European history: Renaissance

Wie weit ging die katholische Kirche, um ihre Macht zu sichern?

Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law argues that true, substantive, and sustainable national security is only possible through respect for the rule of law, human rights, and religious freedom.

The first biography of Henry VIII's court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor ageIn some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figurea gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head and, in one case, a monkey on his shoulder.

In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry.

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Die Verfolgung von Christen hat weltweit ein erschreckendes Ausmaß angenommen - gerade der hoch entwickelte Westen nimmt dies jedoch überwiegend mit Desinteresse zur Kenntnis.

How to meaningfully engage with interfaith questions?

The first biography of Henry VIII's court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor ageIn some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figurea gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head and, in one case, a monkey on his shoulder.

Papst Alexander VII.

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Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology.

Wise Sheep Among the WolvesAll Christian disciples have one thing in common: as they carry the gospel across the ocean and across the street, persecution will become the norm for those who choose to follow Jesus.

The description for this book, Florentine Histories, will be forthcoming.

A regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period.

Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England.

This book offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo''s sculpture and graphic works in his late period.

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt.

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole.

This book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and led to distorted depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Panaceia's Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe.

Seit fast zwei Jahrtausenden thront die Engelsburg über dem Tiber und ist ein Symbol für die wechselvolle Geschichte Roms.

Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think.

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history.

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.

The history of capitalism is not to be explained in mere economic terms.

Miguel da Silva entführt Sie auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Welt von Miguel de Cervantes und seinem unsterblichen Werk, Don Quixote.

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters-these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds.

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion.

Im Jahr 1527 erschütterte ein Ereignis Europa, das sowohl die politische als auch die religiöse Landschaft für immer verändern sollte: Der Sacco di Roma – die brutale Plünderung der Ewigen Stadt durch die Truppen Kaiser Karls V.

John Morton - Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor - bestrode the Wars of the Roses.

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series.

The first biography of Venice's greatest artist since 1877 - a towering work which captures the genius of Titian - and the extraordinary times in which he lived - the apogee of Venice's power and influence.

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology.

A volume about John Penry and his contribution to the growth of Puritanism in England in the Sixteenth Century.

An important new perspective on this critical intellectual and religious community, and on the conflicted nature of religious change at the time.

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.

**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie A masterpiece Extraordinary Daily Telegraph A story of hatred defeated by love Guardian On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black black clothes, black mask rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife.

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