The last days of the renaissance

and the march to modernity

A leading Renaissance scholar examines what brought one of history's most fascinating eras to its end and gave rise to the modern era There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more ...

A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance

The idea of the Renaissance as a period of European cultural triumph in which great men flourished has been largely demolished in the last fifty years. This provocative volume brings together some of the most exciting scholars who led this attack, to suggest different ways ...

La postérité répond à Pétrarque

sept siècle de fortune pétrarquienne en France

« Depuis une quinzaine d#années, on assiste, notamment en France, à un bouillonnement autour de l##uvre méconnue de Pétrarque, principalement néo-latine, celle sur laquelle le poète avait misé son passage à la Postérité et qui en fait était tombée en déshérence. Les éditions avec ...

Cosimo I de' Medici and his self-representation in Florentine Art and culture

from Lofty Ruler to Citizen Prince

In this study, Henk Th. van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images during the course of his rule. Traditionally, Cosimo is seen to be posing as a republican prince in the images made of him during the early years of his ...

1506. Crónicas europeas

de cómo un viajero conoce a Juana la Loca, Maquiavelo, Miguel Ángel, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmo, El Bosco...

Vandenzabel hace un viaje por la Europa de 1506. El viejo continente se encuentra en un momento de transición entre la cultura de caballerías y el Renacimiento. Monarcas, pintores, filósofos y papas viven a la sombra del Juicio Final y del Nuevo Hombre.

Creating East and West

Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman turks

As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks; epic ...

Bajo el signo de Circe

ensayos sobre el humanismo cívico del Renacimiento italiano e imaginario político de Nicolás Maquiavelo

Esta obra es un trabajo sobre ese imaginario que, cargado de mito y utopía, de realidad y de ensueño habla de los dos sentidos humanos que hacen caminar y cambiar la historia. A partir de allí, Jorge Velázquez, nos muestra cómo se descubre el juego ...

The worlds of renaissance melancholy

Robert Burton in context

Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and ...

Cicerón y la cultura artística del Renacimiento

Contiene ilustraciones. Este libro trata, en definitiva, de la historia de las ideas, su difusión y migración a contextos culturales distintos, aplicada a ciertos conceptos artísticos.

The formation of clerical and confessional identities in early modern Europe

The 24 essays in this volume explore the formation of clerical and confessional identities in early modern Europe from three angles. The first part of the book focuses on education and theological training, the second on the interpretation of Scripture and preaching, and the third ...

From Cranmer to Sancroft

Patrick Collinson is the leading historian of English religion in the years after the Reformation. The topics covered by this collection of essays ranges from Thomas Cranmer, who was burnt at the stake after repeated recantations in 1556, to William Sancroft, the only other post- ...

A companion to the reformation world

This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history. The articles examine the Reformation in its broadest definition, presenting the Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation. The essays span ...

Esclavos y cautivos

conflicto entre la cristiandad y el islam en el siglo XVIII

El libro analiza cómo se forman las escuadras corsarias, la vida cotidiana de los cautivos cristianos y musulmanes y las formas de rescate.

Working in the vineyard of the Lord

jesuit confraternities in early modern Italy

By highlighting the intersection of clergy, elites, and outcast groups, Working in the Vineyard of the Lord illuminates the understanding of religious reform, popular devotion, and changing attitudes toward charity in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Italy. Lance Lazar's work represents a new look at ...

The Renaissance Popes

culture, power and the making of the Borgia myth

Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the world's largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to ...

Talento y poder

historia de las relaciones entre Galileo y la Iglesia Católica

concreto, de las persecuciones sufridas por Galileo a manos de la Iglesia, ahora minimizadas o falseadas por una pleyade de historiadores aplogistas. La hábil integración de los acontecimientos hace que este libro resulte atractivo no solo para científicos e historiadores de la ciencia sino para ...

Giulia Gonzaga and the religious controversies of sixteenth-century Italy

This new study traces the evolution of donna Giulia's unorthodox religious ideas and networks. Considered alongside inquisitorial trial records and contemporary religious treatises, donna Giulia's written dialogue with Carnesecchi and others, vividly reflects the religious tensions of mid-sixteenth-century Italy. Giulia Gonzaga and the ...

Rameras de Babilonia

historia cultural del anticatolicismo en la Inglaterra Tudor

INDICE: Prólogo. El discurso anticatólico en los reinados de Enrique VIII (1509-1547) y Eduardo VI (1547-1553). María Tudor (1553-1558) y el discurso del victimismo. Isabel I (1558-1579): un intento fallido de reconciliación. Isabel I: Gloriana y el protestantismo victorioso. Epílogo. Lecturas. Índices.

Lumières!

un héritage pour demain

Le projet Lumières ! Un héritage pour demain est né du 11 Septembre. Le spectacle de ce monde encore enfumé par l'effondrement des tours fit alors resurgir les images des combats d'un autre âge. Les figures anciennes de ce que Voltaire nommait l'a ...

Entre la pluma y la pared

una historia social de la escritura en los siglos de oro

Durante el reinado de Felipe II, el poder de los Austrias se extendió por un vasto territorio en el que la herramienta de gobierno empleada más efectiva fue la escritura. La importancia asignada a lo escrito en el manejo de un mundo tan extenso no ...