European history

The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century.

In 1454 the Sienese painter Francesco di Bartolomeo Alfei faced litigation from the Mercanzia in Siena for defaulting on a contract from one of the leading Franciscan confraternities in the city.

This study traces the history of urbanization in Denmark from c.

Before being declared heretical in 1713, Jansenism was a Catholic movement focused on such central issues as original sin and predestination.

This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages reveals a financing system almost as monumental as the cathedrals themselves.

What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself?

The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred.

This book is the first monographic attempt to follow the environmental changes that took place in the frontier zone of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance.

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence.

In Roman times, the area between the Lower Rhine and the Meuse in the present day province of South Holland in the Netherlands, was known as the administrative district of the community of the Cananefates (the civitas Cananefatium).

The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island's south-west.

The vast transformation of the Roman world at the end of antiquity has been a subject of broad scholarly interest for decades, but until now no book has focused specifically on the Iberian Peninsula in the period as seen through an archaeological lens.

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza.

Before being declared heretical in 1713, Jansenism was a Catholic movement focused on such central issues as original sin and predestination.

Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world.

This book reviews the role of British Foreign Secretaries in the formulation of British policy towards Japan from the re-opening of Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region.

This study traces the history of urbanization in Denmark from c.

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire.

Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic.

These five articles, first presented at the conference 'The Holocaust and other Genocides.

The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures.

Late medieval societies witnessed the emergence of a particular form of socio-legal practice and logic, focused on the law court and its legal process.

Genevra Sforza (ca.

This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations.

In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the 'polder model' often used to describe economic and social policymaking based on consensus is a myth.

Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location to another.

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231).

Although the name Caucasus has been around for some 2000 years, and may suggest unity and coherence, the region these days is best known for the ethnic and religious divides resulting in recurrent bloody conflicts between the various minorities and the post-Soviet independent states.

Transformations of Identity and Society in Anglo-Saxon Essex: A Case Study of an Early Medieval North Atlantic Community presents the results of a comprehensive archaeological study of early medieval Essex (c.

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics.

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics.

This is a translation and new edition of Masaniello.

The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were among the worst years of the Little Ice Age.

Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge.

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned?

The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy.

Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces.

By the end of the fifth century, with the structural collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, Western Europe had fallen into the so-called Dark Ages.

The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history.

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231).

The landscape of the Netherlands has been changing constantly since the end of the last ice age, some 11,700 years ago.

This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy.

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period.

What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian?