European history: Renaissance

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

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations.

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.

Jean-François Séguier (1703–1784), antiquaire et botaniste qui partagea sa vie entre Nîmes et Vérone, a laissé derrière lui une masse considérable de papiers.

When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant.

Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 1603-60, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state.

The sensational true story of Kenyan missionary John Kaiser: A murdered priest.

As a result of a 20-year international military campaign, Afghanistan has been at the centre of global academic and policy debates on intervention and statebuilding.

Obwohl in den meisten Religionen Frieden als anzustrebendes Ziel gilt, wurden Religionen immer wieder zur Legitimation von Gewalt genutzt.

Erasmus von Rotterdam zählt zu den bedeutendsten Denkern seiner Zeit und prägte wie kaum ein anderer das geistige Klima der Renaissance.

The first multivolume encyclopedia to document the history of one of the most influential religious movements of the Middle Ages-the Crusades.

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.

La Germanía de Valencia (1519-1522), el conflicto sociopolítico más relevante de la historia valenciana, es analizado desde el campo temático de las revueltas y revoluciones medievales y modernas centrando la mirada en un momento particular de esta: la dramática etapa originada a partir de su radicalización.

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.

A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding.

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined.

"e;The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences.

Venice's reputation for political stability and a strong, balanced republican government holds a prominent place in European political theory.

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust.

Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject.

Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) gelang das einzigartige Kunststück, vom einfachen Landedelmann zum allmächtigen Lord Protector aufzusteigen.

The first in-depth examination of the texts produced in English Benedictine convents between 1600 and 1800 After Catholicism became illegal in England during the sixteenth century, Englishwomen established more than twenty convents on the Continent that attracted thousands of nuns and served as vital centers of Catholic piety until the French Revolution.

Opening with a look at a Cambridge play satirising Shakespeare in his own time, we follow Cambridge's part in Shakespeare appreciation through the centuries.

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.

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

Der Band präsentiert die aktuellen Forschungsergebnisse einer Sozietät an der Theologischen Fakultät Jena im Sommer 2005 zu Walter Grundmann, dessen Wirken bisher vorwiegend mit Blick auf seine führende Rolle im sog.

Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution.

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c.

The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of her wartime poetry.

Diese Schrift des deutschen Reformators Andreas Osiander ist einer der wenigen Texte seiner Zeit, der die Juden gegen die ungerechtfertigten Anklagen verteidigt, denen sie seit dem Mittelalter ausgesetzt waren.

In der Reformationszeit spielt die Auseinandersetzung über den Zins und den Wucher eine bedeutsame Rolle.

This standout survivors account will move and inform even those well versed in the inhumanity of the Shoah.

Anne Boleyn's unconventional beauty inspired poets - and she so entranced Henry VIII with her wit, allure and style that he was prepared to set aside his wife of over twenty years and risk his immortal soul.