(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691289335)
A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the worldIn Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on the battlefield by 1440; later in that cent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691272696)
A groundbreaking account of how firearms changed Europe and the worldIn Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on the battlefield by 1440; later in that cent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691266633)
From the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, Gods Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heightsIn 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venices...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691266633)
From the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, Gods Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heightsIn 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venices...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691267715)
How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691267715)
How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China was a rich and sophisticated civilization. Yet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691266220)
How our image of the Renaissances most famous artist is a modern mythLeonardo da Vinci (14521519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in hi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691266220)
How our image of the Renaissances most famous artist is a modern mythLeonardo da Vinci (14521519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in hi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040027530)
This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyse multi-dimensional themes involved in social forma...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040027608)
This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyse multi-dimensional themes involved in social forma...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691246895)
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691246895)
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods...Loe edasi...
Although it is one of the main archaeological sites in Oman, the medieval port of Qalhat, near Sur in Ash-Sharqiyah Governorate, has long remained poorly documented. The extensive research initiated in 2008 by the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Pan Macmillan, ISBN-13: 9781529043464)
A dazzling queer historical fantasy of war and destiny set in an epic alternate China - and sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling She Who Became the Sun. The Song of Achilles meets Mulan in He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan.Magnificen...Loe edasi...
The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of the...Loe edasi...
Durers Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to...Loe edasi...
Raluca (Institute of Archaeology Kogalniceanu, Mihai (Professor of Prehistory Gligor, Andrei (Senior Researcher Soficaru, Susan (Archaeological Consultant Stratton
The third volume of the Homines, Funera, Astra series gathers works presented at the third and fourth editions of the International Symposium on Funerary Archaeology: Death and Fire in Ancient Times (15 18 September 2013), and Time and Cause of Death...Loe edasi...
Durers Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), when he stopped painting altarpieces after arguing with a merchant patron over payment. As an eloquent homage to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000632811)
The book critically analyses questions of gender and sexuality in the medieval religious texts of Bengal. It analyses the emergence of religious cults in patriarchal contexts, the humanization of the goddess figure as a wife and mother who is subject...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000632873)
The book critically analyses questions of gender and sexuality in the medieval religious texts of Bengal. It analyses the emergence of religious cults in patriarchal contexts, the humanization of the goddess figure as a wife and mother who is subject...Loe edasi...
