European history: Renaissance

In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A.

In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution.

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.

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs.

The politics of inclusion is about more than hate, exclusion, and discrimination.

A major new biography of the most infamous king of England.

In this book, historian Maria M.

In 1633 the Roman Inquisition concluded the trial of Galileo Galilei with a condemnation for heresy.

Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, ein künstlerisches Genie der Renaissance, arbeitete im Spannungsfeld zwischen kreativer Freiheit und den ambitionierten Plänen der mächtigsten Mäzene seiner Zeit: den Päpsten.

Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible.

In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past.

Extremism, antisemitism and intolerance are thriving on campus.

At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today.

When Martin Luther nailed 95 criticisms of the Catholic Church to the door of his local church in 1517 he sparked not just a religious Reformation, but an unending cycle of political, social and economic change that continues to this day.

An illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient RomeGiuliano da Sangallo (1443-1516) was one of the first architects to draw the ruins and artifacts of ancient Rome in a systematic way.

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them.

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscapeStarting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion.

A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a half-negro maidservant rides into Florence.

A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZEHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most reviled consort in British history.

Step into the turbulent world of Renaissance Rome, where art, politics, and religion collided under the leadership of one of history's most dynamic pontiffs.

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.

A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century understandings of the world were framed by classical theory.

The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relationships between religion and violence.

Paul A.

1618 entzündete der Prager Fenstersturz einen Konflikt, der Europa in einen dreißigjährigen Albtraum stürzte.

The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (14041472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissancea fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt's mythologizing of Alberti as a Renaissance or Universal Man.

The relationship between religion, intolerance and conflict has been the subject of intense discussion, particularly in the wake of the events of 9-11 and the ongoing threat of terrorism.

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "e;crumbling city"e; populated by "e;broken ruins"e; into a prosperous Christian capital.

Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women.

Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought.

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe.

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

Stefan Hanß diskutiert am Beispiel der Seeschlacht von Lepanto im 16.

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.

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century--and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years.

Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.

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Gampel investigates the anti-Jewish riots in 1391–2 in the lands of Castile and Aragon.

Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified.

A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.

One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome.

Gampel investigates the anti-Jewish riots in 1391–2 in the lands of Castile and Aragon.

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam was a transformative figure of the Renaissance, whose ideas challenged the religious and intellectual boundaries of his time.

In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world.

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote.

Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance.