European history: Renaissance

"e;Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Ros Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians were murdered.

This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750-1900).

With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy.

Step into the turbulent world of 16th-century Russia with Ivan the Terrible's Journey to Absolute Rule.

Leonardo von Pisa – besser bekannt als Fibonacci – revolutionierte das europäische Verständnis von Mathematik.

In The Genocide Contagion, Israel W.

Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520-87) and Catherine (1542-87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles lettres.

In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold.

Why "e;the Muslim question"e; is really about the West and its own anxieties-not IslamIn the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe.

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety.

Sunni and Shia in Iran, Iraq, or Syria.

Volume XXIV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores relations between Jews and Protestants in modern times.

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety.

Looking at topics across the spectrum of America's wars, religious groups, personalities, and ideas, this volume shows that even in an increasingly secular society, religious roots and values run deep throughout American society and are elevated in times of war.

Explore the incredible work of the Lord in the hearts and lives of women in the Muslim world!

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics.

The 1965 conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, commemorating the four-hundredth anniversary of Galileo Galileis birth, brought together leading scholars to exchange ideas on his multifaceted legacy.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves.

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.

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance.

The beginnings of the state in Europe is a central topic of contemporary historical research.

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds.

Step into the enigmatic world of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose reign marked a unique crossroads between mysticism, art, and emerging scientific thought.

In Shakespeare and the Making of America, Kevin J.

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

Four bastard children of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford vigorously made their way in the world despite their questionable origin, and when all four were retrospectively declared legitimate they were each set on course for advancement.

The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars.

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists?

The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars.

An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.

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

Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance.

How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"e;Grace"e; emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy.

Why "e;the Muslim question"e; is really about the West and its own anxieties-not IslamIn the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe.

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.

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and England's national poet, died.

This volume investigates the context of Western views of Islam and offers an introduction to the historical roots and contemporary anxiety regarding Islam within the Western world.

Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two.

The al-Qaeda Franchise asks why al-Qaeda adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.