Available in English for the first time, Prosdocimo's Tractatus plane musice (1412) and Tractatus musice speculative (1425) are exemplary texts for understanding the high sophistication of music theory in the early fifteenth century.
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.
The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authorityThe medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority.
A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the presentAfter centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the twentieth century, only to experience a stunning revival in recent decades.
A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions.
The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of the cubic equation.
Khalil Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements.
The Secret Source reveals the actual occult doctrines that gave birth to The Law of Attraction and later inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret.
Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.
Jacob Burckhardts Werk 'Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien' ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung, das die Blütezeit der Renaissance detailliert beleuchtet.
An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violenceThis groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence-historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world.
Edición a cargo de Eduardo Álvarez del Palacio y Ángel Ruiz Pérez de la obra La conservación de la salud del cuerpo y del alma, escrita por el médico humanista y profesor de la Universidad de Salamanca Blas Álvarez Miraval, que vivió a caballo de los siglos XVI y XVII.
This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scientific body.
The Stolen Crown: The True Story of Queen Jane Greyby Charles Frederic HolgraveAmid the swirl of Tudor England's political intrigue, religious strife, and bloody power struggles, stands the tragic figure of Queen Jane Grey England's Nine Days Queen.
Orsino Orsini, ilegítimo, deforme y con un solo ojo, cuya esposa fue seducida por el Papa Alejandro VI, construyó un 'parque de sexo y violencia' para así poder reflejar sobre este su odio (hacia el papa, su infiel esposa y un mundo que se rehúsa a aceptarlo).
Desde la escandalosa Roma del Renacimiento hasta Inocencio X y el asentamiento del Barroco: Conozca la Roma contrarreformista, la vida viciosa que impulso a Lutero, las costumbres licenciosas, el nepotismo pontificio desde los inicios del siglo XVI hasta mediados del XVII, una época marcada por profundos cambios culturales, religiosos y sociales, con grandes pensadores, científicos y artistas.
El libro Breve Historia de Fernando el Católico, de José María Manuel García-Osuna y Rodríguez se une a esta nueva línea histórica que revela en toda su amplitud la epopeya de un rey que con su inteligencia supo ser el padre de un imperio donde nunca se ponía el solEn resumen, nos encontramos con un libro ameno e interesante puesto que, tras una minuciosa labor de investigación y acudiendo a las raíces de la historia, pone a nuestro alcance datos y hechos fehacientes que en no pocas ocasiones son ocultados por los libros de historia Fernando de Trastámara soñó con unir la península bajo una misma corona y una misma religión, soñó con administrar las Indias y soñó con conquistar Tierra Santa para la cristiandad pero el destino se lo impidió.
"El libro cuenta la evolución histórica en lo que se refiere a tácticas y tecnología (armamento) desde la Edad Moderna " toma de Constantinopla por los turcos en 1453 " hasta el 11-S y el derrocamiento de Sadam Hussein en Irak.
