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Sodomy in early modern Europe
Häftad, 2002
382 kr
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This fascinating collection of essays reflects closely the main areas of debate within gay historiography. For the last twenty years scholars have argued over the nature of early modern sodomy, responding in a number of different and contradictory ways. Questions addressed in the book include: was …
Great Favourite
The Duke of Lerma and the Court and Government of Philip III of Spain, 1598–1621
Inbunden, 2007
1156 kr
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Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, Duke of Lerma (1553-1625) is the last major unknown statesman in modern European history. Patrick Williams brings him dramatically to life and challenges the assumptions that historians have made about him and about Spanish history at a time of profound crisis, inviting …
Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2007
1227 kr
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For ordinary people, the impact of the Reformation would have centred around local parish churches, rather than the theological debates of the Reformers. Focusing on the Calvinists, this volume explores how the architecture, appearance and arrangement of places of worship were transformed by new …
Calvinist churches in early modern Europe
Häftad, 2016
371 kr
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For ordinary people, the impact of the Reformation would have centred around local parish churches, rather than the theological debates of the Reformers. Focusing on the Calvinists, this volume explores how the architecture, appearance and arrangement of places of worship were transformed by new …
Religion and superstition in Reformation Europe
Av Helen Parish, William G. Naphy
Häftad, 2003
371 kr
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What, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was ‘superstition’? Where might it be found, and how might it be countered? How was the term used, and how effective a weapon was it in the assault on traditional religion?. The ease with which accusations of 'superstition' slipped into the language …
‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the Construction of Witchcraft
Theology and Popular Belief
Av Hans Broedel
Häftad, 2003
300 kr
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The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking. This, the first …
Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century France
Av Michael Lynn
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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Now available in paperback, Michael R. Lynn's book analyses the popularisation of science in Enlightenment France. He examines the content of popular science, the methods of dissemination, the status of the popularisers and the audience, and the settings for dissemination and appropriation. Lynn …
Princely Power in the Dutch Republic
Patronage and William Frederick of Nassau (1613–64)
Inbunden, 2008
1156 kr
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Based on one of the richest surviving diaries of the Dutch Golden Age, Princely Power in the Dutch Republic recaptures the social world of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). As a Stadholder and relative of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick was among the key players in a fragmented …
Representing the King's Splendour
Communication and Reception of Symbolic Forms of Power in Viceregal Naples
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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Compensating for a general neglect of Iberian civilization in Southern Italy, this book seeks to shed light on the viceregal court of Spanish Naples in the seventeenth century, a time when this European metropolis reached the zenith of its splendour. It looks at the cultural projection of Spain and …
Catholic Communities in Protestant States
Britain and the Netherlands C.1570–1720
Av Benjamin Kaplan, Bob Moore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
832 kr
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This volume compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic. Looking beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional historiography, the contributors focus on the realities of Catholic existence.Thematically organised, the book explores Catholicism as …
English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France
Between the Ancients and the Moderns
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional …
Great Favourite
The Duke of Lerma and the Court and Government of Philip III of Spain, 1598–1621
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, Duke of Lerma (1553-1625) is the last major unknown statesman in modern European history. Patrick Williams brings him dramatically to life and challenges the assumptions that historians have made about him and about Spanish history at a time of profound crisis, inviting …
Jews on Trial
The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598–1638
Inbunden, 2011
1263 kr
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Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition’s history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews’ enclosure in the ghetto.Scholars have in the past tended to …
Absolute Monarchy on the Frontiers
Louis XIV’s Military Occupations of Lorraine and Savoy
Inbunden, 2013
1263 kr
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French territorial ambitions and consequent military activity during the reign of Louis XIV ensured that a number of territories bordering on France were subject to military occupation for strategic reasons from the 1660s onwards. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study presents the …
Ideas of Monarchical Reform
FéNelon, Jacobitism, and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay
Inbunden, 2015
1156 kr
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This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683–1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of the …
Surviving Kinsale
Irish Emigration and Identity Formation in Early Modern Spain, 1601–40
Inbunden, 2015
1263 kr
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In the aftermath of the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 as many as 10,000 Irish emigrated from Ireland to Galicia in the north-west of Spain. Between 1601 and 1608 the brunt of this immigration fell on the city of La Coruña, which became a virtual encampment of starving homeless Irish nobles, soldiers, …
Power and reputation at the court of Louis XIII
The career of Charles D'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578–1621)
Häftad, 2014
386 kr
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This book seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, the controversial favourite of Louis XIII often maligned by historians. Kettering argues that the traditional historical interpretation of Luynes is significantly influenced by the testimony of Richelieu, who …
Daum's Boys
Schools and the Republic of Letters in Early Modern Germany
Av Alan Ross
Inbunden, 2015
1263 kr
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This highly original book is the first in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century German Republic of Letters. Its subject, the polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, is today completely forgotten, yet left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European …
Catholic communities in Protestant states
Britain and the Netherlands c.1570–1720
Av Benjamin Kaplan, Bob Moore m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
371 kr
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Now available in paperback, this volume compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic. Looking beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional historiography, the contributors focus on the realities of Catholic existence.Thematically organised, the …
Jews on Trial
The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598–1638
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in the ghetto.Scholars have in the past tended to …
Fathers, Pastors and Kings
Visions of Episcopacy in Seventeenth-Century France
E-bok, 2010
55 kr
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This book explores how conceptions of episcopacy (government of a church by bishops) shaped the identity of the bishops of France in the wake of the reforming Council of Trent (1545–63). It demonstrates how the episcopate, initially demoralised by the Wars of Religion, developed a powerful ideology …
Anxiety of Sameness in Early Modern Spain
Häftad, 2018
456 kr
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This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile …
‘Malleus Maleficarum‘ and the Construction of Witchcraft
Theology and Popular Belief
Av Hans Broedel
E-bok, 2018
57 kr
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The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking. This, the first …
Witchcraft Narratives in Germany
Rothenburg, 1561–1652
E-bok, 2018
56 kr
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Looks at why witch-trials failed to gain momentum and escalate into 'witch-crazes' in certain parts of early modern Europe. Exames the rich legal records of the German city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a city which experienced a very restrained pattern of witch-trials and just one execution for …
Early Modern War Narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries
Av Raymond Fagel, Leonor Álvarez Francés m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c. 1567–1648) had begun to spread throughout Europe. These stories had very different authors with very different intentions. Over time the plethora of sources and interpretations faded away, leaving us with …
Mary and Philip
The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain
Inbunden, 2020
1224 kr
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The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a series of parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions, correcting the many myths that have grown up around the marriage and explaining the …
Ideas of Monarchical Reform
FéNelon, Jacobitism, and the Political Works of the Chevalier Ramsay
Häftad, 2020
745 kr
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This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683–1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of the …
Feudalism, Venality, and Revolution
Provincial Assemblies in Late-Old Regime France
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when …
Trials of the Self
Murder, Mayhem and the Remaking of the Mind, 1750–1830
Av Elwin Hofman
Inbunden, 2021
291 kr
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This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of the self needs to attend more to its class …
Mary and Philip
The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain
Häftad, 2021
448 kr
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Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husband, King Philip II of Spain, forming a co-monarchy that put England at the heart of early modern Europe. In this book, Alexander Samson presents a bold …
