Sari: Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442763)
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The stu...Loe edasi...
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe Renaissance is famous as a period of intellectual and cultural flourishing associated with the...Loe edasi...
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe Renaissance is famous as a period of intellectual and cultural flourishing associated with the...Loe edasi...
A social history of the fifteenth-century German painters influence. Emigrating from southern Germany in the late fifteenth century, painter Hans Memling sought success in the vibrant commercial hub of Bruges. He found an audience, not among the nob...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040339121)
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040339138)
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated...Loe edasi...
A fully illustrated account of the Vicksburg Campaign, including modern color photography and covering the river war, inland battles, seige operations, and more.The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg,...Loe edasi...
A fully illustrated account of the Vicksburg Campaign, including modern color photography and covering the river war, inland battles, seige operations, and more.The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674299641)
A sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a half of intertribal conflicts and colonial expansion that threatened their way of life.For more than 150 years between their first encounters with the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040329481)
Originally published in 1931 and as a fifth edition in 1952, this book became a classic survey of European history which focusses on the pan-European features and tendencies of the Middle Ages. The book also looks beyond Europe at the history of Isla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040336427)
First published in 1981, Europe and the Decline of Spain deals with the slow ebbing of Spanish power, its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar during the long seventeenth century of pre-industrial Europe. The author looks at the fortunes of Spanish...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040329504)
Originally published in 1931 and as a fifth edition in 1952, this book became a classic survey of European history which focusses on the pan-European features and tendencies of the Middle Ages. The book also looks beyond Europe at the history of Isla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040336496)
First published in 1981, Europe and the Decline of Spain deals with the slow ebbing of Spanish power, its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar during the long seventeenth century of pre-industrial Europe. The author looks at the fortunes of Spanish...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040333990)
Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west. The book begins with an analysis of the scientific knowled...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040333976)
Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west. The book begins with an analysis of the scientific knowled...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive and fully illustrated account of the Shiloh Campaign, with over a hundred photographs and detailed maps.After taking Forts Henry and Donelson, the Union army prepared to try and take the vital rail hub of Corinth, Mississippi. To faci...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive and fully illustrated account of the Shiloh Campaign, with over a hundred photographs and detailed maps.After taking Forts Henry and Donelson, the Union army prepared to try and take the vital rail hub of Corinth, Mississippi. To faci...Loe edasi...
A reinterpretation of the Habsburgian rulers reign as exemplary rather than reclusive. Rudolf II offers a fresh perspective on the Habsburg ruler, shedding new light on a reign often colored by myths of madness. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann argues that,...Loe edasi...
Fabrizio Baldassarri, Dario Brancato, Iolanda Ventura, Luca Ciancio, Maria M. Carrion, Violeta Ruiz Espigares, Anna Lillie1 Svensson
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048555963)
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline. Its scope expands beyond the natural historical interest in collections...Loe edasi...
Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire . . . History at its most gripping Daily Telegraph on The Lion HouseA ground-breaking, present-tense reconstruction of the life and world of one of the most consequential figures in world history, Suleyman the Magni...Loe edasi...
