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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

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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

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  • The Republic of Venice

    De magistratibus et republica Venetorum

    Série série Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic.In its ... Přečtěte si více

    449,99 Kč

  • Women in the Ottoman Empire

    A Social and Political History

    podle Suraiya Faroqhi ...
    It is an often ignored but fundamental fact that in the Ottoman world, as in most empires, there were 'first-class' and 'second class' subjects. Among the townspeople, peasants and nomads subject to the sultans, who might be Muslims or non-Muslims, adult Muslim males were first-class subjects and all others, including Muslim boys and women, were of the second class. As for the female members of ... Přečtěte si více

    552,09 Kč

  • A History of the Muslim World to 1750

    The Making of a Civilization

    podle Vernon O. Egger ...
    A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the ... Přečtěte si více

    2 156,40 Kč

  • Courtly Mediators

    Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World

    podle Leah R. Clark ...
    In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, ... Přečtěte si více

    2 343,99 Kč

  • Middleton & Rowley

    Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse

    podle David Nicol ...
    Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work.This first full-length study of Middleton and Rowley uses their plays to propose a new model for the study of ... Přečtěte si více

    675,29 Kč

  • «Di qua» e «di là da’ monti». Sguardi italiani sulla Francia e sui francesi tra XV e XVI secolo

    podle Igor Melani ...
    In una «cultura senza Stato», quella della penisola italiana agli albori dell'Età moderna, la Francia rappresenta un'incombente presenza, giocandovi un ruolo non soltanto politico e militare, ma anche culturale. Quest'opera cerca di ricostruire, attraverso un approccio il più possibile multiforme e multidisciplinare, tale 'entità' dai molteplici significati, indagando le forme, i modi e i tempi ... Přečtěte si více

    826,27 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge History of China: Volume 5, Sung China, 960–1279 AD, Part 2

    Série Kniha 2 - The Cambridge History of China
    This is the second of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty, which together provide a comprehensive history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. With contributions from leading historians in the field, Volume 5, Part Two paints a complex portrait of a dynasty beset by problems and contradictions, but one which, despite its military and ... Přečtěte si více

    718,59 Kč

  • Vor oprindelse

    podle Johannes V. Jensen ...
    "Vor oprindelse" er intet mindre end et værk om menneskehedens historie. Bogen er en del af Johannes V. Jensens serie om evolution, som han arbejdede på i perioden 1923 og frem til sin død i 1950. Fra urmennesket og huleboeren til agerdyrkelsen og bonden med ploven skildres menneskets og samfundets udvikling gennem de historiens faser og teknologiske stadier. Gennem arkæologiske studier, gamle ... Přečtěte si více

    240,69 Kč

  • L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux (1555)

    Fac-similé de l’édition de 1555

    Série série Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Depuis les années vingt, on n'a plus guère parlé de Pierre Belon, comme s'il fallait se satisfaire de l'image que nous a laissée l'histoire des sciences du siècle passé, portrait lisse, incorruptible, figé dans le panthéon des précurseurs. Belon passait alors sans transition du statut d'escroc, de plagiaire et d'illettré (chacun sait la virulence des critiques que lui adressèrent ses contemporains ... Přečtěte si více

    899,00 Kč

  • Understanding Architecture

    Its Elements, History, and Meaning

    The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.Significant features of the fourth edition include:Expanded global essays outlining the encounters and ... Přečtěte si více

    2 576,53 Kč

  • The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830

    The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 looks at the historical connections between four continents – Africa, Europe, North America and South America – through the lens of Atlantic history. It shows how the Atlantic has been more than just an ocean: it has been an important site of circulation and transmission, allowing exchanges and interchanges which have profoundly shaped the development of ... Přečtěte si více

    691,99 Kč

  • The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone

    History, Archaeology and Conservation

    podle Warwick Rodwell ...
    Constructed in 1297−1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, following his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to which a copious ... Přečtěte si více

    343,79 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Christopher Columbus. En levnedstegning

    podle P. Horn ...
    "Amerikas opdagelse er en af de begivenheder, der har haft størst verdenshistorisk betydning. Det er derfor naturligt, at dets opdagers historie har været genstand for stor interesse lige fra hans egen tid af. Columbus’ søn Fernando skrev en biografi af sin fader; også tre andre af hans samtidige: Peter Martyr, las Casas og Oviedo skildrede Columbus’ liv."Skønt der meget tidligt blev skrevet ... Přečtěte si více

    210,19 Kč