Les rois qui ont fait la France

Henri IV, le Grand

1589-1610. La vie d'Henri IV est pareille aux gaves pyrénéens qui l'ont vu mitre. Venu de son petit royaume de Navarre et de sa principauté de Béarn, il se retrouve roi sans couronne, sans femme, sans argent. Il conquiert alors pièce à pièce ...

Les courtisans

une société de spectacle sous l'Ancien Régime

Si Versailles et sa cour restent un univers fascinant, on en connaît finalement assez mal le fonctionnement quotidien. Cette étude se concentre sur la participation de la haute noblesse à un cérémonial " royal " qui s'élabore progressivement aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, abandonnant en partie ...

The Bourbons

the history of a dynasty

Henry IV, king of Gascony, became king of France after the murder of the last Valois in 1589. The Bourbon rulers who followed, including Louis XIV, the Sun King, and Louis XV, presided over a period when France was the leading military power in Europe ...

Regards sur les sociétés anglaise, espagnole et française au XVIIe siècle

On insiste souvent sur les changements survenus dans nos sociétés européennes, tout particulièrement en Europe occidentale, faisant ainsi du siècle des Lumières l'époque par excellence de transition vers les mondes contemporains. En réalité. les changements ont commencé beaucoup plus tôt, aussi bien au niveau ...

L'art de la paix en Europe

naissance de la diplomatie moderne XVIe-XVIIIe siècle

De la Renaissance au temps des Révolutions, l'Europe apparaît d'abord comme le champ de guerres incessantes qui permettent aux États (souvent incarnés par des princes) de s'affirmer. Cette réalité dramatique conduit l'Europe à inventer la diplomatie - le mot ne s'impose ...

La naturaleza del príncipe

'La naturaleza del príncipe' relata el hecho verídico de cómo la Iglesia se organizó para comprobar la supuesta impotencia de un príncipe acusado de no consumar su matrimonio y que Peyrefitte descubrió en los Archivos Vaticanos, según informó la editorial. La acción del libro se ...

Edmund Burke

redescubriendo a un genio

"Burke vigila desde la torre de la tradición y del orden. ¿Está vivo o muerto? Eso depende del espíritu de los tiempos. Para cierta clase de partidarios, el vigilante de la torre puede ser la Desesperación; para otros, Barbarroja esperando que suenen las trompetas. Las ...

Women and material culture, 1660-1830

"Women and Material Culture" comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the long eighteenth century. Written by an international group of scholars working in the fields of visual culture, dress history and literary criticism, these essays point to the manifold ways ...

Crímenes célebres

los Borgia (1492-1507)

Los Borgia, una de las novelas históricas que forman parte de la obra Crímenes célebres de Alejandro Dumas, es curiosamente mal conocida entre el público de habla castellana. Sólo hay constancia de unas pocas y antiguas ediciones, la primera de ellas publicada en 1844. Añadir ...

Master and servant

love and labour in the English Industrial Age

Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. The book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering ...

Le Prince et la République

histoire, pouvoir et société dans la Florence des Médicis au XVIIe siècle

" La politique jalouse des souverains Médicis fut cause d'un grand vide dans notre histoire " : l'indignation manifestée par Anton Filippo Adami en 1756 met en lumière l'un des éléments les plus intrigants du règne des grands-ducs Médicis au XVIIe siècle : la disparition de ...

Il feudalesimo nell'Europa moderna

A partire dai molteplici significati correnti associati ai termini di "feudalesimo" e "neofeudalesimo", questo libro studia lo sviluppo storico del feudalesimo nell'Europa moderna, successivamente alla fase della sua massima espansione medievale. Se in aree come l'Europa mediterranea il feudalesimo costituì tra Cinque e ...

Women in early modern Europe, 1500-1700

In this wide-ranging volume, Cissie Fairchilds rejects conventional accounts of the Early Modern period that claim it was a period of diminishing power and rights for European women. Instead, she shows that it was a period of positive changes that challenged and led to the ...

Charles I

a political life

Charles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to the only republican government Britain has ever known. Historians have ...

Reinas y princesas del Renacimiento a la Ilustración

el lecho, el poder y la muerte

¿Cómo era ser reina en la Europa de ayer, desde el Renacimiento al Siglo de las Luces? Celebraciones suntuosas, como las bodas de Viena en 1515, el intercambio famoso de las princesas en el Bidasoa en 1615 entre Ana de Austria e Isabel de Borbón ...

Rebels rising

cities and the American Revolution

The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work ...

Women, gender and enlightenment

Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. However, competing images of 'Woman' loomed large in Enlightenment thought, and women themselves - as scientists and salonnieres, bluestockings and governesses, political polemicists and novelists - contributed much to enlightened intellectual culture. This ...

Mary Queen of Scots

an illustrated life

Royal lives are invariably packed with incident, but few can match the drama and intrigue that marked out Mary Queen of Scots. Forced to flee Scotland at the age of five, she grew up without her mother, was married at fifteen and widowed just a ...

Della tirannia

Machiavelli con Bartolo: atti della giornata di studi (Firenze, 19 ottobre 2002)

Muovendo dal confronto tra Machiavelli e Bartolo da Sassoferrato svolto da Innocent Gentillet nel Contre Machiavel (1576) - e contraddicendo il suo invito a non approfondire oltre la questione - Cavallar, Barthas e Najemy la riprendono su un terreno diverso da quello del realismo politico, dove tradizionalmente ...

María Estuardo, la reina mártir

La vida de María Estuardo (1542-1587, hija de Jaime V y María de Guisa, estuvo marcada desde el principio por una tenaz y despiadada lucha por el poder que creía merecer legítimamente. Acusada de participar en el asesinato de su primer marido, lord Darnley, y ...