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  • On Niccolò Machiavelli

    The Bonds of Politics

    podle Gabriele Pedullà ...
    Série série Core Knowledge
    Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence’s free institutions? The father of political realism? A revolutionary populist? A calculating rationalist? A Renaissance humanist? A prophet of Italian unification? A theorist of mixed government? A ... Přečtěte si více

    230,89 Kč

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  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    podle Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Přečtěte si více

    277,79 Kč

  • Machiavelli: Philosophy in an Hour

    podle Paul Strathern ...
    Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Machiavelli in just one hour.Niccolò Machiavelli’s work remains misunderstood – synonymous with wicked scheming and underhand politics – nearly 350 years after his death. His philosophy of statecraft was scientific and highly rational, leaving sentiment, and ultimately morality, to one side. His advice is as relevant to ... Přečtěte si více

    67,01 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Renaissance

    A Very Short Introduction

    podle Jerry Brotton ...
    Série série Very Short Introductions
    More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural ... Přečtěte si více

    171,22 Kč

  • The Prince

    Série série Oxford World's Classics
    Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The ... Přečtěte si více

    85,51 Kč

  • Know Thyself

    Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance

    podle Ingrid Rossellini ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance"Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece, specifically in Delphi, the temple of the god Apollo, who represented the ... Přečtěte si více

    236,49 Kč

  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World that He Made

    podle Philip Bobbitt ...
    The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics - and in particular the politics of power - ever written.In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and original interpreter of modern statecraft, presents a vivid portrait of Machiavelli's Italy and ... Přečtěte si více

    210,39 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe

    Série Kniha 37 - New Approaches to European History
    In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gradual diffusion throughout the rest of Europe. He shows how, despite its elitist origins, ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Between Salt Water and Holy Water

    A History of Southern Italy

    podle Tommaso Astarita ...
    "Lucid, evocative, and richly detailed." —Jay PariniThe history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own due. In this authoritative and wholly engrossing history, distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita "does a masterful job of correcting this error" (Mark Knoblauch, Booklist). From the Normans and Angevins, through Spanish and Bourbon ... Přečtěte si více

    365,69 Kč

  • Before the Normans

    Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

    podle Barbara M. Kreutz ...
    Série série The Middle Ages Series
    Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries ... Přečtěte si více

    863,09 Kč

  • Trent

    What Happened at the Council

    podle John W. O'Malley ...
    Trent, the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order after the Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. This one-volume history, the first in modern times, explores the volatile issues that pushed several Holy Roman emperors, kings and queens of France, five popes, and all of Europe to the brink of disaster. ... Přečtěte si více

    431,29 Kč

  • Social History of Art, Volume 2

    Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque

    podle Arnold Hauser ...
    First published in 1951 Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to ... Přečtěte si více

    851,59 Kč