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 ...

Campos cerrados, debates abiertos

análisis histórico y propiedad de la tierra en Europa (siglos XVI-XIX)

INDICE: Introducción. Propiedad. Comunal. Cercamiento. Bibliografía. Índices.

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 ...

Governing passions

peace and reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585

The French kingdom dissolved into civil wars, known as the 'wars of religion', for a generation from 1562 to 1598. This book examines the reactions of France's governing groups to that experience. Their major political endeavour was securing peace. They attempted to achieve it ...

Les relations internationales en Europe (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)

SOMMAIRE: Empires et monarchie (1600-1618) Les lois des relations internationales De la révolte en Bohême à la guerre européenne La Suède et la France dans la guerre Vers les traités de Westphalie L'affirmation de la présence française (1648-1661) L'Europe du jeune Louis XIV ...

Rome et l'État Moderne européen

SOMMAIRE: Rome et l'État moderne : pour une comparaison typologique Références et modèles romains dans l'Europe carolingienne : une approche iconographique du prince The role of the Roman calendar for the formation of the imperium romanum and for the confessional states of the XVIth century ...

Monarchie et République au XVIIe siècle

Le débat sur l'opposition entre monarchie et république à l'époque moderne, c'est-à-dire sur l'établissement d'un régime républicain qui suppose la destitution de la personne sacrée du roi, la redistribution des pouvoirs, la réévaluation de la loi et le remodelage de ...

The children's Crusade

medieval history, modern mythistory

"The Children's Crusade" was possibly the most extraordinary episode in the history of the crusades. The pueri (children, youngsters) of 1212 set out to recover Jerusalem and the True Cross in medieval Europe's first youth movement. Over the centuries their unarmed crusade has ...

The Bourbons

the history of a dynasty

The House of Bourbon is one of the most historically important European royal houses. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the sixteenth century and by the eighteenth century members of the dynasty also held thrones in Spain and southern Italy - in fact, the ...