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Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome
Story of a Dangerous Book
Inbunden, 2017
932 kr
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This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first published in Basel in 1565, was a …
Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany
Civic Duty and the Right of Arms
Av B. Tlusty
Inbunden, 2011
2249 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 …
Bonds of Blood
Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Caroline Dodds Pennock m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
680 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 …
Myths of Renaissance Individualism
Av J. Martin
Häftad, 2004
624 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 …
Accounting for Affection
Mothering and Politics in Early Modern Rome
Inbunden, 2015
1016 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 …
Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
Architecture and Iconography
Av R. Usher
Inbunden, 2012
1204 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 …
Ships on Maps
Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe
Inbunden, 2010
1128 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 …
Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice
The Disease that Came to Stay
Av L. McGough
Inbunden, 2010
568 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, …
Drinking Matters
Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe
Av B. Kümin
Inbunden, 2007
624 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 …
Economy of Obligation
The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
Av C. Muldrew
Inbunden, 1998
2585 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 …
Childhood, Memory and Autobiography in Holland
From the Golden Age to Romanticism
Av R. Dekker
Inbunden, 1999
1080 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 …
Matheus Miller’s Memoir
A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century
Av T. Safley
Inbunden, 2000
1128 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
Av C. Koslofsky
Inbunden, 2000
1128 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 …
Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Av NA NA
Inbunden, 2001
1095 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 …
Myths of Renaissance Individualism
Av J. Martin
Inbunden, 2004
568 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 …
Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750–1850
Inbunden, 1997
1885 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 …
Reformation of the Dead
Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, c.1450-1700
Av C. Koslofsky
Inbunden, 1999
1128 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 …
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800
Av R. Davis
Inbunden, 2003
1800 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, …
Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany
Lindau, 1520-1628
Av J. Wolfart
Inbunden, 2001
1128 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 …
Matheus Miller’s Memoir
A Merchant’s Life in the Seventeenth Century
Av T. Safley
Inbunden, 1999
1163 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 …
Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe
English Convents in France and the Low Countries
Av C. Walker
Inbunden, 2002
1095 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 …
Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Av L. Martin
Inbunden, 2001
1128 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 …
Recreation in the Renaissance
Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c.1425-1675
Av A. Arcangeli
Inbunden, 2003
1352 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 …
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650
Av C. Tait
Inbunden, 2002
1128 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 …
Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy
The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Av G. Alfani
Inbunden, 2013
1240 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
Av P. Mazur
Inbunden, 2013
1128 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 …
Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714
Av Melinda Zook
Inbunden, 2013
568 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 …
Peace and Authority During the French Religious Wars c.1560-1600
Av P. Roberts
Inbunden, 2013
551 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, …
Lead Books of Granada
Av E. Drayson
Inbunden, 2013
551 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 …
Novelist and the Archivist
Fiction and History in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed
Av C. Povolo
Inbunden, 2014
634 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 …
