European history: Renaissance

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

In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism.

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

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

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom.

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

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

How cultural categories shaped--and were shaped by--new ideas about controlling nature Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, "e;books of secrets"e; offered medieval readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world.

"e;Pomp, pageantry and epic showing-off: a vivid re-creation of the 1520 peace-promoting rally between the kings of England and France.

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

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

During the Renaissance period, artists and scientists were considered as the highest individuals in society.

Pretty tails belong to the most magnificent sea creatures!

How you live today is very different from how a Renaissance child lived.

This book must be one of the best references in the science's invention department of the renaissance.

An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence.

La incomparable Isabel la Católica trata de forma sintética y precisa todas las cuestiones que rodearon la fundación de la España católica en el Siglo de Oro por Isabel y Fernando, abordando con fuerza y claridad temas «espinosos».

La incomparable Isabel la Católica trata de forma sintética y precisa todas las cuestiones que rodearon la fundación de la España católica en el Siglo de Oro por Isabel y Fernando, abordando con fuerza y claridad temas «espinosos».

A fresh and vivid account of the unexplored relationship between two of England's best-known queens - from the bestselling author of The Stolen Crown and The House of Boleyn'This joint biography of these two queens reads as good as any ripping yarn and is well worth five stars.

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume.

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume.

Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423.

Nicholas of Cusa is known as one of the most original philosophers of the 15th century, but by training he was a canon lawyer who received his degree from the University of Padua in 1423.

Providing the first in-depth examination of Pope Pius II's development of the concept of Europe and what it meant to be 'European', From Christians to Europeans charts his life and work from his early years as a secretary in Northern Europe to his papacy.

Providing the first in-depth examination of Pope Pius II's development of the concept of Europe and what it meant to be 'European', From Christians to Europeans charts his life and work from his early years as a secretary in Northern Europe to his papacy.

'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here'GUARDIAN'A fast-moving train of a book'NEW YORK TIMES'Gripping'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Funny, startling .

Children of the House of Cleves describes and analyses the lives of Sybylla, Anna, Wilhelm and Amalia, the children of Johann III, Duke of Cleves.

Finally, a political economist with the lived experience and academic background necessary to explain Pope Francis's disdain for today's rightwing ideologies of populism, nationalism, authoritarianism, and unrestrained capitalism, as expressed in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti.

This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought.

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua.

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.

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.

What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection?

Aristotle in Coimbra is the first book to cover the history of both the College of Arts in Coimbra and its most remarkable cultural product, the Cursus Conimbricensis, examining early Jesuit pedagogy as performed in one of the most important colleges run by the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century.

A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions.

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

The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of a formula for the solution of the cubic equation.

Religion and politics during the Renaissance period could be complex topics for young learners to digest, don't you think?

Leonardo Da Vinci was a great man with many achievements.

The renaissance period is long gone but its influence can still be felt up until the present times.

The renaissance period has so much to share and to teach today's young children.

Everything you see and experience these days started from small beginnings.

Jacob Burckhardts Werk 'Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien' ist ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung, das die Blütezeit der Renaissance detailliert beleuchtet.

In Stendhals Werk 'Die Brüder Massimi und andere Geschichten aus italienischen Chroniken' taucht der Leser tief in die Atmosphäre des 19.

Victor Hugo's historischer Roman 'Lucretia Borgia' ist eine faszinierende Erzählung über die berüchtigte Renaissance-Figur Lucretia Borgia.