Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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Welche Bedeutung besaÃen Herkunft und Religion eines frÃhneuzeitlichen Kaufmanns fÃr seinen Handel? Worin unterschied sich die Tätigkeit eines Han...

The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership.Poggio Bracciolini w...

For the first time during the Early Modern period, ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. Durin...

This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, ...

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi...

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian...

This book is a study of all the known schools in the six counties of the West of England, from the Conquest to the Reformation. Most are described ...

The botanical drawings of the American naturalist William Bartram.

Engaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, E...

Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world traffic in anti-immigrant rhet...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a...

This volume documents the practice of bringing enslaved people to early modern Europe not only as a side effect of overseas colonial regimes but a...

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to particip...

While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well known to the English-reading public, the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remain...

The authors have done an excellent job bringing this last conflictone that is often overlookedto life. And not only that, they have put it into the...

In the 16th century - due to the lack of local higher education institutions - Wittenberg was the most important university for Protestants in Hung...

This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored trea...

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is best known for his natural philosophical and mathematical works. Yet he devoted ample time to the study of ancient chro...

Word of God, words of men. The book presents many aspects of the phenomenon of translation and commentary work of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuania...

During the American War of Independence (177583), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval ...

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the ea...

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' ...

Wie wirkte die Zeit in Mainz bei Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz fort? Nach seinen universitären Studien verbrachte Leibniz mehrere Jahre in Mainz, die i...

Millions of paintings were produced in the Dutch Republic. The works that we know and see in museums today constitute only the tip of the iceberg ...

The Kingdom of Bohemia at the end of the Middle Ages was a country in upheaval, for which the Hussite Revolution (1419-1436) stands in a defining w...

The Henry Bagwell Story is a remarkable tale of survival and achievement against great odds. Henry Bagwell was an enterprising young man from a pro...

'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Lo...

The Dialogues by Portuguese painter and writer Francisco de Holanda give unprecedented insight into the opinions, preoccupations and character of M...

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Western canon. Painter, sculptor, architect, poet, he redefine...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphismthe dominant th...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...