This volume is devoted to the spheres in which conflict and rivalries unfolded during the Renaissance and how these social, cultural and geographical settings conditioned the polemics themselves.
Die Disputationes adversus astrologos stellen allein hinsichtlich ihres Umfangs das Hauptwerk des Renaissancephilosophen Giovanni Pico della Mirandola dar.
Die Auffassung, dass gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen maßgeblich durch Krisen geprägt werden und dass die Wiederkehr von Krisen eine konstitutive Dimension von Geschichte ist, ist kennzeichnend für die Selbstwahrnehmung moderner Gesellschaften.
Edgar Wind (1900–1971) was a cosmopolitan scholar who made important contributions to many disciplines, including philosophy, Renaissance art history and modern art criticism.
Edgar Wind (1900–1971) was a cosmopolitan scholar who made important contributions to many disciplines, including philosophy, Renaissance art history and modern art criticism.
Eine meisterhafte Betrachtung Albrecht Dürers und der deutschen RenaissancekunstDie preisgekrönte Kulturhistorikerin Ulinka Rublack erzählt vom entscheidenden Wendepunkt in der Karriere Albrecht Dürers.
'An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper'[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New York TimesA New Yorker Book of the YearDiscover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of ShakespeareIn an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men.
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.
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.
A New Yorker Book of the Year 2024A Ryan Holiday '(Very) Best Book I Read in 2024'Excellent' Ian Samson, TLS'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things down' Guardian'Surprisingly revealing' The Sunday TimesWe see notebooks everywhere we go.
Esta edición de la obra reunida de Américo Castro pretende rendir tributo a la lucidez, honestidad y valentía de una obra ingente que se ha visto relegada al olvido, tras haber sufrido ataques desde diversos frentes.
A revelatory account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus.
This is the third and final volume of essays issuing from the Leverhulme International Network 'Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Europe, c.
From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century RomeIn this illustrated account of the sack of Rome as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, Andre Chastel reveals the historical ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Pope Clement VII and the city after it was looted by the troops of Emperor Charles V in 1527.
From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century RomeIn this illustrated account of the sack of Rome as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, Andre Chastel reveals the historical ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Pope Clement VII and the city after it was looted by the troops of Emperor Charles V in 1527.
How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression?
The twelve essays in this new collection by John Monfasani examine how, in particular cases, Greek emigres, Italian humanists, and Latin scholastics reacted with each other in surprising and important ways.
The twelve essays in this new collection by John Monfasani examine how, in particular cases, Greek emigres, Italian humanists, and Latin scholastics reacted with each other in surprising and important ways.
