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  • The Renaissance: A History from Beginning to End

    podle Hourly History ...
    During the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnicity. The experience of maturation was often clumsy and out of step, an evolutionary process that saw the nation's developing at their own pace as they struggled to replace the protection of Rome with their own home-grown strength. What the nations, ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England

    Bodies, Identities, and Power

    podle Soile Ylivuori ...
    Série série Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
    This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Rudolf II

    The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor

    Série Kniha 38 - Renaissance Lives
    Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor offers a fresh perspective on the Habsburg ruler, shedding new light on a reign often coloured by myths of madness. Contrary to popular belief, Rudolf was not a passive recluse but an engaged monarch, navigating the complexities of state affairs with a moderate hand amid turbulent times. By contextualizing his interests in astrology, alchemy and ... Přečtěte si více

    412,29 Kč

  • The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

    Série série Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period.The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation. Seeking to de ... Přečtěte si více

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Série série Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Přečtěte si více

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  • How to be a Tudor

    A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life

    podle Ruth Goodman ...
    TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me?To answer this question, the renowned "method historian" Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did - so you don't have to!She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, ... Přečtěte si více

    237,89 Kč

  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

    At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family’s huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early ... Přečtěte si více

    298,39 Kč

  • Anna, Duchess of Cleves

    The King's 'Beloved Sister'

    podle Heather R. Darsie ...
    Anna was the ‘last woman standing’ of Henry VIII’s wives - and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's ‘Beloved Sister' looks at Anna from a new perspective, as a woman from the Holy Roman Empire and not as a woman living almost by accident in England. Starting with what Anna’s life as a child and young woman was like, the author ... Přečtěte si více

    166,19 Kč

  • The Habsburgs

    The Rise and Fall of a World Power

    podle Martyn Rady ...
    'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium.From modest origins, ... Přečtěte si více

    344,29 Kč

  • Caliban and the Witch

    Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

    podle Silvia Federici ...
    Série série Penguin Modern Classics
    'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hu ... Přečtěte si více

    298,39 Kč

  • A Place of Greater Safety

    podle Hilary Mantel ...
    An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.**Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, ... Přečtěte si více

    227,29 Kč

  • A defence of witchcraft belief

    A sixteenth-century response to Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft

    Upravil: Eric Pudney ...
    This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. Responding to a pre-publication draft of Reginald Scot’s sceptical Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), the treatise represents the most detailed defence of witchcraft belief to be written in the early modern period in England. It ... Přečtěte si více

    449,99 Kč

  • Nobleza, poder y cultura

    El linaje Castellví y el marquesado de Villatorcas

    podle Amparo Felipo Orts ...
    La proliferación de estudios sobre la nobleza afianza la idea de que durante la Época Moderna nuevas familias emprenderán un largo camino con el anhelo de conseguir reconocimiento social mediante la obtención de honores y títulos que así lo exterioricen. Partiendo de este escenario, este libro indaga la trayectoria que permitiría a una de las ramas del linaje de los Castellví pasar, en el ... Přečtěte si více

    429,00 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Fellowship

    The Story of a Revolution

    podle John Gribbin ...
    From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of 'natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new method of thinking based on proof and experiment. John Gribbin's gripping, ... Přečtěte si více

    321,39 Kč

  • The Rape of Europa

    The Intriguing History of Titian's Masterpiece

    'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself.Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following the rise and fall of the countries in which it has been housed. The story ranges from its place at the court of King Philip II ... Přečtěte si více

    359,29 Kč

  • Charles XII, King of Sweden

    In Charles XII, King of Sweden, Carl Gustafson Klingspor brings to life the extraordinary story of one of history’s most enigmatic and fearless monarchs. Published by Perennial Press, this riveting biography captures the triumphs, trials, and unyielding determination of a warrior king who shaped the destiny of a nation.Charles XII ascended the Swedish throne at just fifteen, stepping into a world ... Přečtěte si více

    20,66 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Leggendo il Vasari

    podle W. Muller ...
    Série série Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Conçue pour accompagner sa grande sœur des « Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance », la collection des « Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance » rassemble une grande variété d’études, historiques, philologiques, bibliographiques ou littéraires, et d’éditions de sources (de théologiens réformés, de diplomates, d’historiens humanistes), dont le point commun est d’éclairer un aspect de la vie culturelle ... Přečtěte si více

    429,00 Kč

  • Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

    Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war ... Přečtěte si více

    1 266,09 Kč

  • Voyages and Discoveries

    podle Richard Hakluyt ...
    Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation describes, in the words of the explorers ... Přečtěte si více

    344,29 Kč

  • L'incroyable aventure de Jacques Cartier, explorateur du Canada

    Ilustroval/a Sam TROUILLAS GUILLEM ...
    Jacques Cartier est le premier et le plus célèbre des explorateurs français. Il découvre le Canada, qu'il baptise Nouvelle-FranceLe premier françaisLe capitaine Jacques Cartier est envoyé par le roi de France pour rapporter des richesses de son expédition... mais il va surtout découvrir un nouveau continent et rencontrer pour la première fois les peuples qui y vivent.Au coeur de la RenaissanceLe ... Přečtěte si více

    149,00 Kč

  • The Stuart Age

    England, 1603–1714

    The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been ... Přečtěte si více

    1 568,22 Kč

  • A History of Architectural Conservation

    podle Jukka Jokilehto ...
    The first book to provide a full history of the development of architectural conservation, A History of Architectural Conservation is considered a landmark publication by architectural conservation students and professionals the world over. Twenty years after its first publication, this new edition of Jukka Jokilehto’s groundbreaking book continues the story to bring the history of architectural ... Přečtěte si více

    1 932,33 Kč

  • Global Trade in the Premodern World

    Thematic Approaches to Routes, Realms, and Networks

    Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE.The book tackles questions that are critical to our understanding of premodern globalization. How did global trade in the premodern world take shape? Who ... Přečtěte si více

    1 232,11 Kč

  • Renaissance Medicine

    A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century

    podle Vivian Nutton ...
    This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context.Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases, such as syphilis and the Sweat, and by the development of printing and more ... Přečtěte si více

    1 176,09 Kč