funerals, the arrangement of burials, the private and public commemoration of the dead, and ideas about the afterlife. It further considers ways in which the living fashioned ceremonies of death and the reputations of the dead to support their own ends. It will be of interest to those concerned with Irish history and death studies generally.
Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy
The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse
AvG. Alfani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 230 kr
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Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death.
New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671
A Fragile Elite
AvP. Mazur
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 119 kr
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This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews.
Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714
AvMelinda Zook
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
563 kr
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This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the survival of the Protestant religion both at home and abroad.
Peace and Authority During the French Religious Wars c.1560-1600
AvP. Roberts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
547 kr
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Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of Nantes of 1598. Drawing on extensive research, it provides a new perspective on the political, religious, social and cultural history of the conflict.
Lead Books of Granada
AvE. Drayson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
547 kr
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Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain. This book evaluates the cultural status and importance of these polyvalent, ambiguous artefacts which embody many of the dualities and paradoxes inherent in the racial and religious dilemmas of Early Modern Spain. Using the words of key individuals, and set against the background of conflict between Spanish Christians and Moriscos in the late fifteen-hundreds, The Lead Books of Granada tells a story of resilient resistance and creative ingenuity in the face of impossibly powerful negative forces, a resistance embodied by a small group of courageous, idealistic men who lived a double life in Granada just before the expulsion of the Moriscos.
Novelist and the Archivist
Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed
AvC. Povolo
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
628 kr
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In the 19th century, Alessandro Manzoni dedicated himself to writing the novel I promessi sposi that encouraged the Italian Risorgimento. This book traces how the renowned novelist was inspired by an event that occurred at the beginning of the 17th century, which he came to know about thanks to the secret collaboration of a Venetian archivist.
Infertility in Early Modern England
AvDaphna Oren-Magidor
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 341 kr
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This book explores the experiences of people who struggled with fertility problems in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Motherhood was central to early modern women’s identity and was even seen as their path to salvation. To a lesser extent, fatherhood played an important role in constructing proper masculinity. When childbearing failed this was seen not only as a medical problem but as a personal emotional crisis. Infertility in Early Modern England highlights the experiences of early modern infertile couples: their desire for children, the social stigmas they faced, and the ways that social structures and religious beliefs gave meaning to infertility. It also describes the methods of treating fertility problems, from home-remedies to water cures. Offering a multi-faceted view, the book demonstrates the centrality of religion to every aspect of early modern infertility, from understanding to treatment. It also highlights the ways in which infertility unsettled the social order by placing into question the gendered categories of femininity and masculinity.

Early Modern History: Society and Culture – serie

Bonds of Blood

Myths of Renaissance Individualism

Accounting for Affection

Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760

Ships on Maps

Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice

Drinking Matters

Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany

Economy of Obligation

Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland

Matheus Miller’s Memoir

Reformation of the Dead

Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Myths of Renaissance Individualism

Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750–1850

Reformation of the Dead

Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters

Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany

Matheus Miller’s Memoir

Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe

Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Recreation in the Renaissance

Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650

Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy

New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671

Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714

Peace and Authority During the French Religious Wars c.1560-1600

Lead Books of Granada

Novelist and the Archivist

Infertility in Early Modern England